All Roses in the Ocean capacity-building workshops are lived experience informed, designed and delivered by professional facilitators who also have a personal lived experience of suicide.
The Voices of In-sight workshop is a highly reflective, facilitated process where you are afforded the gift of time… time to reflect and explore your own story, time to connect with others who have walked in similar shoes, time to hear different perspectives of suicide, and time to develop a structured, impactful message.
Sharing your lived experience of suicide story may be just the beginning of you contributing to how suicide and suicide prevention are thought about and approached though. There are numerous ways in which your experience can help drive the changes you want to see in your community or at a services design, delivery, research, policy or system level. Your story is just the beginning.
On completion of this program, you can expect to be able to:
- Identify the key messages within your lived experience story that others can benefit from
- Appreciate the wide range of lived experience perspectives, and the wisdom they offer
- Communicate your story using appropriate language and safe content
- Apply the VOI-S story structure to create an impactful speech, and understand ways in which you can adjust your story for a variety of audiences
- Implement your self-care plan and recognise its importance
- Incorporate current suicide prevention knowledge, statistics and activity into presentations
- Be curious about how you can utilise your lived experience insights to contribute to suicide prevention in a way that aligns with your passion for change
What happens after the program?
You are invited to continue to work on your messaging and story with the facilitators and access a Roses in the Ocean mentor, until you are ready to present it to a ‘friendly audience’. You will then receive your Roses in the Ocean Speakers Hub resource kit, which will assist you to play an active role within your local community. You can also speak with our LE Engagement and Integration team to explore other pathways and opportunities to utilise your lived experience through your story. You can email them at [email protected]. You can also view opportunities to get involved here.
Who is the program for?
Voices of In-Sight is for people with a lived experience of suicide who want to contribute to suicide prevention in some way – this may be through sharing your story publicly – either through organised speaking engagements or incidental conversations, or it may be by leveraging your insights to be a catalyst of change in various aspects of suicide prevention. Completion of Our Voice in Action program is preferable but not compulsory.
Workshop Reflections
Offering insight into what it’s like to attend the Voices of In-Sight workshop – how it feels, what is learned, and what it means personally from the perspective of the participants.
Voices of In-sight has received Accreditation to the Suicide Prevention Australia Standards – Quality Innovation Performance Program.
This accreditation is designed to assure the safety, quality and efficacy of Australia’s suicide prevention programs and includes a formal independent assessment against the Suicide Prevention Australia Standards for Quality Improvement.
Facilitator, James Gallacher, shares some thoughts on our Voices of In-Sight workshop.