Leadership is a matter of relationship
The teams that work are not the ones with the brightest people. They are the ones where people feel free to speak, ask, make mistakes and tell the truth. That freedom has a name, psychological safety, and you train it with the same skills we train in our evenings: presence, listening, expression, curiosity, co-creation. We bring them into organisations with a method that is experiential, playful and measurable.
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Psychological safety is the factor that most sets effective teams apart: more than individual skills.
🔬 Edmondson, 1999 · Google, Project Aristotle, 2016
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In the smartest teams, speaking turns are shared evenly and members’ social sensitivity is high.
🔬 Woolley et al., 2010
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Specific, non-judgemental feedback is among the most powerful factors for learning at work.
🔬 Hattie & Timperley, 2007
What we do
Pilot workshop
2–3 hoursA first session for a team or a mixed group: listening, questions that open things up, feedback. People leave with tools they use the next day. It is the simplest way to find out if this is for you.
Team programme
4–8 sessionsThe five skills, one per session, with practices in between. We measure psychological safety at the start and at the end, anonymously.
Effective meetings
Half a dayA format to change your meetings: check-in, speaking turns, explicit decisions, check-out. We apply it to a real meeting in your organisation.
Relational leadership
TailoredFor people who lead others: giving and receiving feedback, difficult conversations, repair, inclusion. With individual coaching if needed.
How we work
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A half-hour call
You tell us the context, we tell you honestly whether and how we can help.
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The pilot
A short session, with real people and a real topic. Then you decide.
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The programme
Designed together, with one measurement at the start and one at the end. Language that fits your context, same substance.
Who we work with
Companies, cooperatives, cultural and social organisations, professional firms, remote teams. In person in Milan; elsewhere in person or online. Our public evenings are held at mare culturale urbano, a place that knows what building community means.
Three days with a team, July 2026
A digital company of about twenty people asked us for three days to find the group again: relational games, conversations in pairs and in a circle, a moment of mutual appreciation. At the end of the retreat 13 people wrote feedback. What they are asking for now: handling stress and workload, talking about problems without hiding them, keeping the work going.
“Despite my initial scepticism, in the end I liked it a lot. I liked the moments of open discussion: you rarely find a way to have them constructively.”
“Being all together again and finding the cohesion I felt we had lost a little.”
“It renewed us a bit, gave us more energy and brought us together.”
Let’s talk
Write us a couple of lines about your team and what you would like to change. A real person will reply, usually within two days.
Or write to info@relazioniautentiche.it.