Sarah Wildeman is a leadership and relationship dynamics coach, community builder, and founder of Our Common.
She helps people navigate nuanced relationships with authenticity and courage, empowering individuals and teams to get creative and create lasting change.
Sarah hosts nature-based retreats and coaching with leaders, teams, and living communities. She grew up in a home focused on hospitality, where shared elements of life with friends and neighbours was considered normal. She lived in intentional community for close to a decade, including living on shared land with other singles and families while sharing meals, work, and chores.
Sarah seeks to live in alignment with her core values of environmental stewardship, community care, and local impact through small daily choices. She brings a collaborative whole system approach to her work making space for collective grappling, encouraging courageous action, and helping us to remember we're never truly alone.
Today we talk about:
Sarah’s experience living on shared land with other singles and families while sharing meals, work, and chores.
The communal teaching Sarah was raised with, that anything we have, is ours to share
The connection between opening our hearts, generosity and communal care
Sarah’s experience of having a child in a community oriented setting where somebody else was cooking all her meals
The curiosity to not just strive to provide for ourselves but to be in interdependence with others
Sarah’s thoughts on modern day convenience and the ways in which society has taught us to separate as opposed to collaborate
Sarah answers “How do Moms start to call in community?”
Things families can do to make life more manageable while they explore the idea of more interdependence
How to trust that community care is possible
How healing childhood relational wounds relates to opening ourselves up to communal care
Find Sarah at https://www.our-common.com/
And follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/our__common/
Links Geralyn mentions:
Free 5-Day Course, Reclaiming The Feminine Artist Within