Sustainability Network

Weaving the Basket: How the RAD Network Emerged at the Intersection of Indigenous Leadership, Climate Action, and Relational Governance
Date: June 24, 1-2 PM ET
Cost: Free

The RAD Network is an Indigenous-led national network that emerged through cultivating the “social soil” through relationship building, ceremony, and the willingness to stay in "not knowing" long enough for something new to emerge.

This session tells the story of how the RAD Network came into being, and what that story might offer to the broader ENGO community.

Three presenters - spanning Indigenous leadership, Wise Practice facilitation, and the catalyzing research that helped weave it all together - will bring different voices to one shared story. Together they will address questions at the heart of the CSIF: How do you build trust with communities whose experience of institutions has been harmful?

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Weaving the Basket: How the RAD Network Emerged at the Intersection of Indigenous Leadership, Climate Action, and Relational Governance *All registrants will be provided with a link to the recording and presentation slides following each session. Recording will be available for 60 days.

Addressing ENGO Real-World Government Relations Challenges: A Three-Part Workshop Series with Aaron Freeman
Dates: June 11, 18 & 25, 1-2:30 PM ET
Cost: $40 for 1 seat /$60 for 2 seats for staff from same ENGO /$80 for 3 seats for staff from same ENGO

This series will take on selected and specific real-world ENGO Government Relations (GR) challenges raised by the participants who will be asked to define their scenarios through a brief survey upon registration.

These real-world ENGO GR challenges will then be workshopped by Aaron in the sessions. Each session will include an outline of principles, context on the political landscape, and an exercise where selected challenges will be addressed. All participants will benefit by seeing how to work through GR challenges.

Sessions will be 90 minutes each, including a highly interactive mix of training, a drill-down on specific participant case studies, and discussion.

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Aaron Freeman: Addressing ENGO Real-World Government Relations Challenges: A Three-Part Workshop Series (2026) Cost: $40 per seat / $60 for two staff from the same ENGO / $80 for teams of three from the same ENGO. Multiple registrants from the the same organization are encouraged.