What is Operation BE KIND? In the military, the definition of ‘Operation’ often pertains to a highly organized activity working together to meet specialized goals. Operation involves both combat and noncombat personnel working towards a goal.

There is a spiritual war of suicide ideation that is destroying the lives of many in our churches and our community. This spiritual warfare is across our nation, in our state, city, county, community and homes. There is a battlefield in our home front to fight a spiritual warfare that begins in our mind.

Operation BE KIND is a call to arms, but of a different kind—a call to become crisis interventionists, equipped with God’s kindness. An incredible leader of World War II, General Patton was quoted to say, “You must acquire the warrior’s soul.”

He also said, “There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning or thinking. Then you must have a well-trained troop to carry it out that’s working. But between the plan and the operation, there is always an unknown. That unknown can spell defeat or victory, success, or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks; I call it God. God has His part or margin in everything, that’s where prayer comes in.”

As Hope Connectors, we have the opportunity to intervene and the power to intercede into someone who is going through a crisis.

Think 3-2-1 is a crisis intervention strategy using the The BE KIND Model. This 3-hour session centers on the cultural axiom of Kindness that can be used at any level of crisis. However the workshop’s main address is suicide ideation. 

If we can reduce suicide ideation, we can decrease the number of suicides a year.  When addressing how to deescalate someone in a place of despondency, you discover how to deescalate someone at any level of stress.

1. Know Crisis Intervention is Kindness God’s Way.

2. Practice Think 3-2-1 and the BE KIND Model.

3. Engage in a Problem Based Activity

4. Synthesize Scenario Based Learning with Observer Responses.

• Spectrum of Resilience. The Spectrum of Resilience is a healthy response to prevention, intervention, and post vention. The concepts derive from biblical perspectives with spiritual discernment. The goal of God’s Kindness is to influence others towards a level of safety: resiliency, recovery or referral.  

  1. Know the Spectrum of Resilience—a healthy response to prevention, intervention, and post vention.
  2. Identify the characteristics of Spiritual, Personal, and Professional Resiliency in crisis management.
  3. Learn Crisis Prompters, Signs, Guard Rails and Curative Factors.
  4. Stimulate cultural change to promote connectedness and safety.
  
  

• The Church:Curative Cause. Believers of Jesus Christ are not immune from troubles and tragedies; yet, God wants us to know how to guard our hearts and mind. When despair and despondency leads to distress and duress, suicide ideation is one that demands our attention and compassion. The more equipped we are, the more we can equip others against the distress and dysfunction of the world.

  1. Gain a deeper insight of how suicide impacts the church.
  2.  Learn how the church (Body of Christ) fits in as a curative cause.

  3.  Learn how the curative cause refreshes the soul and renews the mind.

  4.  Practice spiritual discernment to intervene and intercede in someone’s life who is going through crisis.

• Safety Peace Plan. A person in crisis needs to find peace and safety. Clarity of thought may be lacking as many times, the person in crisis may find themselves stuck on the uncertainties of life that leaves them in a paralysis. The Safety Peace Plan is to remind them they are not alone. There is peace in safety.

  1. Overcome obstacles and the fear of uncertainty when dealing with a person in crisis.

  2.  Recognize the critical role of follow up and the importance of a comprehensive safety plan for crisis intervention.

  3.   Evaluate the effectiveness of the Safety Peace plan through personal reflection and group discussion. 

  4.   Apply the Safety Peace Plan: Practice the five steps of the BE KIND Safety (Peace) Plan through an interactive session.

• Break the Stigma. As Hope Connectors we can promote mental wellness and break the stigma that often surround it.  We must remember suicide is a people problem—but people in crisis are not the problem. Depression, despair, anxiety, pain from emotional, mental, physical, or spiritual wounds leading to loss of hope is the problem.

  1. Recall the applications to the Think 3-2-1 and The BE KIND Model.
  2. Recognize crisis prompters that can lead to risk.
  3. Recognize observable signs (caution, immediate, and imminent).
  4. Summarize the guard rails that decreases the likelihood of suicide ideation and curative factors that promote healing.

Did you know that kindness is a multiplier?
Kindness nurtures the mind and strengthens our well-being. In this series, we’ll explore how this simple yet powerful principle can transform lives.  By participating in this series, I hope you'll gain a comprehensive, faith-informed approach to navigating crises—supporting your mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being along the way. Topics include

• Grit Kindness

• Anxiety to Adoration

• Psychosis to Praise

• Bipolar to Balance

• Depression to Delight

Tailored experiences designed to meet the unique needs of your group or organization. Are you in the military, government, school, first responder, or corporate/business?

• Team Leader

• Chaplain, Ministry Volunteer

• Leaders, Supervisors, Peers

• First Responder

• Veteran Service Officer

• Community Relation Officer

• School Principal

• Care Minister

• Anyone who wants to become a crisis interventionist through Kindness.