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
27 | Suicide Prevention for Health Regulators - Finding Common Ground
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A unique perspective to establish common ground between the Health Regulators and the practitioner under investigation is the basis for this episode. It builds on t…
26 | Suicide Prevention for Health Regulators - Joiner's Model
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Joiner's model of desire and capability is used to explain the high risk period that health practitioners face when they have had a notification to AHPRA (any healt…
25 | Borderline Conversation AWARE - Short vs Long Term
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In the third of the 5 Critical Crisis Conversations, Manaan explores how the person's agenda of ensuring short term safety through admission may be quite different …
24 | Borderline Conversation AWARE - Empowerment vs Containment
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The second of the Borderline AWARE conversations relates to Weighting (Diagnosis, Course, Social Causation - how these factors may influence the weighting that we p…
23 | Borderline Conversation AWARE - Advice vs Action
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In this sequence of nuanced conversations, listeners will be guided through some of the most sensitive issues that they will have to navigate while supporting a per…
22 | Decision Making in Borderline Crisis - AWARE Case Simmulation
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Jill presents to the Emergency Department in a suicidal crisis, she has Borderline Personality Disorder and believes that the only way her safety can be maintained …
21 | Borderline Personality Disorder ~ The Shadow of Splitting
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Understanding splitting is essential to supporting people in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), particularly when they are in suicidal crisis. In this episode D…
G6 | 7 SAFE Steps - Post-Simulation Actor's Debrief - Tegan, Sami, Charlie, Kyra
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Following two days of 7 SAFE Steps training, we caught up with our four professional actors who brought to life Sandeep in the simulations. They are the fabulous 4:…
20 | Personality Disorder ~ Clusters A, B and C
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In the lead up to a case study, Manaan delves deep into Personality Disorders and talks about all 10 conditions covering clusters A, B and C in this episode.
Cluster…
G5 | Yvette Bonilla - Transitions in Care
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Yvette Bonilla, LMSW, is the Owner and CEO of Suicide Care Consulting Services. She has seen firsthand the fateful effects of the revolving door effect and how it c…
19 | Creep Crash Crawl
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Building on the qualitative theme of Experience in the AWARE framework is the phenomenon of Creep Crash Crawl. The episode describes how risk taking gradually creep…
18 | AWARE 5 - Experience
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Experience is the final AWARE factor. In this episode Manaan explores in detail the different ways in which experience generalises:
- Experience of the same patient ov…
G4 | Dr Miguel de Seixas ~ From Vietnam with Love
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Dr Miguel de Seixas, Head of Psychiatry at Family Medical Practice in Vietnam shares valuable insights from his journey (Cambridge to Saigon).
Miguel talks about how…
17 | AWARE 4 - Agenda & Resources
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Are you eliciting an agenda in the referrer, patient or carer? And whatever you elicit is that impacting the way in which you listen to the person's story i.e. does…
16 | AWARE 3 - Weighting
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Episode 16 explores how assessors rate suicidality in different kinds of presentation i.e. weighting. The AWARE study established that the weighting of suicidality …
G3 | Shazzy Tharby - Navigating Suicidal Crisis in Autistic People
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Neurodivergent people in a neurotypical world face unique challenges when navigating a suicidal crisis. The busy, bright, noisy Emergency Department does not serve …
15 | AWARE 2 - Rational vs Rationalizing
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This episode introduces the listeners to a key concept, the 2 mental spaces in which an assessor operates in an assessment.
Rational - facts followed by decision
Rati…
14 | AWARE 1 - Appraise Clinical Decision - ANXIETY
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Professionals need a good understanding of self before they can understand others.
AWARE protects against undue influences in the act of clinical decision making. I…
13 | Introducing ASSESS and Attitudes to Suicide
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Episode 13 introduces the ASSESS module and provides a broad overview of the 6 chapters in ASSESS. It then dives into attitudes towards suicide. The key messages to…
G2 | Dr Stan Steindl on Navigating Suicidal Ambivalence Using Motivational Interviewing
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Dr Stan Steindl is an Australian clinical psychologist with over 20 years experience as a therapist, trainer and researcher. He is has an active clinical practice a…