Stronger collaboration
Improve listening, shared attention and interaction across roles, teams and disciplines.
Leadership and collaboration
Workshops for Adaptive Leadership and Stronger Teams
ListenAdapt helps leaders, teams and departments strengthen collaboration, relational awareness and adaptive leadership through research-informed, embodied practice.
Research-informedExperientialIn-person worldwide
Why ListenAdapt
Leadership Development and Team Collaboration for Complex Organisations
Complex organisations need people who can notice more, respond intelligently and create forward movement together.
Adaptive leadership
Build presence, read nonverbal signals and adapt behaviour in uncertain situations at work.
Psychological safety
Create conditions for contribution, candid dialogue and constructive risk-taking at work.
Workshops & programmes
Applied Improvisation Workshops and Leadership Development Programmes
Every engagement is shaped around the organisation, participants and behaviours that need to change.
Executives & leadership teams
Develop presence, communication and adaptive leadership in complex, high-stakes situations.
Departments & organisations
Strengthen trust, feedback and collaboration across teams and key organisational functions.
Conferences & events
Create memorable, interactive sessions that turn relational insight into practical action.
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How it works
Experiential Leadership Development That Changes Behaviour
Structured exercises from theatre and acting make interaction patterns visible. Participants experiment, reflect, practise alternatives and connect learning to work.
- FrameAlign on the challenge and behaviours that matter.
- ExperienceExplore dynamics through embodied exercises.
- ReflectTurn experience into shared language and insight.
- Practise & transferRehearse new choices for professional situations.
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Research-Informed Applied Improvisation Training
ListenAdapt connects applied improvisation with research on embodied learning, nonverbal behaviour, power dynamics and transferable relational competence.
Applied improvisation as an embodied approach in work-integrated learning
Embodied participation supported awareness of nonverbal behaviour, relational dynamics and potential transfer beyond the workshop.
Nonverbal behaviour in social hierarchies
An observational study examining participation, confidence, engagement and risk-taking.
Trusted by participants from
Trusted Leadership and Team Development Workshops
“You get to know colleagues differently and step outside your comfort zone.”
“A fantastic experience—great fun and genuinely team-building.”
“Marius helped us see one another in ways we had not before.”
“A different and playful experience. It exceeded all expectations.”
“Educational, refreshing and inspiring.”
“Marius made every exercise feel safe and approachable.”
Founder & facilitator
Applied Improvisation Facilitator for Leaders and Teams
Marius Opheim Thomassen
Lecturer, researcher, coach and applied improvisation practitioner
Marius combines 14 years of professional teaching with formal training in pedagogy, business, technology, acting and improvisational theatre. He lectures and researches applied improvisation at Kristiania University of Applied Sciences.
He has facilitated groups from one to more than 100 participants and works in English or Norwegian.
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