Call For Speakers: 2025 American Indian Suicide Prevention Convening
The Annual American Indian Suicide Prevention Convening is seeking workshop proposals for convening sessions on March 7, 2025. In-person workshop content should be culturally relevant, educational, engaging, and reflect themes borrowed from the Gathering of Native Americans (GONA) curriculum, specifically Mastery and Interdependence. To find more information on these themes, the convening, and to submit a proposal, click here
Submission Deadline: Friday, January 10, 2025
BREAKOUT SESSION 1 THEME: MASTERY
SESSION SHOULD ADDRESS TOPICS IN:
• Culturally based resiliency factors and the importance of traditional cultural practices in healing.
• The trauma transmission process and its relationship to suicide and/or co-occurring disorders.
• Loss of (cultural) identity as a risk factor to suicide.
• A model to promote healing and recovery from historical trauma and a vision for a healthy future of self, family, and community.
• Survivor stories and their testimonies of resilience.
• Population-specific mental health and their unique experiences of trauma (i.e., youth, adult, elder, 2SLBGTQ+, maternal, men’s).
• Individual and community perceptions that hinder needed problem solving (i.e., language and cultural differences, western vs. Indigenous worldviews, etc.).
BREAKOUT SESSION 2 THEME: INTERDEPENDENCE
SESSION SHOULD ADDRESS TOPICS IN:
• The importance of interdependence between community members, stakeholders, land/nature, etc.
• Spiritual wellness (e.g., traditional practices and ceremonies, holistic medicine, etc.)
• Tribal and non-tribal collaborations in suicide prevention
• Alternative methods to healing (e.g., art therapy, animal-assisted therapy, or other holistic practices, non-traditional therapies, etc.)
• Social networks
• Action and community leadership
Thank you for your support. For Prevention Programming information, click here. For questions, call 602-264-6768 or email Belen Santistevan at BSantistevan@PhxIndCenter.org
