The Good Listening Project
Jenny Hegland is an experienced leader and facilitator with a strong focus on emotional support programming, organizational development, and community engagement. Currently serving as the Executive Director at The Good Listening Project since October 2019, Jenny has been instrumental in humanizing healthcare through innovative initiatives aimed at combating loneliness and burnout. As the co-founder of Unlimited Boundaries and through Jenny Hegland Consulting, Jenny has developed strategies to enhance teamwork and leadership across various sectors, including education, healthcare, and nonprofits. Past roles include executive director at Commonwealth Advocates for Recovery Efforts, where Jenny successfully led disaster recovery initiatives, and various positions at educational institutions, focusing on career development and community engagement. Jenny holds advanced degrees in Community Counseling and Communications and has specialized training in transformative business practices.
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The Good Listening Project
The Good Listening Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that cultivates resilience and wellbeing in healthcare. For healthcare champions and innovators investing in employee wellness & retention, organizational resilience-building, the patient experience, and diversity/equity/inclusion goals, we offer a unique and powerful solution–listening. Our signature programs help ease the emotional burden of hospital staff and healthcare professionals in a variety of settings, to fight burnout and improve the patient experience, and can be customized based on your needs and goals: >> Customized Listener Poet Engagements–to help healthcare staff and/or patients experience deep listening, which supports the stress response cycle, and can fundamentally shift how it feels to work in and receive healthcare >> Brave Conversation Facilitation–to humanize difficult conversations and improve team communication and morale by providing an intentional space for reflection, connection, resilience-building, and nonjudgmental listening >> Certified Listener Poet Training (for individuals or teams)–to develop and practice deep listening skills in an intimate learning community, and prepare you for the craft of working as a Certified Listener Poet in a healthcare setting >> The Art of Listening Coaching Engagements–to build team and organizational listening capacity, which contributes to cultures where people care about each other’s well-being and has positive ripple effects across entire organizations. Includes opportunities to EXPERIENCE (through Listener Poet sessions), PRACTICE (through Brave Conversation facilitation), and INTEGRATE learning (through customized workshops)