Offerings
reRoot supports non-Indigenous organizations across a range of situations, with a consistent approach shaped to the context, relationships, and responsibilities involved.
Engagements can be led by reRoot, co-designed with Indigenous practitioners, or developed in direct collaboration with 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.
Partnership, Project & Engagement Support
Helping project, research, and stewardship teams bring grounded non‑Indigenous‑side practice into Indigenous partnership, community engagement, and place‑based work.
reRoot helps leaders, departments, and teams develop more grounded, relational, and regenerative ways of working from their own roles, strengths, and responsibilities, so Indigenous-led work has stronger ground to take root. This is often needed when reconciliation or partnership sits at the edge of the organization, Indigenous staff or partners are carrying too much of the deeper shift, or training and frameworks have built awareness without changing how the organization leads, plans, decides, and follows through.
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This may fit when:
a team is preparing for or deepening a relationship, project, research effort, stewardship initiative, or engagement process with Indigenous communities, Nations, partners, or knowledge holders
a project or engagement is moving forward 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
staff are unsure what they bring beyond funding, access, authority, data, or technical skill
past partnerships have felt fragile, one-sided, or dependent on Indigenous colleagues to carry too much of the deeper relational or organizational shift
previous engagement, reviews, or recommendations created insight, but the team needs support translating that learning into design, decisions, responsibilities, and follow-through
Can take shape as:
Project strategy and design; pre-engagement grounding; partnership or research readiness work; engagement, research, or stewardship design; visual mapping and synthesis; or advisory support through the arc of an active project.
Collaboration & Shared Initiative Support
Supporting the parallel non-Indigenous practice shift that reconciliation, stewardship, and genuine partnership require.
reRoot helps leaders, departments, and teams develop more grounded, relational, and regenerative ways of working from their own roles, strengths, and responsibilities, so Indigenous-led work has stronger ground to take root. This is often needed when reconciliation or partnership sits at the edge of the organization, Indigenous staff or partners are carrying too much of the deeper shift, or training and frameworks have built awareness without changing how the organization leads, plans, decides, and follows through.
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This may fit when:
reconciliation, partnership, or stewardship work is disconnected from everyday leadership, planning, and decision-making
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, multi-session practice processes, or support connecting a reconciliation framework to everyday organizational work.
Featured co-led partnerships
Co-led programs pair Indigenous cultural grounding and place-based teachings with non-Indigenous practice realignment. Indigenous partners lead protocol and cultural guidance.
Ashley Clark
Bougie Birch | Mohawk
(to update For leadership teams, boards, program teams, and organizations that need Indigenous relational grounding, kincentric teachings, storytelling, and live modeling of reciprocal practice across difference._
Alex Thomas
Nanwakolas Council | Kwakwaka’wakw
Environmental collaboration, stewardship & land governance
Avis O’Brien
N’alaga Consulting | Kwakwaka’wakw, Haida
Health, healing & suicide prevention