PROTECT | Values Guided Suicide Prevention

Would love to hear your thoughts... This is a continuation of the 50th special episode of the PROTECT podcast. We are still giving away a beautiful PDF of all the key messages and images from the 17 PROTECT chapters. All you need to do is email us at admin@progress.guide or leave a comment or ask a question. In this episode we cover ASPIRE and this will provide you a ready reckoner of the content....

Would love to hear your thoughts... This is a special episode in which we are celebrating 50 episodes of the PROTECT podcast with a give away of a beautiful PDF of all the key messages and images from the 17 PROTECT chapters. All you need to do is email us at admin@progress.guide or leave a comment or ask a question. In this episode we cover CORE and ASSESS and this will provide you a ready reckon...

Would love to hear your thoughts... In this hour Ally shares insights from her personal journey, and messages that she might have given to her younger self and others in her life with the benefit of hind sight. Ally also talks about Mind Blank's innovative approach to Mental Health literacy, Wellbeing promotion and prevention efforts using their innovative forum theatre approach. The work the...

Would love to hear your thoughts... Dr Stan Steindl shares his wisdom on Compassion Focused Therapy in conversation with Manaan. The talk provides a broad overview of what CFT entails including little nuances that you can introduce in your practice today. Stan is a Clinical Psychologist, respected author of books on compassion, Ted ex speaker and an amazing  educator of both Motivational Interview...

Would love to hear your thoughts... Given we have been very busy with our week long suicide prevention training in Malaysia, we have provided a recoding from the presentation at the 1st African Health Summit.  The content might feel repetitive, but it is a good recap. If you have already downloaded the app and have worked through different sections skip the first five minutes as I talk through the...

Would love to hear your thoughts... Paul Vittles is the Founder of Towards Zero Suicide CIC and the Chief Facilitator of Zero Suicide Society. Over an hour Paul shares personal insights from his journey of bringing together people on a journey and engaging them in the conversation TOWARDS ZERO. He shares innovative technological advances as well as inspiring personal stories of post-traumatic grow...

Would love to hear your thoughts... Key Message: "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" ~ Laozi. It is time to live your values through actions in the here and now. Download SAFE Life Guide from Apple App Store and Goolge Play Store . Also there are details for our Instagram page which has #KISS; Key Images Simple Statements The proof of the pudding is of course in t...

Would love to hear your thoughts... Key Message: Underpin "What Matters to You" with Values. Align life goals with your core values using Safe Life Guide's HOPE Framework. Download SAFE Life Guide from Apple App Store and Goolge Play Store . Also there are details for our Instagram page which has #KISS; Key Images Simple Statements Think about the people and pursuits that matter to...

Would love to hear your thoughts... Key Message: Values foster hope and healing, values gender joy and meaning. Explore your core values using Safe Life Guide's HOPE Framework.  Download SAFE Life Guide from Apple App Store and Goolge Play Store . Also there are details for our Instagram page which has #KISS; Key Images Simple Statements When the fog descends, and one can’t see ahead, or the...

Would love to hear your thoughts... Key Message: Reflect on what helps and what harms, its a simple but powerful technquie that will make you pause before taking action. Download SAFE Life Guide from Apple App Store and Goolge Play Store . Also there are details for our Instagram page which has #KISS; Key Images Simple Statements As a principle, what we want you to do is ask the magic question, do...

Would love to hear your thoughts... Key Message: If we did respond to adversity through acceptance of reality, we have the power to transform unbearable suffering i.e. what reality feels like back into bearable pain. Download SAFE Life Guide from Apple App Store and Goolge Play Store . Also there are details for our Instagram page which has #KISS; Key Images Simple Statements In the HOPE framework...

Would love to hear your thoughts... Celebrating Men's Mental Health Month with the launch of - Safe Life Guide. Download from Apple App Store and Goolge Play Store . Also there are details for our Instagram page which has #KISS; Key Images Simple Statements Also a huge thank you to Adamosoft . The episode provides and overview of the 5 sections:  Hope View: To support resilience and wellbeing...

