A structured pause for groups to listen, reflect, and return to work, conversation, or decision-making with more attention.
ListenStill brings live music, guided prompts, and intentional room design into your organization — as a staff care experience, a retreat centerpiece, a leadership development practice, or a moment of transition your group needs to mark well.
We talk constantly. We don't always hear each other.
Most organizational programming asks people to talk, decide, or perform. ListenStill creates a different kind of room — one where a group can actually listen: to live music, to silence, to each other, and to themselves.
It isn't a concert, a wellness checkbox, a yoga class, or a sound bath. It's a facilitated group listening experience, designed around your group's context and built for organizations that want something more substantial than a generic break.
Who this is for
ListenStill for Organizations is built for:
Staff care and employee experience — a nonclinical, dignified pause during demanding seasons of work.
Retreat and offsite programming — an opening, midpoint, or closing experience that gives a packed agenda room to breathe.
Leadership development — a way to practice listening and attention as leadership capacities, not just talk about them.
Teams in transition moments — closings, openings, and points of change that deserve more than an announcement or a speech.
Healthcare-adjacent and care-centered teams — a bounded, nonclinical space for staff carrying emotional intensity, without requiring disclosure.
Organizational offerings
01
Core ListenStill Session
A 60-minute facilitated experience for your workplace, nonprofit, school, or staff group.
Works as staff care, retreat programming, an opening or closing to a larger gathering, or a marked transition after an intense season of work.
02
ListenStill + Debrief
A ListenStill experience followed by a facilitated group reflection to notice themes and connect them to your group's objectives.
Well suited to leadership retreats, staff retreats, board retreats, and teams navigating change.
03
The Intelligence of Ensembles — A ListenStill Leadership Experience
Most leadership development addresses what leaders say and decide. This one addresses what they hear, and what they miss.
The Intelligence of Ensembles is a leadership development program built on a proprietary framework: the premise that the quality of attention is a leadership capacity that can be diagnosed, practiced, and developed.
Available as an executive session or a half-day workshop for leadership cohorts, cross-functional teams, or high-potential groups.
What you can expect
A designed room, not just an hour of music.
Careful, nonclinical facilitation.
Accessible seating (chairs, mats, cushions) as a comfort and access choice
No forced sharing or disclosure.
A structured pause your group can point back to afterward.
Every ListenStill session follows the same core arc, shaped to your group and setting:
Arrive → Settle → Listen → Notice → Reflect → Return
The room is prepared before your group arrives with chairs, mats, and cushions as seating options; soft adjustable lighting; reflection cards; and live music integrated into the space rather than staged as performance. Participants are guided through live music, nature sounds, and short prompts, followed by quiet private reflection. No one is asked to share, perform, or process aloud unless they want to.
The core experience is 60 minutes.
What this is not
ListenStill is not therapy, music therapy, medical treatment, or a clinical intervention. It does not promise healing, guaranteed stress reduction, burnout recovery, or transformation. It is a facilitated group listening experience designed to create space for listening, reflection, and attention.
Leadership development built on listening
ListenStill's organizational and leadership work is directed and facilitated by Renée Anne Poulin, PhD — an organizational facilitator, leadership coach, and group coach whose practice spans leadership development, Agile coaching, and team dynamics research across complex, cross-functional environments.
Her work centers on the dynamics that shape how groups speak, listen, decide, and disengage, patterns which are visible long before they appear in a report.
A former university professor with a PhD in Italian/musicology, she treats listening not as a passive act, but as a discipline that can be developed.
She performs as a violinist and serves as Vice President of the Overland Park Orchestra's Board of Directors.
Ready to bring ListenStill to your organization?
Tell us about your group. We'll review your inquiry and follow up within two business days. If it looks like a good fit, we'll send a link to schedule a 30-minute inquiry call to talk through what your group needs, what you're curious about, and what you'd like to know about ListenStill. Pricing and scope are determined from that call.