Suicide Bereavement UK and Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust are collaborating for the 9th consecutive year to host

the international suicide bereavement conference.

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Suicide Bereavement UK’s 9th International ConferenceOne day conference: Wednesday 18th November 2020 (£140 + Booking Fee + VAT)Half day Covid-19 seminar: Thursday 19th November 2020 (£59.99 + VAT)The Mercure Manchester City Hotel, Manchester

Suicide Bereavement: Using Our Collective Voice

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Barry McGale

Dr Pauline Nelson

Shamala Shaukat

Jenny Berry

Matt Horrocks

Pete Johnson Dr Sharon McDonnell

Dr Ananta Dave

Reagan Blyth

Keith Waters

Jake Mills

Dzmitry Karpuk Professor Tom Stoneham

Andrea Walraven-Thissen

Hayley Gorton Lee Fryatt Ged Flynn

Speakers

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Barry McGale established the first NHS postvention service in the UK and Ireland. He is recognised as a leader in this field and has received several national and international awards reflecting this. His most recent award was American Association of Suicidology, Roger J Tierney Award for services to suicide prevention. Barry is one of the authors of the Postvention: Assisting Those Bereaved by Suicide (PABBS) training, which was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). Barry is currently an Executive Director with the National Suicide Research Foundation, Ireland, and Patron for the Support After Suicide Partnership. He was formerly a Director of the Irish Association of Suicidology, International Representative on the Board of the American Association of Suicidology and Senior Coaching Trainer with Living Works, Canada.

Barry McGale Suicide Bereavement UK – Chair

Reagan Blyth is Director of Service Modelling, Research and Innovation at Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust and has been key in developing and strengthening the collaboration between Pennine Care and Dr Sharon McDonnell. To date, this partnership has enabled bids for several research grants, including a successful research grant for a NIHR, Research for Patient Benefit award to develop the PABBS evidence-based suicide bereavement training which was launched in 2016. Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust have supported the research team, conducting the national suicide bereavement survey. This is the 9th year, Pennine Care NHS Trust have collaborated with Dr. Sharon McDonnell, to host the international suicide bereavement conference.

Reagan BlythPennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Jenny Berry has written from as long as she could hold a pen. With her extensive prison experience as a poet her work is often influenced by her unique experiences, mixed with Salford charm and wit she says it how it is. As well as writing and performing poetry she often runs workshops within the prison system and community helping vulnerable communities express themselves through words.

Some of her work can be found on local businesses: Monton Playground – Child Acrostic Poem/Monton Playfoots Café Bar.

Jenny Berry Performance Poet and Educator

Jake Mills is the founder and CEO of Chasing the Stigma. He is also a comedian, writer and battled depression in 2013. After months of inner turmoil, Jake attempted to take his own life. As part of his recovery he disclosed his difficulties on social media, and his story went viral. Television interviews and articles were shared by many celebrities, including Emma Watson and James Corden.

Jake became inundated with messages from people asking for help. It became apparent to him that the fear of being judged was preventing many people from seeking help. In an attempt to help address this issue, Jake founded Chasing the Stigma, which is a charity that uses ‘lived experience’ to help reduce stigma and change attitudes towards mental illness.

Jake Mills Chasing the Stigma

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Pete Johnson is 50 and lost his mother to suicide when he was 15 months old in 1971. He has presented his experiences of growing up as someone bereaved by suicide to the Heads Together initiative and Surrey and Border NHS Trust. During the day Pete works alongside young people with disabilities delivering a variety of social enterprises in Cheltenham.

Pete Johnson

Dr Sharon McDonnell is the Founder and Managing Director of Suicide Bereavement UK. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. She has specialised in suicide bereavement research for over 20 years and is recognised as a leading expert in this field. Her work has been referred to in NICE guidelines and several parliamentary debates. Whilst employed at The University of Manchester, she led a 4 year study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research, which informed the development of PABBS evidence-based suicide bereavement training, which is first of its kind internationally. She is currently working with Andrea Walraven-Thissen to develop evidence-based Emergency Services Postvention Response (ESPR) training. Sharon is also leading a national suicide bereavement survey, which is a collaboration between the University of Manchester and Support After Suicide Partnership.

