Holding Space: Beginning Conversations on Understanding Suicide Prevention
August 13 @ 7:00 pm - September 13 @ 9:00 pm
On the occasion of World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10), this workshop, HOLDING SPACE: Beginning Conversations on Understanding Suicide Prevention, invites participants to reflect on suicide not as a matter for professionals alone but as a shared human concern. Drawing on clinical, community, and educational experience, the session seeks to bridge the gap between care and confidence—helping participants move from uncertainty to compassionate readiness. Through myth-busting, recognition of warning signs, ethical engagement, and careful referral practices, we will explore how ordinary acts of listening and presence can be life-affirming. The workshop emphasizes that while it is not a substitute for therapy or clinical training, it provides an ethically grounded, culturally sensitive space to build awareness, deepen understanding, and strengthen the collective capacity for prevention.
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By the end of this workshop, participants can expect to co-create understanding related to the following**
- Myths with understanding, warning signs.
- Contextual underpinnings and build confidence in everyday contexts.
- How to stay present with someone’s pain while acknowledging the limits of one’s own role.
- Safety planning for self and others as well.
- Bridge the way toward professional help for those in need.
Internationally and nationally endorsed suicide prevention-related resources will be shared.
Ethical & Safety Grounding
- All discussions will be guided by established ethical frameworks of suicide prevention.
- Trigger-awareness will be maintained, with grounding and self-care breaks.
- Crisis helpline numbers and referral pathways will be provided at the beginning and end of the session.
- Participants will be encouraged to engage at their comfort level **The certificates which will be provided to participants do not represent a clinical qualification; rather, it acknowledges the courage and commitment to engaging with one of the most difficult yet vital topics in mental health.
Facilitator
Sudhanya Roy Chowdhury
Clinical Psychologist (RCI)
Individual with Lived-Experience
Professional Member, Clinical Psychology Society of India
This workshop is hosted under “CoCreation – A Mental Health Care and Academic Initiative”
Registration Fees
For students and individuals who are not employed currently from LMIC: 149 INR
For professionals and service holders from LMIC :399 INR
For students and individuals who are not employed currently from HIC: 6 USD/ 5 Euro/ 4.5 GBP/500INR
For professionals and service holders from HIC: 12 USD/10 Euro/ 9GBP/1000INR
For further fee-related discussion feel free to connect over email/call/ text
Let’s hold space, together.
Registration link: http://bit.ly/3Vc1fhP
