We offer professional social science research services, partnerships, facilitation, mentorships and academic support.
Our approach is based on community and organizational capacity building. Indigenous methodologies are paramount. Teams are carefully assembled around a specific need. Services also include language coaching (currently English and Inuktut, spoken, written). Indigenous language revitalization programs, arts-based methods, and multimedia technologies.
Cross Cultural Synergies
The strength of Tamalik & Associates, est. 1994 has always been the ability to engage in projects in ways that connect divergent histories, languages, and cultures. Tamalik & Associates specializes in works that require high levels of cultural sensitivity. Whether to facilitate engagement around ideas or to develop and deliver public and/or private services, we support effective exchanges between Inuit/Qablunaat world views. Now into its third decade, what has been a defining quality for Tamalik & Associates is a fundamental work ethic that is holistic, inclusive and well grounded in an uncompromising value for community wellbeing. Any intended positive impact is always measured by the direct voice and experience of the people the initiative has intended to assist in some specific and defined way. With the use of technologies and enlisting of high caliber team members, geographical, cultural and linguistic distances become sources of synergy…with results beyond expectation! We prudently monitor, assess and evaluate project impacts through client agreements and customized processes and tools.
DEFINING 'SYNERGY'...
Combining efforts and perspectives to produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the parts. Etymology: From New Latin synergia, and from the older Greek sunergos "working together".
Tamalik & Associates is based on three pillars:
- Language Consulting
- Community Research
- Cross Cultural Facilitation
Works Samples under the three pillars
1. Language Consulting Services
Language Immersion and Reclamation Strategy Plan, Cambridge Bay Childcare Society.
A strategic plan that works with the specific needs and interests of educators, parents, children and the community to strengthen language assets and close apparent gaps with regards to Inuinnaqtun revitalization.
Immersion Institute Development and Training, Kitikmeot Heritage Society.
A training program in language immersion tools and techniques for key fluent speakers and educators of Inuinnaqtun dialect.
2. Community Research & Academic Services
One-on-one graduate student supports for academic planning and success.
Including assisting with scholarship applications. Also mentoring graduate students through theses and dissertation, providing a sounding board, document reviews and discussions on Inuk-centered community ethics, epistemology and methodologies.
Community college instructor supports for teaching first language Inuktut curriculum environments.
Assistance in bridging between community college requirements and Inuit cultural pedagogy.
3. Cross-Cultural Supports and Facilitation
Cross-cultural assistance and specialty Nattilingmiutut dialect translation
For the critically acclaimed play The Breathing Hole - see page 6-7 in PDF
Language and cultural conception support
For the play Sila, which “features puppetry, spoken word poetry, and three different languages (English, French and Inuktitut).”