Our Common Life.
A community container to support the re-villaging of your life.
A Six-Month Course - Currently Running
Get a picture below of what this group looks like and join the Waitlist Below to be the first to know when the next dates are released!
In your bones you can feel that you’re a pack animal.
You hear the call in your heart to reweave the village.
You desire to live in more rooted and regenerative ways.
You long to feel held by – and hold – deep, meaningful community.
YET OUR MODERN WAYS CAN HAVE US FEELING...
Tender & fearful of the vulnerability and complexity of living in collaboration with others
Uncertain about what we even want when it comes to community (It's kind of nice having one’s independence too ;)
Confused about where to begin, when a vision for ‘village’ feels big and far-off
Overwhelmed by the thoughts of making tangible changes to daily life
BENEATH ALL OF THIS, DEEP DOWN YOU KNOW YOU WERE NEVER MEANT TO carry so much alone.
It’s time to remember yourself home.
Join us in a group community space to:
Clarify your vision for what a more community-oriented life looks like for you
Unpack your fears and questions about building community
Create a plan for a more shared way of life in the here and now, and get support in making it a reality
Take steps to build more lived experience of community in your everyday
Meet like-minded people
Experience shared inspiration through shared stories and wisdom from your own community experiences
Receive guidance, prompts, accountability, and practical tools to help you navigate the journey
Gain confidence in following through with your community desires, and skill to initiate and follow-through
Build a more community oriented life
In our modern world, designed for the individual, you find yourself craving a more collective life…
This is Bigger than You.
Actively choosing to depend on each other in integral ways changes us - when we offer hospitality, or receive someone’s generosity… when we see our lives tied up with someone else’s, it is both beautiful and vulnerable. It reminds us of our needs, and of our capacity. Choosing this interdependence is an act of rebellion in a world that tells us to look out only for ourselves and “our own”.
This work is a remembering for our ancestors, A reclamation for ourselves, and a legacy for our children.
This work is a healing for the collective.
Hi I’m Sarah, Our-Common Founder, Relationship-dynamics Coach, & Community Builder
I am passionate about helping people to build their skills and capacity to navigate nuanced relationship dynamics with courage and grace.
I grew up in a home focused on hospitality, and mutual-aid, where shared elements of life with friends and neighbours was considered ‘normal’. With my own young-family, I lived in intentional community for close to a decade - including living on shared land with other singles and families while sharing meals, work, and chores etc.
Though now we live in a single family dwelling in an average neighbourhood, we have built a tight-knit local community. We seek to live in alignment with our core-values of environmental stewardship, community-care, and local-impact, through small daily choices.
This offering is one I created because I’ve experienced first-hand that it is hard work to build community into our lives in this busy modern world, and we can all use a little support and encouragement on the journey. I don’t come to the table with all the answers, but am here to make space for our collective grappling. May we be better for having these important conversations together.
What past participants have to say…
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"Sarah is one of the most skilled community-builders and space holders I have ever met. She is wildly gifted at meeting people with tenderness exactly where they are at, while also holding space for the potential each person has to grow and challenge themselves."
Past Participant in Our Common Life
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“In the Our Common Life calls, I always walked away with something practical to apply to my own life, along with new perspectives and ways of approaching relationships and community."”
Past Our Common Life Participant
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“Sarah combines tangible frameworks, tools and skills, with an emotionally intuitive approach that leaves me feeling so held and supported each time I work with her."”
Past Our Common Life Participant
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“This program serves as a beautiful jumping off point into community building for both the newbie who just wants to host a monthly potluck and the seasoned community tender who is diving deeply into revillaging. And Sarah can hold it all.”
Past Our Common Life Participant
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"Sarah is wise, deeply rooted, and a balm to the nervous system. She is a model for what community can look and feel like, and brings that experience to life in the spaces she holds."
Past Our Common Life Participant
Our Common Life
A Six-month community container to support the re-villaging of your life
Currently Running. Join the Waitlist Below
Access your vision, unpack your fears, and build a tangible framework to live more fully in inter-dependence with others.
This group may be for you if:
You long for more shared elements of life;
You have never experienced something you’d consider ‘community’;
You want to build a closer network of support in your life;
You feel isolated in your life, work, or personal journey;
You dream of living with others in a more a communal way;
You have questions and fears about sharing more elements of life with others;
You don’t have the energy to ‘figure it all out’ on your own.
What’s Included
This offering was created to bring like-minded people together to share in the grappling, the brainstorming, and the expression of a more community oriented way of living.
You can think of this space like a watering hole, where you come for resourcing, to support you in turning towards your lived experience of community in your everyday.
Receive guidance, prompts, and encouragement, in a community container.
This offering is 6 months long and includes:
A 3-hour Opening Call to begin our six months together.
