A part-time civic bootcamp designed to fit your life - Opens this summer
You don't lack motivation. You just haven't found the kind of action that fits your values, energy, and life. CommonGrnd helps you find it.
For people who care about the world and want to act in a way that feels authentic and aligned.
01 — The situation
You care, often more than you say out loud. So the question isn't whether you should act, it's what kind of action fits who you are, what you value, and how you want to show up.
02 — The insight
When the available ways to act don't fit who you are, inaction can start to feel like failure. It usually isn't. It's a sign that the fit is off.
Inherited shoulds
Your values
What matters to you, in your own words.
Borrowed identity
Your self
Action that doesn't require becoming someone else.
Performance
Your practice
Real and recognisably yours.
03 — How it works
The CommonGrnd bootcamp helps you identify what drives you, what action suits you, where you can have the most leverage, and how to turn that into sustainable action that fits you and your life.
Clarify what you care about, what drives you, and what kind of contribution feels meaningful to you.
Look at your current context, existing communities, barriers, and the spheres of action already around you.
Explore the forms of action that suit your skills, temperament, energy, and way of working.
Narrow your attention to the issues that matter to you most, connecting local action to wider systemic change.
Map your focus, capabilities, and spheres of influence onto existing initiatives, gaps, and possible multiplier effects.
Turn everything you've explored into a short civic manifesto that captures what you care about, how you will act, and what comes next.
04 — What you leave with
By the end of six weeks, most participants describe a clearer sense of what kind of contribution actually fits them and their life, and the confidence to dial down the rest.
Named in your own words, not borrowed from other people.
Something that looks and feels like you.
An honest map of the options that are not for you — and why that's okay.
Specific, authentic, durable.
05 — Who it's for
06 — Where this comes from
The CommonGrnd Bootcamp began as part of a research project on aligned civic action. Its design is informed by deep conversations with the exact people it's for, studies in behavioral science, and our own lived experience.
07 — Who's behind this
I spent 14 years building creative and purposeful things I believed in — most notably co-founding VAULT Festival, one of Europe's largest independent arts festivals, with the simple mission of disrupting who gets to tell their story.
Then, my life changed fast. In the space of two weeks, I became a father and lost my company. My daughter spent her first days in intensive care and the day after we got home, our lead funders pulled out. I had to start again.
That reset turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me. It was an invitation to rebuild around the things that actually matter.
But it also left me with a bigger question: why do so many people care deeply about the world around us but struggle to do anything meaningful about it?
Feeling like I was washing out my yoghurt pots while the world was on fire
I'd felt that frustration for years — wanting to make a difference but feeling like I was washing out my yoghurt pots while the world was on fire.
CommonGrnd is my answer to that question. It's for people who want their contributions to add up to something bigger. Not grand gestures. Or tokenistic ones either. Just people finding each other, figuring out what meaningful action looks like for them, and doing it together.
So if you care about the world but you just don't know where to start, you're in the right place.
08 — Questions
09 — Begin
Join the CommonGrnd waitlist today to be first in line for the pilot cohort — designed for people who want a way to act that fits who they are, not what they're not.