Bring a Listener Poet program
to your hospital
Help fight burnout by giving your people a new kind of resource: Listener Poets.
Since 2019, we’ve trained Listener Poets to listen to folks in hospitals one-on-one, then write custom poems for them that reflect what they talked about.
Activate members of your volunteer corps to do this meaningful work. As Listener Poets, they’ll be supporting resilience and wellbeing for nurses, doctors, patients, caregivers, and others, visibly, on site.
The Good Listening Project provides training, management, and supervision so your community can enjoy this powerful, sustainable, supportive wellness programming throughout the year.
Here’s how it works:
License Agreement: Your hospital hires us to create and manage your official on-site Listener Poet program.
Volunteer Identification: We partner with your hospital’s volunteer coordinator to recruit Listener Poet candidates from your volunteer corps.
Training and Launch: Accepted applicants complete our eight-week intensive Certified Listener Poet course, then work with TGLP’s committed, experienced operations team to establish locations and routines for providing on-site, in-person Listener Poet sessions.
Ongoing Support: Our team supports your in-house Listener Poets with coaching, community, and quality assurance so the program runs smoothly throughout the year.
More: We produce printed anthologies of the poems and stories from your hospital. [see examples] We also offer custom workshops, dedicated podcast seasons, and talks tailored for your conferences and events.
Annual packages from $23,600.
Get your program started by setting up a conversation with us on the scheduler below.
“I can't even express how meaningful this poem is to me! As soon as I read the title I knew that you ‘got’ what I was trying to convey, and the actual poem expressed my experiences in a way I haven't been able to. It feels therapeutic, it feels like a weight lifted, it feels like being wholly seen and held.”
~K., Palliative physician