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Circle of
Belonging

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Your partner in inclusive impact through engagement, growth, community-building, and strategic action.

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Our Story

We're a queer, disabled and neurodivergent-owned consultancy helping people, teams, and organizations identify and act on opportunities to grow inclusively.

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We take a collaborative, relational, and anti-oppressive approach to research and engagement, then build customized, context-specific solutions to empower growth, cultivate inclusivity, and drive positive long-term transformation.

What We Do,
Who We Do It For

We're a strategic partner for people who care. For those who believe belonging is a right, not a privilege. For those who know real change takes time, intention, and sustained momentum. For the ones who seek community and connection, not checklists. For those who honour inclusion as a foundation and a lens, not the afterthought. For the ones who choose depth over optics, and relationships over transactions.  If you're ready to root your work in purpose, let's do this together.

We help you understand.

Inclusive growth requires awareness, and we help you build it with care, curiosity, and clarity. Using human-centred and data-based approaches, we support individuals, teams, and organizations in understanding where they are now and what's shaping their culture.

  • ​ Intercultural Development Inventory assessments to map how individuals, teams, or organizations navigate difference.

  • Inclusive and psychologically safe engagement, including surveys, interviews, workshops, and other tools to inclusively gather honest feedback.

  • Current state reviews by expert consultants with a diversity of lived experience, drawing on your data, documents, and practices.

  • Comprehensive research reports and presentations that synthesize findings and surface actionable insights.

We help you grow.

Inclusion is a sustained commitment, and it starts with people. We meet you where you are and offer tailored support to grow individual, team, and organizational capacity in meaningful, lasting ways.

  • Coaching, strategic advising, and individual development plans to help leaders and team members grow their inclusive practices.

  • Team training, facilitated discussions, and applied learning workshops designed to build shared understanding and skills.

  • Tools and resources for self-directed learning that support everyday inclusion.

  • Public speaking and storytelling on inclusion-related topics, from experts with lived experience. 

We help you strategize and plan.

Lasting inclusion doesn't happen by accident. It requires strategy, structure, and sustained commitment. We help you move beyond one-off initiatives to embed equity, accessibility, and belonging into the systems, strategies, and structures that shape your organization. 

  • Identifying areas of focus based on your goals, context, and current state. 

  • Developing strategies and action plans to advance justice, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging, designed for long-term impact and developed in partnership with your team.

  • Defining what inclusive success looks like, and surfacing ways to help you stay accountable, transparent, and adaptable.

  • Applying an inclusion lens into strategic planning so that equity becomes foundational.

We help you implement.

Implementation is where value meets practice. We help you create the conditions people need to take part in and sustain meaningful inclusive change. 

  • Guiding leaders to embed inclusion into everyday decisions and team culture.

  • Consulting on operational enablers like resourcing, budgeting, timelines, and staffing to support sustainable change.

  • Engaging teams and key influencers to build buy-in, confidence, and the skills to bring inclusion to life. 

  • Reviewing existing policies, practices, processes, and materials to align them with best inclusive practices. 

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We help you adapt.

Inclusion doesn't have a finish line. It's a long-term commitment to reflection, responsiveness, and growth. We help you identify emerging needs, navigate change, respond to feedback, and continuously deepen your impact. 

  • Ongoing assessment and insight, including check-ins, data reviews, and recommendations to stay aligned and accountable.

  • Advisory partnerships for leaders and teams navigating complex inclusion challenges or opportunities.

  • Learning and resource development tailored to evolving needs, emerging issues, or shifts in your organizational context.

Start your journey.

Or get started by booking one of our standard services below.

We are a settler-founded organization, operating from Amiskwaciy Waskahikan (Edmonton) on Treaty 6 Territory and the homeland of the Métis Nation of Alberta Region 4. As treaty people, we recognize and deeply respect that we live and work on the traditional territories of many First Nations, such as the Nehiyaw (Cree), Denesuliné (Dene), Nakota Sioux (Stoney), Anishinaabe (Saulteaux) and Niitsapi (Blackfoot) Peoples. 

 

We commit to demonstrating unwavering respect for and participating in community with Indigenous Peoples. We commit to learning and taking leadership from Indigenous experts. We will refer all work specific to Indigenous people and communities - including Truth and Reconciliation and Indigenous engagement work - to Indigenous individuals and organizations. We commit to inviting Indigenous experts into our work and, when they choose to contribute, we commit to approaching these partnerships with appropriate recognition, reciprocity, and care. 

 

We also commit to challenging white supremacy, racism, and settler colonialism in personal and professional spaces - every day, not just when it's convenient. 

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We recognize that Land Acknowledgements are important, and that they can feel performative without meaningful, demonstrated commitment. Words without action are not enough., and trust is earned We commit to demonstrating our values through sustained action and ongoing accountability. We welcome dialogue and correction, and are open to and grateful for feedback on how we can do better. 

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