Corporate Team Bonding · California & Europe
Team Bonding
Teams that move together
Embodied team sessions, workshops and retreats with Contact Beyond Contact, movement and breath. I bring the practice to wherever your team gathers, from Los Angeles and across California to Paris, Berlin and London.
Why Teams Bring Me In
Beyond the
Meeting Room
Most teams spend their days in their heads, on screens and in back-to-back meetings. Stress builds up, people stop really listening, and connection becomes something we talk about rather than feel.
My team sessions take people out of the conference room and into their bodies. Through Contact Beyond Contact, a movement practice built on presence and connection, along with guided movement and gentle breathwork, your team experiences trust, listening and collaboration firsthand. What people feel together in the room carries back into how they work.
The Practice
How Contact Beyond
Contact Works for Teams
Contact Beyond Contact (CBC) is a dance and healing practice created by Vangelis Legakis of Unity Space. It draws on Authentic Movement, Contact Improvisation, qigong and mindfulness. At its core is one simple idea: we can deeply connect with others beyond the means of physical contact, through presence, attention and movement.
For a team, this means the things that are usually hard to talk about become something you can feel. Who naturally takes the lead? Who waits to be invited? How do we listen when there are no words? In CBC these patterns show up within minutes, gently and with care. Because the team experiences them together in the body, the insights stay far longer than a slide or a discussion.
No dance experience is needed. This is a guided movement and awareness practice where everyone can take part. It is fully inclusive and open to all.
A Session, Step by Step
What a Session Looks Like
Every session is adapted to your team, but most follow this arc, whether it lasts three hours or runs across a weekend.
Arriving
We gather in a circle and check in with ourselves and with the group. A moment to arrive, to truly see each other, and to begin the journey together.
Waking Up the Body
A gentle warm-up inspired by qigong and free movement. Nobody performs; each person simply begins to awaken their energy and come alive in their body.
Moving Alone, Together
Everyone explores their own movement in the shared space. In this free-form solo exercise, we become aware of ourselves and the environment around us, and begin the process of embodiment before connecting with a partner.
Meeting Another
Now we partner up. Playful partner exercises explore themes like leading and following, inviting and being invited, and communicating without words, through movement. Part of this is a witnessing exercise: being truly seen, listening with care and connecting authentically. A fun, heart-centered practice where colleagues meet each other on a deeper level.
Moving as One Group
The whole team improvises together. This is often the moment people relax, open up and feel like one team, as they embody the journey they have shared so far.
Bringing It Back to Work
A closing circle to integrate the experience. Through open sharing, we link what happened in the room to everyday work: how we lead, listen, decide and support each other. The team leaves with simple practices to keep, and with a deeper, more authentic connection.
Photos by Charlie Orellana · @raisedbyvolcanoes
What We Work On
Themes for Your Team
Together we choose the themes to focus on, depending on what your team needs right now, or we weave them all together.
Trust
Trusting yourself first, then letting someone else lead and being trusted in return.
Leading & Following
When to step forward, when to support, and how to share tasks.
Listening
Authentic listening: paying attention beyond words, to tone, body and energy.
Boundaries
Saying yes and no clearly, and respecting each other's limits.
Presence & Stress
Calming the nervous system and coming back to focus.
Creativity
Improvising, adapting and staying open when plans change.
Working Through Tension
Using breathwork and movement to feel difficulty in the body and move through it, together.
The Offerings
Ways to Work Together
Team Reset
Gentle guided movement, one or two simple partner exercises and a short Reset Breathwork. Your team leaves calmer, more focused and more present with each other. Fits easily into a meeting day.
Ideal forRegular team meetings, busy seasons, wellness days
Moving Together Workshop
The heart of the work. Through Contact Beyond Contact exercises in leading and following, true listening, authentic connection and care for the group, your team experiences how it really communicates. We close with a reflection and open sharing.
Ideal forBuilding trust, new or growing teams
Team Offsite Day
A full day of embodied movement, Contact Beyond Contact and breathwork, with time for guided reflection. The team ends the day more bonded, more connected and attuned to each other.
Ideal forAnnual offsites, team kick-offs, strategy days
Team Weekends & Retreats
Already planning a retreat? I bring the practice to you and weave morning and afternoon sessions into your program, combining movement, breathwork and partner exercises, from an arrival circle to a closing ritual. The program is designed with you around your goals and your setting.
Ideal forLeadership retreats, company getaways
Conference & Event Openers
A short, energising movement and breath practice to open a conference, an all-hands or a breakout session, and bring a room into the present.
Ideal forConferences, all-hands meetings, events
Every program is tailored to your team, your goals and your setting, and comes with a clear proposal. Sessions are offered in English or French.
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Wherever You Gather
I Come to You
Your office, a rented venue, a retreat center in the mountains or a house by the sea. Wherever your team chooses to meet, I travel with the practice and adapt each session to the space, indoors or outdoors.
Based in Ojai, California, I work with teams in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Francisco and across California, and in Europe, including Paris, Berlin and London. Online sessions are available for distributed teams.
Questions
What People Ask
Does anyone need dance or movement experience?
No. Everything is simple, guided and open to every body.
Is the breathwork safe for everyone?
For teams I use gentle Reset Breathwork, not deep emotional release work. (Longer, deeper breathwork journeys can be added on request.)
What space do you need?
A clear room with enough space for everyone to move, or an outdoor space. For online sessions, a camera and a little room around the desk.
How many people can join?
Workshops work best with 6 to 30 people. Larger groups and conferences are welcome with an adapted format or a co-facilitator.
Do you travel?
Yes. I come to your office, offsite venue or retreat in Los Angeles and across California, throughout the US, and in Europe, including Paris, Berlin and London. Travel costs are included in your proposal.
Your Facilitator
Karen Nitsche
I'm Karen, an Embodiment Coach, Breathwork Facilitator and certified Contact Beyond Contact Teacher. Based in Ojai, California, and originally from France, I bring a background in dance, movement and the healing arts, and have guided hundreds of sessions and groups across California and Europe.
I also train other facilitators, as a coach on the Neurodynamic Breathwork Training Program and as a teacher of the Contact Beyond Contact Facilitators Training.
Your team is held with experience and care, in a warm and inclusive space where everyone feels welcome to take part in their own way.
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Bring Your Team
Back to Life
Imagine your team stepping away from their screens and moving through a space together. The room settles into focus, awareness and presence, and a quiet attunement grows between people, opening the way to authentic connection. People who sit in meetings together every week truly see each other, perhaps for the first time.
This is what Contact Beyond Contact brings to a team: trust you can feel, listening that goes beyond words, and a shared experience your people will remember long after the offsite ends. Wherever your team gathers, I bring the practice to you.
Tell me a little about your team and I'll come back to you within three working days with ideas and a tailored proposal.
Let's move and connect.