Indigenous Engagement & Reconciliation Program
A practical pathway to meaningful, measurable, and sustainable action.
From intention to action
Reconciliation is reflected in how an organization operates, makes decisions, creates opportunities, and sustains relationships over time.
Wading in Cultural Waters begins with your organization’s current practices. Our Indigenous Engagement & Reconciliation Scorecard helps identify strengths, gaps, and opportunities across five interconnected areas.
We then work together on a customized Engagement & Reconciliation Action Plan, with practical priorities that reflect your capacity, industry, geography, workforce, clientele, and existing relationships.
Discuss the programA pathway, not a destination
Develop an evidence-based snapshot of your practices, relationships, and readiness.
Agree on priorities, responsibilities, timelines, and measures that fit your organization.
Build internal understanding and put commitments into practice with support where needed.
Review progress, listen to partners, and adapt the plan as your relationships grow.
The Indigenous Engagement & Reconciliation Scorecard
A starting point for conversation and improvement. The goal is for changes in the score to reflect changes in organizational behaviour, relationships, and outcomes.
How spaces, locations, visual cues, accessibility, and client-facing services contribute to an Indigenous-welcoming and culturally respectful experience.
How Indigenous businesses, suppliers, contractors, and service providers participate in purchasing and economic activity, and what barriers may limit that participation.
How your organization builds, maintains, and contributes to relationships with Indigenous Nations, communities, organizations, and people over time.
How Indigenous peoples, cultures, and relationships are represented in your communications, branding, and public activities, including consent, accuracy, and creative ownership.
How recruitment, retention, advancement, policies, cultural awareness, and workplace experience support Indigenous employees and meaningful reconciliation.
Learning that supports organizational change
Workshops can stand on their own or support the understanding and capacity needed to implement your Action Plan.
Part One
Understand the historical and contemporary context for reconciliation, the principles of Indigenous engagement, and why this work matters to organizations and communities.
Part Two
Move from understanding to relationship-building through intention, introductions, presence in community, cultural considerations, and reciprocity.
Part Three
Explore how engagement and reconciliation become part of organizational structures, policies, workplaces, procurement, communications, and decision-making.
Focused Workshop
Examine Indigenous employment from community relationships and career exposure through recruitment, onboarding, retention, advancement, and accountability.
Supported implementation
Ajijaak Mu-He-Kan can remain involved as an advisor and implementation partner.
Support may include relationship development, policy review, procurement strategies, recruitment and retention, communications, leadership discussions, implementation teams, and periodic reassessment.
Immediate, short-, medium-, and longer-term objectives help make progress achievable. Responsibilities, timelines, indicators, and review points can be established around your organization’s needs.
Read the full program synopsisPDF · Opens in a new tabPrinciples shared through our workshops
Truth before reconciliation.
Intention before engagement.
Relationships before transactions.
Presence before expectation.
Respect before assumption.
Participation before prescription.
Reciprocity instead of charity.
Action beyond symbolism.
Evidence with accountability.
Commitment for the long term.
The next step begins with a relationship
