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Niteline is a confidential and anonymous listening service that is run by and for students from Trinity, University College Dublin (UCD), Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), National College of Art and Design (NCAD), National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and Dublin City University (DCU).


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Interested in becoming a Niteline volunteer?
Click here for the application form. We are currently accepting applications from new volunteers for training beginning in the Autumn of 2010 (start of new academic year).


Niteline is including a survey in the upcoming student e-mails for the various Colleges. It is very important for us to receive as many responses as possible, therefore upon completion of the survey, you will be entered into a draw to win 500 Euros. In case you don't receive any e-mail, provided below is a link to the online survey for the various colleges. Again we would greatly appreciate you to fill one out. It's 500 Euros for 5 minutes of your time. Thank you and best wishes one and all

Survey Link:

   UCD, Trinity, RCSI, NCAD, and DCU:

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB228SNASZG3W
 




Please Listen
Author Unknown

When I ask you to listen to me
and you start giving me advice,
you have not done what I asked.
When I ask you to listen to me
and you begin to tell me why
I shouldn't feel that way,
you are trampling on my feelings.
When I ask you to listen to me
and you feel you have to do something
to solve my problem,
you have failed me,
strange as that may seem.
Listen! All I ask is that you listen.
Don't talk or do---just hear me.
Advice is cheap; 20 cents will get
you both Dear Abby and Billy Graham
in the same newspaper.
And I can do for myself; I am not helpless.
Maybe discouraged and faltering,
but not helpless.
When you do something for me that I can
and need to do for myself,
you contribute to my fear and
inadequacy.
But when you accept as a simple fact
that I feel what I feel,
no matter how irrational,
then I can stop trying to convince
you and get about this business
of understanding what's behind
this irrational feeling.
And when that's clear, the answers are
obvious and I don't need advice.
Irrational feelings make sense when
we understand what's behind them.
Perhaps that's why prayer works, sometimes,
for some people---because God is mute,
and he doesn't give advice or try
to fix things.
God just listens and lets you work
it out for yourself.
So please listen, and just hear me.
And if you want to talk, wait a minute
for your turn---and I will listen to you.

 




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