1 in 20 adults experience suicidal thoughts during their life. In our beautiful county of Sussex that equates to over 44,000 people in West Sussex and over 27,000 people in East Sussex. To ensure that these numbers are reduced a new innovative approach has to be taken and here, on this course, you will have the opportunity to learn these life-saving skills.
Most suicides are preventable when the appropriate training is put in place, but it is essential we are not just relying on intervention at that critical moment in time when a person is sadly about to take their life.
Whatever business sector you are working in you can do your part to ensure staffs’ health, safety and welfare. This course will give people in business the knowledge that empowers staff to prevent their mind spiralling to a dark place, and, if it does, know how to stop the spiral, and turn it back to a brighter place.
Join our ground breaking Suicide Prevention – The Real Solution course, to ensure you are able to implement this crucial stage that has been missing thus far in suicide prevention.
In the sad event of being with a member of staff who is at that moment in time wanting to take their life, we will also be covering the safest way forward for all concerned and, learn the best approach to initiate a conversation and effectively communicate with staff.
By attending this course, you will learn the critical averting elements necessary to implement prevention strategies within your workplace by learning how to avoid suicide.
Outcomes:
- Identify the warning signs of someone at risk of suicide.
- Sadly there are no standard warning signs of someone being at risk of suicide so this course will be all about giving the skills to every attendee to know how to prevent someone’s mind from spiralling in the wrong direction, getting into a dark place and, learning how to get out of it if that happens. Why this training is the only way forward.
- The tools to implement procedures and frameworks to prevent suicide and safeguard staff and colleagues
- Knowledge of how a powerful and proficient mind give the tools to prevent suicide and mental health problems
- Understand how a powerful and proficient mind works
- Apply skills to prevent suicide
- Analyse the skills learned to ensure they work for an individual
- Evaluate the influences contributing to mental stress and suicidal thoughts
- Create a way forward with a powerful and proficient mind to prevent suicide
- Utilise and implement these skills in your place of work/set up with empathy and compassion
- Questions to ask
- Understand how to effectively approach and initiate a conversation of preventing suicide in your team and work place
- Your current set up
- How to have a conversation with a staff member when you can see their mind spiralling/in a dark place and have the basic skills to show them what to do with their mind in that situation
- Learn how to implement a ‘safety first’ approach throughout an intervention and refer someone to the emergency and/or support services
- Privacy
- The Samaritans will talk you through, at that moment in time, support, emergency services
Please note: A minimum of 4 delegates is required to run this course, if this isn't met then the course may be rescheduled.
