Welcome to The Good Listening Project!
We’re pleased to be partnering with the CU Anschutz Neurology Wellness team.
Please use this page to sign up for your one-on-one session with a Listener Poet. This will be a confidential Zoom meeting which you can schedule at your convenience from the times below.
A Listener Poet talks with a clinician at Johns Hopkins Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., January 2020
After you’ve scheduled your individual session, click the “Book Group Convo” button to select the group conversation date/time that works for you.
Your Listener Poet will be ready to listen and write a poem for you about anything you’d like. There’s no need to prepare, but you’re welcome to consider what you might like your poem to be about in advance of your session. Others who’ve participated in this process have found it most meaningful when they share about something that’s:
personal — it’s important to them, and
present — it’s alive for them; perhaps something that’s been on their heart or mind recently.
Your Listener Poet will email your poem to you within a day or two of your session. The poem will be written anonymously and is yours to keep. If you wish to share the poem with others you can do so, but that will be up to you. There’s no requirement to share your poem as part of your participation.
After you’ve completed your session with a Listener Poet and received your poem, you’ll join a reflective conversation with a small group of your colleagues. This will be an opportunity to check in and connect with each other, reflect on your experiences, support resilience, and contribute to a culture of good listening and wellbeing at CU Anschutz.
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Choose a time from the calendar below.
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We’ll send a calendar invite with a Zoom link.
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You’ll talk with a Listener Poet for 10-15 minutes about anything you’d like to share, then receive a personalized poem based on the conversation.
“From my standpoint as a physician, it really turned the tables to have someone really listen to me. It’s usually my job to listen to my patients.
I walked out feeling a small amount of joy I hadn’t felt before in my heart.”