facilitating cross-cultural synergy
Aingai ~ there you are!
Welcome to Tamalik & Associates. Through professional services and team development we create the conditions for cross-cultural synergies to develop so that maximum positive outcomes are accomplished ~ results consistent with your agency’s goals and mandates.
New book release!
Click on the book cover to hear Nattilingmiut elder Nilaulaaq Aglukkaq's original story of "The One Who Adopted a Bear". Full translation in English is available in the book.
Buy NowDoctoral dissertation in book form:
The Qaggiq Model: Toward a Theory of Inuktut Knowledge Renewal
In The Qaggiq Model, Janet Tamalik McGrath considers how the structure and symbolism of the Qaggiq can be used to understand Inuit-centred methodologies toward enhanced wellbeing in Inuit communities. Drawing on interviews with the late philosopher and Inuit elder Mariano Aupilarjuk, along with her own life-long experiences, McGrath bridges Inuktut and Western academic ways of knowing. She addresses the question of how Inuktut knowledge renewal can be supported on its own terms. It is through an understanding of Inuktut knowledge renewal, McGrath argues, that the impacts of colonialism and capitalism can be more effectively critiqued in Inuit Nunangat.
Buy NowWhat We Do
Analysis ~ Research ~ Mentorship ~ Consulting ~ Writing ~ Review ~ Language coaching (English and Inuktut spoken and written) ~ Inuktut language revitalization ~ Arts-based and multimedia technologies
Teams are carefully assembled around a specific need. Needs assessments facilitated for clients and stakeholders for optimal generative impacts in relation to specific goals.
More infoCross-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 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”.