Tamalik & Associates is based on three pillars:
- Language Consulting
- Community Research
- Cross Cultural Facilitation
Tamalik & Associates, est. 1994 is in its third decade of professional services to Inuit Nunangat (Inuit land). As founder, Janet Tamalik brings over four decades of experience and two graduate degrees, offering her unique combination of skills and sensibility to every project -- as lead, team member or as a supporting consultant. With a passion for language revitalization and for facilitating cross cultural synergy, her work is informed by her international travels (Greenland, Alaska, Sapmi, Central and South America, China, France, England, Denmark, USA and Israel).
Passionate about Inuit language and its continuation in Canada, she wrote and defended her PhD dissertation in both Inuktut and English. The research is based on her conversations with the late Inuk elder and philosopher Aupilaarjuk; she reflects on his teaching and her learnings in her book - The Qaggiq Model - All profit from this book has been donated back to the elder’s family in honor of Aupilaarjuk’s role as mentor.
Project teams are assembled according to client needs and directives.
Sample Client List
Based on the three pillars of Tamalik & Associates, these services provided:
- Language Consulting Services:
- Inuktut language revitalization strategies for organizations
- Intergenerational frameworks for language acquisition and revitalization
- Organizational development support for workplace language use
- Inuktut language immersion: strategies, planning, implementation, immersion skills development
- Inuktut language coaching, mentoring and support for individuals and small groups
- Translation planning, specialty areas, dialectology consulting
- Inuktut curriculum development for first and second language training
- Language acquisition assessment tools
- Inuktut learning tools and product development
- Multi-year planning, phase development, proposals
- Specialized services for daycares and early childhood educational settings, program development, strategy design
- Community Research & Academic Services:
- Network building for Inuk-centered methodologies, impact assessment, design & planning;
- Inuk-centered monitoring & evaluation systems (building in accountability strategies to focus on continued input from intended beneficiaries of initiatives and programs)
- Community-rooted research design, support and review
- Critique and review of externally generated research
- Inuit students supports for undergraduate and graduate work (research papers, theses and dissertations)
- Mentorships for teachers, instructors and facilitators
- Qaggiq Research Model applications
- Qaggiq Model theoretical and practical applications
- Cross-Cultural Supports & Facilitation:
- Communication and engagement planning
- Translations beyond the “words”
- Inter and intra cultural dialogue strategies
- Specialty Inuktut translation services, editing, review, planning
About Janet Tamalik
PhD CANADIAN STUDIES & POLITICAL ECONOMY M.A. CONFLICT STUDIES LIFE-LONG STUDENT OF LAND/BEING CONNECTIONS
Janet Tamalik speaks Inuktut fluently and has worked professionally in Inuktut promotion and development since 1978. After taking a sabbatical to study at Brock University (BA 1994), she obtained an MA in Conflict Studies from Saint Paul University (thesis: “Conversations with Nattilingmiut Elders on Conflict and Change: Naalattiarahuarnira”, 2004), followed by a doctoral degree in Canadian Studies and Political Economy from Carleton University (dissertation: “Isumaksaqsiurutigijakka: Conversations with Aupilaarjuk Towards a Theory of Inuktitut Knowledge Renewal”, 2011). She developed and taught courses in two universities, guest lectured across departments and abroad, and co-founded committees for scholarship and student support. She brings 40 years of professional work enriched by academic training, success and experience. She is a two time Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council graduate scholar. Other recognitions include Saint Paul University Ethics award and Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee Medal (lifetime Inuit language contributions) 2013.
Yet, foundational to her perspective on life and work is her land-based education as a child in Inuktut immersion with Inuit families that had an unbroken line of self-reliance and self-governance. These early impressions of Indigenous land and being formed life-long questions about the merits of ‘modern’ civilization, and the complex relationships inherent in creating and maintaining space for Indigenous methodologies.
