Common Roots Rising
celebrates our shared co-creative culture, sustainability,
and commUNITY.
What is Common Roots Rising?
Common Roots Rising is a community collective committed to unifying for the common good through collaboration, cooperation and co-creation.
Why Common Roots Rising?
We started Common Roots Rising to cultivate more connection and relationship and stories for the Common Good.
Our Core Focus
Common Roots Rising is …
co-creating a culture of kindness, belonging, creative expression, and engagement — a culture that is committed to cultivating and nurturing healthy connections with each other and the amazing natural world that surrounds us and sustains us.
Common Roots Rising is building a community connection network for sharing our co-creative culture, sustainability and commUNITY. Through stories, interviews and conversations we share our voices, ideas and initiatives supporting our common relationships.
Common Roots Rising is about encouraging regeneration on all levels — growing healthy, sustainable vibrancy back into all that makes our community thrive.
Learn more about our Connecting, Grounding and Elevating vision. We are imagining and interweaving new stories into Being.
Our Roots
Common Roots Rising began with a spark of an idea that Mark Gehrke shared with a few friends about developing a community conversation networking group to bring us together through sharing common stories and growing common good.
Our first group meeting was held at the end of October 2020. Our initial core group included Mark Gehrke, Savi Ma, Rachel Bouressa, Kari Esbensen, Jane Haasch, and Kayla Van Dyke-Griena. After coming together for a few weekly meetings we decided to create a community survey to learn more about what other people love most about our community and what we could do together to co-create a more beautiful and thriving place to live. We would love to hear from you too! Please share your thoughts with us.
The website launched in November 2020. The first podcast interview was launched January 2021.
Our Initiatives
We are developing ideas for community activities and actions. If you have ideas and would like to get involved please contact us.
Our Collaborators
Would you like to join us in co-creating a more beautiful world? Connect with us and let us know how we can help each other.