PROTECT | Values Guided Suicide Prevention
Episodes
75 | Heart of STEPS: State, Source, Span & Scenario
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...In this episode we move from concept to practice, stepping into the four anchors at the centre of the STEPS model: ...
74 | Top to Tap - World Suicide Prevention Day 2025 Special
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Progress to Practice This World Suicide Prevention Day 2025 Special episode explores the three critical mindset sh...
Creating Hope Through Action – Commemorating World Suicide Prevention Day
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...A Song for World Suicide Prevention DayReleased on 10 September 2025 for World Suicide Prevention Day, this origina...
73 | Woven Together: Ari's Tapestry
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...This episode is a deliberate pause: a chance to gather the threads of Ari’s journey and see the STEPS model as a ...
72 | The Weaving Resumes: The FLOW of Life in Motion
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...In this episode, we return to Ari a month after her attempt — not at an ending, but at a continuation. This is FL...
71 | Stitching What Remains: MEND
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...MEND – After the Rupture, the Reweaving BeginsAfter a suicide attempt, survival is not the end of the story — i...
70 | Moment of Action: TIP Breaks Through
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Action - We enter the fourth phase of the STEPS model — TIP — the moment when suicidal thought becomes action.T...
69 | Sharpened Edges: Eye of the NEEDLE
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Intention and the Quiet Planning of DeathWhen risk tightens, our questions must soften. This is where the thread tu...
68 | Tangled Thoughts: Following the THREAD
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Ideation. It doesn’t always arrive loudly.Sometimes it starts with a whisper—“I’m just tired.” Other time...
67 | Frayed Beginnings: The Worn FABRIC
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Predisposition and the Invisible UnravellingWhere suicide risk begins — quietly, invisibly. This episode explores...
66 | From Sunny to Ari: The Story Behind the Song
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...STEPS 4 HOPE: Suicide Prevention Through Story, Song & MeaningWelcome to PROTECT (Season 4), a podcast where su...
65 | S010 | Strength Within
07 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Explore Sunny's Values ScoutsWrapping Up The Courage to ExploreIn this heartfelt final episode of 2024, the PR...
64 | S009 | The Magic of Wonder
30 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts... Explore Sunny's Values Scouts In Episode 64 of the PROTECT Podcast, Dr. Manaan Kar Ray and Mahi explore the ...
063 | S008 | Curiosity Lights the Way
23 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts... Explore Sunny's Values ScoutsIn this heartwarming episode of the PROTECT Podcast, we explore the transforma...
062 | S007 | Adventure in the Forest
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Sunny's Values Scouts on AmazonIn Episode 62 of the PROTECT Podcast, Mahi and Dr. Manaan Kar Ray explore the t...
61 | S006 | Courage in the Savannah
09 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Sunny's Values Scouts on AmazonIn Episode 61, Courage in the Savanah, Mahi and Dr. Manaan Kar Ray dive into co...
60 | S005 | Loyalty in the Ice
02 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts... Sunny's Values Scouts on AmazonJoin hosts Mahi and Dr. Manaan Kar Ray for a heartfelt exploration of loyalty...
59 | S004 | Family Ties
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts... Sunny's Values Scouts on AmazonThe Value of Family: Roots, Resilience, and Dolphin DreamsWelcome to Episode ...
58 | S003 | Connecting the Dots
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts... Sunny's Values Scouts on Amazon Exploring the Value of Connection The Essence of Inter-being: A Lesson from...
57 | S002 | Acceptance at the Lagoon
12 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Sunny's Values Scouts on AmazonExploring Acceptance: Lessons from Sunny’s Value ScoutsIn this episode of the...
56 | S001 | Finding Belonging
06 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Sunny's Values Scouts on AmazonIn this second episode of Sunny’s Value Scouts on the PROTECT Podcast, Dr. Ma...
55 | S000 | Sunny’s Values Scouts: Building Resilience in a Changing World
28 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Sunny's Values Scouts on AmazonIn this insightful podcast episode, Mahi sits down with Dr. Manaan Kar Ray to e...
54 | G017 | An Hour with Dr Stan Steindl, Why Professionals Need Self-Compassion?
21 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Using Compassion-Focused Therapy for Staff Wellbeing in Mental Health SettingsIn a podcast hosted by Dr. Manaan Kar...
53 | G016 | An Hour with Caroline, Daddy Blackbird is Set to Fly
14 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...In this special episode for World Suicide Prevention Day, Caroline Roodhouse shares an intimate and powerful reflec...
