June 2026
We’re delighted to share that The Good Listening Project presented our workshop, "Listen Like a Poet: The Transformative Power of Listening in Healthcare," at the 2026 National Association for Poetry Therapy (NAPT) Conference in Chicago, facilitated by Listener Poets Nancy S. Scherlong, Leigh Finnegan-Hosey, and Ravenna Raven.
June 2026
Listener Poet Joseph M. Jablonski, Cohort 1 alum, had the opportunity to sit with LoudounNow photojournalist Douglas Graham through the Inova Schar Cancer Arts and Healing Program, at the newest location for our longest-standing partnership offering in-person listening sessions.
June 2026
LaShaune P. Johnson, PhD, a Clinical Professor at the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine at the University of Houston, has been informally involved with a unique collaboration. This collaborative effort highlights the powerful intersection of the arts and healthcare.
June 2026
In April, Dr. Julia McDonald, physician and Certified Listener Poet Cohort 9 alum, was hosted by the Reproductive Health Access Project Benefit for Abortion Liberation Fund. Held at Wooden Shoe Books in South Philadelphia, the event featured poems and origin stories from Julia's collection, Hysteriography: Poems about Uteruses, Menstruation, Pregnancy, Abortion, Loss, and Childbirth.
December 2025
By Kathryn West
Though The Good Listening Project (TGLP) and Grace House Akron weren’t designed with one another in mind, their new partnership makes it seem like they very well could have been. Their collaboration is just a few months old and already having an important impact on those involved.