Services
Practice Areas
Living Systems Advising/Guidance
Assist non-Indigenous organizations' transformation and realignment with ecological worldviews, life-affirming values, regeneration, or living systems thinking by examining and upgrading paradigms and approaches based on their unique gifts and offerings
Collaborative Planning and Reconciling Ways of Knowing
Support the advancement of collaborative projects with Indigenous and settler organizations by building the capacity of settler organizations, cultivating common ground, and aiding the development of appropriate processes and methodologies for interweaving Indigenous and Western approaches
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Offerings
These practices areas are provided through the following offerings:
Provide practical frameworks and associated approaches to allow organizations to examine, reevaluate, and upgrade fundamental paradigms and associated structures, practices, and policies so they can develop (or refine) their own authentic expression of an ecological worldview, living systems thinking, or regenerative approach based on their unique gifts and offerings.
Systemic Transformation and Organizational Decolonization
Strategic Planning and Visioning
Help define (or refine) organization’s vision and high-level direction and develop associated plans, projects, and policies (ie. setting goals, defining strategies, aligning resources, and outlining actions) to enable greater changes, desired outcomes, and long-term success
Strategic Alignment and Evaluation
Ensuring that all organizational strategies, initiatives, and activities are aligned with high-level commitments/beliefs and creating pathways for improvement to integrate commitments and values into core operations (could include creating evaluation and assessment programs to measure progress and assess if offerings are truly value-adding to people and the planet)
Project Planning and Strategy
Defining, organizing, and outlining strategies needed to achieve specific project goals in a way that is aligned with the organization’s unique gifts, offerings, and commitments (could include identifying project objectives, creating timelines, allocating resources, developing relationships, and managing risks)
Collaboration and Reconciling Ways of Knowing
Facilitating ethical and reciprocal collaboration between non-Indigenous and Indigenous knowledge systems and communities by developing effective methodologies, approaches, and frameworks, creating spaces for dialogue, mutual learning, and reconciling diverse perspectives and ways of knowing
Training and Knowledge Sharing
Providing training programs, workshops, resources, and other knowledge-sharing opportunities on various topics within the two focus areas (ie. examination of eurocentric and kin-centric paradigms, promotion of cultural competencies, intergovernmental planning, ethical engagement, and respectful interactions with Indigenous peoples and knowledge systems)
