JOSH RIVEDAL Keynote Presentation Author Slide 2 2 Josh Rivedal
(Yank) @i_Mpossibleproj Slide 3 3 World Health Organization (WHO)
It is estimated that by 2020, world suicides will increase from
1mil to 1.5 mil. Slide 4 4 Dedicated to providing the best
available evidence and resources to guide activities aimed at
reducing the rate at which people take their lives in Australia.
Slide 5 5 1) Storytelling and Lived Experience IS suicide
prevention Suicide Prevention 2.0 2) Storytelling normalizes the
conversation in the home, 3) Storytelling generates press and
media, and more workplace, and media eyeballs on our work Slide 6 6
#iampossible 6 Slide 7 7 Takeaways From Danas Story? Slide 8 8 8
Can you imagine what someone in crisis or need will get from Danas
story? Slide 9 9 Why Storytelling Works We relate stories to our
own experiences Neurons fire as if you were doing the actual action
being spoken about A part of the brain, insula, helps us relate 9
Slide 10 10 Talking About Help Leads to Getting Help Use stories to
leverage action from the listeneri.e. crisis and non-crisis
response 10 Slide 11 11 Storytelling Quote 11 If a story is not
about the hearer he will not listen. And here I make a rulea great
and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last. - East
of Eden Slide 12 12 White Paper 12 Media, New Media, Safe Messaging
and Suicide Prevention by Kenneth Norton Slide 13 13 White Paper -
Kenneth Norton 13 Suicide by readers or viewers may increase when:
1) # of stories on individual suicides increases 2) Graphic details
of a suicide death are portrayed Slide 14 14 White Paper - Kenneth
Norton Suicide by readers or viewers may increase when: 3) A
particular death is reported at length 4) Story of an individual
death is given primary focus Slide 15 15 Best Practices Safe
Messaging Suicide Prevention Resource Center (US)
www.iampossibleproject.com/sprc Slide 16 16 6 Elements of Good
Storytelling 16 1) Premise 2) Space 3) Protagonist Slide 17 17 6
Elements of Good Storytelling 4) Antagonist 5) The struggle or
conflict 6) The resolution Slide 18 18 Slide 19 Slide 20
