Selected Work

Selected projects, workshops, and collaborations showing how reRoot’s support takes shape across organizational practice, project and engagement work, and shared initiatives.

Organizational Practice & Leadership Support

Reframing Institutional Reconciliation and Reciprocal Collaboration

Yukon University and UArctic

Reconciliation planning and institutional engagement

Supported Yukon University’s AVP-Reconciliation and UArctic’s VP Indigenous portfolios through systems framing, visual sensemaking, and coordination. At YukonU, the work connected reconciliation with shared institutional responsibility and the university’s place-based role. At UArctic, related framing recentered Indigenous communities and situated collaboration within relationships to land and waters.

    • Developed systems framing and visuals connecting reconciliation with YukonU’s wider institutional purpose, shared responsibility, and potential as a university grounded in place

    • Supported development of the AVP-Reconciliation program charter, clarifying the office’s purpose, structure, priorities, team roles, and approach to work planning

    • Supported relationship-building and planning to reconvene UArctic’s Indigenous Advisory Board, including engagement with Arctic Council Permanent Participants and development of governance, resourcing, and coordination materials

    • Conducted background research and developed recommendations to better align UArctic’s evaluation, procurement, and research practices with Indigenous priorities and relational, living-systems approaches

    • Supported annual planning, budgeting, reporting, coordination, and visual communication across both portfolios

Circular Practice and Shared Responsibility

John Howard Society of North Island / Foundry

Organizational practice workshop

Delivered a focused workshop for non-Indigenous Foundry staff on recognizing organizational patterns that can unintentionally undermine Indigenous-led work and exploring how their teams and services could shift toward more relational, regenerative practice.

    • Worked with staff to examine how procedural, clinical, performative, and assimilative institutional patterns can undermine Indigenous-led work

    • Used circular practice and sensemaking frameworks to explore how Foundry’s own ways of working could become more relational, life-affirming, and genuinely complementary to Indigenous-led approaches

    • Supported staff in beginning to develop a grounded circular lens rooted in Foundry’s strengths, values, and responsibilities, without copying, diluting, or collapsing into Indigenous approaches

    • The workshop formed one part of a broader staff learning day that also included a separate Indigenous-led session by Avis O’Brien of N’alaga Consulting

Project, Research & Engagement Support

Local Indigenous Knowledge and Values Framework

Living Lakes Canada & Upper Nicola Band

Framework and methodology design

Co‑developed a framework to help Foreshore Integrated Management Planning, a lake shoreline assessment and planning process, better center local Indigenous knowledge, values, legal traditions, and priorities in how lakes are assessed and how development decisions are informed.

    • Helped structure the framework around clear aims, responsibilities, and guidance for working across Indigenous knowledge and Western scientific methods without assimilating or diluting either

    • Contributed visual process tools and cultural capability guidance for consultants and coordinators involved in lake assessment and planning

    • Recommended changes so Nations’ governance practices, protocols, access priorities, and guidance could shape foreshore development recommendations and lake-level decisions

    • Contributed recommendations related to Living Lakes Canada’s broader reconciliation and Indigenous partnership practice

    • Local Indigenous Knowledge and Values Framework for Foreshore Integrated Management Planning

Conservation Feasibility Planning in Hawaiʻi

Government agency

Engagement and workshop design

Supported the planning and engagement phase of a conservation feasibility study alongside a Native Hawaiian consultant through workshop design, background research, facilitation materials, and synthesis.

    • Co-developed a three-session internal workshop series for advisory and leadership teams to surface place-based, relational, cultural, and implementation considerations for the next phase

    • Created slides, prompts, and breakout activities to build shared understanding of the project context, roles, engagement approach, and key parameters

    • Conducted background research and synthesized workshop input into guidance for next-phase planning, bringing together agency priorities, formal requirements, and advisory-group input

Collaboration & Shared Initiative Support

Strengthening Transboundary Water Collaboration

Shared Waters Alliance & Semiahmoo First Nation
Collaboration framing and applied research

Supported a cross-border working group focused on improving Boundary Bay water quality and restoring shellfish harvesting for Semiahmoo First Nation. Developed non-prescriptive recommendations to strengthen collaboration among Indigenous and non-Indigenous organizations, place-based planning, and shared responsibility.

    • Reviewed current plans and initiatives, analyzed eight comparative case studies, and interviewed practitioners to understand regulatory pathways and approaches to Indigenous, watershed, and cross-government collaboration

    • Mapped overlapping jurisdictions, regional initiatives, and relationships among participating organizations to clarify barriers and opportunities for stronger coordination

    • Developed non-prescriptive recommendations related to Indigenous collaboration, place-based planning, shared agency, participation, and working-group structure

    • Shared the findings and recommendations with the Shared Waters Alliance core team and provided a report and visual materials to support continued discussion and planning

    • Best Practices Research for the Shared Waters Alliance and briefing deck

Additional Workshops & Talks

Indigenous Land Care Ethics and How to Live Them

Workshop | CPCIL eSummit | 2026
Co-presented with Alexandra Thomas

Interactive workshop exploring how non-Indigenous conservation organizations can shift their own ways of working while learning from and supporting Kwakwaka’wakw land care ethics without copying or diluting them.

Re-imagining Collaboration: Co-Creating Between Indigenous and Western Regenerative Paradigms

Plenary session | PARKS+ Collective eSummit | 2025
Co-presented with Gägala-ƛiƛetko, Nadia Joe

Plenary exploring reciprocal collaboration across Indigenous and Western regenerative paradigms, using the Binocular View and Collaborative Tree to examine how conservation partnerships are grounded and sustained.

Dialogue for Exploring Ethical Relations with Indigenous Communities

Two-day workshop | UBC Sustainability Hub | 2023
Co-developed and coordinated with Gägala-ƛiƛetko, Nadia Joe

Program bringing Indigenous and non-Indigenous speakers together around ethical research, relationship-building, and community-centred engagement, including a presentation on the paradigms, relationships, and processes shaping ethical collaboration. (Event page)

From Square to Circular Practice

Workshop | UBC Peer Programs | 2024

Interactive workshop helping peer program leaders examine square and circular patterns and connect reconciliation and systems change with their own roles and day-to-day practice.