Grounded practice for generative collaboration
reRoot helps non-Indigenous organizations turn reconciliation, stewardship, and partnership responsibilities into openings for stronger practice, clearer contribution, and more reciprocal collaboration.
Alongside Indigenous-led cultural, governance, and partnership work, we help teams see the patterns shaping their work and develop grounded ways of working from their own roles, strengths, and responsibilities.
Concept from Johnnie Freeland Square patterns pull meaningful commitments back into speed, control, silos, risk management, narrow technical framing, and procedural work.
Circular, regenerative practice helps those commitments take root, strengthening organizational practice and the conditions for reciprocal partnership.
What We Help Strengthen
Grounded Organizational Practice
Purpose, roles, and action aligned
Stronger organizational capacity and vitality
Coherence across strategy and delivery
Better decisions under real constraints
Conditions for Reciprocal Partnership
Shared responsibility for collaboration integrity
Clearer non-Indigenous roles
Less burden on Indigenous partners
Grounded, complementary contribution
Where this work is useful
Engagements are shaped to the context and may be led by reRoot, co-designed with Indigenous practitioners, or developed alongside Indigenous-led teams, offices, and partners.
Organizational Practice & Leadership Support
Supports leaders, departments, boards, and internal teams to develop the non-Indigenous-side practice that reconciliation, stewardship, and genuine partnership require. This work helps organizations move beyond compliance, caution, or symbolic commitment into clearer contribution, shared responsibility, and stronger collaborative ground.
Partnership, Project & Engagement Support
For project, research, stewardship, and engagement teams shaping work with Indigenous partners, communities, place-based responsibilities, or knowledge systems — and needing clearer grounding around assumptions, roles, contribution, and how the work is carried.
Collaboration & Shared Initiative Support
For coalitions, networks, working groups, and shared initiatives where many organizations are involved, but purpose, roles, contribution, and shared responsibility are uneven or unclear — especially when Indigenous partners or conveners are carrying too much of the collaboration’s orientation or integrity.
Co-led partnerships
Some engagements are co-led with Indigenous practitioners, pairing Indigenous cultural grounding, teachings, and lived practice with reRoot’s non-Indigenous-side regenerative practice support.
Featured partnerships include work with Ashley Clark, Alexandra Thomas, and Avis O’Brien across relational leadership, land stewardship, healing, and community wellbeing.
Selected Work
A few recent projects across Indigenous partnership, stewardship, and institutional change.
Yukon University and UArctic
Reconciliation portfolio support, research, coordination, and systems framing for wider institutional engagement.
Shared Waters Alliance and Fraser Basin Council
Applied research and strategy to strengthen transboundary water collaboration and shared responsibility.
Lake Assessment Protocol / Living Lakes Canada
Process design, visual tools, and methodological guidance to center Indigenous knowledge and values.
Get In Touch
If you’re curious whether reRoot is a fit for your organization or project, reach out.