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Common Ground ✱ Creative Mentoring & Workshops
Unlearning the extractive economy, together.
Creative mentoring and workshops for creatives, founders, healers, and practitioners building work rooted in care. Taught and tended by Natalie Brite. Sliding scale available across the board.
A practice space, not a course catalog
Most business education teaches you how to work better within the existing system. Common Ground asks a different question: What if the system itself is the problem? It's for people questioning grind culture, extraction-based growth, and marketing that asks you to perform rather than connect, and who want support and community while they build something different.
The work draws on creative liberation, ecological thinking, anti-capitalist practice, decolonial approaches to work and community, and years of building a values-rooted creative business.
Common Ground is for you if…
You're questioning the dominant frameworks of work and business, not just looking for a better strategy.
You want your values to be the foundation of how you work, not a marketing angle.
You're drawn to ecological, decolonial, or anti-capitalist approaches, and want a space that takes them seriously.
You want people asking the same questions to think alongside you.
You want support that meets you where you are, at any stage and on any budget.
What is creative mentoring?
Creative mentoring is an ongoing thinking partnership for the creative and business decisions you're making. It's the closest thing to having a creative partner on call: someone who knows your work, remembers what you're building, and can look at a draft, a plan, or a decision with fresh, experienced eyes.
What mentoring can include…
Talking through decisions, ideas, and creative blocks
Feedback on your design work: brand pieces, social graphics, decks, and website pages
Editing and refining your copy and content: web pages, blog posts, newsletters, captions, and proposals
Reviewing your systems, workflows, and marketing strategies, with suggestions to strengthen them
Thinking through offers, pricing, and positioning
Creative direction for something you're making
Steady support and accountability through a transition
It isn't conventional coaching, which often follows a set method toward a fixed goal, and it isn't consulting, where someone hands you answers and moves on. Mentoring is lateral and honest. We think alongside you, bring what we've learned from years of building values-rooted creative work, and help you trust your own judgment a little more each time.
Mentoring supports the work you're doing; it doesn't include creating or designing from scratch. If you'd like us to make it for you, that's Take Root (brand, messaging, and websites) or Tend & Grow (strategy, systems, and ongoing marketing).
What mentoring doesn't include
Current offerings.
One-on-one creative mentoring for values-rooted creatives and founders
Creative mentoring
Three ways to work together, from talking things through to hands-on feedback on what you're making. Every tier is held over a video call, and sliding-scale pricing is available for all of them.
Sounding Board ✱ think it through together
For when you don't need more information, you need someone to think, brainstorm, and clarify things with. Bring a decision, an idea, a block, or a question about what you're here to contribute. There's no fixed agenda; we follow what's most alive for you and where you’d like direct support.
Single session: $150 · 3 sessions: $400 · 6 sessions: $750 · Monthly: $275 (2 sessions a month)
Hands-On Mentoring ✱ sessions + assistance
Everything in Sounding Board, plus a second set of eyes on what you're making between sessions. Send a draft and get thoughtful, specific feedback back: notes on a design, edits on a page of copy, or suggestions for strengthening a system or strategy.
2 sessions a month / From $500/month
Up to 4 reviews a month between sessions: design work, copy and content, or a system or strategy
Creative Partnership ✱ an ongoing creative partner
The closest thing to having a creative partner beside you every week. For people in a big season of building- a launch, a pivot, or a new offer- who want steady, frequent support and someone who knows the work inside and out.
Weekly sessions (4 a month) / From $[850]/month · 3-month minimum
Up to 6 reviews a month, with priority turnaround and a quarterly planning session to step back and set direction
Every tier is available on a sliding scale, and cost is never a reason not to reach out. Mentoring supports work you're making; creating or designing from scratch lives in Take Root and Tend & Grow.
Workshops
Sometimes you need more than a conversation: you need to sit down and build the thing. Workshops are focused working sessions, one-on-one or with your team, where we build a plan or playbook together in real time. You do the thinking with guidance at every step, and you leave with a finished document in your own words.
Private working sessions for strategy, creative direction, and offers
Playbook Workshop
Turn the way you work into a playbook you can follow: your marketing rhythm, content workflow, launch steps, client process, and the systems behind them. You leave with a written playbook that you, and anyone you work with, can use from the next day on.
Turn the way you work into a playbook you can follow: your marketing rhythm, content workflow, launch steps, client process, and the systems behind them. You leave with a written playbook that you, and anyone you work with, can use from the next day on.
Creative Direction Workshop
Map your offers and services: what each one is, who it's for, how people move between them, and how they're priced, through an ethical pricing lens. You leave with an offer map and structure you can build your website, proposals, and marketing around.
Offers & Services Mapping Workshop
A short questionnaire beforehand, so we start from where you are
One 90-minute session over video
The document we build together, finished and ready to use following the workshop
One week of follow-up questions by email afterward
In a workshop, we build it together, and you carry it forward. If you'd rather we build your strategy and systems for you, that's Marketing Strategy & Systems in Tend & Grow.
From $350 · Team workshops also available upon request + a custom quote.
How workshops work
❋ CREATIVE LIBERATION ❋ ANTI-CAPITALIST BUSINESS BUILDING ❋ NATURE-BASED CREATIVE PRACTICE ❋ DECOLONIAL APPROACHES TO WORK & COMMUNITY
❋ CREATIVE LIBERATION ❋ ANTI-CAPITALIST BUSINESS BUILDING ❋ NATURE-BASED CREATIVE PRACTICE ❋ DECOLONIAL APPROACHES TO WORK & COMMUNITY
Common questions about Common Ground
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If you mostly want to talk things through, start with Sounding Board. If you'd like feedback on what you're making, choose Hands-On Mentoring. If you're in a big season of building and want weekly support, Creative Partnership fits. You can change tiers as your needs change.
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One piece of work: a design, a page of copy, a blog post, or a system or strategy document. Larger pieces, like a full website or a long guide, may count as several.
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Not in mentoring. We'll review, edit, and help you refine what you make. If you'd like us to create it for you, see Take Root or Tend & Grow.
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Cost is never a reason not to reach out. Don’t hesitate to contact us to inquire about receiving a workshop or mentoring at a sliding-scale rate. Money is not a taboo topic around here and it matters most to us to be able to provide support to folks who have something impactful to offer the world
Not sure where to start?
Tell us where you are and what you're working on. We'll point you toward the right kind of support.
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