I'll help you .
Common Field is a studio and consultancy for learning & communication design.
I work with anyone who has knowledge, experience, or wisdom they haven't yet found a way to teach, share, or transmit clearly. You don't need to be an academic or an executive. You just need something worth passing on, and a genuine desire to do it well.
The Work
Untangle
We start by listening carefully, asking unusual questions, and mapping what you actually know. Often this is the most surprising part. People discover that they understand more than they thought, and that the real problem was never knowledge. It was access.
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Then we work together to find the form that fits. A diagram. A workshop. A curriculum. A narrative. A conversation that becomes a strategy. The medium depends on where your knowledge needs to go and who needs to receive it.
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Finally, we build the thing that carries it forward — whether that's a workshop you can run again, a course you can teach, a communication your team can use, or simply a clarity you can hold in yourself when the next hard question comes.
You've lived something.
You've learned something.
You've developed a way of seeing or doing or making or thinking that other people would genuinely benefit from learning.
Maybe you've been practicing for years and want to build a course. Maybe you're trying to explain your work to people who don't share your background. Maybe you lead a team and want everyone thinking more clearly together. Maybe you're an executive, artist, parent, researcher, healer, maker, builder, or teacher trying to become a better one.
It doesn't matter what field you're in.
What matters is that you have something to give, and you want to give it well.
That's where I come in.
What I believe
Most people have more to offer than they realize. The gap between what someone knows and what they can share isn't a sign of inadequacy. It's a design problem. And design problems have solutions.
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Learning works best when it's experiential, social, and transformative. Not information delivered at people, but experience designed for them. The best learning changes how someone sees, not just what they know.
Experiential. People learn by doing, not by being told. Every session, course, or experience I design puts participants inside the learning, not in front of it.
Social. We understand better in the company of others. Good learning creates conversation, friction, and the kind of thinking that only happens in a room or a call with other people.
Transformative. The goal is never just information transfer. It's a shift in how someone grows. A good learning experience should change something, even if that something is small.
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Good communication is clear, structured, and built around the person receiving it. Not around how much you know, but around what they need to understand. Meeting people where they are is a form of respect.
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I believe you're more capable than you've been able to show. You have spent years developing expertise that lives mostly inside you. You lead others through complexity you haven’t quite managed to explain out loud. You are building something new and can feel its shape, but not yet its language. My job is to help you close that gap.
Ways of working
Common Field offers four primary ways of working together. Each one can be tailored to your context, goals, and stage of development.
Teach what you know
If you want to build a course, a workshop, a training, or a curriculum — for a community, a company, a studio, a classroom, or the internet — I'll help you design a learning experience that actually works. We'll figure out the right structure, the right flow, the right materials, and the right way to bring people through it.
This is for: practitioners, coaches, healers, educators, researchers, founders, makers, and anyone with embodied knowledge worth teaching.
Explain what you do
If you're struggling to communicate your work clearly — to clients, to audiences, to funders, to collaborators, to the public — I'll help you find the language, the story, and the form that makes it land. Sometimes that's a diagram. Sometimes it's a narrative. Sometimes it's just a really good conversation that finally unlocks the right words.
This is for: anyone whose work is hard to explain, or whose explanation isn't yet doing justice to what they actually do.
Think it through together
Sometimes you don't need a product. You need a thinking partner. Someone patient, curious, and genuinely interested in helping you work through what's next. A session with me is a space to slow down, untangle things, and leave with more clarity than you came in with.
This is for: anyone who is stuck, uncertain, or simply needs a good conversation with someone who will really listen.
[Book a session — $250 CAD / 60 min]
My workshops:
come learn with a group
I run a small suite of workshops on topics I genuinely love: systems thinking, visual communication, storytelling, sensemaking, foresight, and AI.
They are designed to be practical, participatory, and a little bit delightful. You'll leave with new tools, new language, and probably a few new ideas you didn't expect.
Hi, I’m JP King. (Option A)
I'm a facilitator, educator, and learning designer, which is a formal way of saying I help people understand things and share them with others.
I've designed learning experiences for universities, global fellowships, nonprofit organizations, healthcare teams, and practitioners of all kinds. I've worked with founders, researchers, executives, sound healers, strategists, scientists, and communities doing quiet, important work in ecology, health, governance, and the arts.
My background is wide. I have an MFA. I've trained in Gestalt Psychotherapy and executive coaching. I've worked with Margaret Atwood, the Peabody-Award winning journalist Adam Davidson, Dark Matter Labs, The City of Boston, Fast Company, New Scientist, Oxford University Press, and organizations most people have never heard of but probably should. I'm also a writer, a musician, and someone who finds almost everything genuinely fascinating.
I live with my partner and young son in the rural landscape of the Saugeen Peninsula in Ontario, Canada. I work slowly, carefully, and with real attention to the person in front of me.
I believe you're more capable than you've been able to show. My job is to help you close that gap.
Hi, I’m JP King. (Option B)
I'm a facilitator, educator, and learning designer, which is a formal way of saying I help people understand things and share them with others.
My background is genuinely cross-disciplinary. I've designed learning experiences for the University of Toronto, co-designed a global cohort with Margaret Atwood and 200 fellows across 34 countries, built organizational learning infrastructure at Dark Matter Labs, and co-founded a narrative strategy school with a Peabody Award-winning journalist. I hold an MFA and have trained in Gestalt Psychotherapy and Co-Active Executive Coaching. I've worked with Fast Company, New Scientist, Oxford University Press, and organizations doing quiet, important work in ecology, governance, health, and civic life.
I'm also a writer, a musician, and a person who finds almost everything fascinating.
I live with my partner and young son in the rural landscape of the Saugeen Peninsula in Ontario, Canada. I work slowly, carefully, and with real attention to the person in front of me.
I believe you're more capable than you've been able to show. My job is to help you close that gap.
Selected Work
Many projects featured here were delivered prior to Common Field’s founding, through prior roles and partnerships. Each case study notes JP’s role and context.
I publish essays and reflections on learning, communication, knowledge, and what it means to understand.
You can expect writing and visualizations on everything that interests me: creativity, complex systems, facilitation, AI, ecology, waste, sound, and what it means to try to make sense of things.