Let’s Bring Our Minds Together
The western world has yet to fully embrace the teachings of Indigenous peoples, who hold thousands of years of experience in democracy, peace and stewardship of the land.
We are children from traditional leadership among the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
Our people’s political and spiritual lifeways influenced the founding of the U.S. Constitution and the Women’s Suffrage Movement. These powerful and peaceful ways of thinking and being are still active today within our nations, our communities and our families. The teachings of our people instruct who we are, and guide us in our personal and professional work. Today, we offer these perspectives to the world.
Husband-and-wife consultancy team Kaluhyanu:wes, Michelle D. Schenandoah and Hawhenawdies, Neal J. Powless offer tobacco for peace around the world.
In Haudenosaunee culture, white pine is a symbol of unity, peace and democracy.
We’ve aggregated our passions, training and knowledge to present a worldview bound to the celestial beginnings of life on Mother Earth.
We weave spiritual groundedness from our Haudenosaunee teachings with our respective professional training. We aim to develop a deeper understanding of your organization’s human dynamics.
We collaborate with groups and organizations to provide public talks, workshops, facilitation and consultation centered on each client’s unique interests and outcomes. We tailor conscious and integrated skillbuilding strategies around concepts of living in balance, equity, diversity and inclusion, as well as future sustainability for coming generations.
Indigenous Concepts Consulting is led by husband and wife team Michelle Schenandoah & Neal Powless. Rooted in Haudenosaunee lands (Upstate New York) and serving organizations worldwide, ICC helps businesses and nonprofits align their missions, goals, and practices with the Indigenous principles of sustainability, diversity, equity and inclusion for greater wellbeing and viability for generations to come.
About the Team
Kaluhyanu:wes, Michelle Schenandoah
An inspirational speaker, writer and thought leader, Michelle Schenandoah is a traditional member of the Oneida Nation Wolf Clan of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Rematriation Magazine, an Indigenous women’s online media platform, and runs gathering spaces for Indigenous women’s leadership. She is an international public speaker and has an extensive background in law, business and non-profit development and film.
Hawhenawdies, Neal Powless
A traditional member of the Onondaga Nation and Eel Clan, Neal currently serves all Faculty, Staff and Graduate students at Syracuse University as the University Ombuds, providing confidential, informal, independent and neutral crisis management and crisis resolution. As an All-American, All-World and professional champion lacrosse player, and the first Indigenous head coach to a European national team, Neal is an international public speaker, and has a background in counseling and film.
Our Services
Public Talks
Our public presentations are culturally relevant, spiritually based and provide contemporary perspectives that inspire listeners to integrate wholistic intelligence about our place in the world as human beings and navigate today’s challenges.
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Consulting
We create unique opportunities for our clients to explore an Indigenous lens and how that can shape your company’s current ethos.
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Workshops
We provide experiential learning to deliver information that empowers and inspires cooperation and developing a deeper understanding of community within your organization.
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Facilitation
When seeking to build out new ideas or make decisions we create spaces to manage relationships and social dynamics within your team. By utilizing individual assessment tools and activities, we help you develop options and grow leadership within all levels of your group or organization.
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Production & Content Advisement
We collaborate with studios, Indigenous nations and individual filmmakers on creating narratives that reflect Indigenous truths, that are specific to the peoples of the story, and encompass Indigenous worldviews and aesthetics.
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It’s time for equity, inclusion & making things right.
Now is the time to explore how one thousand years of peace and democracy can transform your way of being in the world.
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After providing us with information about project ideas you would like to pursue, we will reach back out with a quick follow up.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Oneh’go
Michelle & Neal