Dr Sharon McDonnell Suicide Bereavement UK

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Andrea Walraven-Thissen is based in Germany. She is a crisis intervention specialist and leads Suicide Bereavement UK’s crisis support service. She has a very specialised and unique skill set, developed over 20 years, which involves working with and/or advising emergency services, when a critical incident occurs. Andrea’s wealth of experience, involves working in several countries as a critical incident manager. In Germany uniformed crisis interventionists are available 24/7 and get dispatched immediately when cases are considered critical incidents. They offer psychosocial support to first responders and civilians. Andrea is very experienced in immediate suicide postvention. She coaches first responders and supports the bereaved during the first hours. Andrea is a leader in this field, and has recently published a book for emergency services, entitled ‘What to Do after Suicide: A Guide to Suicide Postvention’. She is currently developing Emergency Services Postvention Response (ESPR) training, with Dr. Sharon McDonnell, which will be first of its kind internationally.

Andrea Walraven-Thissen Suicide Bereavement UK

Dr Pauline Nelson is a Research Fellow in health services research at the University of Manchester. Her work focuses on bringing into public view the perspectives and experiences of those who use and deliver services. She has published over 30 research papers spanning a range of international academic journals (health services/policy; psychology; medicine; primary care; nursing). Pauline has a personal interest in improving support for those bereaved by suicide and is SBUK Lead for Publications, with several academic papers and reports related to the evidence-based ‘Postvention Assisting those Bereaved by Suicide’ (PABBS) training.

Dr Pauline Nelson Suicide Bereavement UK

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Keith Waters is a mental health professional. His work has a strong connection with suicide prevention and self-harm and emerges as the prominent area of his care, career andinfluence. Personal experiences, supporting staff and meeting with those bereaved by suicide, has not only moulded his beliefs and approaches, but also significantlyaffected him personally. Keith has lost colleagues to suicide, including a nurse he trained. Other colleagues have lived-experience of self-harm and suicide, (themselvesor relatives). So, although Keith could list the various roles, works, publications and involvements with suicide and suicide prevention, he joins you today, as many of us will be, having been touched and shaped by a life time of connections with suicide, both personally and professionally.

Keith Waters Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Matt Horrocks is a practicing psychotherapist in the East Midlands and academic tutor at Nottingham Trent University. Matt is interested in suicide prevention ideas and concepts, having known several people who have died by suicide. Matt is also interested in critical views of psychology, mental health and social policy, believing that mental health practice benefits from insights drawn from the social sciences, arts and humanities, not only from science, statistics and medicine. Taking this broader view Matt believes we can seek to create fair, compassionate and clinically effective services, responsive to, and based on the needs of people and communities.

Matt Horrocks

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Dzmitry Karpuk is a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist (UKCP and AFT accred). He has specialised in trauma recovery psychotherapy for adults, children and families for over 25 years. He is also a trainer and team member of Blake Emergency Services and Suicide Bereavement UK. He provides individual and group supervision to a wide range of clinicians and other relevant professionals. Dzmitry is collaborating with Professor Tom Stoneham and his team at the University of York on a research project, which aims to identify therapists’ level of training and preparedness for dealing with nightmares and other parasomnias.

Dzmitry KarpukSuicide Bereavement UK and Complex Trauma Institute

Professor Tom Stoneham is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York and Principal Investigator of the Dreams without Dreaming project. He completed his PhD on Self-Knowledge (University of London, 1995) and has published more than 40 research papers and books on the nature of experience, time, nothingness and idealism.

Professor Tom StonehamUniversity of York

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Dr. Ananta Dave is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist and Medical Director for Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. She was awarded a 2019 Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to research international strategies for preventing doctors from taking their own lives and to reduce stigma associated with doctors seeking help. In 2019 she travelled to the USA where she visited a range of services in New York and California treating doctors and health care professionals with mental illness. Her aim is to set up similar services within the NHS. Ananta’s Fellowship was jointly funded by the John Armitage Charitable Trust.

