An Overview

Project Shift is a comprehensive but ever evolving ‘newbie guide’ for therianthropy, hoping to bring the many ideas and thoughts of therians together and shift focus from one, single truth. There is plenty of scattered writing on the topic of therianthropy, and plenty of basic ‘What Is Therianthropy?’ articles, but newbie guides are uncommon, and Project Shift intends to fill that niche, to help new therians and people interested in therianthropy better understand what it is.

On top of this, it is the hope of the project for the community to come together to share many of their views to create a resource as flexible and thorough as possible.

About Project Shift

What is Project Shift?

This project is meant to revive and, in some form, update many therianthropy resource texts that have been lost due to the shutting down and other loss of sites which contained them. These are mainly focused on “newbie” materials—those directed at informing people new to the online therianthropy community, or new to the concept or just terminology of therianthropy about those things—or as they are sometimes called “Therianthropy 101” texts, but some other types of therianthropy-related information are part of Project Shift as well. So we encourage a variety of people to read the material here.

With the online therian community being dependent on its members in order to supply material and information, when an informational site is shut down, or a person who wrote educational texts about therianthropy (and its related subjects) leaves the community, those texts are often times taken with that person, or the texts are otherwise lost from being viewed when the information sites shut down. This is a normal trend, but the problem that has arisen in the past two or three years for the community is that little to no sufficiently good resources and texts have been produced and displayed about therianthropy topics (beyond personal therianthropy and forum discussions) in order to fill that niche of those ones that were being lost from online viewing. Thus there are some members of the therian community who have taken note of this and decided to contribute some of their time and effort into replacing as well as updating this information that has been lost from more practical public access (so as not to be so limited to forum threads and a large scattering of sites with bits and pieces of moderate information and Therian 101 material).

We want to help increase the amount of people who come across therianthropy online and look for basic to moderate information about it without them having to weigh down therianthropy boards in as many questions and threads of redundancy of the same Therian 101 and other similar types of material. There have also been numerous changes and developments in the ideas, acceptance, common views, and so forth found in larger therianthropy sites and their members as compared to a few years ago and back, and thus some materials needed to be re-written as updates to reflect these changes. We understand the importance of having such informational resources as what we are striving to compose with Project Shift, and we want to aid in the better communication of various information about therianthropy to new people whether they are therian or not, as well as other members of the therian community.

How to Use This Site

Where Do I Find What?

The five sections of this website are designed to make navigation as easy as possible.

About
The About section is where you are now. It describes the purpose of Project Shift and of course navigation. It also contains information about contributing to the project and current/ previous contributors.

Therianthropy
The Therianthropy section contains information on what therianthropy is, as well as frequently asked questions on the subject, information on shifting, terms and definitions, articles with helpful advice and insight for people considering if they might be a therian/ have recently discovered they are, and other related topics, all aimed at thoroughly explaining therianthropy.

Introspection
The Introspection section is aimed at people who might be thinking about whether or not they are a therian, or who might be curious about what their theriotype is, etc. It contains helpful articles about how to go about introspection/ soul searching.

Community
The Community section is for anyone who is considering joining a therian community, specifically one online, and has information on etiquette and the history and function of the larger therian community. Information on attending gatherings and howls is also included.

Resources
The Resources section lists websites, forums, and other material with further information about therianthropy that may be of a similar nature or go into further depth. Included are reliable communities, as well as information on contacting Project Shift with further questions.

Further Reading