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CONSULTING· COACHING

GREENHOUSE AMSTERDAM

The listening that

changes what's possible.

| PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY DOESN'T BEGIN WITH POLICY. IT BEGINS WITH LISTENING DISCIPLINE

BOOK A WORKSHOP

2.5 hrs

WORKSHOP

8-20

PARTICIPANTS

4

RIRA STEPS

2

ASSESSMENTS PRE & POST

Take our Attuned Listening Assessment

Where does your listening
actually go under pressure?

The Attuned Listening Assessment is a short diagnostic that reveals your default listening patterns — and where they hold you back in high-stakes conversations.

GREENHOUSE CONSULTING & COACHING

Most systems fail
at the moment of

contact.

We work with leaders, teams, and organisations who want the quality of their attention to match the quality of their intentions.

01

Attuned Listening

A practical workshop methodology for leaders and teams. Builds the listening discipline that creates psychological safety, reduces reactive decision-making, and makes real collaboration possible.

02

Leadership EQ Index

A proprietary methodology with an embedded measurement architecture that measures emotional intelligence as it shows up in real conversations — not as a fixed trait, but as a teachable, measurable set of leadership behaviors. 

03

Executive Coaching

One-to-one coaching for leaders navigating complexity, transition, or growth. Grounded in presence, it works at the level where strategy, identity, and inner life converge.

04

Integrated Leadership Development

For organisations where the EQ gap is found in team dynamics, disclosure culture, or manager effectiveness. A structured consulting engagement using the Greenhouse EQ Leadership Index as the diagnostic backbone — bounded in scope, measurable in outcome.

SIGNATURE OFFERING

Attuned
Listening
at Work

DURATION

2 - 2.5 Hours

GROUP SIZE

8-20 Participants

FORMAT

Pre-workshop assessment · Paired exercises · Group reflection · Post-workshop assessment

LANGUAGE

ENGLISH 

TAILORED

To your teams context.

The Core Model

Regulate

Stay grounded before and during a conversation so you can actually hear — not just react.

Inquire

Ask clarifying questions instead of jumping to interpretation or advice. Curiosity over conclusion.

Reflect

Check what you heard against what was actually said. Separate signal from story.

Advance

Choose how and whether to respond in a way that builds safety and moves the conversation forward.

PRACTICAL TOOLS

90-Second Reset

A grounding practice that creates space between stimulus and response — used before and during high-stakes conversations.

Reflect Before Respond

A structured pause that prevents reactive listening patterns and improves the quality of feedback and decision-making.

Signal vs Story

A practice for separating what someone actually communicated from the interpretation you layered over it.

THINK Response Filter

A decision framework for choosing how — and whether — to respond. Especially useful in disclosure and difficult conversations.

WHAT PARTICIPANTS LEAVE WITH 

Shared language

A framework the whole team can reference — immediately, in real situations, without needing a refresher.

Concrete Tools

Four practical practices they can reach for in the room - not later. Not theory. Not a handout they'll file away.

Barrier Awareness

A clear picture of their own listening patterns — reactive responses, assumptions, emotional flooding.

Safer Conversations

The conditions for earlier issue reporting, cleaner conflict, and better disclosure conversations.

Feedback Language

Ways to give and receive feedback without pathologizing or shutting people down.

Next Steps

Each participant leaves with one behavioral commitment for the following 14 days.

WHO THIS IS FOR

HR & People Leaders

You know what psychological safety is supposed to look like. The gap between the policy and the room — that's where this work lives.

Managers & Team Leads

Navigating neurodiversity, disclosure, and team dynamics without the right tools is exhausting. Attuned Listening doesn't add to your load — it changes how you carry it.

NGO & Nonprofit Staff

Mission-driven teams high-pressure, under-resourced, deeply committed. You need tools that work in the real conditions you're actually in — not the ideal ones.

DEI & Culture Leads

You've built the language. You've done the training. And you've watched it not quite land. The missing piece is usually this: people don't know how to actually listen across difference.

THE PRACTITIONER

Presence as
a
discipline
for growth.

Rachel Woodroof is the founder of Greenhouse Counseling & Coaching, based in Amsterdam. Her work sits at the intersection of psychological safety, conscious leadership, and neuroinclusion.

She practices the discipline of presence — not as a concept, but as a methodology. The Attuned Listening framework is the structural expression of that practice: a transferable, teachable skill for leaders and teams.

Rachel works with mid-sized organizations, NGOs, and mission-driven teams who want the quality of their internal relationships to match the quality of their external purpose. She provides both EQ Training and Leadership Coaching in Amsterdam as well as online.

Counseling & Coaching

Core Practice

Organizational Consulting

Workshops & Advisory

Neuroinclusion

Leadership Development

Community Design

Greenhouse Container Model

Profile photo of Rachel Woodroof EQ Development Coach and Founder of Greenhosue Consulting & Coachin

Rachel Woodroof

FOUNDER · GREENHOUSE AMSTERDAM

Our Partners & Clients

Interested in bringing Attuned Listening to your team, or exploring whether coaching is the right fit? Reach out and we'll take it from there.

Reach out. A conversation costs nothing and often changes everything.

A short conversation is the best place to start

Interested in bringing Attuned Listening to your team, or exploring whether coaching is the right fit? Reach out and we'll take it from there.

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