Tag: nightline
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Bringing Three Rings volunteers together: doing remote-first in person, and what to eat in a crisis
JTA wrote a LinkedIn post about Three Rings, its remote-first culture, doing things in person, and crisis management, and it's brilliant.
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The Last Post for the Nightline Association. How does that make you feel?
Fellow Nightline enthusiast James Buller has written a stirring piece about his decades of volunteering for and around Nightlines, and - as usual - underplays the importance and significance of his work. Here's my take.
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👋 Farewell, NLA
Highlights of yesterday's Goodbye Nightline Association party in Manchester: 👨💻🤝✍️🤞. Low points: 😢.
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Oxford Station. Catching a train to Manchester for a get-together in memory of the Nightline Association, which will sadly be closing this year (although individual Nightlines will doubtless soldier on just as they did before the Association).
Carrying a big ol' bag of Three Rings swag to give to basically anybody who expresses even the slightest interest. 😅
Three Rings has been supporting Nightlines since before the Nightline Association and nowadays underpins voluntary work by hundreds of other charities including helplines like Samaritans and Childline. Feeling sad that the Nightline Association is going away and looking for a new and rewarding way to volunteer? Come chat to me!
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Dan, with blue hair and wearing a black t-shirt, stands on a sunny train platform holding aloft a medium-sized tote bag.
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Never underestimate the power of people who are motivated by the good they can do in the world.
Today I was in awe of this team of unpaid volunteers who, having already given up their bank holiday weekend, worked through dinner and into the night to ensure the continued uptime of a piece software that enables the listening service of emotional support and suicide helplines.
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In a conference room, Dan stands in front of a group of people working on laptops.
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Stuck in a Lift
About twenty years ago, I spent three hours playing I-Spy in a broken-down elevator. And in doing so, I learned two things about my friend Fiona.
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[Bloganuary] What's in a name?
My name is Dan. But it wasn't always. For today's Bloganuary, let's look at the history, significance, and meaning of my name (and how I've changed it over the years!).
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The Story of Scgary
In the early 2000s, as a volunteer trainer at Aberystwyth Nightline, I invented a roleplay scenario which drew upon anecdotes from my childhood and young adulthood... which eventually lead to a collision of worlds for Ruth and JTA when they, former volunteers, MET the person behind many of those anecdotes...
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New Volunteers for Three Rings
Following their weekend in Jersey, Dan, Ruth and JTA went off to Malvern to train three new Three Rings volunteers. Dan gets nostalgic about the history of Three Rings.
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Ageism, Nightline, and Counselling
As a trainee counsellor, I've had plenty of opportunity of late for self-analysis and reflection. Sometimes revelations come at unexpected times, as I discovered recently.
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On This Day In 2004
On this day in 2004, Dan finally handed in his dissertation on the subject of Three Rings. Since then, Three Rings has become the de facto standard for University Nightlines, and has also become the most popular rota management system for Samaritans branches and a variety of other helpline charities, too.
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Instead Of Blogging...
In a declaration of 'blog bankruptcy', Dan lists all of the topics that he'd hoped to have blogged about during the last (very busy!) month, and gets on with writing about other things. He's been busy!
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On This Day In 2003
Dan looks back on the very first time he juggled flaming clubs, and wraps this up in the story of how he learned to juggle in the first place.
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Another Crazy Connection
Dan has a second blast-from-the-past moment as a second Oxfordite recognises him and sends him an email, just minutes after he was done getting back from the meeting that was the result of the last such coincidence.
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Paul's 100th Duty
AltPaul and friends with cake in the lodge.