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 include 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, and navigating the politics of change to bring governments and local communities together. One session — Talia na Veiwekani e Vakabulabulataka na Bula, “Weaving Connections that Sustain Life” — speaks directly to the forum’s Pacific setting and the cultural foundations of community-led prevention.
Ideas Exchange Sessions
New to the Asia Pacific Regional Forum, our Ideas Exchange sessions bring the whole delegation into the conversation. Each 60-minute, moderator-led session poses a small number of topical questions to the room and opens the floor for open, collaborative discussion. Rather than presentations, these sessions are designed for shared thinking — drawing on the diverse perspectives, expertise, and lived experience of those present. Topics span some of the most pressing and contested questions in suicide prevention today, from the future of social media regulation and safety by design, to the opportunities and challenges presented by artificial intelligence, legislative action and whose voice shapes it, and the role of collectivist cultural approaches in prevention. We warmly invite every delegate to take part and help shape the dialogue.
