Time Space Compassion, the podcast brought to you by Suicide Prevention Scotland explores how three simple words can make an enormous difference to people experiencing suicidal crisis.
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Suicide Prevention Scotland is the community of people and organisations working together to deliver the Scottish Government and COSLA’s new suicide prevention strategy, Creating Hope Together. On this channel we’ll publish limited edition podcast series that explore some of the key issues in our work to prevent suicide.
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Welcome to Time Space Compassion, a podcast from Suicide Prevention Scotland.
In each episode of this limited edition series we’re exploring three important words that are a key part of the Scottish Government’s new suicide prevention strategy, Creating Hope Together.
In this first episode, we explore trauma and how approaches to treating mental and physical trauma differ, also considering issues surrounding trust and why people need attention.
Lawrence Broadie is joined by Louise Christie, Director at Scottish Recovery Network, Jane Cumming from Penumbra, SAMH’s Robert Nesbitt, Rebecca Hoffman from LGBT Health and Wellbeing, Dr Kerry Johanna Smith from the Glasgow Complex Needs Project and Sharon Thomas, Operations Manager, The Lighthouse Perth.
Key links for this series:
United to Prevent Suicide
Suicide Prevention Scotland Medium blog
NHS Inform - Surviving Suicidal Thoughts
Creating Hope Together - Scotland's Suicide Prevention Strategy
Creating Hope Together - Scotland's Suicide Prevention Action Plan
Resilience Learning Partnership
SAMH - The Changing Room
Penumbra
Scottish Recovery Network
Glasgow Complex Needs Project
Lighthouse Perth
COSLA
Support is available:
If you or someone you know is struggling with their mental health or feeling suicidal, please don’t hesitate to ask for help by contacting your GP, NHS24 on 111, Samaritans on 116 123 or Breathing Space on 0800 83 58 87.
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Welcome to Time Space Compassion, a podcast from Suicide Prevention Scotland.
In each episode of this limited edition series we’re exploring three important words that are a key part of the Scottish Government’s new suicide prevention strategy, Creating Hope Together.
In this second episode, we discuss the importance of language and behaviours in building trust with people at a time of crisis.
Lawrence Broadie is joined by Louise Christie, Director at Scottish Recovery Network, Jane Cumming from Penumbra, SAMH’s Robert Nesbitt, Rebecca Hoffman from LGBT Health and Wellbeing, Dr Kerry Johanna Smith from the Glasgow Complex Needs Project and Sharon Thomas, Operations Manager, The Lighthouse Perth.
Key links for this series:
United to Prevent Suicide
Suicide Prevention Scotland Medium blog
NHS Inform - Surviving Suicidal Thoughts
Creating Hope Together - Scotland's Suicide Prevention Strategy
Creating Hope Together - Scotland's Suicide Prevention Action Plan
Resilience Learning Partnership
SAMH - The Changing Room
Penumbra
Scottish Recovery Network
Glasgow Complex Needs Project
Lighthouse Perth
COSLA
Support is available:
If you or someone you know is struggling with their mental health or feeling suicidal, please don’t hesitate to ask for help by contacting your GP, NHS24 on 111, Samaritans on 116 123 or Breathing Space on 0800 83 58 87.
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Welcome to Time Space Compassion, a podcast from Suicide Prevention Scotland.
In each episode of this limited edition series we’re exploring three important words that are a key part of the Scottish Government’s new suicide prevention strategy, Creating Hope Together.
In episode three we discuss the important role that lived experience and peer support plays in the co-production suicide prevention workstreams.
Lawrence Broadie is joined by Louise Christie, Director at Scottish Recovery Network, Jane Cumming from Penumbra, SAMH’s Robert Nesbitt, Rebecca Hoffman from LGBT Health and Wellbeing, Dr Kerry Johanna Smith from the Glasgow Complex Needs Project and Sharon Thomas, Operations Manager, The Lighthouse Perth.
Key links for this series:
United to Prevent Suicide
Suicide Prevention Scotland Medium blog
NHS Inform - Surviving Suicidal Thoughts
Creating Hope Together - Scotland's Suicide Prevention Strategy
Creating Hope Together - Scotland's Suicide Prevention Action Plan
Resilience Learning Partnership
SAMH - The Changing Room
Penumbra
Scottish Recovery Network
Glasgow Complex Needs Project
Lighthouse Perth
COSLA
Support is available:
If you or someone you know is struggling with their mental health or feeling suicidal, please don’t hesitate to ask for help by contacting your GP, NHS24 on 111, Samaritans on 116 123 or Breathing Space on 0800 83 58 87.
Monday Sep 09, 2024
Monday Sep 09, 2024
Welcome to Time Space Compassion, a podcast from Suicide Prevention Scotland.
To mark World Suicide Prevention Day (10 September 2024) we visited Dunfermline Athletic FC's East End Park to meet four people working in suicide prevention in Fife.
Lawrence Broadie is joined by Maggie Wright, Co-founder and CEO at Families in Trauma, Kenny Armour, an area lead at ANDYSMANCLUB, Fife Council community education worker Kirsty McElhinney, and Dunfermline Athletic's mental health ambassador Eddie Martin.
Producer: Jake Gray | Editor: Emily George
Key links for this series:
United to Prevent Suicide
Suicide Prevention Scotland Medium blog
NHS Inform - Surviving Suicidal Thoughts
Creating Hope Together - Scotland's Suicide Prevention Strategy
Creating Hope Together - Scotland's Suicide Prevention Action Plan
Scottish Recovery Network
COSLA
Support is available:
If you or someone you know is struggling with their mental health or feeling suicidal, please don’t hesitate to ask for help by contacting your GP, NHS24 on 111, Samaritans on 116 123 or Breathing Space on 0800 83 58 87.
If you are ever in immediate danger or have the means to cause yourself harm you should dial 999 and request an ambulance.
In each episode, we’re exploring the issues around three simple words that are a key part of the culture that underpins support for people in immediate suicidal crisis.
We’re joined by a range of professionals, academics and people with lived experience to explore some of the key issues including: trauma, language, trust, behaviours, lived experience and peer-support, and how the charity and public sector can deliver positive outcomes.