embodied @ work
Workshop series for organisations
What your organisation already knows — but can’t yet access
Most organisations invest in strategy, structure, and skills. Few invest in the capacity to sense what is actually happening — in a room, in a team, in a decision under pressure.
embodied@work is a series of half-day workshops that develop the capacities no training manual reaches: genuine listening, trust that is felt rather than declared, collective sensing, and decisions that come from the whole person, and not just the rational mind.
It works on the layer underneath, the capacities no training manual can reach.
“We have the strategy. We keep not executing it.”
Execution failures are rarely strategic. They are almost always relational — trust, sensing, the ability to move together under pressure.
“Something is off in this team, but I can’t name it.”
What can’t be named usually lives in the body — in posture, proximity, breath. This is where the work begins.
“We’ve tried everything. Coaching, offsite, new structure.”
Those approaches work at the level of content. Embodied work works at the level of pattern, which is where most stuck teams actually live.
What we’re actually developing
We develop capacities, not concepts
Each workshop develops something that a team will use the following Monday. It’s not a framework to remember, but a capacity to draw on.
Genuine listening
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Fewer decisions are made on incomplete information. Meetings where something actually shifts. The felt sense of being heard — which changes what people are willing to say.
Embodied trust
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Risk-taking that doesn’t require committee approval. Honest conversations that used to happen in corridors are happening in the room. Reduces re-litigation of agreed decisions.
Systemic sensing
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The ability to read what a room, a team, or a transition actually needs — before the data catches up. A strategy that accounts for what the organisation is capable of, not just what it intends.
Whole-person decision-making
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Faster decisions under ambiguity. Reduced second-guessing. Alignment that holds, because it was made from something more than rational consensus.
The workshops
Six capacities. Two movements.
The workshops form a developmental sequence, but each stands alone as an entry point. Most organisations begin with one, return for more.
The first movement slows the team down enough to sense what is actually present. The second builds from that ground toward genuine collective action.
Movement 1: Dissolving what blocks
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The art of listening
Hearing what is not yet spoken
Distinguishes three kinds of listening — from habit, from curiosity, from genuine openness — using body awareness as the instrument. Most teams discover they have been listening far less than they thought.
Teams leave with:
- A felt distinction between reactive and receptive listening — and a practice to return to.
Recommended starting point — universal, low-risk, immediately recognisable
02
Building trust
The body knows before the mind decides
Trust is not a value to declare — it is a somatic state to practice. Teams surface the embodied patterns that invite or close down safety, and experience what a genuine extension of trust actually requires.
Teams leave with:
- A shared language for trust that is felt, not just stated — and the beginning of practices that sustain it.
Particularly useful for teams in transition or post-conflict
03
The weight of the unspoken
What we don’t say shapes how we move
Every team carries undiscussed tensions and avoided conversations. This workshop uses somatic movement and structured witnessing to make visible what lives below the threshold of language. Not therapy, but honest.
Teams leave with:
- Named awareness of what has been collectively avoided — and the capacity to begin addressing it.
Movement 2: Building what’s possible
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Sensing the field
What is the system trying to become?
Based on Social Presencing Theater’s 4D mapping method, teams feel rather than analyse the patterns alive in their organisation. Particularly useful at moments of strategic uncertainty, structural transition, or when the data doesn’t explain what’s happening.
Teams leave with:
- A shared embodied map of the system, and insight into what it actually needs, not just what is planned for it.
Recommended for leadership teams navigating change
05
Decision from the inside
When clarity lives in the body, not the spreadsheet
For teams navigating complex choices without obvious right answers. Somatic cues — weight, breath, posture, aliveness — become data alongside rational analysis. Not intuition as mysticism, but the whole person as a sensing tool.
Teams leave with:
- A method for reading somatic signals in decision processes, and faster, more durable alignment.
06
Moving together
Coordination without choreography
How does a team move as one without losing individual voice? Using improvised movement and ensemble exercises, teams explore shared leadership — who initiates, who follows, and how the group finds its own intelligence. Closes with a structured reflection on what this means for how the team actually works.
Teams leave with:
- A felt experience of genuine co-leadership, and a shared reference point to return to when coordination breaks down.
Closing session of the full programme — or a standalone reset
Not sure where to start?
A 90-minute taster session — for leadership teams considering the full series is available at no cost for the right organisations. One conversation, no commitment
format
Three ways to work together
All workshops run as half-days (4 hours), delivered in-house at your location, in another agreed location, or online. Each session is customised to what your team is actually navigating — not delivered from a template.
Entry
Single workshop
One half-day. Low commitment, high signal. Most organisations use this to test whether the work lands before going further.
8–16 participants · customised briefing call included
Recommended
3-workshop arc
Either movement is delivered across 6–10 weeks. Enough space between sessions for the work to settle and integrate.
8–16 participants · reflection support between sessions
Full programme
6-part journey
All six workshops over 3–6 months. Optional integration sessions between workshops. For teams ready to move — and organisations ready to invest in something lasting.
8–16 participants · parallel cohorts available · integration support
Why this, why now
Grounded in 20 years of practice and organisational work
This is not a wellness offering repackaged for business. The methodology is rigorous, the lineage is deep, and the facilitation draws on extensive experience inside real organisations.
Methodology:
Authentic Movement · Social Presencing Theater · Theory U · somatic leadership development. Developed over two decades of practice and teaching.
Practice depth:
Active practitioner of the forementioned methods, including deepening work with senior teachers. This work is based on lived practice.
Organisational experience:
Consulting, learning & development, and facilitation across major corporate clients. International conference speaker.
Geographic reach & languages:
Delivering across Europe — with particular roots in Austria and Portugal. Available in: