Nightline Awareness Week 2018: #NLBeHeard

It's Nightline Awareness Week! This year we are focusing on what it means to be heard, whether that means highlighting what makes you feel heard, giving you some tips and tools on how to be an active listener, and letting you in on how here at Nightline we try and make you feel heard and listened to.

Over the week, we'll be posting some of the key tips that our volunteers use to be good listeners on our lines, from empathy skills and non-judgement, to questioning formats, as well as the importance of looking after yourself; see some of our posts from last year's Awareness Week around the theme of self-care if you're interested!

We'll be posting here everyday talking about different aspects of this year's theme, including:

• What makes a good listener?
• Who can you turn to when you want someone to listen?
• What projects are Nightline working on to represent students?
• How can Nightline make me feel heard?

We have also released a new resource in partnership with Papyrus, the national suicide prevention charity for young people under 35, as well as those concerned about a young person. Together we have created a leaflet for students to keep and use as a starting point for how to support friends, flatmates and anyone in need, as well as a poster for universities and housing accommodation blocks to let you know all of the methods of support open to you. 

If you want to get involved, and we'd really like you to, visit our social media accounts (@LondonNightline) to follow our week and share your thoughts and if you would like to post about it, make sure to use #NLBeHeard to get involved!