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If you’re interested please fill out this form indicating your interest by May 7th, 2025. if you have questions reach out to hello@thesfcommons.com

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The Commons is a community-based “Fourth Place” that catalyzes each member’s path to authenticity, full self-expression, and aliveness - rooted in the belief that community is essential to that journey.

If first place is home, second place is work, third places are public spaces like parks, cafes, bars, etc., then a fourth place is: A community space that nurtures the intellect, heart, and soul through deep exploration, open-ended reflection, and creative expression—inviting us beyond the boundaries of what’s known and into the field of emergent possibilities.

Located in the heart of San Francisco, we are redefining what it means to gather, work, and connect. By day, we’re a playful co-working space; by night, a vibrant community meeting house. Over the last three years, we’ve grown from a DIY passion project to a cultural institution that is bringing people together across lines of difference to explore, reflect, and create

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🧭 Your role at a glance

As Head of Belonging, you’ll lead three major streams of work:

1. Attracting values-aligned humans through storytelling, marketing, community outreach, and referrals.
2. Designing and running a magical onboarding experience that guides each member through their first 30-60 days.
3. Tending our community of container holders. The Commons is animated by event hosts, ritual leaders, and practitioners who create the containers others grow inside. This role cultivates that ecosystem, helping our hosts feel held themselves and weaving them into a community that gives back as much as it asks.
4. Commons-wide gatherings. Beyond the depth created inside individual rituals and events, this role oversees the gatherings where the whole Commons meets itself. Potlucks, picnics, show-and-tells, seasonal rites. The horizontal layer where members across different orbits actually get to know one another.
5. Crafting novel relational infrastructure that ensures new members feel seen, supported, and invited into deeper connection.

What ties it all together: helping people find deep belonging within themselves and with each other.

🪴 Why now’s the moment to join

Over the last 3 years, we have evolved from an intimate community experiment to a true public Commons. It’s not just a job, but a front-row seat to creating a new civic, spiritual, and social paradigm. You’ll help chart the blueprint for what America’s next “meaning-making” institutions could look like. In sum:

• A front-row seat in building a new kind of civic, cultural, and spiritual institution
• The opportunity to scale a new model of gathering into other cities
• Opportunity to steward a deeply curious, kind, and inspiring community, changing the trajectory of many lives

Links to peruse:

🚀 v3 of The Commons (2025): The next evolution of The Commons

🔭 v2 of The Commons (2023): introducing a new vision for The Commons

💭 v1 of The Commons (2022): our first manifesto on why we’re building the Commons

🏡 what is a fourth place? and introducing "the fourth place" & why "third places" have fallen short on their promise