Join Us!
Be part of a three-day international conference focused on open dialogue, shared insights, and collective action in suicide prevention. Designed for mental health professionals, volunteers, social workers, and NGOs working in allied fields.
Hosted by Connecting Trust, celebrating 20 years of listening, connection and care.
📢 Call for Abstracts
We invite practitioners, researchers, educators, and individuals with lived experience to share their work at the conference.
If you’re exploring new approaches, grounded in practice or research, that respond to suicide prevention with care, nuance, and systemic insight—we’d love to hear from you.
We welcome submissions on lived experience, innovative practices, community approaches, research and evaluation, practitioner training, youth interventions and intersectional perspectives across gender, caste, disability, rurality and queerness.
Deadline to submit: September 30, 2025
For questions, please contact: events.connectingtrust@gmail.com
As suicide rates continue to rise, we’re being called to pause, pay attention, and ask deeper questions.
We invite you into a space of reflection, honesty and shared intention:
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Why do suicides continue to rise, despite years of dedicated efforts?
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What’s truly working—and what are we still overlooking?
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What must we confront and reimagine together, as a society?
With care and curiosity, we’ll hold these questions close. Through lived experiences, emerging practices and evidence-based insights, we’ll explore new paths forward—together.
Speakers
Our speakers represent a rich tapestry of perspectives—from mental health and suicide prevention to lived experience, youth, education and community work.
Together, they’ll guide us in asking deeper questions, spotlighting what’s working, and uncovering new possibilities for collective action.
Day 1 — Broad exploration of key themes in suicide prevention
Rooted in lived experiences, intersectionality, and social contexts. It opens up diverse perspectives and threads through panels, skill-building sessions and reflective listening circles.
Day 2 — Dive deeper, focusing on actionable pathway
With future-focused keynotes, evidence-based presentations and continued skill-building, it sharpens the dialogue toward collective learning and intervention.
About Connecting Trust
For over 20 years, Connecting Trust has been working in suicide prevention and mental health with a deep commitment to kindness, presence, and care.
Rooted in Mindfulness-Based Active Listening, our volunteer-led programs include:
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A distress helpline (10 AM–8 PM) and email support
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Peer education in schools, colleges and NGOs
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Support for suicide survivors and high-risk communities
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Awareness and listening circles across communities
We believe healing begins when we truly listen.
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