February 2026
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With her background in counseling and psychology, she works to bring people together and support patients. When she and her husband lived in New Jersey, she answered an ad in a newspaper for the American Cancer Society. Her father-in-law’s struggle with leukemia made the work personal: “Maybe this is my calling.”
February 19-21, 2026
The Good Listening Project attends several conferences this spring focused on graduate medical education, including The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)’s annual conference for medical educators.
March 4-6, 2026
The Good Listening Project attends several conferences this spring focused on graduate medical education, including The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)’s annual Residency Leadership Summit.
March 4-7, 2026
We’re excited to share that The Good Listening Project will have a table at the AWP Bookfair this March 4-7, 2026 in Baltimore. We’ll be connecting with the wider literary community, sharing our work, and highlighting books and voices from our Certified Listener Poet community.
April 8-11, 2026
We’re pleased to announce that our workshop proposal, “Holding Space for Caregivers through Poetry: A Workshop to Foster Compassionate Deep Listening” has been accepted for this year’s Health Humanities Consortium Conference, Health Justice: So it Goes?
April 15-19, 2026
We’re excited to announce that our workshop proposal, “Listen Like a Poet: The Transformative Power of Listening in Healthcare” has been accepted for this year’s National Association for Poetry Therapy 2026 Conference: Poetry as a Pathway to Peace.
February 2026
This year, we’re offering four opportunities to become a Certified Listener Poet, welcoming new cohorts each season as we continue to grow this community of listeners.
February 2026
We offer multiple ways to experience a Listener Poet session, whether you’re seeking space to share your own story or hoping to offer a meaningful gift of listening to someone else.
February 2026
By Beck Klassen (they/them)
The Good Listening Project’s community and the work we do are constantly evolving. We’ve recently welcomed two graduates of CLP Cohort 11 to our Listener Poet team: Elizabeth Torres and Rebecca Wilson.
February 2026
By Yvette Perry, PhD
The Good Listening Project facilitated the closing session of the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland last November. Yvette Perry, Listener Poet and Health Equity Programs Lead, led the session: “Going Forward Together: Reflective Poetry as a Catalyst for Collective Action.”
February 2026
Certified Listener Poet Sailaja Devaguptapu, Cohort 2, was invited and served as a judge for INVICTUS. She also served as a juror for Art Neureau 2025 organised by Intersecting Minds.
February 2026
By Latasha Drax
In November 2025, I had the privilege of facilitating a customized workshop, “Listening Leaders: Building Rapport and Community by Listening,” for the Ready TECH Hire program. The workshop moved beyond traditional communication, exploring how holding space, solidarity, and the art of silence serve as essential tools for effective leadership.
February 2026
Congratulations to Certified Listener Poet Sailaja Devaguptapu, Cohort 2, for the publication of her poem “The Lonely Tidings,” which was published in PHRAME by SD Gupta School of Public Health, Indian Institute of Health Management Research University. The poem reflects the experiences shared by a palliative medicine physician.