Growing Forward is a specialized training program designed to help workplaces, schools, sports teams and families support individuals returning to work, study, sports, or daily life after experiencing suicide, self-harm, or mental distress.

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Reintegration can be complex. With the right support, it can also be a pathway to healing, resilience, and growth.

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Who Should Attend?

This training is ideal for anyone providing ongoing support to individuals after a suicide-related experience, including:

✔ Managers & HR Professionals  – Equip your workplace with safe, supportive reintegration strategies.
✔ Educators & Pastoral Care Providers – Learn how to guide students through their return to school.
✔ Coaches & Team Leaders – Support athletes and team members re-entering sports and group activities.
✔ Family Members & Caregivers – Gain tools to assist loved ones adjusting back into daily life.
✔ Community & Support Workers – Strengthen your ability to provide long-term postvention care.

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What You Will Learn

🔹 Understanding Suicide-Related Experiences – Support individuals after suicidal thoughts, attempts, or loss.
🔹 Postvention Strategies – Learn how workplaces, schools, and communities can respond and prevent future risk.
🔹 Grief & Growth – Understand the grief process and how it shapes recovery and reintegration.
🔹 Setting Growth Goals – Help individuals create meaningful reintegration plans with purpose and structure.
🔹 Effective Response Strategies:
✔ Supporting an individual after a suicide experience.
✔ Supporting someone bereaved by suicide.
✔ Guiding a team or organization through the aftermath of a suicide event.

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💡 This training ensures individuals aren’t just welcomed back—they are truly supported in moving and growing forward.

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Why This Training Matters

Returning to work, school, or daily life after a suicide experience, attempt, or loss is not just a transition—it’s a critical period where the right support can make all the difference. Without informed guidance, individuals may feel isolated, misunderstood, or even at greater risk.

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💡 Growing Forward ensures that workplaces, schools, and families are prepared to offer:
✔ Safe, structured reintegration – so returning isn’t overwhelming.
✔ Understanding & compassion – so individuals don’t feel alone.
✔ Practical tools & strategies – so supporters know what to do.
✔ A proactive approach to postvention – preventing further harm and promoting long-term wellbeing.

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By equipping key people in workplaces, schools, and communities with these skills, we create safer environments where individuals can move forward with hope, resilience, and the support they need.

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Bring Growing Forward to Your Workplace or Community

📢 If your organization has 10 or more people interested in training, we can tailor a commissioned workshop to fit your team’s specific needs.

📩 Contact us today to schedule a session and help build a more supportive, life-affirming workplace or community.

📩 Email us at: caroline@a-ok.nz or pule@a-ok.nz to book your session.

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🔗 Reintegration is more than just returning—it’s about Growing Forward.

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