helping our friends who sometimes want to die maybe not die

this is an intro-level workshop for folks who want to build and share skills around supporting people in their lives who are suicidal.

this is not a certification course- it's an opportunity for folks to gather and share what we know about supporting our loved ones in a structured and facilitated way.

some of the questions we will be exploring include: what are my beliefs about suicide, and how might those impact how i react to someone else feeling suicidal? how do i know if someone i care about is thinking about ending their life? is suicidal thinking always an emergency? what if the emergency services that exist don't feel like safe options? how do i know what my boundaries are, and how do i talk about them with someone in crisis?

Facilitator: Carly Boyce
Carly is a 35 year old white genderqueer femme. Carly is a facilitator, writer, and therapist, mostly doing work around sexuality, gender, grief, body autonomy, and trauma. Carly has been doing suicide prevention work informally for 20 years, and teaching about it for the last three, training over a thousand people in seven cities on Turtle Island. They like bitter foods and yarn, and hate gelatinous things and capitalism. You can learn more about Carly at tinylantern.net

More on Carly: my approach to suicide intervention is based on a combination of formal training and lived experience. i believe strongly in approaches that foreground body autonomy, kindness, harm reduction, and boundaried vulnerability. i am critical of institutions (hospitals, policing, social services), while sometimes participating in them in various ways. i have done front line peer based support work with queer and trans youth and with survivors of sexual violence for more than a decade, and informal support much my whole life.

3:00pm-6:00pm
200 King St. E., St. James campus
Career Centre, rmB155

This event is a part of the Community Care Centre DisOrientation week.
See the week’s events listed here: bit.ly/CACdisO-2019

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FREE || vegan foods with gluten-free options || TTC tokens avaialble

Questions/Accommodations: cacsupportstaff1@sagbc.ca
bit.ly/CACdisO-Intervention2019

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Suicide Intervention for Weirdos, Freaks & Queers