The GLASS EMPTY Story
GLASS EMPTY and The Whisperer Team is the world's first suicide prevention strategy and community to assist patrons in pubs, clubs, bars and breweries.
It's a purpose-filled mission - to be there for others in their time of suicide distress - with comfort, compassion and confidentiality.
It's a collective of individuals who want to see others pull through in difficult times, no matter who they are.
To get started, contact us to receive a complimentary pack of GLASS EMPTY coasters.
It's a purpose-filled mission - to be there for others in their time of suicide distress - with comfort, compassion and confidentiality.
It's a collective of individuals who want to see others pull through in difficult times, no matter who they are.
To get started, contact us to receive a complimentary pack of GLASS EMPTY coasters.
Finding a way to talk about suicide distress can be hard. That's where the GLASS EMPTY Signal can help.
In 2024, after looking at ways to assist bar staff on how they can help those suffering with suicide distress and poor mental health, the idea was born: if people find it hard to open up about how they feel, perhaps a signal in a pub, club, cafe, bar or brewery can alert others who care, that their help is needed.
GLASS EMPTY is a metaphor for how someone is feeling. Their glass is no longer half full or half empty, it's completely drained.
While many patrons in pubs are aware that a glass turned upside down is a signal you want to fight someone, when a coaster is placed on its upturned base, it becomes a sign that you're fighting with your own inner demons and you're in need of a conversation with someone to help you through.
Meeting people where they're at with BRAVE conversations. Because it takes bravery to let someone know you need help and it takes bravery to help someone in distress.
Our guiding belief:
We are the bridge.
Between silence and speech, habit and heart, self and one another.
We remember what was forgotten:
that care can live in small acts,
that every empty glass is a signal,
that kindness spoken softly can still move a world.
We stand in ordinary places
and make them sacred by attention.
We talk, not to command, but to connect --
to remind people they matter,
to keep the circle of compassion unbroken.
In 2024, after looking at ways to assist bar staff on how they can help those suffering with suicide distress and poor mental health, the idea was born: if people find it hard to open up about how they feel, perhaps a signal in a pub, club, cafe, bar or brewery can alert others who care, that their help is needed.
GLASS EMPTY is a metaphor for how someone is feeling. Their glass is no longer half full or half empty, it's completely drained.
While many patrons in pubs are aware that a glass turned upside down is a signal you want to fight someone, when a coaster is placed on its upturned base, it becomes a sign that you're fighting with your own inner demons and you're in need of a conversation with someone to help you through.
Meeting people where they're at with BRAVE conversations. Because it takes bravery to let someone know you need help and it takes bravery to help someone in distress.
Our guiding belief:
We are the bridge.
Between silence and speech, habit and heart, self and one another.
We remember what was forgotten:
that care can live in small acts,
that every empty glass is a signal,
that kindness spoken softly can still move a world.
We stand in ordinary places
and make them sacred by attention.
We talk, not to command, but to connect --
to remind people they matter,
to keep the circle of compassion unbroken.
