Listener Poets are trained in deep listening and poetic reflection. This process and practice was created by The Good Listening Project. TGLP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to humanizing healthcare through the healing power of poetry and compassionate presence. They create spaces for deep listening and poetic reflection that foster connection and promote wellbeing.

When I found this practice, it felt like an extension of the healing work that I offer, only using poetry.

This practice can be deeply supportive for anyone, doing any kind of work in the world. And is most potent during threshold times - such as birthdays, shifts in relationships, careers, home and within beginnings and endings.

Poetry can be found throughout cultures and time as a form of expressive art that reflects time, place, the seen and unseen.

It's very nature is to include the entirety of the human experience, from the ordinary to the extraordinary.

A thoughtfully crafted poem can liberate, offer a much needed external perspective and affirm the more remote places within that often go unnamed.

While poetry can embody specific rules and structure, the beauty of poetry is that at its root it can be as multi-dimensional as we are. A bit structure and a bit wild. 

It can follow well established grooves or completely re-write them.

One-to-One Listening Sessions are a dedicated space to reflect and feel heard.

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In an era of quickness, consumption, distraction and extraction its a radical act to slow, offer up presence and inhabit ones story, unapologetically and true.

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Listener Poet sessions partnered with creative reflection have been shown to:

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• Support emotional regulation and thoughtful processing

• Foster a sense of being seen, heard and valued

• Reduce isolation and stress

• Strengthen interconnectedness through empathy and shared humanity

• Purchase the session for yourself or as a gift.
  Complete your payment online. If it is a gift please, include contact info for the recipient in the "notes" field.

• Look for an email (check your JUNK folder as well!)
  You’ll get an email within 48 hours of your purchase to schedule a mutually agreed upon time.

• Receive a personalized poem.
  After the listening session, the Listener Poet crafts and sends a custom poem inspired by your/their story, usually within 5 to 7 days.