Common Ground Summit

North Shore, Kauai, November 12th-14th, 2025

Join us for a 3-Day gathering building community through conversation, food, experiences, and exploration.

At the Common Ground Summit
we create an environment where diverse perspectives are celebrated as the building blocks of innovation, regeneration, and change.

We bring together people from different backgrounds, professions and cultures who share core values about making a positive difference in the world. Here, we believe in leaving places, communities, and conversations better than we found them.

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"An invigorating inspiration gathering, whose setting delighted the senses, conversations that stimulated my mind and an ensemble of people who are actively building a new world with a kinder face. Highly recommend attending and I am proud to be part of this community. I will be back!" (Wandile Ziggy Mtoba)
"This is a gathering and community-building more than a conference. I learned and gained actionable insights, but more importantly, I have new relationships and support in my work and am different and more effective because of being here." (Geoff Davis)
"The Common Ground Summit does an excellent job of bringing together a broad group of people from across the world who have different solutions, experiences and wisdom. It's so great to share a place with them!" (Skya Duchenaux)
"Food and hospitality are at the essence of our shared humanity, and Common Ground provided a unique and truly memorable forum to connect on what the future of food, hospitality, and humanity should look and feel like." (David Eilenberg)
"In a busy world focused on global action, Common Ground encouraged me to stop and consider a deeper connection to the place I call home. Bearing witness to the synergies created at Common Ground has motivated me to examine what local truly means to me on a daily basis and how that relationship can impact a better world. " (Katie Stebbins)

Why you should join

Our community

Form deep connections with amazing people that will become collaborators and lifelong friends. We are an ensemble where each member plays a vital role in co-creating the event, trusting that change will come of it.
Regenerative Leadership

We believe in transformation through connection: Only through (re)learning how to connect meaningfully with people, place, and planet can we move towards a regenerative future.
Peak Moments of Joy

Experience awe on our magical campus, through collective effervescence and the feeling of belonging and “home”.
A Culinary Adventure

Join us for a “3 day dinner party” with outstanding food sourced from local farmes, ranchers and fishermen and prepared with traditional skills and knowledge.

The Community

2024 Participants

Billy Martin

Medeski Martin & Wood, composer, percussionist, visual artist, filmmaker.
Sean Sherman

Oglala Lakota Sioux chef, cookbook author, forager, and promoter of indigenous cuisine.
Linda Black Elk

Ethnobotanist & Food Sovereignty Activist
Mark Brand

Entrepreneur, Educator, Facilitator, Chef, Founder A Better Life Foundation
Félix Maradiaga

Academic & political activist. Former Secretary General of the Ministry of Defense Nicaragua
Kealoha Domingo

Chef and Hawaiian cultural practitioner, Nui Kealoha catering, community leader
Mike Coots

Surfer, photographer, shark advocate
Franklin Chang Diaz

NASA Astronaut & founder of Ad Astra
Jannes Sorenson

Kepler Hotel Group, former GM Beaumont Hotel London
Skya Duchenaux

Executive Director of Akiptan, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe

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Where we Gather

Common Ground is a regenerative hospitality company located on the North Shore of Kauai. The 60-acre campus is steeped in rich history with a regenerative agroforest, event spaces, forthcoming restaurant (launching late 2026), support systems for local businesses, and co-working and production facilities. The campus is a space for shared experience, shared learning and deep human connection. Our goal is to augment regenerative practices and provide immersive experiences to build a regenerative community where people find common ground through food as great connector.

Explore Kaua’i

To this day, Kaua'i, cut off from its neighbors to the south by the deepest and widest of the main Hawaiian channels, possesses a fierce independence, a resistance to outside influences. The Hawaiian Islands, and especially Kaua'i, seem to have evolved separately from the rest of the world. You can see it in its plants, its animals, its traditions. It is a place removed from a world rife with distractions, where focus turns to the land, to food, to community.

Explore Kauai