Range of courses
First aid: Conversations about suicide

News: Coronavirus update. All public ensa courses will be held online from Monday 2nd November until the end of the year. Participants have been informed by e-mail.

Suicide is one of the most common causes of premature death in Switzerland:

In 2017, 1043 people died from suicide - and the number of people who attempted suicide or had suicidal thoughts is much higher.

At the same time, in our society, having suicidal thoughts is still a major taboo: affected people shy away from talking openly about their thoughts and are often plagued by feelings of guilt.

And even people close to them are often afraid to bring up the subject of suicide, because they believe that this could lead them to take their own lives. Or, they simply do not know how to express their fears. 

There are first aid measures that everyone can learn to help people in suicidal crisis:

The ensa - First Aid Conversations about Suicide is a 4 hour course that teaches participants to assist people in suicidal crisis until professional support arrives.

Language: currently the course is only available in German

Classroom course format

Costs: CHF 150 (including course material)