Dr Ananta Dave Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Dr. Hayley Gorton is a Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice at the University of Huddersfield and a community pharmacist. In her PhD, she studied suicide and self-harm using large, electronic healthcare datasets. Becoming involved in suicide research prompted Hayley to reflect on her own practice. She began to explore the role of pharmacy teams in suicide prevention through discussion then formal research. In 2018, she became a Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (WCMT) and travelled to explore the role of pharmacists in suicide prevention, internationally. She will discuss the findings of this Fellowship alongside ongoing work in practice and education in this emerging field.

Dr Hayley GortonUniversity of Huddersfield

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Shamala Shaukat is a Person-Centred therapist and trainer who commenced her counselling journey, in an organisation within the voluntary sector, designed to reduce barriers for women from minority ethnic backgrounds and/or of the Muslim faith. She has worked with children, young people and families from many different faiths and cultures. This includes working in the Middle East for seven years. Her work has often been focused on grief and loss, whether that is through bereavement or loss due other to major life events. Shamala has published her experiences of working with bereaved Muslims.

Shamala Shaukat

Lee Fryatt is an Inspector with Hampshire Constabulary with 30 years of operational experience, including responding to critical incidents, youth offending and police custody management. He has broad experience of responding to people suffering with mental health conditions who are at a point of crisis in their life. Lee’s family has been personally affected by the devastating effect of suicide, when in September 2018 his eldest son, Daniel ended his own life just after starting University. “Daniel’s death was an immense shock and tragedy that has forever changed us as a family. The trauma of suicide is life changing and will never really leave us, but we hope that by contributing to the debate and working with universities more can be done to identify, support and respond to students with mental health problems and provide a better response during crisis points for students in the future.

Lee Fryatt Hampshire Constabulary

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Ged Flynn is the Chief Executive at PAPYRUS, which is a national UK charity dedicated to preventing young suicide in people aged up to 35. In this age group, suicide remains the leading cause of death. The charity helps to save young lives by supporting, equipping and influencing. Its national helpline HOPELINEUK offers professional advice to children and young people who may have thoughts of suicide as well as to concerned others. PAPYRUS is unapologetic about its suicide intervention policy which is to share information with emergency services where a person has taken steps that may end life. Ged is a member of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group in Westminster as well as the National Advisory Group on Suicide Prevention and Self Harm Reduction in Welsh Government.

Ged Flynn PAPYRUS

Conference Workshops

Workshop 1 The Development of Emergency Services Postvention Response (ESPR) Training

Andrea Walraven-Thissen, Dr Pauline Nelson and Dr Sharon McDonnell

Dr Pauline Nelson will discuss the recently published PABBS paper which highlights the experiences and perceived needs of ambulance staff responding to suicide and bereaved families.

Andrea Walraven-Thissen and Dr. Sharon McDonnell will then inform you of the Emergency Services Postvention Response (ESPR) research project. They are currently conducting the research in several countries (i.e. UK, Holland, Jersey and Germany), which explores the experiences and perceived needs (i.e. emotional, practical and training) of emergency services personnel who have i) responded to a (suspected) suicide; ii) come into contact with the bereaved family; iii) and/or personally lost a colleague or family member to suicide.

Please note, you can only choose one of the following six workshops.

Findings will inform the development of evidence-based Emergency Services Postvention Response (ESPR) training, which will be first of its kind internationally.

• To provide first responders with knowledge and skills to respond effectively after a (suspected) suicide;

• Help increase their confidence responding to families bereaved by suicide;

• To assist first responders in effective incident management; and

• To empower and enable/promote resilience, when responding after suicide.

Workshop 2 One to the Power of Zero: Continuing the Conversation Around Zero Suicide Approaches

Keith Waters and Matt Horrocks

In last year’s workshop we had the privilege to engage with delegates on the opportunities and challenges around the zero approach to suicide prevention. This included a role play and interactive debates, as well as the administration of a pre and post workshop survey of delegates. This year we would like to take the opportunity to share with you some of the key themes and findings from last year’s workshop in a dynamic and interactive format. We would like this continuation of the conversation to further support the embracement of the experiences of relatives, friends, carers, professionals, communities, and society as a whole, within suicide prevention approaches. Through such a learning focused forum, we seek to bring those with a personal connection and those with professional experiences together to help further shape suicide prevention work.

