Common Ground: Foundation
2 Hours
Small groups of
no more than 12
$150 pp
Understanding Your Brain Under Stress
A small group experience for people who want to better understand how they respond under stress, make more conscious choices in life and work, and grow in awareness alongside others.
About
A complete, self-contained introduction to the Common Ground way of working, grounded in neuroscience, shared understanding, and personal responsibility.
This session focuses on how the brain responds under stress, and how greater awareness creates more steadiness, perspective, and choice.
What people leave with
Insight into how their brain responds under pressure
Greater awareness of how they think, react, and relate when stress
Practical perspective they can apply immediately in real life
Reassurance and normalisation through shared human experience
Purpose
Build trust and psychological safety
Support clearer thinking and steadier responses under stress
Build meaningful connections and shared understanding
Provide common language for everyday human experiences under pressure
What it’s not
Therapy
Emotional processing
Advice-giving or fixing
Outcome
Leave feeling clearer, steadier, uplifted, and less alone.
Groups are intentionally limited to a maximum of 12 people to support depth, trust, and building meaningful connections.
This session is designed to be enough on its own. Many people attend once, gain meaningful insight, and walk away clearer, more grounded, and more confident.
For others, it becomes a natural gateway to deeper work
What Comes Next (If You Choose)
Common Ground Pathways Program: Real Life Application
Completion of Common Ground Foundation is required to participate in Common Ground Pathways.
Why this work exists
After many years working with leaders, teams, and individuals, one pattern became clear to me:
Real change doesn’t come from more information – it comes from insight, choice, and integration.
People want to understand themselves more deeply, make conscious choices about how they live and lead, and do so alongside others who value depth, integrity, and growth.
This work evolved from facilitating these processes with hundreds of people within organisations, and recognising the need to make them available more broadly, to support individuals, leaders, and communities in living and leading well.