“Supporting from the In-Between: Peer Support and a Multi-Layered Relationship to Suicide”- April 2026 Supervisors Community of Practice
April 2026 CPS & CPPS Supervisor Community of Practice
“Supporting from the In-Between: Peer Support and a Multi-Layered Relationship to Suicide”
with Lisa Marie Brodsky Auter
Thursday, April 23rd, 2026 from 1:30 – 3:00 pm CT
Facilitator:
- Lisa Marie Brodsky Auter
Lisa Marie Brodsky Auter (she/her) has been a peer support specialist and group facilitator for over 6 years and is currently building a peer program at her current mental health organization. Lisa Marie offers this CoP topic from her own experiences of wanting to die, losing her husband to suicide, and supporting others who feel suicidal as a peer support specialist. A published poet and credentialed Poetry Therapy Practitioner, she is the founder of “Hiraethlon Creativity + Wellness” (www.hiraethlon.com) and resides in Madison, WI with her partner and cat, Shiloh.
Description:
In this SupCoP, we will consider a topic that is rarely discussed: What happens when a peer support specialist is asked to support someone who feels suicidal while also carrying their own lived experience of suicide loss and/or thoughts about suicide? This session explores how peer support specialists can hold multiple identities—supporter, survivor, and person with past/current suicidal thoughts—while holding awareness and insight for themselves. Focus will be given to how we can support ourselves as peer support specialists and also as humans who have felt similar anguish and desperation.
Feedback Survey/CEH Information:
We invite you to please fill out the evaluation survey link (click here) if you attended this community of practice gathering or if you watch the recording. The survey will close at 4:30pm on Thursday, May 7th, 2026. Certificates of Participation will be sent to those completing the evaluation form by 4:30pm on May 14th, 2026. No evaluation surveys will be accepted for CEH credit after the evaluation survey’s closing date/time.
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