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Learn skills that save lives

Workshops in suicide prevention and intervention and addressing the harmful effects of gender based violence in disasters.

Training

We offer public, corporate, workplace or tailored training experiences, designed to impart knowledge and effective skills within the core domains of Suicide prevention, Intervention and Domestic and family violence recognition and response.

For a list of our current public workshops, Click Here

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Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training Workshops

LivingWorks ASIST is a two-day, in-person workshop that teaches participants how to provide suicide first aid.

Trusted by professionals and approved by the World Health Organization, ASIST empowers people to recognize when someone may be at risk of suicide and to intervene with a collaborative, personalised safety plan.

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Suicide Prevention Awareness Workshops

safeTALK is a 4-hour face-to-face workshop that equips participants to recognize when someone may be thinking about suicide and connect them to life-saving support.

It’s practical, evidence-based, and designed for anyone aged 15+.

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Domestic and Family Violence - Lessons In Disaster

Designed to strengthen the capacity of health, community and emergency sectors to challenge harmful gender stereo-types and inequalities, and understand their relevance in a disaster context.

Lessons In Disaster includes sessions on harmful gender stereotypes in disaster, family violence, men’s self-harm and suicide, and LGBTIQA+ inclusion.

Customised and Tailored Training

Are you interested in exploring in-house workshops for your organisation?

We specialise in designing and managing curated workshops to deliver to your requirements. If you have some thoughts about what you would like to achieve, let's have a chat about what we can do to help.

Leave some details here and we'll get back to you.

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About Us

Life Patch Consulting is a small business specialising in best practice suicide prevention and intervention training and research based domestic and family violence awareness training.

Our small team of expert trainers and facilitators cater for a wide variety of clients across Victoria and interstate.

We can tailor and deliver training packages to your requirements, including ASIST and safeTALK from LivingWorks and Lessons in Disaster from Gender and Disaster Australia (GADAus).

Public workshops are regularly scheduled. Private and corporate workshops can be arranged. Contact us for more information.

From some of our training participants

“Trainers were great! Very safe space & trauma informed.”

ASIST Participant

Public Workshop

“Really happy and honestly surprised on how much I’ve learnt in 2 days and finally feel confident and open to talk about the topic of suicide”

ASIST Participant

Public Workshop

“Fantastic, informative, engaging facilitation and information. Truly wonderful and useful. I feel so much more competent in my practice now.”

ASIST Participant

Public Workshop

“Wonderfully respectful and inclusive environment set up by the trainers. Structure and frameworks give enormous confidence. Training has lowered the taboo threshold and enabled permission to ask about suicide.”

ASIST Participant

Public Workshop

“Peter is an exceptional facilitator and human. His calm, gentle, attentive and engaging demeanor felt so safe and also inviting. He has a special talent and is the best trainer I’ve been in the presence of. Thank you Peter. Unforgettable.”

ASIST Participant

Public Workshop

"11 out of 10 !"

ASIST Participant

Public Workshop

"Lots of encouragement and opportunity for discussion."

safeTALK Participant

Corporate Workshop

"10! - Excellent and relevant information. Very practical."

safeTALK Participant

Corporate Workshop

"10 out of 10. Very good, interactive and informative."

safeTALK Participant

Corporate Workshop

"Fantastic Course! Absolutely essential in the workplace... and a huge help for 'out of work' life."

ASIST Participant

Corporate Workshop

"Fantastic Training. I think it is incredibly important that more and more people learn this."

ASIST Participant

Corporate Workshop

"The workshop was really well presented. Both trainers were amazing and extremely informative and helpful. I really enjoyed being here and learning so much information from them."

DFV Participant

Public Workshop

Contact Us

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Address

Blackburn South VIC 3130, Australia

Phone

0439 479 777

Email

peter@lifepatch.com.au

ABN

85972053381