Two Canoes is a non-Indigenous advisory service with a distinctly different objective from other consultants or negotiators working in Indigenous relations, business development and community engagement. At Two Canoes, we believe that the work of Indigenous relations begins with a transformation of non-Indigenous identity. It begins with ally relations.

Our goal is to build relationships on a foundation of ethical space and four core values: honesty, respect, kindness and sharing. In every project, Two Canoes creates business partnerships for our clients that are productive, authentic and profitable because we commit to helping those partners learn to become allies.

Share with us your fears, your roadblocks and the gaps causing challenges in your business relationships and your community initiatives. Our core services centre around advising non-Indigenous clients or stakeholders on how to reframe their own history and understand roles and responsibilities from a new perspective through education, coaching and mentoring. Our methods are to provide supportive analysis, challenge assumptions, make room for discomfort, inspire empathy and thus foster strong relationships between non-Indigenous and Indigenous communities.

At Two Canoes, we believe in moving beyond cross-cultural awareness and extend past joint venture, integration or inclusion models. Two Canoes advisory services will provide you with solutions and help you get results in your partnerships – for your business, for your community or with your customers. We will help you navigate the place where two worldviews meet. When we work together, as we paddle down a shared river, we learn how to co-exist. Only from this ethical space we can work to create equity, understanding, belonging and resilience for all our children.

Two Canoes would be honoured to be invited to help you build equitable partnerships where the truth can be told and assist you in doing the hard work, in a safe space, to find our way forward together, in peace and friendship.