Alternatives to Suicide Facilitator Training - Bangor

This 3-day in person training will be held in Bangor at the Bangor Public Library. Priority is given to participants who are working to earn Maine's CIPSS certification. Others will be placed on a wait list.

Class will be Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 9am-5pm. You must attend all three days to earn Continuing Education Credit and to earn certification as a group facilitator.

You need to be someone who has considered suicide as an option, or attempted suicide to become a group facilitator.

Training will be facilitated by the Wildflower Alliance from Western Massachusetts.

Alternatives to Suicide

The Alternatives to Suicide approach is about openly exploring the meaning behind thoughts and feelings of suicide, as well as what might be worth living for. In “Alt2Su” groups we find strength in coming together to support one another in our times of greatest distress. Our collective wisdom and individual stories have taught us that making space for this topic can be powerful and healing, whether in a peer support setting or anywhere else these conversations come up.

There are many myths and fears around this sort of approach and around suicide in general that Wildflower Alliance trainings seek to dispel and move past.

Is this “Suicide Prevention”?

The goal is not to simply force someone to stay alive from moment to moment. Rather, it is to support them to create meaning and a life that they want to live. Not killing one’s self is simply a side-effect of all that.

https://wildfloweralliance.org

Please read the statement below prior to registering:

We want virtual Maine Intentional Peer Support spaces to be safe, welcoming, and inclusive. Harassment, hate speech, and inappropriate behavior of any kind, verbal or in the chat/Q&A, will not be tolerated.

We reserve the right to immediately remove any attendee we consider to be in breach of this conduct agreement. This includes anyone making racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or otherwise discriminatory, offensive, or hateful remarks. Continued conversations that disrupt the topic of the class may also result in removal from class.

Removed participants will not be able to re-join the session, or, if applicable, join any of the rest of the sessions in a day or series of events. In order to avoid the derailing of sessions we will not enter into conversations around why conduct was deemed inappropriate in the sessions themselves.