Evolving how organizations work, contribute, and collaborate
reRoot helps non-Indigenous organizations approach reconciliation, stewardship, community responsibility, and partnership as openings for stronger practice, clearer contribution, and more reciprocal collaboration.
Alongside Indigenous-led cultural learning, governance, and Nation-specific partnership work, reRoot helps teams develop more relational, regenerative ways of working and bring grounded contributions shaped by their purpose, strengths, responsibilities, and relationship to place.
Concept from Johnnie Freeland From Square to Circular Practice
Too often, reconciliation, stewardship, community responsibility, and partnership are constrained by inherited square patterns of speed, control, fragmentation, risk management, narrow technical framing, and procedural action.
When an organization’s underlying ways of working remain largely unchanged, Indigenous knowledge and priorities can be layered onto existing systems. Indigenous staff and partners can then be left to repeatedly course-correct.
Those same square patterns also constrain the organization’s own potential. They shape what teams notice and value, how decisions are made, and what the work is organized to serve. Over time, they can narrow judgment, creativity, and connection to purpose and place.
Circular, regenerative practice grounds work more deeply in relationship, responsibility, purpose, and place. reRoot therefore asks: what are we creating from, and what is our work committed to serving? When organizations carry that commitment from within, they meet Indigenous-led work on different ground.
What We Help Strengthen
Grounded Organizational Practice
Stronger organizational capacity and vitality
Purpose and responsibility reflected in everyday practice
Staff more connected to the purpose and meaning of their work
Conditions for Reciprocal Partnership
Shared responsibility for collaboration integrity
Clearer non-Indigenous roles and contribution
Shared work where relationships deepen and learning carries forward
With shared responsibility and distinct contributions, collaboration can become more generative, advancing the health and futures of the places and communities it serves.
Where This Work Takes Shape
Engagements are shaped by the context and may be led by reRoot, co-led with Indigenous practitioners, or developed alongside Indigenous-led teams, offices, and partners.
Organizational Practice & Leadership Support
Supporting leaders, departments, and internal teams to make the non-Indigenous practice shift needed for reconciliation, stewardship, and genuine partnership to become more shared, grounded, and generative.
Project, Research & Engagement Support
Helping teams examine the assumptions shaping their approach, clarify what is theirs to carry, and bring grounded contribution to Indigenous partnership, community engagement, and place-based work.
Collaboration & Shared Initiative Support
Helping coalitions, networks, working groups, and shared initiatives build the shared orientation, role clarity, and responsibility needed for participants to contribute beyond their own institutional lanes.
Co-led Offerings with Indigenous Practitioners
These engagements pair Indigenous-led cultural, relational, governance, and place-based work with reRoot’s support for non-Indigenous practice evolution.
Regenerative Leadership & Relational Practice
Ashley Clark · Bougie Birch
Relational Stewardship, Land Care & Place‑Based Collaboration
Alexandra Thomas
Healing, Care & Community Wellbeing Support
Avis O’Brien · N’alaga Consulting
Organizational Practice & Leadership Support
Reframing Institutional Reconciliation & Reciprocal Collaboration
Yukon University and UArctic
Supported reconciliation planning and institutional engagement through systems framing, visual sensemaking, research, and coordination.
Selected Work
Project, Research & Engagement Support
Local Indigenous Knowledge and Values Framework
Living Lakes Canada & Upper Nicola Band
Co-developed a framework to help lake assessment and planning better center local Indigenous knowledge, values, legal traditions, and priorities.
Collaboration & Shared Initiative Support
Transboundary Water Collaboration
Shared Waters Alliance & Semiahmoo First Nation
Developed recommendations to strengthen Indigenous collaboration, cross-border coordination, and shared responsibility in efforts to improve Boundary Bay water quality and restore shellfish harvesting.
Get In Touch
If you’re curious whether reRoot is a fit for your organization or project, reach out.