Whole planet.
Whole people.
Whole power.
Aurora Commons exists to work in community with other changemakers towards a more liberated, more just, and more interconnected future. To that end, we embody a Whole Planet—Whole People—Whole Power approach: We believe that liberation, justice, and equity will come for all living beings when our social norms, policies, worldviews, structures, and relationships enable all of us to be both different and whole together—free of supremacy and oppression.
Aurora Commons is a dual-centered hub for embodied vision, strategy, and leadership
with over 30 years of experience in power building and transformation, combined with 15 years of programming and arts-based education that weaves liberation for all beings.
Weaving liberation of all beings
is an anti-supremacist and pro-liberation framework in which the planet, humans, and other-than-human kin (animals, plants, and biota) are treated as belonging to one whole system to realize the liberation of all beings in interdependent and interconnected ways. Aurora Commons works in partnership with other changemakers to create initiatives and programs that explore and embody how we realize a liberated, just, and interconnected future.
Reshaping power
means both starting with the systems and structures that we have, which do not benefit us, to reform, repair, dismantle and transform them as well as starting from an envisioned future to prefigure and create new collective systems that weave liberation for all beings. Aurora Commons accompanies organizations, networks, philanthropists, and intermediaries as we continually learn, deepen, and evolve what liberatory power means and how to operationalize it in leaders, organizations, and movements.
What is needed, what has always been needed, for transformational change, is ceremony—ceremonies in which we reconnect deeply with each other, with great spirit, with all of creation.
- Aja Couchois Duncan
We are a BIPOC, queer, and woman-owned organization.
We are a constellation of folx, each with a history in movement-building with unique approaches in consulting, organizing, networks and coalitions, policy-making, philanthropy, and culture creation.
The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.
-Wael Ghonim