PROTECT | Values Guided Suicide Prevention
HEALING WITH HOPE | A Journey of Mental Wellbeing, Resilience, and Connection
Welcome to PROTECT, a transformative podcast dedicated to nurturing mental well-being, building resilience, and fostering hope. At its core, PROTECT is about the power of human connection—exploring how values like compassion, belonging, and loyalty can become lifelines for those facing challenges. Founded on the principle of Relational Safety, this podcast moves beyond traditional perspectives, asking not “what’s the matter with you?” but “what matters to you?”—empowering both professionals and individuals in their journey to chip away at pain and build strength.
Hosted by Dr. Manaan Kar Ray, an innovator and leader in mental health crisis care with over a decade of experience at Oxford and Cambridge, and now the Director of Mental Health Services at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, PROTECT is changing the way we think about suicide prevention. Each episode blends leading-edge research with person-centered practice, bringing insights that promote hope, purpose, and resilience.
In our new focus, we introduce the STEPS 4 HOPE podcast series—an intimate exploration of suicide prevention through story, metaphor, and values-based connection. This season follows Ari’s Tapestry, a narrative journey through the six STEPS of suicidal distress: FABRIC, THREAD, NEEDLE, TIP, MEND, and FLOW. Each episode blends poetic storytelling, clinical insight, and emotional resonance to help listeners better understand what risk feels like—and how to respond with presence, curiosity, and care. Grounded in the HOPE framework, this series is a companion for anyone seeking to support others through pain, or to reweave their own path forward.
Whether you’re a clinician, caregiver, educator, or someone walking your own recovery journey, this podcast is an essential resource for all those who care deeply about mental health, suicide prevention, and building communities that thrive on connection and kindness.
Further information at www.PROGRESS.guide.
PROTECT | Values Guided Suicide Prevention
G08 | Recap of CORE Module - in Conversation with Tracey Chitty
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In the second of the Recaps we go through the four chapters in the CORE module and pin down the key messages:
- Care Compass - Risk vs Recovery - without risk there is no recovery, with the right care the person has more control
- Optimise Pain Relief - Dig deep to establish the need and interests that lie beneath the position of dying, help them see that they want to be pain free and our role is to help them be pain free.
- Risk Rethink - High - Medium - Low are static categories to characterise risk which is inherently dynamic, move to a more nuanced approach of thinking about risk in terms of longitudinal risk, cross sectional risk and unaddressed risk - that will help us formulate an opinion on clear and / or imminent risk.
- Empathy in Action - Move from what's the matter with you to What matters to you, use the equation of Empathy in Action
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