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Conference & Association Alignment
We partner with professional associations and organizations to co-design conferences and gatherings that are grounded in right relations with the lands and Indigenous communities in which they take place.
Our Work Includes
Situating Gatherings In Place
Guidance on situating conferences in relationship to the specific lands and territories where they are held, support in seeking respectful relationships with Indigenous communities, and how those relationships inform the structure and experience of the event.
Evolving land acknowledgments into practice
Development of an actionable and accountable land acknowledgments as a commitment and responsibility; reframing conference design to reflect relational models rather than extractive ones.
Support in seeking engagement with local Indigenous communities in ways that are rooted in respect, consent, and reciprocity.
Structural Alignment
Decolonizing and Indigenizing programming through Indigenous leadership and amplification of Native Voices and talent—reorienting who shapes the gathering, how knowledge is held, who is heard, and what forms of leadership are recognized.
Centering Indigenous leadership and perspective
Begin learning how to elevate Indigenous voices, facilitation, and leadership into programming in ways that are meaningful, not symbolic.
Aligning gatherings with institutional commitments
Supporting your conferences to better reflect and reinforce broader right relations organizational values, responsibilities, and long-term accountability.
Create conferences that are expressions of sustained relationship, responsibility, and institutional practice.
Reframing conference design
Shifting from transactional models of convening toward relational, land-based approaches that consider who is involved, how relationships are formed, and what responsibilities are carried forward.
why This Benefits Your Next Conference
Conferences reflect how an organization understands ethics, community, and responsibility.
When gatherings are designed without attention to place and relationship, they can unintentionally reproduce extractive dynamics treating land as backdrop and Indigenous presence as symbolic rather than relational.
Reorienting conferences through respect to Native Land and Peoples shifts this dynamic so that convenings become sites of accountability, not just moments of exchange.
This work extends beyond logistics, shaping how convenings are conceived, held, and experienced through ethical relational approaches on and with Native Land.
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