52 | G015 | An Hour with John Bell, Rolemodelling Self Love to Send a Message to Jake
07 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...In the lead up to World Suicide Prevention Day, we present an hour with John Bell in which he shares his journey of...
51 | 50th + 1 - Key Messages from ASPIRE
31 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...This is a continuation of the 50th special episode of the PROTECT podcast. We are still giving away a beautiful PDF...
50 | 50th Special - Key Messages from CORE and ASSESS
24 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...This is a special episode in which we are celebrating 50 episodes of the PROTECT podcast with a give away of a beau...
G014 | An Hour with Ally Kelly, holding space for courageous conversations...
17 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...In this hour Ally shares insights from her personal journey, and messages that she might have given to her younger ...
G013 | An Hour with Dr Stan Steindl, what is Compassion Focused Therapy?
10 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Dr Stan Steindl shares his wisdom on Compassion Focused Therapy in conversation with Manaan. The talk provides a br...
35 | Recording of Presentation at APAS, Accra, Ghana
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Given we have been very busy with our week long suicide prevention training in Malaysia, we have provided a recodin...
G012 | An Hour with Paul Vittles, how far can we go TOWARDS ZERO?
20 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Paul Vittles is the Founder of Towards Zero Suicide CIC and the Chief Facilitator of Zero Suicide Society. Over an ...
34 | Safe Life Guide - Enact & Evaluate
13 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Key Message: "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" ~ Laozi. It is time to live your...
33 | Safe Life Guide - People and Pursuits
06 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Key Message: Underpin "What Matters to You" with Values. Align life goals with your core values using Saf...
32 | Safe Life Guide - Own My Values
29 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Key Message: Values foster hope and healing, values gender joy and meaning. Explore your core values using Safe Lif...
31 | Safe Life Guide - Helps? Harms?
22 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Key Message: Reflect on what helps and what harms, its a simple but powerful technquie that will make you pause bef...
30 | Safe Life Guide - Hope Overview - ACCEPTANCE
15 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Key Message: If we did respond to adversity through acceptance of reality, we have the power to transform unbearabl...
29 | Safe Life Guide - Download from App Store or Play Store
09 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Celebrating Men's Mental Health Month with the launch of - Safe Life Guide. Download from Apple App Store and ...
28 | Healing for Healers Launch ~ World Suicide Prevention Day 2023
09 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...ConnectionYou may have picked up Healing for Healers because you are supporting a colleague who has lost a patient ...
G011| Recap of STEPS and B4Now for ESF, Hong Kong - With Tracey Chitty
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...In the third recap episode for ESF, we cover the STEPS model, the Validity techniques of Shawn Shea, the Narrative ...
G010 | Recap of AWARE Framework for Clinical Decision Making
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...In conversation with Tracey Chitty, the AWARE framework has been contextualised into the educational setting in thi...
G09 | Humor Heals - World Suicide Prevention Day Special with Mallori and Lodge
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...A special episode to mark the 10th of September - World Suicide Prevention Day.Humor Heals #LOL @the Sound of Hope ...
G08 | Recap of CORE Module - in Conversation with Tracey Chitty
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...In the second of the Recaps we go through the four chapters in the CORE module and pin down the key messages:Care C...
G07 | Whole of School Approach to Suicide Prevention - in Conversation with Tracey Chitty
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...In the first of this sequence of guest episodes with Tracey Chitty, we share ESF's (Hong Kong) whole of school...
27 | Suicide Prevention for Health Regulators - Finding Common Ground
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...A unique perspective to establish common ground between the Health Regulators and the practitioner under investigat...
26 | Suicide Prevention for Health Regulators - Joiner's Model
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Joiner's model of desire and capability is used to explain the high risk period that health practitioners face...
25 | Borderline Conversation AWARE - Short vs Long Term
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...In the third of the 5 Critical Crisis Conversations, Manaan explores how the person's agenda of ensuring short...
24 | Borderline Conversation AWARE - Empowerment vs Containment
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...The second of the Borderline AWARE conversations relates to Weighting (Diagnosis, Course, Social Causation - how th...
23 | Borderline Conversation AWARE - Advice vs Action
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...In this sequence of nuanced conversations, listeners will be guided through some of the most sensitive issues that ...
22 | Decision Making in Borderline Crisis - AWARE Case Simmulation
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Jill presents to the Emergency Department in a suicidal crisis, she has Borderline Personality Disorder and believe...
