Evolving how organizations work, contribute, and collaborate

reRoot works alongside organizations to develop more relational and regenerative ways of working, grounded in their own purpose, strengths, responsibilities, and relationship to place. The aim is for organizations to realize more of their potential and deepen the value they create for the people and places they serve.

Alongside Indigenous-led work in reconciliation, stewardship, and partnership, reRoot supports the parallel development of non-Indigenous practice, helping organizations become stronger counterparts and create more compatible ground for reciprocal and generative collaboration.

Concept from Johnnie Freeland 

From Square to Circular Practice

Organizations often inherit square patterns of urgency, control, fragmentation, risk management, narrow technical framing, and procedural action. When these patterns dominate, they can narrow what teams notice and value, constrain judgment and creativity, and limit what becomes possible.

These same patterns can make it harder for organizations to follow through on important commitments. In reconciliation, stewardship, and partnership, Indigenous knowledge and priorities can be layered onto existing systems without those systems themselves changing, leaving Indigenous staff, offices, and partners to repeatedly translate, course-correct, or reorient the work.

Circular, regenerative practice grounds work more deeply in relationship, responsibility, purpose, and place. reRoot asks:What are we creating from? What are our ways of working creating in and around us?

What We Help Strengthen

Organizational Vitality & Contribution

More coherent ways of working, greater clarity about what the organization is uniquely positioned to contribute, and deeper impact for the people and places it serves.

Reciprocal & Generative Collaboration

Organizations develop and carry more of their own relational and regenerative grounding, taking greater responsibility for the orientation and quality of practice they bring into shared work.

Where This Work Takes Shape

reRoot can contribute within an existing team or initiative, alongside another practitioner, or through a specific piece of work. Support can be ongoing or focused, embedded or external, depending on what is most useful.

Organizational Practice & Leadership

Supporting teams, departments, and leaders to evolve the organization’s own ways of working and strengthen what it is capable of contributing.

Projects, Research & Engagement

Contributing framing, research, sensemaking, process design, and practical support within a specific initiative.

Co-led Partnerships with Indigenous Practitioners

These partnerships bring reRoot’s support for non-Indigenous practice evolution alongside Indigenous-led cultural, relational, governance, and place-based work.

Regenerative Leadership & Relational Practice
Ashley Clark · Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) · Bougie Birch

Relational Stewardship, Land Care & Place‑Based Collaboration
Alexandra Thomas · Kwakwaka’wakw and Coast Salish descent · Nanwakolas Council

Healing, Care & Community Wellbeing Support
Avis O’Brien · Kwakwaka’wakw and Haida · N’alaga Consulting

Collaboration & Shared Initiatives

Supporting multi-party initiatives to work across organizational boundaries and orient more coherently around a shared or place-based direction.

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.