Regenerative systems change & un/learning for just and flourishing futures.
WHAT WE DO
Our services support organizations, social enterprises, and communities to deepen relationships, cultivate learning, and engage with change.
Project DESIGN & MANAGEMENT
PRACTICES FOR COLLECTIVE SENSEMAKING
PRACTICES FOR COLLECTIVE SENSEMAKING
Planning and implementing projects to translate your vision into action, merging systems thinking and creativity— rooted in regenerative design and interdependence.
PRACTICES FOR COLLECTIVE SENSEMAKING
PRACTICES FOR COLLECTIVE SENSEMAKING
PRACTICES FOR COLLECTIVE SENSEMAKING
Building the relational knowledge and shared understandings your team needs to navigate change together, through ecosystemic audits, context mapping and arts-informed practices.
MOBILIZING RELATIONAL RESOURCES
PRACTICES FOR COLLECTIVE SENSEMAKING
MOBILIZING RELATIONAL RESOURCES
Identifying and activating your organization’s inner resources and social fields, while developing fundraising strategies rooted in reciprocity, relationships, and networks of care.
LEARNING DESIGN
LEARNING RESOURCES
LEARNING RESOURCES
Writing, evaluating, and enhancing equity-centred curricula that broaden whose knowledge is valued, whose stories are told, and whose voices shape learning, from early childhood to professional development.
LEARNING RESOURCES
LEARNING RESOURCES
LEARNING RESOURCES
Creating educational guides, strategies, multimedia content, facilitation resources, reflective tools, and un/learning frameworks tailored to your learners. Embedding equity, multiple access points, and creativity.
LEARNING EVENTS
LEARNING RESOURCES
LEARNING EVENTS
Facilitating one-time sessions, sustained learning communities, and immersive professional development events that honour Indigenous territories, cultures and ecological contexts, bringing learning to life through place.
C.A.R.E. approach
We see our work as most valuable when it fully engages interconnected realms.
Cognitive: Systems thinking, analyzing, and nerding out.
Affective: Self-awareness, emotional literacy, and what moves us.
Relational: Place-consciousness, social fields, and the more-than-human world.
Embodied: Somatic awareness, cosmopraxis, and dancing with how the body knows.
WHO WE ARE
Nicolisa Acosta Blatchford
Nicolisa Acosta Blatchford
Nicolisa Acosta Blatchford
Nicolisa Acosta Blatchford (she/they) is from a mixed family, carrying Andean (Quechua) and settler-Canadian roots. She partners with communities, entrepreneurs, organizations, Peoples and projects that uphold Indigenous sovereignty for equitable and sustainable economic futures. A project manager, entrepreneur, and strategic advisor with
Nicolisa Acosta Blatchford (she/they) is from a mixed family, carrying Andean (Quechua) and settler-Canadian roots. She partners with communities, entrepreneurs, organizations, Peoples and projects that uphold Indigenous sovereignty for equitable and sustainable economic futures. A project manager, entrepreneur, and strategic advisor with over 20 years of experience, Nicolisa brings an intersectional, multilingual lens to her projects.
Her land-based work spans sustainable ecotourism, organic farming and food systems, rewilding forest ecosystems, and supporting bioeconomies on Turtle Island and Abya Yala. She also supports Indigenous knowledge sharing projects dedicated to water and food sovereignty in Bolivia and Canada.
Nicolisa’s academic background spans sustainability management, organizational leadership, communications, and project management studies at Royal Roads University, the University of British Columbia, and Selkirk College. This interdisciplinary foundation informs the regenerative approach she brings to her partnerships, strategy building, and project delivery.
Nicolisa co-leads L’agence Osa Consulting as co-founder and chief executive officer
Fields of practice:
Bioeconomies • Climate resilience • Ecological and cultural regeneration • Futures literacy
Languages:
English • Spanish • French • Quechua (reclaiming/beginner)
Working with Nicolisa:
Nicolisa’s work style is collaborative, highly attuned, and grounded in strengths-based approaches that support leaders and their teams. She brings deep listening, clarity, and the ability to distill complexity into every interaction, while sensing into quantum interconnectedness and cosmopraxis. Engaging in a way that calls people in, Nicolisa creates spaces where people see new possibilities and feel supported to move forward together.
Sylvie Mazerolle
Nicolisa Acosta Blatchford
Nicolisa Acosta Blatchford
Sylvie Mazerolle (she/they) is a settler-Acadian educator, entrepreneur, and former school principal who has spent over a decade disrupting colonial and ableist norms within education by cultivating learning communities rooted in radical care, artistic expression, and equity. She is also an award-winning dance artist featured in a Nationa
Sylvie Mazerolle (she/they) is a settler-Acadian educator, entrepreneur, and former school principal who has spent over a decade disrupting colonial and ableist norms within education by cultivating learning communities rooted in radical care, artistic expression, and equity. She is also an award-winning dance artist featured in a National Film Board documentary.
As a dancer-turned-certified teacher, Sylvie designs un/learning experiences and human rights-based curricula that invite creativity, connection, and critical reflection. Her consulting work has included developing and delivering professional development courses at Queen’s University, creating facilitator training for francophone women in British Columbia, and enhancing gender-affirming care workshops with Université de l’Alberta.
She also sits on the Kootenay Restorative Justice Steering Committee and the Nelson Museum Archives & Gallery Board of Directors. A lifelong learner and passionate advocate, Sylvie is a certified Compassionate Systems Leadership Master Practitioner (MIT, 2022) and the recipient of a SSHRC grant (MA Curriculum Studies, UBC, 2019).
Sylvie co-leads L’agence Osa Consulting as co-founder and creative director.
Fields of practice:
Education (early childhood, K-12, postsecondary) • Human rights & gender justice • Arts & embodied practice • Community engagement
Languages:
French • English • Spanish • Mi’kmaw (Beginner)
Working with Sylvie:
Sylvie's been described by collaborators as a storyteller, connector, and amplifier who is deeply committed to living her values. Her work style blends curiosity, creative sparkle, and deep thinking with the occasional side quest that helps everything click into place. Sylvie leads with heart, shows up conscientiously, and is known for bringing clarity into conversations about equity. Expect highlighters, laughter, and mind maps!