Listening..... to give life to others
08-07-2021On 2nd November 1953 Chad Varah answered the first call to a helpline created for people considering taking their own life. He took out an advertisement entitled “active listening therapy”. And it was ‘the power of the listening that turned out to be the strength of the service’ (HRH Prince of Wales, forward, ‘How to Listen’ 2021). And so the Samaritans was formed.