21 | Borderline Personality Disorder ~ The Shadow of Splitting
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Understanding splitting is essential to supporting people in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), particularly wh...
G6 | 7 SAFE Steps - Post-Simulation Actor's Debrief - Tegan, Sami, Charlie, Kyra
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Following two days of 7 SAFE Steps training, we caught up with our four professional actors who brought to life San...
20 | Personality Disorder ~ Clusters A, B and C
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...In the lead up to a case study, Manaan delves deep into Personality Disorders and talks about all 10 conditions cov...
G5 | Yvette Bonilla - Transitions in Care
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Yvette Bonilla, LMSW, is the Owner and CEO of Suicide Care Consulting Services. She has seen firsthand the fateful ...
19 | Creep Crash Crawl
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Building on the qualitative theme of Experience in the AWARE framework is the phenomenon of Creep Crash Crawl. The ...
18 | AWARE 5 - Experience
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Experience is the final AWARE factor. In this episode Manaan explores in detail the different ways in which experie...
G4 | Dr Miguel de Seixas ~ From Vietnam with Love
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Dr Miguel de Seixas, Head of Psychiatry at Family Medical Practice in Vietnam shares valuable insights from his jou...
17 | AWARE 4 - Agenda & Resources
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Are you eliciting an agenda in the referrer, patient or carer? And whatever you elicit is that impacting the way in...
16 | AWARE 3 - Weighting
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Episode 16 explores how assessors rate suicidality in different kinds of presentation i.e. weighting. The AWARE stu...
G3 | Shazzy Tharby - Navigating Suicidal Crisis in Autistic People
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Neurodivergent people in a neurotypical world face unique challenges when navigating a suicidal crisis. The busy, b...
15 | AWARE 2 - Rational vs Rationalizing
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...This episode introduces the listeners to a key concept, the 2 mental spaces in which an assessor operates in an ass...
14 | AWARE 1 - Appraise Clinical Decision - ANXIETY
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Professionals need a good understanding of self before they can understand others. AWARE protects against undue inf...
13 | Introducing ASSESS and Attitudes to Suicide
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Episode 13 introduces the ASSESS module and provides a broad overview of the 6 chapters in ASSESS. It then dives in...
G2 | Dr Stan Steindl on Navigating Suicidal Ambivalence Using Motivational Interviewing
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Dr Stan Steindl is an Australian clinical psychologist with over 20 years experience as a therapist, trainer and re...
12 | Progress to Practice - 3 Key Shifts in Crisis Care
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...In this episode Manaan reveals the 3 practice shifts that lie at the foundation of a new program called 7 SAFE Step...
G1 | Candid Conversation with Ashley P Evans
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Meet Ashley P Evans, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner from Waco, Texas.Here is a bit about Ashley in he...
11 | CORE Summary
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...The episode brings together the key messages from all 10 episodes. It can be used as a refresher or for someone new...
10 | Empathy in Action III - Values of Relational Safety
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Episode 10 will be diving deep into the 5 values of Relational Safety:CourageCuriosityCompassionCollaboration and ...
09 | Empathy in Action II = Cognitive Empathy + Emotional Empathy + Empathic Concern
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Part 2 of Empathy in Action introduces the Values of Relational Safety: Courage: to be present and suspend the des...
08 | Empathy in Action I - Top to TAP
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...In part 1 of Empathy in Action, the listener is introduced to the key mindset shift that underlies Relational Safet...
07| Rethink Risk II - Clear and Imminent Risk
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...The episode provides a novel way to describe risk and steers professionals away from high, medium and low risk stra...
06 | Risk Rethink I - Warning Signs
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Proactive Detection of Clear and Imminent Risk of SuicideIn the first past of Risk Rethink, the listener is introdu...
05 | Optimise Pain Relief
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Optimise Pain Relief introduces a pain based narrative as a conversational strategy to discover common ground. The ...
04 | Care Compass II - Pragmatics
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...The episode describes the different ways in which the Care Compass can be used:To capture hopeTo gain a better unde...
03 | Care Compass I - Concept
20 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Episode 03 introduces the Care Compass, a conceptual visual conversation aid to talk about recovery and current car...
02 | Navigating Rocky Waters
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Episode 02 introduces the four chapters in the CORE Module and the nautical metaphor: Navigating Rocky WatersNaviga...
01 | Introduction to PROTECT: Novel Solutions to Suicide Risk Management
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would love to hear your thoughts...Episode 01 introduces Relational Safety, the golden thread through PROTECT:A person with suicidal ideation is often...