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Real Talk - workshop

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Course information

This interactive workshop equips learners with the necessary skills to recognise and support those at risk of suicide. Our trainers provide essential frameworks for life-saving conversations and suicide safety planning, and facilitate skills practice.

Participants will learn how to spot the signs that someone may be at risk, ways to start a life-saving conversation, and how to connect someone with thoughts of suicide to further support.

Learning outcomes

  • Recall the suicide statistics and reflect on their relevance to the community.
  • Describe potential risk factors and individual signs that someone might be having suicidal thoughts.
  • Identify the barriers that might prevent any of us from talking openly about suicide.
  • Outline appropriate questioning techniques to facilitate a conversation with a person at risk of suicide.
  • Demonstrate a supportive conversation with someone who is having suicidal thoughts, including via the written word.
  • Determine appropriate levels of support (emergency services or support organisations/apps) and deploy appropriate technology such as the Stay Alive app in supporting people at risk of suicide.
  • Use a safety planning tool and list further sources of help or support with a scenario.
  • Select appropriate strategies for promoting own wellbeing.
  • Access support resources.

Duration

3.5 hours

Delivery

Online or in-person

Group size

6 to 20 learners

Qualification

Certificate of attendance,

Ideal for

Professionals in frontline services and everyone over the age of 16 years who wants to help keep the people around them safe from suicide.

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Testimonials

Cutting edge, front-line, hands on, LIFE SAVING resource, made highly accessible and instantly applicable. The kind of training that keeps people alive.
Trainee
TraineeASIST course
The training provided by Grassroots is of a very high standard: well prepared and well delivered by experienced, capable trainers.
Helen Jones
Helen JonesMindOut Service Manger
I have come across students with genuine mental health issues and been at a loss as to where to start or how I could be of any assistance. [My trainer] has completely changed this with the half day session
Trainee
TraineeMental Health First Aid
Genuinely excellent - packed with information for such a short course, highly evidence based and sophisticated, even while being accessible. Thanks!
TraineeUnderstanding Self-Harm
Very well structured. I enrolled in this training by recommendation from a colleague who had done it and I will be recommending this as well.
TraineeSafeTALK
A brilliant course that I would highly recommend to others. It has provided me with a greater understanding of mental health conditions and mental wellbeing.
TraineeMental Health First Aid (Two Day)
I feel so much less worried and actually have ideas on what to do/say, and my understanding behind it has really improved, thank you
TraineeUnderstanding Self-Harm
It provides a great introduction into understanding and normalising conversation around suicide.
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