Workshop 3 Preventing Suicide by Working with Nightmares

Dzmitry Karpuk and Professor Tom Stonehouse

This workshop will briefly highlight the association between nightmares and suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts, deaths by suicide and the importance of working with nightmares to help reduce suicide risk. Tom and Dzmitry will briefly consider a new diagnosis of Complex Trauma, provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) which includes complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD). They will also consider historical approaches to nightmares in a clinical context and outline some of the therapeutic barriers when working with trauma survivors. They will then introduce a new systemic innovative method, namely Embodied Reprocessing for trauma recovery by integrating it with new perspectives on dreaming processes entitled the Cultural-Social model of Dreaming.

Conference Workshops Please note, you can only choose one of the following six workshops.

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Workshop 4 Who Cares for the Carer?

Dr Ananta Dave

We know doctors are recognised as a ‘high risk’ group and are vulnerable to dying by suicide. We also know that doctors are often reluctant to seek support when struggling to cope. However, we do not know how best to engage with and support this vulnerable high-risk group. Dr. Ananta Dave was awarded a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to visit the USA where she explored international strategies to help address this issue. Her fellowship involved visiting a range of services in New York and California treating doctors and health care professionals with mental illness. Ananta will talk about her travel fellowship, and will share what she has learnt. This workshop will provide the opportunity for delegates to consider ‘who cares for the carer?

Workshop 5 Are Pharmacy Teams a Missed Opportunity in Suicide Prevention?

Dr Hayley Gorton

Community pharmacists are the most visited healthcare professionals every day in England. Together with their teams, they provide accessible healthcare to the communities that they serve. However, until recently, community pharmacy teams have seldom been mentioned in suicide prevention efforts yet they could be a missed opportunity. Hayley will discuss her research, and the global perspective from here Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (WCMT) Fellowship to describe how the role of pharmacy teams in suicide prevention is evolving. She will also welcome your thoughts.

Please note, you can only choose one of the following six workshops.

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Workshop 6 Bereaved Muslims, Working with Difference

Shamala Shaukat

Any barrier that gets in the way of being able to ‘see’ the person we are working with requires some work from us, if we want that barrier to shift. Not knowing anything about a person’s beliefs or culture can often be one such barrier. In particular, if the set of beliefs or cultural background is very unfamiliar, or the knowledge we have about it is gleaned largely through media. Of course, coming from the same cultural background can be sometimes be as much of a hindrance too. The aim of this workshop is to offer some basic information about Muslims and what might be happening around them, when a bereavement occurs, in the hope that providing such insights might help reduce some barriers.

Please note, you can only choose one of the following six workshops.

Shamala will also explain some of the beliefs around Islam which may aid in the understanding of complicated grief symptoms and a little of what that may mean. Whilst this workshop primarily focuses on Muslims, in terms of information, Shamala hopes that a key aspect of attending this workshop is to learn about ‘working with difference’, the impact on us and the other and how to work, without ever having to ‘know it all.’

Please note, places are extremely limited, as it is intentionally a small workshop.

Who should attend?This event is suitable for those who come into contact with those bereaved or affected by suicide, examples might include:

Is this conference suitable for those bereaved by suicide? This event is organised to inform and guide professionals who come into contact with those bereaved by suicide and those in a position to influence policy and practice. Therefore, it is presented in a factual manner and so is not suitable for people recently bereaved by suicide or struggling to cope with their loss.

