Listen Like a Poet

Listening Like a Poet is about emotional intelligence. It’s something we all can use more of.

Listening is one of the most important skills for a visual practitioner. Most people assume they know how to listen: how hard can it be if you really try? But we are called into spaces we've never been, listening to people we've never met, and asked to understand things we've never heard of before. Having great listening skills can mean the difference between a good practitioner and a great one.

Good listeners are rare, and, listening is something you can learn.

In Listen like a Poet, Frankie Abralind, executive director of Poets in Residence, will divulge pro tips on how to be a better listener and get people to trust you with their secrets. You’ll also hear several stories of how his organization, Poets In Residence, has used deep listening as a resource to create transformational self-care in hospital settings.

PLEASE NOTE:
Listen Like a Poet will meet both IN PERSON at WeWork in Chinatown and VIRTUALLY through Zoom. If you brave traffic to join us in person at WeWork, please bring your favorite sketchnoting tools! After Frankie’s presentation, you’ll have a chance to connect with your colleagues and share your sketchnotes for feedback, pointers, etc..

-- Attending IN PERSON?
Please join us at WeWork in Chinatown at 718 7th St NW. Space limited to 30 attendees.
BY METRO: Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro Station: Red, Green, Yellow. Metro Center: Blue, Orange, Silver

-- Attending VIRTUALLY?
RSVPs will close on March 18 (1 day prior to the event), at which point a Zoom meeting ID will be emailed to registered attendees. No RSVP limit.

About Poets In Residence:
A nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., Poets in Residence recruits and trains poets to be world class listeners in hospitals. They make themselves available at designated locations, such as break rooms or cafeterias. The poet engages one-on-one with any curious person who comes up to talk, then writes a poem based on what they heard and gives it to that person as a gift. Through the simple act of empathetic listening, these listener poets help fight burnout. They reinforce the message that people are more than just the sum of their flesh and bones, chemicals and diagnoses, job descriptions and clinical degrees.