Offerings

Our offerings reflect the most common ways we walk alongside organizations and communities. Each is a starting point, adaptable to context and priorities.

Across our offerings, we support teams through:

  • Strategic sensemaking across practice

  • Developing circular, regenerative practice grounded in organizational strengths

  • Paradigm awareness and discernment

  • Closing the gap between stated and lived values

  • Navigating collaboration across knowledge systems

  • Visual systems synthesis

Regenerative Practice Realignment

Help non-Indigenous organizations realign with purpose and place, moving from siloed, compliance-driven patterns toward work that energizes people and supports better outcomes. This strengthens practice while creating better conditions for more reciprocal Indigenous partnership.

  • 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

Help non-Indigenous researchers and teams realign the paradigms and practices they bring into collaboration, in parallel with Indigenous-led protocols and priorities. This creates conditions for more reciprocal Indigenous partnerships through clearer roles and contribution, and less reliance on Indigenous partners to course-correct.

  • Common starting points:

    • Partnerships include Indigenous collaborators, but academic or compliance defaults drive the work, leading to dilution, token inclusion, or burden-shifting

    • Teams struggle to translate partnership commitments 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

    • Complementary contribution grounded in role, strengths, and place-based responsibilities

    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.

Ashley Clark

Bougie Birch | Mohawk
Relational accountability & regenerative leadership

Alex Thomas

Nanwakolas Council | Kwakwaka’wakw
Environmental collaboration, stewardship & land governance

Avis O’Brien

N’alaga Consulting | Kwakwaka’wakw, Haida
Health, healing & suicide prevention

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