What's Included?
• 90-minute webinar • Practical non-carceral strategies • Lived-experience, trauma-informed perspective When suicide is treated as short term and fixable, then people navigating chronic suicide flare ups are left in very real pain, often without anyone to connect to who understands and will treat them with care. When we understand lived experiences with chronic suicidality through the lens of marginalization, we are better positioned to create and uphold suicide safer spaces. This interactive webinar invites you to hear community members’ experiences, reflect on your own, learn how to improve your non-carceral practices, and reflect on how you can set boundaries around harmful carceral approaches. Let’s do better to honor the realities of chronic suicidality and humanize each other through relevant support. Whether you're new to chronic suicidality and non-carceral support, or looking to strengthen your support of multiply marginalized people, this webinar will leave you with immediately applicable tools for creating safer, more humanizing conversations about chronic suicidality.
Increase understanding of chronic suicidality and start building safer, humanizing relationships.
Reflect on various lived experiences with chronic suicidality and gain practical non-carceral support strategies you can begin using immediately to support multiply marginalized people in your life around chronic suicidality
$35.00
Instructor: Ryder Fox
Ryder Fox is the Founder and CEO of Stronger U and the Founder and President of THRIVE Lifeline. They are a trauma-informed wellness coach, educator, systems strategist, and curriculum developer with nearly 30 years of experience supporting people navigating chronic illness, disability, trauma, and other complex life experiences. Over the course of their career, Ryder has logged more than 60,000 coaching hours, mentored hundreds of practitioners, and educated thousands of professionals internationally through courses, conferences, and organizational partnerships. They specialize in helping practitioners develop sustainable, relationship-centered approaches that support clients through chronic health conditions, trauma histories, periods of crisis, and the realities of long-term care. Since founding Stronger U in 2007, Ryder has had the privilege of supporting some clients continuously for nearly two decades—walking alongside them through flare cycles, evolving diagnoses, disability progression, grief, recovery, and life's many uncertainties. Their work emphasizes client autonomy, trauma-informed care, ethical practice, and building helping relationships that remain effective over time. In 2020, Ryder founded THRIVE Lifeline, a nonprofit dedicated to identity-affirming, non-carceral crisis intervention and peer support for multiply marginalized communities. Through THRIVE, they have helped develop innovative educational programs that train practitioners to engage in more humane, autonomy-supportive conversations around suicide, crisis, and complex mental health experiences. Ryder also brings lived experience as a neurodivergent, nonbinary person living with chronic physical and mental health conditions. Their teaching is grounded in the belief that professional expertise and lived experience can work together to create more compassionate, ethical, and effective care. Across every course they teach, Ryder's goal is to help professionals become more thoughtful, confident, and deeply human in the relationships they build with those they serve.