Jhöl Unger

Author of What Colour Is the Sunset?......a memoir about love, loss, and the work of staying alive.
What Colour Is the Sunset?......in final edits. Releasing fall 2026.
Mission: reducing the global rate of loss by suicide.Founder of Beatnik Consulting......working with men, with people walking through grief, and with anyone touched by depression, anger, or suicide.

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SPEAKING
What I talk about
The way to lower the male suicide rate in this country is to get men talking. That is the mission, and it shapes every room I walk into.What I actually teach is the skill underneath it. The tough conversations none of us were taught how to have. What gets in the way of real communication between a man and the people who love him. How grief, anger, fear, and shame keep men silent and how to build the room where they finally say something out loud. I bring a tradesman's plain language, a memoir on the worst year of my life, and a daily mind, body, and spirit practice I am still living. I also bring the Meta Journal, an AI-supported journalling system I built when nothing else fit.Same Jhöl. Same method. Tuned to the room.

ROOMS I CAN HOLD
Trades and construction crews. First responders. Faith communities. Schools. Couples. Families struggling to make sense of suicide. Families with a member who is suicidal. Older men and the people who love them. Grief and bereavement groups. Hospice and palliative care audiences. Prevention professionals, counsellors, peer-support workers. Corporate wellness audiences. And anyone else trying to learn how to talk to a man before it is too late.

FORMATSKeynote ...... 30, 45, or 60 minutes.Fireside or Q&A ...... 60 to 90 minutes, conversational, audience-driven.Beta Workshop ...... eight-session online cohort, small-group format, currently piloting fall 2026.

WHERE THIS COMES FROM
I went through the worst year of my life. My best friend jumped from a balcony after years of struggle. He lost his battle. A marriage I would have done anything to save. My dad. I lost my sister to suicide years earlier. I am putting it back together one day at a time through a daily mind, body, and spirit practice. The Mensdate Project is the bigger work behind it, a peer-support effort in development to put real chapters in Canadian capital cities. Both are how a trades guy turns into a guy fulfilling a mission statement. None of it is finished. All of it is what I am up to.

Catch you on the flip side, Jhöl.

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