What is Real Talk Workshop:

A highly participatory course offering an opportunity for people to gain the skills and confidence in talking about suicide and providing some support and signposting to someone at risk.

This is a half day workshop which teaches a foundational model of suicide awareness designed for use in community or workplace settings with the aims to be able to talk about suicide and signpost those at risk of suicide. The course is interactive, empowering, optimistic, accessible, emotionally engaging and sensitive, as well as authentic to people with lived experience of suicidal thoughts.

By the end of this session participants will be able to:

· Recall the suicide statistics and reflect on their relevance to the community

· Describe potential risk factors and 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.

· 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

· Use a safety planning tool and list further sources of help/support with a scenario

· Select appropriate strategies for promoting own wellbeing

· Access support resources.

Ticket Eligibility:

To be eligible for a ticket, you must either be a frontline Islington council worker or work/volunteer for a local VSCE organisation which delivers support directly to Islington residents. We will ask you to confirm this at ticket checkout.

Please note, we limit tickets at 6 per course, per organisation, to ensure fair access for all individuals.

Cancellations:

If you need to cancel your booking, please let us know as soon as possible training@prevent-suicide.org.uk or cancel your ticket through EventBrite.

The council have paid for this training for any individuals who work or volunteer for Voluntary Sector organisations in Islington (or frontline Islington Council Staff), in order to improve perspectives and raise awareness of mental health and suicide prevention and where to get help in Islington.

Whilst this training is free to you, it is still a cost to the council. For this reason, we are very keen to ensure that as many people receive training as possible. If you cannot attend, please let us know immediately so that we can offer the place to someone on the waiting list.

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Notes regarding the session:

-Please note that ticket sales stop 2 days before the start of the course date, so please book ahead of the course date.

-Please be aware that there is no parking at this venue so plan ahead for a prompt start at 13:00.

Islington - Suicide Prevention - Real Talk Workshop: In-person