Our Services
Common Light works with individuals and groups interested in bridging the gap between their ideals and their impact.
Grounded in interdisciplinary research and tri-sector experience, we help people foster inner transformation towards ecosystem-wide flourishing. We achieve this through advising organizations across three areas of activity: planning, giving, and convening.
Areas of Collaboration
Strategic Planning
We help partners align their activities with impact through an introspective strategic planning process, creating purposeful agreements that benefit the stakeholder ecosystem and lead to measurable and meaningful outcomes. Our approach facilitates the creation of new interactions that reflect shared purpose and generate more value for more stakeholders. We combine thorough self-reflection with practical implementation frameworks to help you design and deliver outcomes built for flourishing.
Philanthropic Giving
We guide philanthropists or social impact teams in aligning their values and resources with regenerative projects, adding value to the ecosystem by resourcing new capacities within it. We pair thorough self-reflection with an exploration of regenerative philanthropic principles to cultivate new capacities for supporting ecosystem-wide flourishing.
Stakeholder Convening
We support teams to organize and facilitate strategic stakeholder gatherings that aim to breakthrough divisions and produce original outcomes, moving the dial by incorporating all perspectives. Whether you’re looking to plan a retreat, a board meeting, or a coalition meetup, we assist in designing inclusive processes for inviting, integrating, and transforming a diversity of perspectives into forward movement.
Our Process
We recognize that all human activity flows from human perspectives, which is why our engagements begin with an immersive, introspective process informed by insights from Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program, humanistic management science, and various wisdom traditions.
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A rigorous study of one’s experience, including the experiences of others and the ecological conditions from which one acts, complemented by immersive learning experiences and exchanges with leaders already working from a place of abundance.
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A purposeful realignment and concrete execution of one’s newfound abundance-based agreements, bringing to real-world expression what is both ours and others to do.
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A consciously cultivated connection to the creative source of each of the previous two engagements, building a new reflective and proactive capacity to experience the world with heart.
Who We Work With
Governments and leaders
We help you recognize and draw upon the potential lying within residents of your jurisdiction to introduce legislation and launch initiatives together.
Corporations
Whether you’re part of the for-profit entity or the social impact team, we advise you on how to move into more abundance-based agreements.
Nonprofit organizations
Civil society is the fountainhead of original cultural impulses and we help you lead out of this potential for a flourishing ecosystem.
Artists and talent
We guide you in the process of perceiving abundance so that you may utilize your platform to lift up causes in original ways.
Philanthropists
We collaborate with you to direct your resources to regenerative projects, resourcing original capacities and impact.
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