• Policy makers• Public Health• Commissioners• Clinicians• General Practitioners• Mental health professionals• Front line staff (Police,

Ambulance and Fire Service)• Pharmacists• Coroners and Coroner’s

Officers

• Those who specialise in suicide prevention/postvention

• Researchers• Occupational Health• Prison staff• Teachers• Social Workers• Funeral directors• Celebrants• Clergy

• Third sector etc• Those developing/

implementing the following: - A postvention service

- A suicide strategy

- NICE Suicide Prevention guidelines (2018)

- NHS Long Term Plan (2019)

ProgrammeRegistration 8.15am - 9.25am

Chair: Barry McGale Welcome to the conference 9.30am

Reagan Blyth Welcome from Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust 9.45am

Jenny Berry Poem 9.50am

Jake Mills Chasing Stigma and Creating Hope 9.55am

Coffee break 10.45am

Pete Johnson Silent Discovery 11.15am

Dr Sharon McDonnell From Grief to Hope: Findings from the National Suicide Bereavement Survey 11.45am

Lunch/networking 12.30pm

Workshops (Choose ONE of the following 6 workshops) 1.40 pm

1. Andrea Walraven-Thissen, Dr Pauline Nelson and Dr. Sharon McDonnell

The Development of Emergency Services Postvention Response (ESPR) Training

2. Keith Waters and Matt HorrocksOne to the Power of Zero: Continuing the Conversation Around Zero Suicide Approaches.

3. Dzmitry Karpuk and Professor Tom Stoneham Preventing Suicide by Working with Nightmares

4. Dr. Ananta Dave Who Cares for the Carer?

5. Dr. Hayley Gorton Are Pharmacy Teams a Missed Opportunity in Suicide Prevention?

6. Shamala Shaukat Bereaved Muslims, Working with Difference

Coffee Break 3.00pm

Lee Fryatt Sharing is Caring – Is Protecting Data Risking Lives? 3.30pm

Ged Flynn Too Young to Die? A Glimpse Into the Work of PAPYRUS. 3.55pm

Chair: Barry McGale Reflection and closing remarks 4,20pm

Unique opportunity to attend half day Covid-19 Seminar

Covid 19: Exploring Resilience, Recovery and Lessons Learnt Internationally

Presenter: Andrea Walraven-Thissen, Suicide Bereavement UKAndrea is currently working with colleagues in several countries (i.e.health care management, governments, first response and the military), to identify international best practice and lessons learned, during the Covid-19 crisis. Findings will be presented at an international three day conference in Germany. Andrea will identify key findings relevant to the UK and present them during this unique half day workshop in Manchester.

The seminar will focus on the impact on the following• Front line staff who worked during the Covid-19

pandemic;

• Patients who were hospitalised from Covid-19 and survived;

• Those who lost ‘signficant others’ including colleagues to Covid-19; and

• Bereavement and rituals during a time of uncertainty and high risk.

Learning outcomes • International good practice associated with

covid-19 response;

• Incident management (techniques to help stabilise the workforce, specifically management of staff and their well-being);

• Post Intensive Care Syndrome PICS (impact on the patient and their family); and

• Impact on staff (coping and managing risk, ethical dilemmas, and moral injury etc).

Only 100 places available. We expect high demand.

Cost

£59.99 plus VAT for those attending the Suicide Bereavement UK (SBUK) conference; and

£79.99 plus VAT for those who do not attend the SBUK conference.

Priority will be given to those attending the Suicide Bereavement UK conference on the 18th November 2020.

19th November 2020, 9am – 12pmMecure Manchester Piccadilly hotel, Manchester

To register on both the Suicide Bereavement UK Conference and Covid-19 Seminar: www.suicidebereavementuk.com/suicide-bereavement-conference

For more information on the Covid-19 Seminar: www.suicidebereavementuk.com/covid-19-seminar

Or contact Paul Higham: Tel 07850 710555 Email paul.higham@suicidebereavementuk.com

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Location

Contact

Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel Portland StreetManchesterM1 4PH

Tel: 0161 751 1412Email: info@mercuremanchester.co.uk

Sat Nav: Use postcode M1 4DY to ensure you arrive at the car park instead of the front door.

Suicide Bereavement UKTel: 01706 827 359Mobile: 07850 710 555Email Paul Higham: admin@suicidebereavementuk.com