Bring purpose-minded leadership to more places: Seeking partners for pilot leadership course

Common Light is developing a leadership course called Flourishing Leaders and looking for three innovative teams or organizations to help us refine our approach.

Flourishing Leaders is designed to help people expand awareness and deepen organizational impact by working with and for purpose. Drawing from experiential learning, neuroscience, various wisdom traditions, and change management frameworks like Theory U (MIT), Adaptive Leadership (Harvard), and Ecosynomics (UT Austin), Flourishing Leaders empowers individuals to effectively respond to their challenges by illuminating their capacity to support others' purposes within their own.

We’re offering this pilot at no cost to participating teams while we finalize the course’s design.

What's Involved

• A practical leadership program that builds contemplative and collaborative skills for human flourishing within your organization and beyond

• Six virtual sessions over twelve weeks (90 minutes each), with light work in between each session

• Start date no later than January 15

What You’ll Come Away With

• A roadmap for aligning organizational resources with capacities that drive higher performance, positive culture, and long-term benefits for people and the planet

• The language, frameworks, and methods to "slow down" without sacrificing productivity, inquire effectively into others' experiences, and co-create solutions that benefit diverse stakeholders across multiple dimensions

• Access to assessment tools to support teams and individuals working towards change, and network of aligned practitioners spanning sectors and continents

Who’s This For

Leaders in any sector (private, non-profit, public) are capable of working with purpose, no matter their position. The program is designed for individuals or small teams (~2-5 people) who are:

• Interested in making substantial progress on persistent challenges, such as misalignment, internal conflict, and transactional relationships across individuals, teams, and stakeholders

• Passionate about purpose-driven initiatives, conscious collaboration, and contemplation practice to enhance both well-being and results

• Seeking to cultivate new capacities in themselves and their organizations, broaden their perspective, and join a network of aligned practitioners and thought leaders

This is an engaged learning program, not a typical leadership development course. Participants learn together through the active exploration of their experience and potentials, supporting each other's development while creating new capacities.

Program Elements

• Experiential learning format where participants discover their individual and organizational purposes and the capacities to work from them to address challenges in new ways

• Tools and frameworks that help uncover the underlying assumptions that shape experience—and methods for transforming them

• An experienced thought partner to explore and develop your ideas at every stage

• Light reflective practices and worksheets in between sessions to build habits of awareness, insight, and integration

• Stories and lessons from practitioners leading with abundance and purpose

Program Outline

• Module 1: Foundations & Discovering Purpose

• Module 2: Exploring Experience

• Module 3: Identifying Agreements

• Module 4: Illuminating Choice

• Module 5: Making Moves

• Module 6: Contemplating Outcomes

How to Engage

If you're interested in participating or have questions, please email us at [email protected] or schedule a call here.