Align with purpose—and start your journey as a flourishing leader

The next step in your leadership journey is waiting. Join Common Light Founder and Principal, Michael Draskovic, for the Flourishing Leaders Program.

Join Flourishing Leaders

What

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

When

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

What can participants expect

A transformative leadership journey that develops individuals and teams to lead 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.

Beginning with a foundational session to discover individual and shared purpose, we move through the process of exploring experience (understanding levels of perception and key relationships), identifying agreements (mapping current assumptions and interactions), illuminating choice (designing new agreements), and implementing changes (initiating interactions). The program concludes with a reflection session to consolidate learning and shape next steps.

Outcomes

  • 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 that evaluate working assumptions, and network of aligned practitioners spanning sectors and continents

Key features

  • 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 to establish rhythms of awareness, insight, and integration

  • Stories and lessons from practitioners leading with abundance and purpose

Who is the program for?

Leaders in any sector (private, non-profit, public) are capable of working with purpose, no matter their position. The program is designed for 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 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