Offerings
reRoot supports non-Indigenous organizations across a range of situations, with a consistent approach shaped to the context, relationships, and responsibilities involved.
Engagements may be led by reRoot, co-designed with Indigenous practitioners, or developed alongside Indigenous-led teams, offices, and partners.
Across all pathways, reRoot helps teams:
Understand the deeper patterns shaping how they work, including why good commitments get pulled back into urgency, control, and old habits
See reconciliation, stewardship, and partnership as openings into deeper practice and reciprocal collaboration, not side tasks or pressure to manage
Clarify what is theirs to carry, shift, and contribute from their own roles and responsibilities
Develop grounded, relational, and regenerative practice rooted in their strengths, mandates, disciplines, and relationship to place
Use visual sensemaking to make complexity visible, shared, and workable
Core Support Pathways
These pathways name the most common situations reRoot supports. Each is a starting point, shaped to the context, relationships, and priorities involved.
Organizational Practice & Leadership Support
Supporting the non-Indigenous-side practice shift needed for reconciliation, stewardship, and genuine partnership to become shared, grounded, and generative.
reRoot helps leaders, departments, and teams develop more grounded, relational, and regenerative ways of working from their own roles, strengths, and responsibilities. This support helps organizations move beyond compliance, caution, or symbolic commitment so Indigenous-led work is met with clearer contribution, shared responsibility, and stronger collaborative ground.
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This may fit when:
reconciliation, stewardship, or partnership work is being held by one office, one person, or a few committed staff rather than carried as shared responsibility across the organization
Indigenous staff, offices, or partners are carrying too much of the internal education, advocacy, translation, or realignment
training, reviews, scans, or frameworks have created awareness, but the same patterns keep showing up in timelines, meetings, decisions, and follow-through
leadership can sense the organization's potential, but current ways of working keep pulling the work back into compliance, risk management, or symbolic inclusion
there is a desire for each part of the organization to develop its own intrinsic motivation, grounded contribution, and responsibility
Can take shape as:
Leadership advising, strategic planning or visioning support, department or team sessions, internal practice tracks, or multi-session practice processes.
Project, Research & Engagement Support
Helping project, research, and stewardship teams bring grounded non‑Indigenous‑side practice into Indigenous partnership, community engagement, and place‑based work.
reRoot supports non-Indigenous project, research, stewardship, and engagement teams as they shape, prepare for, or move forward work involving Indigenous partnership, community engagement, stewardship, research, or work across knowledge systems. This support helps teams see the assumptions shaping the work, clarify what is theirs to carry and contribute, and develop grounded practice from their own roles, strengths, and relationship to place. The aim is stronger ground for reciprocal collaboration, with relationship, place, governance, and long-term responsibility built into the work rather than relying on Indigenous partners to protect its depth and integrity on their own.
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This may fit when:
a team is shaping, preparing for, or carrying a project, partnership, research effort, stewardship initiative, or engagement process with Indigenous communities, Nations, partners, knowledge holders, or place-based responsibilities
the work is moving ahead before the relational, cultural, governance, or place-based frame is clear
technical, scientific, planning, or stewardship work keeps defaulting to deliverables, timelines, reports, or narrow expertise
a project needs to bridge Indigenous, scientific, local/community, or organizational knowledge, but shared purpose, roles, or contribution are not yet clear
staff are unsure what they bring beyond funding, access, authority, data, or technical skill
past engagement, partnerships, reviews, or recommendations created insight, friction, or stalled trust, but the team needs support translating that learning into design, decisions, responsibilities, and follow-through
Can take shape as:
Project strategy and design support; partnership or engagement framing; pre-engagement grounding; research or stewardship readiness; bridge-building across partners, disciplines, and knowledge systems; visual mapping and synthesis; or advisory support alongside an active project or initiative.
Collaboration & Shared Initiative Support
Helping coalitions, networks, working groups, and shared initiatives build the orientation, role clarity, and shared responsibility needed for reciprocal collaboration.
reRoot supports coalitions, networks, working groups, and regional or shared initiatives where several organizations are trying to move work together over time. The focus is not only facilitation or coordination, but the shared conditions that make collaboration possible: how purpose is held, how responsibility is shared, how decisions and learning move, and how each participant contributes beyond their own institutional lane. This can be especially useful when Indigenous partners, Nations, or conveners are carrying too much of the orientation, relational repair, or integrity of the collaboration.
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This may fit when:
a coalition, network, working group, regional table, watershed initiative, or shared effort needs clearer purpose, roles, and conditions for participation
many organizations are involved, but people are still participating mainly as representatives of their own institutions rather than contributors to the shared work
meetings feel fragmented, update-heavy, unclear, or slow, with uneven follow-through or responsibility
Indigenous partners, Nations, or Indigenous-led organizations are carrying too much of the orientation, urgency, relational repair, or integrity of the space
participants are working from different assumptions about what the collaboration is for, who is responsible for what, or how decisions should move
the group needs a clearer shared picture of the wider system, the work it is trying to move, and what each participant is responsible for bringing
Can take shape as:
Collaborative sensemaking; shared purpose, role, and contribution mapping; visual systems mapping; retreat or working session design; facilitation and synthesis for shared tables; backbone or coordinating team advising; or support for non-Indigenous participants within an Indigenous-led or cross-sector initiative.
Regenerative Leadership & Relational Practice
Co-led with Ashley Clark | Bougie Birch | Mohawk
For leadership teams, boards, program teams, cohorts, and organizations seeking Indigenous relational grounding, kincentric teachings, storytelling, and live modeling of reciprocal practice across difference.
Relational Stewardship, Land Care & Place-Based Collaboration
Co-led with Alexandra Thomas | Nanwakolas Council | Kwakwaka’wakw, Coast Salish
For parks, conservation, forestry, environmental science, land and water stewardship, and field-learning contexts connecting technical work with Indigenous land care, governance, place, and long-term responsibility
Healing, Care & Community Wellbeing Support
Co-led with Avis O’Brien | N’alaga Consulting | Kwakwaka’wakw, Haida
For health, healing, youth wellbeing, suicide prevention, and community-care contexts where Indigenous-led healing practice is paired with non-Indigenous-side reflection, coordination, and practice support.
Co-led Offerings with Indigenous Practitioners
Co‑led programs pair Indigenous cultural grounding and place‑based teachings with reRoot’s non‑Indigenous‑side regenerative practice work. Below are a few featured co‑led partnerships that show how this can take shape in different contexts.