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Deep Empathy: At the heart of deep empathy lies courage to experience the darkness enveloping the suicidal mind. Curiosity and compassion  will lead to willingness to collaborate with the practitioner.

Key Concept

o Positions are underpinned by interests and needs - explore with empathy

o Discover that desperate actions arise from a desire to be pain free

o Suspend desire to help and experience the pain

o Show genuine curiosity, courage and compassion

Key Principles

Gain Knowledge:

• What are the values that drive deep empathy?
• What are the behaviours that show deep empathy?
• What are the components of empathy?
• What are the different motivational interviewing techniques that can be used to overcome resistance?
• What is reflective listening?
• What is rolling with resistance?

Develop Understanding:

• Why is deep empathy central to relational safety?
• Why is it important to understand one’s own response to the suicidal mind?
• Why is it important to attend to both sides of ambivalence?

Refresh Skills:

• How to translate the 5 key values into tangible actions?
• How to suspend judgement and the desire to help?
• How to use open ended questions to encourage collaboration?
• How to use affirmations to support self efficacy?
• How to listen and manage one’s own feelings when faced with overwhelming distress?
• How to gain the other persons perspective?
• How do you communicate your understanding?

Deep Empathy

Relational Foundation of the Recovery Journey

PROTECT Week Two: Build Empathic Bridge

How to create relational safety through deep empathy?

The person in distress believes suicide is the solution to life’s misery and the professional believes that suicide is a permanent solution to a circumstances that are temporary. Attempts to pull one over to this alternative view of seeing the world will only activate resistance and make them more entrenched in their position. Training to understand that the suicidal mind wants to escape entrapment and wants to be pain free is crucial. This assists greatly in the discussion that there are alternatives and the professional is there to help them be pain free. Just that the path to recovery is slower and longer.

POSITIONS, INTERESTS, NEEDS.