Fiji 2026
Programme Outline
Workshops
Our workshop programme offers practical, hands-on learning grounded in the priorities and realities of suicide prevention across the Asia Pacific. Interactive and participant-led, each session is designed to equip delegates with skills, tools, and approaches they can adapt and apply in their own communities and contexts. Topics span safe and effective media and online communication about suicide; the inclusion of lived experience and culture in the co-production of prevention programs, policy and research; culturally specific clinical and safety planning tools; the role of mortality review and coronial investigations; designing safe AI for crisis moments; co-designed strategies for addressing self-harm in schools; and amplifying community-led solutions in suicide postvention. Several sessions speak directly to the forum’s Pacific setting and the cultural foundations of community-led prevention — among them Talia na Veiwekani e Vakabulabulataka na Bula, “Weaving Connections that Sustain Life,” and The Mānava Ola, “the Breath of Life.”
Ideas Exchange Sessions
New to the Asia Pacific Regional Forum, our Ideas Exchange sessions bring the whole delegation into the conversation. Across three 60-minute, moderator-led sessions, we’ll pose a series of topical questions to the room and open the floor for shared, collaborative discussion. Rather than presentations, these sessions are designed for collective thinking; drawing on the diverse perspectives, expertise, and lived experience of those present. This year, the three sessions will explore the future of social media regulation and safety by design; the opportunities and challenges presented by artificial intelligence, legislative action, and whose voice shapes it; and suicide prevention perspectives and plans for the Pacific Islands. Responses from each session will be gathered and compiled by the team with a view to developing a published opinion piece, so every contribution helps shape thinking well beyond the forum itself. We warmly invite all delegates to take part and help shape the dialogue.

