Expression of Interest for TouchPoints 2025

ACON will be delivering Roses in the Ocean’s TouchPoints workshop. This is a four-hour interactive workshop designed specifically to give LGBTQ+ community members an insight into suicide through the lens of people who have personally experienced it (lived experience) and equip us with the right knowledge and practical tools to be with others’ emotional pain or distress. LGBTQ+ people are often ‘TouchPoints’ in each other’s lives to seek and receive help.  

From February to June 2025, TouchPoints workshops will be delivered in the following locations:

• Sydney ACON Office (date to be confirmed)
• Central Coast (date and location to be confirmed)
• Northern Rivers (Lismore date and location to be confirmed)

You can expect to have:  

• Attained a deeper understanding and appreciation of the complexity of suicide. 

• Increased awareness of warning signs and invitations for help. 

• Increased confidence & capacity to engage with people in crisis or distress. 

• Improved confidence to connect a person with support services or resources. 

• An appreciation of the importance of self-care and practical tools to implement. 

• ‘Debunked’ commonly held suicide myths with facts and lived experience. 

• Practical ways in which to support someone bereaved through suicide. 

• Knowledge of how best to support someone returning to the workplace. 

 Who is the workshop for? 

• LGBTQ+ people (over 18 years old)  

• Friends, family (chosen or of origin), and carers of LGBTQ+ people (over 18 years old)  

All Roses in the Ocean programs and workshops are lived experience informed, designed and delivered by professional facilitators who also have a personal lived experience of suicide. 

Roses in the Ocean’s TouchPoints workshop has been evaluated by the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention (AISRAP), and received Accreditation to the Suicide Prevention Australia Standards – Quality Innovation Performance Program. 

Lunch and refreshments are provided

Register your Expression Of Interest here and select the location that works best for you.