Offerings
Our offerings reflect the most common ways we walk alongside organizations and communities. Each is a starting point, adaptable to context and priorities.
Regenerative Practice Realignment
Support for non-Indigenous teams to realign their practice with purpose and place, moving from siloed, compliance-driven patterns toward work that energizes people and fulfills their mission. This creates conditions for more reciprocal Indigenous partnerships through clearer, complementary contribution and less reliance on Indigenous partners to course-correct.
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Common starting points:
Indigenous staff or Indigenous-led roles keep carrying institutional change
Work feels procedural, compliance-driven, or stuck in silos
Partnership depends on relationships, but institutional operating logic stays the same
Teams feel the need to reimagine practice but lack a grounded path
Typical outcomes:
Shared responsibility for partnership integrity, so Indigenous staff and partners do less correcting, translating, or carrying the institutional load
Complementary contributions partners actually value, grounded in organization's role, strengths, and place-based responsibilities
More coherence across purpose, roles, governance, and day-to-day work, reducing rework and internal friction
Earlier recognition of drift into compliance, siloing, and burden-shifting, with clear ways back to grounded practice
Examples of the work:
Strategic planning rooted in essence, potential, and place-based responsibilities
Cross-unit alignment sessions for teams working alongside Indigenous-led initiatives
Visual mapping and synthesis that makes strategy and current patterns visible, helping teams move toward a more integrated way of working
Collaboration and Research Readiness
Support for non-Indigenous researchers and teams to realign the paradigms and practices they bring into collaboration, in parallel with Indigenous-led protocols and priorities. This helps partnership stay reciprocal and reduces the corrective burden on Indigenous partners.
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Common starting points:
Partnerships include Indigenous collaborators, but academic or compliance defaults drive the work, leading to dilution, token inclusion, or burden-shifting
Teams lack a clear way to translate values into research design and day-to-day practice
Roles stay muddy and Indigenous partners end up carrying governance, context, or relational load that should sit with the institution
Typical outcomes:
Shared responsibility for collaboration integrity, with less reliance on Indigenous partners to course-correct
Stronger ability to spot and avoid dilution, appropriation, and extractive defaults before they steer project direction
Clearer non-Indigenous contributions partners actually value, grounded in each team’s strengths and place-based responsibilities, bringing distinct value without borrowing Indigenous knowledge
Examples of the work:
Alignment workshops that surface assumptions, clarify roles, and translate reciprocity into day-to-day research and collaboration practice
Custom project support for non-Indigenous teams, tailored to context and designed to strengthen practice alongside Indigenous-led priorities
Practical frameworks and visual sensemaking (Binocular View, Collaborative Tree) that reveal misalignments and help teams re-ground toward ethical, aligned collaboration
Co-led Programs with Indigenous Partners
Co-led programs pair Indigenous cultural grounding and place-based teachings with non-Indigenous practice realignment. Indigenous partners lead protocol and cultural guidance.
reRoot supports non-Indigenous teams to clarify contributions and build grounded living systems practice rooted in their own strengths and responsibilities, so Indigenous partners carry less corrective burden.
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Bougie Birch | Mohawk
Relational accountability and regenerative leadership
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Nanwakolas Council | Kwakwaka’wakw
Environmental collaboration, stewardship & land governance
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N’alaga Consulting | Kwakwaka’wakw, Haida
Health, healing & suicide prevention