Would love to hear your thoughts... Connection You may have picked up Healing for Healers because you are supporting a colleague who has lost a patient to suicide. Do not forget to offer your unconditional support. I am here for you, you can call me any day anytime if  you want to talk things through or just a shoulder to lean on. Saying something doesn’t make it better, what makes it better is co...

Would love to hear your thoughts... In the third recap episode for ESF, we cover the STEPS model, the Validity techniques of Shawn Shea, the Narrative method and the B4Now approach from PROTECT. Connect with Assoc Prof Manaan Kar Ray on Linkedin Follow us on www.progress.guide

Would love to hear your thoughts... In conversation with Tracey Chitty, the AWARE framework has been contextualised into the educational setting in this podcast episode. The recap begins with a discussion on rational vs rationalising and then goes into each of the factors: Anxiety Weighting Agenda Resources Experience In particular the agendas of parents and principals are discussed in details. Cl...

Would love to hear your thoughts... A special episode to mark the 10th of September - World Suicide Prevention Day. Humor Heals #LOL @the Sound of Hope provides 3 exercises of therapeutic humour.   Pile ‘o Punchlines The Comedy of Complaints The Comedy of Contradictions Its a collaboration with Mallori DeSalle and Lodge McCammon. By brining humour to one of the most serious of topics, "suicid...

Would love to hear your thoughts... In the second of the Recaps we go through the four chapters in the CORE module and pin down the key messages: Care Compass - Risk vs Recovery - without risk there is no recovery, with the right care the person has more control Optimise Pain Relief - Dig deep to establish the need and interests that lie beneath the position of dying, help them see that they want...

Would love to hear your thoughts... In the first of this sequence of guest episodes with Tracey Chitty, we share ESF's (Hong Kong) whole of school approach to suicide prevention after an intensive four days of training for school counsellors and teachers. In the upcoming episode, we will be summarising the key messages from the training for the attendees to recap what was taught and how they...

Would love to hear your thoughts... A unique perspective to establish common ground between the Health Regulators and the practitioner under investigation is the basis for this episode. It builds on the previous episode of why Health Regulators need to be trained in Suicide Prevention and how Doctors and Nurses and Allied Health are an ultra high risk group when a notification happens. In this epi...

Would love to hear your thoughts... Joiner's model of desire and capability is used to explain the high risk period that health practitioners face when they have had a notification to AHPRA (any health regulator for that matter). Manaan explains the training that is on offer for health regulators in this episode. We also take the opportunity to welcome listeners from the English Schools Found...

Would love to hear your thoughts... In the third of the 5 Critical Crisis Conversations, Manaan explores how the person's agenda of ensuring short term safety through admission may be quite different to the long term focus of resilience for the professional. Both want safety but the route to it is different. Being able to show the similarity of the overarching goal amidst the dissimilarity of...

Would love to hear your thoughts... The second of the Borderline AWARE conversations relates to Weighting (Diagnosis, Course, Social Causation - how these factors may influence the weighting that we put on a person's suicidality). The conversation is named Empowerment vs Containment. The episode builds on the Advice vs Action conversation and goes a step further providing the listener a thoro...

Would love to hear your thoughts... In this sequence of nuanced conversations, listeners will be guided through some of the most sensitive issues that they will have to navigate while supporting a person in suicidal distress. This episode captures the essence of Advice vs Action. The advice we give - face your fears, applies to us as well when we make decisions regarding whether we admit or not. W...

Would love to hear your thoughts... Jill presents to the Emergency Department in a suicidal crisis, she has Borderline Personality Disorder and believes that the only way her safety can be maintained is through an inpatient admission. This is not an infrequent occurrence for those working in an ED setting. Dr Kar Ray talks you through the different AWARE factors that can influence the decision you...

Would love to hear your thoughts... Understanding splitting is essential to supporting people in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), particularly when they are in suicidal crisis. In this episode Dr Kar Ray shares some foundational constructs as well as some practical tips that can help a health care professional or even family members provide the most appropriate support.  Connect with Assoc P...