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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 73
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
53 | G016 | An Hour with Caroline, Daddy Blackbird is Set to Fly
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In this special episode for World Suicide Prevention Day, Caroline Roodhouse shares an intimate and powerful reflection on her journey through grief following the l…
52 | G015 | An Hour with John Bell, Rolemodelling Self Love to Send a Message to Jake
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In the lead up to World Suicide Prevention Day, we present an hour with John Bell in which he shares his journey of post traumatic growth.
In July 2020, John became …
51 | 50th + 1 - Key Messages from ASPIRE
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This is a continuation of the 50th special episode of the PROTECT podcast. We are still giving away a beautiful PDF of all the key messages and images from the 17 P…
50 | 50th Special - Key Messages from CORE and ASSESS
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This is a special episode in which we are celebrating 50 episodes of the PROTECT podcast with a give away of a beautiful PDF of all the key messages and images from…
G014 | An Hour with Ally Kelly, holding space for courageous conversations...
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In this hour Ally shares insights from her personal journey, and messages that she might have given to her younger self and others in her life with the benefit of h…
G013 | An Hour with Dr Stan Steindl, what is Compassion Focused Therapy?
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Dr Stan Steindl shares his wisdom on Compassion Focused Therapy in conversation with Manaan. The talk provides a broad overview of what CFT entails including little…
35 | Recording of Presentation at APAS, Accra, Ghana
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G012 | An Hour with Paul Vittles, how far can we go TOWARDS ZERO?
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Paul Vittles is the Founder of Towards Zero Suicide CIC and the Chief Facilitator of Zero Suicide Society. Over an hour Paul shares personal insights from his journ…
34 | Safe Life Guide - Enact & Evaluate
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Key Message: "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" ~ Laozi. It is time to live your values through actions in the here and now.
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33 | Safe Life Guide - People and Pursuits
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Key Message: Underpin "What Matters to You" with Values. Align life goals with your core values using Safe Life Guide's HOPE Framework.
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32 | Safe Life Guide - Own My Values
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Key Message: Values foster hope and healing, values gender joy and meaning. Explore your core values using Safe Life Guide's HOPE Framework.
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31 | Safe Life Guide - Helps? Harms?
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Key Message: Reflect on what helps and what harms, its a simple but powerful technquie that will make you pause before taking action.
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30 | Safe Life Guide - Hope Overview - ACCEPTANCE
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Key Message: If we did respond to adversity through acceptance of reality, we have the power to transform unbearable suffering i.e. what reality feels like back int…
29 | Safe Life Guide - Download from App Store or Play Store
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Celebrating Men's Mental Health Month with the launch of - Safe Life Guide.
Download from Apple App Store and Goolge Play Store. Also there are details for our Inst…
28 | Healing for Healers Launch ~ World Suicide Prevention Day 2023
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Connection
You may have picked up Healing for Healers because you are supporting a colleague who has lost a patient to suicide. Do not forget to offer your unconditi…
G011| Recap of STEPS and B4Now for ESF, Hong Kong - With Tracey Chitty
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In the third recap episode for ESF, we cover the STEPS model, the Validity techniques of Shawn Shea, the Narrative method and the B4Now approach from PROTECT.
G010 | Recap of AWARE Framework for Clinical Decision Making
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In conversation with Tracey Chitty, the AWARE framework has been contextualised into the educational setting in this podcast episode.
The recap begins with a discuss…
G09 | Humor Heals - World Suicide Prevention Day Special with Mallori and Lodge
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A special episode to mark the 10th of September - World Suicide Prevention Day.
Humor Heals #LOL @the Sound of Hope provides 3 exercises of therapeutic humour.
- Pile…
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…
G07 | Whole of School Approach to Suicide Prevention - in Conversation with Tracey Chitty
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In the first of this sequence of guest episodes with Tracey Chitty, we share ESF's (Hong Kong) whole of school approach to suicide prevention after an intensive fou…