Parents Beyond Breakup - Rock School

Team and community members like you who notice their peer/s maybe heading down the road of suicide, and care enough to help them across that road rather than going down it. And no, it doesn’t mean you have to become a practitioner – just a member of the relay team that gets your peer across the road.

This is a live, experiential and facilitated training in a secure online environment so it can be accessible to anyone, anywhere with a computer and internet connection. It involves hands-on interaction and practice.

The facilitated training runs for 4 hours. There are also follow-up skill building modules available post training as well.

• Confidence, skills and tools to know what to do • Simple models and the ability to apply them straight away • Hands-on skills practice and development • Knowledge and practical experience to intervene earlier and practically, to prevent a downward spiral into distress

Yes! After completing the live facilitated training, you will be invited to complete a knowledge check (questions), and on successful completion, you will instantly receive certification.

Situational Suicide Prevention acknowledges the distress of your peer rather than automatically assuming mental illness or disorder, with suicide thoughts (though in some cases the two are linked). It responds to significantly challenging experiences of mind. This includes thoughts, emotions, sensations, or behaviours, associated with an inability to compensate for a distressing event, such as: bereavement, relationship breakdown, change in health status, natural disasters, pandemics, financial, or occupational difficulties. This distress may significantly overlap with many of the symptoms usually taken to suggest mental ‘illness’ or ‘distress’.

Yes. Parents Beyond Breakup (PBB), who bring you the peersWALK™ Situational Suicide Prevention Training, have been facilitating peer support programs since 1999 - all with lived experience facilitators. PBB has been awarded Suicide Prevention Australia’s NSW LiFE Award fro Excellence in Suicide Prevention for Priority Populations, recognising the organisation’s leadership in saving more men from suicide. peersWALK™ was designed and commissioned by the lived-experience team at PBB, for community based Peers Engaging Each other Responding to Suicide and situational distress (P.E.E.R.S).