A 2-hour live Workshop Call on a relationship skill or community-building theme each month
A 2-hour Circling Call to work through real-time challenges and questions, and to share celebrations each month
Two 1-hour Drop-in Calls to receive spot-coaching, or ask questions each month
A 3-hour Closing Call to celebrated, and complete well with each other at the end of the six months.
Calls happen over Zoom, and are led and facilitated by Sarah and may include some guest-speakers.
You can expect calls to include:
Teaching, guidance, prompts
Facilitated group discussion
Resource sharing
Check-ins, sharing, witnessing, and support
Spot coaching
Weekly emails that pair with our calls, with reflection prompts, stories of inspiration, challenges, guidance, resources, and summarized group learnings.
Regular prompts and check-ins through an online group space, for accountability, encouragement, resource sharing, and Q&A.
Optional small group-pods to deepen your learning.
With support, you will craft at least one community ‘project’ over the six months. This tangible living experiment will help to bring your learning into ‘real-time’ - supporting you to clarify what you really want, and equipping you with the skills and initiative you need to get there.
Register before December 21st to receive a bonus one-on-one coaching call with Sarah. You can use this call anytime within the year to deepen and integrate your learning.
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January - June 2024
The 3-hour opening and closing calls will be on Saturdays from 9 am to Noon PST, to allow for everyone to join us - please plan to prioritize these two calls, as it makes a big difference to have everyone together at the beginning and end of our time.
Workshop, Circling, and Drop-in calls will happen on Tuesdays with alternating times of 9 am PST, and 5:30 pm PST, to accommodate folks from multiple time zones, and various schedule limitations.
Each month there will be:
Week 1 : A 2-hour themed teaching Workshop Call (relational skill building, community visioning etc)
Week 2: A 1-hour Drop-in Call with Sarah to get questions answered, or get some spot coaching or encouragement.
Week 3: A 2-hour Circling Call to check-in, navigate personal examples and experiences, and learn from each other in real time.
Week 4: A 1-hour Drop-in Call with Sarah to get questions answered, or get some spot coaching or encouragement.
**In March, all calls will happen in the first two weeks to accommodate Spring Break for North American Families.
Although it is ideal to have everyone present live, all calls will be recorded for anyone needing to catch-up at their convenience.
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Currently Running - January - June 2024
Dates for the Next Round will be Released Soon.
What We’ll Cover
Remembering - gathering stories of community experiences from our own lives, or that we’ve heard of, to bolster and inspire us.
Visioning - getting in touch with our own ‘high dream’ for community in our lives (this could be anything from getting to know your neighbours better, to buying land with your best-friends - there’s no one-size fits all expression of community).
Identifying fears, barriers, and questions - often naming ‘what holds us back’ is a great place to start. Whether it’s about security, privacy, ease, introversion, conflict avoidance, or lack of knowing where to start - you’re not alone. It’s normal to have hesitancy in shifting up your current patterns.
Your fears and questions will help us source the focus areas for our shared discussion space - we’ll address these through topical discussions, spot-coaching, and teaching-times.
Brainstorming & resource sharing - we’ll source solutions, creative ideas, and inspiration from the wisdom of the group.
Relational skill building - In particular in the areas of:
relationship design & navigating nuance,
balancing personal needs with community needs,
identifying shared values,
collective decision making,
setting boundaries, and
conflict navigation.
Planning & implementation - Starting with small simple practices you can begin on day 1 - we’ll move towards action together. Our shared space will be a place to share your wins, your questions, and get the encouragement and accountability you need to make lasting change.
**Cost is per Household:
In other words: your partner, spouse, or roommate can join us for no extra charge!
Investment**
We don’t want financial limitation to be a barrier to participating here, so we priced this on a sliding scale. In fact, tiered pricing is one of the ways we practice community care. When those who can, pay full price, it creates opportunity for those with less, to access resources at a reduced rate.
Please be thoughtful about what your capacity truly is - this system is built on trust.
For the full program:
Join & Support - $1,800 CAD* per household
This is for you if you are able to pay for ‘wants’ without much consideration and spend little time worried about securing the necessities of life. This option helps to cover costs for those needing support - thank you for contributing to our community!
Join - $1,200 CAD* per household
This is the cost of the program - this is for you if you can pay your needs month to month and have some wiggle room for ‘extras’.
Join & Receive - $600 CAD* per household
This might be for you if you are struggling to overcome debt, are stretched to meet your basic needs, or are living paycheck to paycheck. This option is supported by the cost of those who can pay more - community care involves giving and receiving!
All options can be paid in one lump sum, or in monthly installments.
*GST included. Note that 10% of profits go to charitable giving so we can ripple our impact.
*If cost still feels like a barrier, reach out about scholarship options - let’s have an honest and creative conversation.
Join the waitlist now, to be notified when we re-open registration for the next round of this 6 month container.
If you’re curious, reach out via email to ask all your questions. We’re happy to hear from you!
