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Listening for Action

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed these days. As the crises pile up, locally and globally, it’s tempting just to hide our heads in the sand. But what if we could build resilience, in the places we live and work, by listening with care to each other?

At Vesper Hill, we support organisations and communities in driving positive change through listening-led engagement. Drawing on expertise in research, the creative arts, and psychotherapy, we help people feel heard, understood, and involved in shaping what comes next.

Identified as a ‘bright spot’ by Forum for the Future, Vesper Hill offers stakeholder engagement with a difference. We facilitate reflection on complex social and environmental challenges, helping you identify fresh perspectives and move forward with purpose.

What we offer:

Workshops and reflection spaces. We work with teams and individuals to navigate practical challenges, prioritise core values, and nurture collective wellbeing.

Performances and facilitated dialogues. Our storytelling pieces can be brought to your workplace or community setting, to help spark conversation with your audience. Talkback discussions are always tailored to context.

Strategic partnerships. Working with your organisation over time, we’ll listen carefully to relevant stakeholders and co-create materials addressed specifically to your needs. We build social value grounded in real listening, not just box-ticking.

Available Performances

These storytelling pieces are currently available, on request, for one-off performance in theatres, community spaces or office settings. Playful and engaging, each piece is the result of listening carefully to real people in real situations. All performances are followed by feedback conversations, in which audiences can also listen to each other.

Inundated

or, What Would Noah Do?

You, the audience, are gathered at a meeting of the Business Improvement Network. Perhaps you’re hoping to trade contacts, or seek advice. But the guest speaker at today’s meeting has a troubling story to tell, and an unusual proposal to pitch. So how will you and other network members choose to respond?

Who Ya Gonna Call?

(in event of emergency)

This warm, welcoming, one-man show explores the UK’s current state of preparedness for a changing climate. Opening with memories of the July 2022 heatwave, when the country recorded its first temperatures over 40°C, the performance explores challenging themes with poignancy, humour, and a little help from the audience.

The Boxer’s Guide to Climate Resilience

This modern fairy tale explores the challenges faced by an ordinary coastal town in a time of storms and rising seas. A lowly town planner called Jo, wondering how to keep back the tide, seeks advice from the legendary King Cnut (aka Canute). He responds by teaching her how to box. Cnut’s four lessons explore the stages of resilience planning: Aware, Adapt, Respond, Recover.