Welcome to Our S.H.I.F.T. Programs

Our multi-benefit Cultural Preservation projects are mission-aligned to restore and protect our "People" and culture to empower Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination.  Through our reconciliation of understanding the pain of colonialism, we can heal by reconnecting to the roots of our land.  We interweave the Indigenous knowledge passed down from generations time immemorial, to better understand what is essential to restore and protect our ecosystem to pre-colonization standards, and to promote biodiversity and balance growth. 

Learn more about our services, ways we can collaborate, offer resources, and other ways you can get involved today!  

Here is our current project:

Unity 2 Protect Sacred Sites

Our multi-benefit Ecological Preservation projects are mission-aligned to raise awareness about the intersectionality between Environmental Justice and Social Justice, and the importance of combining Nature 1st and People 1st, as equal priorities.  We collaborate with local Indigenous leaders to co-develop community strategies to implement cultural burning as a technique to manage land as ecological restoration, wildfire prevention and social cultural restoration.  Wetland restoration and monitoring areas with high flood risk and sea level rise, benefit from Indigenous knowledge of historical events and what the landscape traditionally should reflect.  When we bring Indigenous people to the conversation early and often, we can combine traditional knowledge with modern innovative technology, to help us predict, plan and implement solutions to overcome and adapt to  the local and global risks of the Climate Crisis.

Learn more about our services, ways we can collaborate, offer resources, and other ways you can get involved today!  

Here is our current project:

Unity 2 Protect Sacred Sites

Our W.H.A.L.E. Connection resources are designed to educate, steward, protect and  envision to create a more resilient community.

• W = Water
• H = Housing
• A = Air
• L = Land
• E = Ecological Revitalization

We encourage you to become stewards of the natural world around you.  We all need access to clean water and reduce risk of potential flooding; safe shelter that is both eco-friendly and a fire resistant home; have clean fresh air without contaminants from pollution; our natural world and ecosystem to be healthy and in balance; and when natural disaters, or other significant world events harm the world around us to have ways to heal and restore our environment around us.  When you become aware of what is in your neighborhood and community around you, then you begin to understand how we can make a positive impact where we live.  These actions on an individual level, can make a big W.H.A..L.E. of an impact on a larger global scale.  We are stronger together, so let's get started!

Reciprocity is a way we show each other mutual respect and not taking the world around us for granted.  This can be a small gesture of kindness, a gift, an exchange of time to share your skill or talent, a payment, etc.  Typically what you offer is equal to what is being exchanged and will not demonstrate a hardship by either person.  This is the first level of understanding to be in community with each other, and how we begin to understand Right Relations to respectfully connect with Indigenous Sovereign Nations.  

Our Reciprocity Exchange Club is a trusted Network that is being developed, with the intention to build community and share resources with each other.  

Coming Soon!

Our Cultural Reciprocity Tourism network is being developed to share community events in collaboration with our diverse Indigenous communities.  We will create travel recommendations for your upcoming event, and share reciprocity options to consider ways to support local & global Indigenous Community needs, for example: 

• Get involved & Support "calls to action" 
• Donate to protect Cultural and Ecological Sacred sites you visit
• Build community by attending cultural interpretive trainings and cultural immersion (Art, Music, Language and Food)

In order to appreciate historical and present-day contributions that promote positive Indigenous visibility on a local & global scale.  

Coming Soon!

We are working to develop our Art Residency program in collaboration with our trusted Community Partners.

Coming Soon!