October 2025
The Good Listening Project was honored to once again take part in the annual KNN conference in Minneapolis this year. We also shared copies of our newly published KNN Anthology: Stories of Residents & Fellows, which was available to all participants.
October 2025
In this episode of Red Transmissions Podcast, Jenny Hegland shares her journey from mental health counseling and disaster response to co-creating spaces of healing through The Good Listening Project – a global community of listener poets dedicated to humanizing healthcare.
September 2025
Introducing the The Good Listening Project poetry anthology, Amplifying Voices of Black Women Physicians in Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Programs. Each poem and origin story in this collection was created as the result of a partnership between The Good Listening Project and Health4Equity, an initiative of the WPP Racial Equity Programme.
September 2025
One of our information sessions took a special turn when we were joined virtually by a high school class from Pittsburgh, PA. Their teacher was teaching a course on Human Flourishing and asked if his seniors could sit in on the session, learn about the healing and medicinal possibilities of poetry, and pose questions to our Listener Poets.
September 2025
We’re honored that The Good Listening Project was featured in Red Door Magazine’s latest issue, #39 – Impermanence, published by Elizabeth Torres, a recent graduate of Certified Listener Poet Cohort 11. You can find an article about our work on page 32, along with a moving poem by Listener Poet Gray Davidson Carroll.
November 2025
This collection brings together a unique intersection of narrative medicine, reflective practice, and poetic response. Centered on a live listening session between a practicing neurologist and a Certified Listener Poet, these poems were written by members of Cohort 11 of the Certified Listener Poet Course.
November 2025
Certified Listener Poet Cohort 12 is finishing their practicum and gearing up for their celebration, marking the close of a meaningful journey in listening and poetry. Cohort 13 kicks off in February 2026 with a new 1-week intensive format, offering an immersive introduction to the practice.
November 2025
Join Kelsey D. Mahaffey, Certified Listener Poet Cohort 5 on Tuesday, November 4 from 3 - 4pm ET, where we'll explore the power of words to illuminate what feels hidden. Together we’ll write and share poetry that captures shadow and light, finding voice, clarity, and connection along the way.
November 2025
The Good Listening Project was invited to present at VCU Health’s annual Good Grief Conference, which highlights the presence and impact of grief in health care spaces. Our session, “Listening Like a Poet: Practice for Meaning-Making and Resilience in Bereavement Care,” aligned beautifully with this year’s theme: resilience in relationships.
November 2025
by Ingrid Berg, TGLP Board Chair
Our Board Chair, Ingrid Berg, recently published a thoughtful review of Dr. Anna DeForest's book Our Long Marvelous Dying (2024), which features an unnamed narrator seeking a fellowship in palliative care during the COVID pandemic, in Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal.