RU Ok – A Conversation About Helping This week on 3 Small Chat Rooms we talk to Robert Sams CEO of Lifeline Direct, with a focus on mental health being it is World Suicide Prevention day and RUOK? Day this week. This is a great conversation and we hope we can actually come back to […]
Mental health
Culture, Toxicity and Safety
Culture, Toxicity and Safety There are several reasons why Safety in its current state will never deal effectively with mental health: · The mis-definition of culture and, · The brutalism of zero The only way to drive for zero is to: · Suppress reporting (learning) · Focus on petty risk · Blame and punish minor […]
Well Being is a Social Challenge
Well Being is a Social Challenge These days I have quite a number of friends who live alone and for a number of reasons like it that way. However, the challenges of old age, retirement and loneliness are real regardless of Internet activity. Within the Health sector and community services the challenges of aloneness has […]
Talking Zero Nonsense to People
Talking Zero Nonsense to People I observe with amusement a presentation at the next proposed zero cult conference this: ‘Zero Suicides, simple as that’. What happens when we sanction the talking of such nonsense to people? The idea of zero anything is offensive to anyone who has experienced harm or suicide. The last thing you […]
Why People Don’t Speak Up and Suicide
Why People Don’t Speak Up and Suicide I always find it amusing these campaigns that pop up to deal with a wicked problem in this case the wicked problem of suicide. Wicked problems are intractable unsolvable problems. Wicked problems go way beyond any possibility of fixing or managing. (http://www.enablingchange.com.au/wickedproblems.pdf). Any simplistic attempt at trying to […]
