How did ‘wi’la’mola Consulting get started?
Generations of experience, wisdom, and resilience pull me toward something more, something different, something better.
Supporting my Hereditary Chief meant learning how to work in the business/organizational world and understand the needs of people and community.
The needs of community and the needs of government and other partners lead me to a space where I realized I could help both, not just one or the other.
Meet the Team
Nick Chowdhury
Member of the Da’naxda’xw/Awaetlala Nation, Nick was born and raised in the unceded territory of the K’omoks First Nation. Nick has extensive years working within the Vancouver Island and BC coastal communities in the fields of health governance, children and family services, resource management and stewardship.
The scope of his experience ranges from local engagement, reaching out to all levels of regional, provincial and federal governments.
Nick is an agent of change on a pathway between two worlds – modern western society and a way of life passed on through generations of families who have been here from time immemorial.
Engaging in First Nations governance with teachings and experiences from working with his family combined with our current day and age of tech, meetings, and virtual spaces he is an optimist with a critical eye.
Nick works toward learning – learning to unlearn so we can think better, talk better, and do better.
Sonora Thompson
Long term settler on Turtle Island, Sonora has been working with Indigenous people for 25 years in the field of resource management.
As an independent contractor, she runs an Indigenous non-for-profit organizations specializing in bringing Indigenous people together with governments and others to help preserve and sustain resources for the next seven generations.
Sonora specializes in meeting engagement, conflict resolution, mediation and facilitation and has been a student of Indigenous teachings from the years of learning through Indigenous elders she works with.
Her life’s purpose is to use her skills to build effective bridges to increase awareness, understanding and collaboration.
Collaboration?
The motivation
The society we live in is not static, it needs change and growth.
Reconciliation starts with me (and you), with my family (and yours), with our nation (or community).
My favorite thought about “our” community
We can sit back and ask: “Why don’t they do something about that?”, or we can say: “Why don’t WE do something about that?”.
What is expected of us?
Our children, our grandchildren and future generations expect more from us. The expectation is that we will do better than previous generations.
