The Good Listening Project
Good listening is healing.
Listener Poet with a clinician.
Listener Poets cultivate resilience and wellbeing in healthcare.
We serve healthcare staff, medical students, patients, and caregiver communities through listening poetry.
Share your story
Experience a Listener Poet Session and receive a custom poem
Talk one-on-one with a Listener Poet about whatever you’d like, then receive a custom reflective poem based on the conversation.
You’ll receive an email with the sign-up information shortly after your payment has been processed.
Learn more
about our programs
We offer Listener Poet sessions, workshops, and
the Certified Listener Poet course to become a Listener Poet.
“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.”
What’s new
Poem for Our Future
We’re excited to present this co-created “Poem for Our Future.”
This is a collaboration of our community’s shared hopes for the future of healthcare.
Where we listen
Why we listen
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.
Listener Poet finishing a poem on their typewriter.
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.
Listener Poet with a clinician.
Top 5 Most Valuable
Wellness Outcomes Identified
by Participants:
Strengthening connections with colleagues
Having a safe space to express oneself
Listening and understanding interconnectedness of experiences
Increased ability to humanize others
Gaining new tools to help access and communicate emotions
Listener Poet creating a poem on their typewriter.
Contact us
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.