When We Just Don’t Know
Someone is saying they want to die.
Or, maybe they don’t know if they do.
Maybe one system member is looking for help.
Another refuses.
Someone else is panicking.
Others are crying.
The noise inside is getting louder and things are feeling trapped and chaotic.
Whether you’re dissociative, love someone who is dissociative, and/or are a clinician providing dissociative-affirming support, you might recognize the complexity of learning a system member is contemplating suicide.
You want to help.
You don’t want to hurt someone or make things worse.
You might be feeling nervous or afraid, overwhelmed or uncertain.
You notice the complexities give you too many possible directions and don’t know which is “right”.
Somewhere in the search for right answers, we lose our relational skills. Our focus moves to doing care and slips away from being care.
The Staying Human in Crisis 4-Hour Pre-Conference Intensive sits with you inside these moments when suicide gets louder and we don’t know what to do.
Traditional crisis education often teaches people to reduce risk.
This intensive asks a different question:
How do we remain deeply human when fear, uncertainty, and urgency are pulling us out of relationship?
Date, Time, Location
February 26, 2027
8:00am – 12:00pm, Eastern Time
Hosted at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Orlando at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida
at the Healing Together Conference 2027:
10100 International Drive,
Orlando, FL 32821
Access to a recorded version of the session will be provided for 3 months after the conference. Building is wheelchair accessible and includes nearby bathrooms. Sessions will include slides and paper handouts; we will not be able to provide an ASL interpreter or ALDs. There will be breaks as well as light refreshments available. Masks strongly encouraged. If you have specific accessibility concerns to discuss prior to registration, please email info@strongeruwellness.com.
Beyond training: Becoming the care we want to witness
- Examine how coercive, fear-based, and compliance-oriented crisis responses can unintentionally increase distress, internal conflict, shame, or relational ruptures in dissociative communities.
- Explore the intersections of dissociation, chronic suicidality, complex trauma, and marginalization within crisis experiences.
- Learn how to uplift agency and humanity in non-carceral, sustainable, and boundary-aware ways.
- Increase relational and harm reduction skills for navigating complexity, uplifting autonomy, and deepening connection during times of urgency
- Gain practice and increase your confidence by implementing these skills into real-life case studies and receiving real-time feedback
Beyond workshops
This deeper dive, relational skills lab will move beyond lecture, inviting you into:
- discussion
- reflection
- experiential practice
- real-life case studies
- opportunities to practice communication
- lived-experience perspectives
Who Is This For?
Anyone committed to developing more thoughtful, sustainable, and relational approaches to caring for people experiencing the intersections of suicidality and dissociation:
- clinicians
- therapists
- peer supporters
- loved ones
- advocates
- people with lived experience
Pricing Tiers
Retreat seats include:
- 4 hours of connecting, reflecting, learning, and practicing
- 3 months of free access to our PRACTICE tier in Patreon:
- Patreon-only community discussion space
- Deeper CareFull Practices discussions, reflection, and education
- Library of downloadable support guides
- Full-length CareFull Practices podcast episodes
- Weekly skills-building practices
- Getting Unstuck Starter Guide
- 10% discount on webinars and mini-courses
- Registration deadline: January 31, 2027
If you are unsure what tier to choose, we invite you to review the Green Bottle method.
Community Support Tier
- $45
- Community Supported tier deadline: December 31, 2026, or until sold out.
Sustaining Tier
- $59
- At-cost participation
Community Sponsor Tier
- $79
- At-cost + sponsor our scholarship-funded and community support tier attendees
Professional Tier
- $99
- For those receiving employer reimbursement or professional development funding
- Help us to support our scholarship-funded and community support tier attendees
Sponsor A Learner
- $35
- Help us to support our scholarship-funded community support tier attendees
Recorded Program
- $45
Scholarships
- Scholarship applications due November 1, 2026
- Please note that due to limited capacity, scholarship recipients will receive a recorded version of this intensive program rather than in-person attendance. Scholarships are awarded based on available funds.
About Our Facilitator: Ryder Fox, M.S.
Staying Human in Crisis grew out of decades spent alongside people navigating chronic illness, intense pain, crisis, grief, disability, suicidality, community organizing, advocacy, and the complicated realities of caring for one another.
Ryder Fox has developed community-based care practices through coaching, education, consultation, team-building, and providing individual medical exercise, crisis, and peer support through Stronger U and THRIVE Lifeline.
Ryder’s work envisions beyond formulas and invites people to become reflective practitioners—continually examining assumptions, practicing new ways of relating, and building care that is sustainable, humanizing, and deeply embodied.
Disclaimer
While we believe that affirming coaching and consultations can be transformative, Stronger U does not purport to prevent, cure, or treat any mental health, medical disease, injury, or physical condition. While our coaches are highly skilled and qualified, they do not provide licensed therapy, treatment (clinical or otherwise) or diagnoses. We coach members and clients through holistic wellness practices, which are not a substitute for counseling, psychotherapy, medical or mental healthcare, substance abuse treatment, or any other professional advice offered by qualified medical or legal professionals.
If you are in need of immediate support, various non-carceral options may be found at this link.