The Good Listening Project
Good listening is healing.
Listener Poet with a clinician.
What is a Listener Poet?
Listener Poets cultivate resilience and wellbeing in healthcare.
Listener Poet creating a poem on their typewriter.
The ripple effect
As Listener Poets, we create spaces where people can speak openly. We then write poems inspired by our conversations to commemorate and celebrate these stories.
We primarily serve healthcare staff, medical students, patients, and caregiver communities through listening poetry. The ripple effect of good listening fundamentally shifts how it feels to work with and care for others.
When thoughtful listeners hold space, people feel heard and understood, and the experience is often cathartic.
Where we listen
Why we listen
“The impact this poetry experience had on me was phenomenal. It had a ripple effect that impacted so many more people in my life than just myself.
It helped me get through the day with ease, as if weight had been lifted off my shoulders that I didn’t even really know I had.”
Listener Poet finishing a poem on their typewriter.
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If you’d like to support good listening in your healthcare community, we would love to hear from you.
Anthology of poems and their origin stories from the Mayo Clinic Transform Conference.