Learn why and how to listen like a poet with interactive online and in-person workshops.

Learn about the process from starting a conversation with a stranger in various settings to creating a custom poem for them, and try this exercise with others.

By the end of this session, you’ll receive a custom poem written by someone in the group about anything you want.

In this workshop, you’ll learn best practices for good listening that build trust.

Hear stories from our Listener Poets’ work and try our techniques with interactive activities.

Collaboration, Conflict, and Why We Stop Listening

Explore the more nuanced and invisible aspects of listening, understand how we’re constantly impacting one another in our listening (through our nervous systems), and learn strategies to improve listening in both conflict and collaboration.

• The Poetry of Good Listening: Implications for Undergraduate Medical Education from Voices Across Academic Medicine

• Somatic Listening

• Holding Space & Equity-Informed Listening

• Poem Craft: The Art of Writing for Others, Parts 1 & 2

• Poetic Forms: The Embodied Line

• Story Craft: Writing the Origin Story

• Connecting With Your Community of Service

If you are interested in joining a workshop, please send us a message and we’ll be happy to connect with you.

If you have questions or if you’d like to support good listening in your healthcare community, we would love to hear from you.