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.
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.
September 2025
You’re Invited! Saturday, November 29 at 8 PM ET. Anne Marie Wells, Certified Listener Poet Cohort 9, is hosting a virtual book launch for her new book, Write Some Cool Sh!t: 366 Prompts to Rekindle Your Creativity. Come celebrate the launch of Anne Marie’s first self-published book via her publishing house, Star Belt Press, with special guests.
August 2025
By Yvette Perry
Recently one of my poems (and audio reading of the poem), “What You Will Call Me,” was featured on The Blood Project website. The Blood Project aims “to promote exploration and deeper understanding of the role of blood in health, injury and disease, integrated with the patient’s experience in pursuit of enhanced individualized care.”
August 2025
By Jenny Hegland
Twice a month, our Listener Poet community (now 80+ and growing) gathers for our regular Community of Practice. Last month, the focus of our sessions was on poetic voice – that one-of-a-kind artistic expression that allows us to communicate not only our own truths but also the truths and stories of others.
August 2025
Nancy Scherlong, LCSW-R, CHHC, SEP, CP, PTR/CJT-CM, brings a deep well of experience – and heart – to The Good Listening Project’s Board of Directors. A psychotherapist, educator, and long-time expressive arts advocate, Nancy believes that “creative resonance” – the feeling of being seen or understood through art – is a “powerful complement to any healing process.”
August 2025
Salaam Green, an alum of the first cohort of the The Good Listening Project’s Certified Listener Poet course, has released a poetry collection. The Other Revival is a story of homecoming. This collection of poems revolves around a house built in Harpersville, Alabama in 1841. Thirty-nine people enslaved by Samuel Wallace, the owner of the property, constructed the house and worked the land.
August 2025
Poet and educator Ravenna Raven was recently featured in For the Soul: A Group Exhibition in Seattle’s Pioneer Square. Curated by Geheim Gallery in partnership with Lion and Lamb Fine Art, the exhibition brought together 20 artists from across the country to explore a resonant question: What does the soul of your work look like?
July 2025
A poem by Certified Listener Poet Cohort 9 Alum, Dr. Julia McDonald, is now part of the educational offerings available through The Blood Project (TBP). The mission of TBP is to cultivate a deeper understanding of blood disorders for clinicians through modules, tutorials, and the humanities.
June 2025
Listener Poets Dr. Julia McDonald and Dr. Erin FitzGerald representing The Good Listening Project (TGLP) offered a powerful presence at a recent national healthcare conference by facilitating in-person listening sessions. Many shared that TGLP’s focus on provider wellness and resilience filled a much-needed gap in the conference experience.
June 2025
By Ingrid Berg
A poem by Yvette Perry, TGLP Listener Poet was featured as part of an ethics education event for a large healthcare organization on April 29, 2025. “Living With Sickle Cell Disease” was the theme of the Spring 2025 “Ethics on the Big Screen” presentation held at the Benson Theatre in Omaha, Nebraska, sponsored by CommonSpirit.
May 2025
By Geva Thole
Patients in Emplify Health’s Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit are often there because they’ve lost touch with themselves. Some need to reconnect with their values. Others are trying to forgive themselves or contend with a difficult diagnosis. No matter the issue, participating in a Listener Poet session has shown to be helpful.
May 2025
Congratulations to Sailaja Devaguptapu, a member of the Certified Listener Poet Cohort 2, whose poem "The Falling Leaves The Growing Tree" is featured on the cover of Soul Connection, a quarterly multilingual literary magazine by Guwahati Grand Poetry Festival. Be sure to spend a moment with her beautiful, transformative poetry.