Last meeting until September! People who join us get access to our peer support community with no expectations re: level of participation *and* free access to Benefit and Work welfare guides *and* the treasure trove of resources members have compiled. We are also doing a Summer art prompt challenge

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Our last Sunday peer support meeting is on Sunday 26th July at 3pm. We'll be talking about our suicidal experiences together. We hold a non clinical, confidential spacs for peer support, no judgment, no fixing. Every meeting is open to first timers, this coming Sunday is no exception.

Our last Sunday peer support meeting is on Sunday 26th July at 3pm. We'll be talking about our suicidal experiences together. We hold a non clinical, confidential spacs for peer support, no judgment, no fixing. Every meeting is open to first timers, this coming Sunday is no exception.

Our candles are lit in remembrance of everyone and everybody we've lost to suicide, and the lack of justice and support out there for people who feel like dying when life is unbearable. Every time Not the Void UK meets, we renember our friends and loved ones.

Not the Void UK has three meetings left until we take our Summer Break, as part of caring for our needs as a peer facilitators, we'll be taking a few weeks off to replenish before we return. Our mailing list members will get an email shortly with /1

Our next Not the Void zoom meetings are: 28th June 3pm 12th July 3pm 26th July 3pm We hold space for compassionate, non clinical, confidential discussions of ouf suicidal thoughts, feelings and experiences, including past attempts and self harm. You can sign up at www.notthevoid.uk

A reminder that people who are part of oyr community and come along to our Sunday meetings also get access to: • Benefits and Work advice guides on welfare from oyr subscription. • access to a drive of shared resources collated by our members

Not the Void UK don't keep registers of who attends our meetings, but we do keep an overall count of attendances for each meeting. Between Jan and March, we held space for 96 suicidal people to be in meetings with us and we're on track for another hundred between April and Junes end. /1

This week, I've been reflecting on how grief is a continuous thread through our meetings and how powerful it can be to know that your own loss matters to other people, that the rip in the face of the world is not something you have to grieve alone. /1

At Not the Void UK, we don't take it for granted that the police (or other emergency responders) are necessarily 'safe' agencies, our members may have experienced abuse, harassment or neglect from the police. /1 www.notthevoid.uk/resources/ra...

Radical Safeguarding policy — Not the Void

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Reminder! ⏰ Join us on Tuesday next week for an online conversation with Jess Worner (National Suicide Prevention Alliance) & Iona MacTaggart (Living Warriors) talking Peer Support & Suicide. 🔗 Find out more and sign up via the link below!

In Conversation: Jess Worner & Iona MacTaggart talking Peer Support & Suicide

A conservation with Jess and Iona to share their insight and experiences about peer support and suicide.

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Frequently asked questions: Q: when are Not the Void meetings? You can find the dates we meet on the when tab of our website: www.notthevoid.uk/when

Sarah Huque and Alexander Oaten were on BBC radio today to talk about suicide and liveability; what does it mean to focus on building lives that feel worth living, vs preventing a person from killing themselves only to return them to their social environment? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Thinking Allowed - Suicide, Society and Liveability - BBC Sounds

What shapes a life that feels worth living? How Durkheim's research is being rethought

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Not the Void UK meets at 3pm on Sunday 31st May on zoom, for 90 minutes of conversation about our suicidal experiences. If the state of this world or the hot bank holiday weather has left you feeling more alone, more like ending your life, we're here. www.notthevoid.uk

A place to talk freely about suicide

We are a group of people living alongside experiences of suicide who seek to find meaningful connections and understanding within that experience. We are not a pro suicide space and do not discuss,...

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On this day in 2024, a group of strangers gathered to build a harm reduction peer support community, inspired by the Alternatives to Suicide model created by Western Mass RLC. 600 meeting registrations alter and 200+ hours having conversations about our suicidal experiences, Not the Void UK is 2!

Not the Void UK has been running for two years on Sunday, back on May 24th 2024, we put out an open invitation to anybody who wanted to explore forming a peer support group using the Alternatives to Suicide method. I had no idea what people would say. /1

We're meeting tomorrow (Sunday) 3pm, on zoom and there are places for people who wish to join us to talk about our own suicidal experiences together. Email us on NotTheVoidUK@protonmail.com or via the contact form at www.notthevoid.uk to get the registration sign up link.

Maybe this is the first time you've thought about suicide, Maybe you can't recall ever not wanting to die Maybe the storm of trying to kill yourself is over Maybe you're left with memories and confusing emotions when life's supposed to be all fine. /1

At Not The Void UK, we won't ask you to make any promises to stay but we'll be here making this world worth living in, we're here to respond to injustice and fight for better.

Wendy N. Wagner 🎃@wnwagner.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A note I found yesterday while walking in Portland.

It'll be a bank holiday weekend here in the UK and we're meeting at 3pm on Sunday 3rd May. We're holding space for people to speak about their experiences with suicide and share mutual peer support, in a compassionate, non clinical and confidential meeting. /1

Not the Void UK meetings are a place where you can share how you feel and what you're going through in relation to your experiences of suicide. At our members request, we've been experimenting with more general discussion topics on days where the energy is low and people want a prompt. /1

Our next peer support meeting is Sunday April 19th at 3pm, we'll meet for 90 minutes on zoom to speak about our experiences with suicide, the big and little things that we want support with, we'll share resources and solidarity with each other. Places are available: www.notthevoid.uk

It's taken a while but our radical safeguarding policy is finally up on our website. Our co facilitator team will be reviewing it as it was created a year ago. Big thank you to members and peers who proofread it so closely, it meant a lot to me to have your input. www.notthevoid.uk/resources/ra...

Radical Safeguarding policy — Not the Void

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PAUSE Intl (People Addressing and Understanding Suicidal Experiences) are holding monthly free online listening circles over the Summer, from April to August. 12pm EDT is 5pm BST. www.eventbrite.com/e/listening-...

Listening Spaces: Welcoming Spaces for Sharing about Suicide Experiences

Free, monthly, welcoming spaces for open sharing about personal experiences related to suicide (attempts, loss, suicidal thoughts, etc.)

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This week different members of our co facilitator team have been: • at a seminar on AI and the utility of 'AI psychosis' as a label. • learning about Roots Up new S.H.A.R.E approach to peer support around suicide. /1

We meet in half an hour so the candle is lit to mark all our precious loved ones who we've lost to suicide. The candle burns to honour all the vulnerability and mutual care that we bring as we meet to talk about our experiences with suicide, and our solidarity with everyone who feels suicidal too.

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Spring is springing, 2026 update. — Not the Void

A clump of bright daffodils against a wire fence in a field.

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The Wildflower Alliance are giving an intro seminar on the Alt2sui group model and VCVC creator Caroline Mazel Carlton will be speaking. 12-4pm EST, sign up here: wildfloweralliance.org/event/altern...

Alternatives to Suicide Overview

Alternatives to Suicide was developed in 2008 by people who've struggled with suicidal thoughts and attempts. It began as a support group and has since grown into a harm reduction approach that can be...

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Not the Void UK has a no fixing ethos, we strive to be a place for people to talk without being flooded with unsolicited advice or well meaning platitudes. That said, members do share general resources on health and advocacy and that's part of our community power. /1

We're about to meet, the candle is lit to solidarity with everybody who has suicidal experiences of their own and everybody who has lost time, dreams, their loved ones to suicide. A better world is possible for us all, we're imagining it together.

Our next meeting is Sunday 8th March, our US friends will be in daylight savings time, we meet at 3pm GMT. We'll be gathering to have a conpassionate, non clinical, confidential conversation about suicide. You can join via www.notthevoid.uk