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Very well lead, informative and took a lot away from the training to reflect and feel more confident.
It’s an informative session and gives good advice on how to support someone having thoughts of suicide or planning suicide. Sam made it easy to understand and was very pleasant.
Very sensitive subject matter but of huge importance
I genuinely really enjoyed this session. It was well suited to the work we will be doing and handled the topics appropriately. This session has made me much more confident on how to handle a situation. I thought the video was also especially helpful as it shows a good example
Good. Thanks. Quite intense. Especially crammed into three hours it’s a bit too much.
I think it would be very useful to talk about means especially if there are specific means more prevalent in different groups. And I think it would be more beneficial to talk about real life examples (especially difficult ones).
Great course to give knowledge and tools to be able to help someone as an initial responder
I think there should be role plays to practice these conversations as it is easier to talk about than to do in practice, and feedback on how to improve our skills is important. We should acknowledge not all people who die by suicide will give obvious signs, whilst it is our responsibility to ask the questions and be vigilant it is not always possible to intercept or realise in advance, and this can leave bystanders with lasting trauma. So please be mindful of this - whilst we hope suicide is preventable sometimes it is very difficult for others to see coming or to prevent, as the person themselves can mask or deliberately keep things hidden. Please be mindful many attendees will have had their own experiences on this topic, either directly or indirectly and be sensitive in language (eg all suicide is preventable can be difficult to hear).
I felt like the first part of the session focused on the statistics and individual motivation was unnecessarily long. I felt like the course would benefit from shortening it and instead allocating the time for practical role plays to get more accustomed to having uncomfortable conversations. I felt like that bit wasn’t covered enough.
It was definitely informative and helpful but I felt as though it could perhaps use with a bit of redistribution of time. A lot of time on the stats and background of suicide which ultimately led to, (in my opionion), not enough time on step 2 or 3 of suicide response. I would have liked to discuss examples of how to respond to difficult scenarios or statements a bit more and for it to be a bit more clear about exactly the places we should be signposting people and the resources we should use in any given situation