@pfaffman and @Stephen - thanks for the quick responses and the confirmation that it’s not possible to have private topics in a public category.
Based on the scenario I shared, what might be our best workaround? Maybe just have private categories for all of our coaches/pros and they can start a new topic when they have a new cohort and @mention the members of the new cohort. In this case, others who are part of a particular pro’s “group” and sub-category would be able to see the conversation but the ones that were mentioned would be the main participants ¯_(ツ)_/¯ ?
Maybe there’s an even better workaround that I’m just not considering?
I looked through this thread and still haven’t arrived at the best solution here.