Consultation and Workshops
Facilitated by Sha'tekayen:ton Brant, OCT
Kenhte:ke Turtle Clan
The One Dish Project provides Indigenous-led consultation rooted in governance, lived experience, and land-based responsibility. Our approach is guided by wampum-based methodology and designed to support meaningful, long-term change.
We work with schools, boards, unions, municipalities, and community organizations that are ready to move beyond surface-level efforts. This is not about optics. It is about building accountable systems that reflect Indigenous knowledge, law, and responsibility.
Consultation
Consultation through One Dish Project is grounded in The River as Teacher framework, an Indigenous-led approach rooted in governance, responsibility, relationship-building, and lived experience. Consultation work focuses on long-term structural support rather than performative inclusion, symbolic policy language, or checklist-based approaches to reconciliation.
This work is informed by direct experience in Indigenous education, land-based learning, Kanyen’kéha language revitalization, governance education, curriculum development, and community-based programming within both institutional and community settings. All consultation work is delivered in person whenever possible to maintain accountability, discussion, and relationship-building throughout the process. Travel and accommodation costs are additional and invoiced separately.
Indigenous Education, Curriculum, and Program Development
Support is available for schools, post-secondary institutions, organizations, and agencies seeking to develop or strengthen Indigenous educational programming, curriculum, and learning structures.
Consultation may include curriculum review, Indigenous content integration, land-based learning implementation, language revitalization planning, program restructuring, and long-term educational strategy grounded in Indigenous knowledge systems rather than surface-level inclusion.
This work focuses on meaningful implementation, relationship-building, and structural alignment while remaining adaptable to local community needs, Provincial curriculum expectations, and organizational goals.
Governance, Treaties, and Decolonization Consultation
Consultation is available for leadership teams, institutions, organizations, and community groups seeking deeper engagement with Indigenous governance systems, treaty relationships and Nation-to-Nation responsibilities.
Work may include governance education, institutional review, decolonial analysis of policies and structures, guidance surrounding Indigenous engagement practices, and support identifying areas where colonial systems continue to shape organizational decision-making.
Consultation emphasizes accountability, responsibility, and practical pathways forward rather than symbolic reconciliation language.
Facilitation, Advisory, and Public Engagement
One Dish Project also provides facilitation, advisory support, keynote speaking, and public engagement connected to Indigenous education, governance, land-based learning, language revitalization, food sovereignty, and community resurgence.
Support may include conference presentations, facilitated discussions, community engagement sessions, advisory participation, and collaborative planning work with organizations, educators, and leadership teams.
Workshops
One Dish Project offers Indigenous-led workshops for Kindergarten to Grade 12 students, post-secondary institutions, libraries, community groups, and organizations seeking grounded, land-based educational experiences rooted in Haudenosaunee knowledge systems.
Workshops are guided through The River as Teacher framework and connected to seasonal cycles, ceremony, governance, food systems, and community responsibility. Sessions are designed to move beyond presentation-style learning by engaging participants directly through discussion, cultural practice, land-based activity, and experiential learning.
Programming can be adapted to age group, learning environment, seasonal relevance, and Ontario curriculum connections where required.
The Haudenosaunee Creation Story
Explores the Haudenosaunee Creation Story through teachings connected to responsibility, balance, relationship to the natural world, and the foundations of life on Turtle Island. Participants engage with the story as a living framework for understanding governance, environmental responsibility, community relationships, and humanity’s connection to the land.
The workshop examines the roles of Sky Woman, the animals, the medicines, the waters, and the original responsibilities carried within the story, while encouraging participants to reflect on how those teachings continue to shape relationships with the environment and each other today.
Depending on the season and age group, workshops may include eco-art projects or painting activities connected directly to the teachings being explored. Activities are designed to reinforce learning through creation, reflection, and direct engagement with the natural world.
The Peacemaker and the Great Law
Explores the story of the Peacemaker, the origins of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the foundations of the Great Law through teachings connected to peace, governance, accountability, and collective responsibility. Participants learn about the conditions that existed before the Confederacy, the role of the Peacemaker, and the work carried out alongside Hiawatha and Jigonsase to bring the Nations together under a shared system of governance.
The workshop follows the development of their relationship, including the story of how Deganawida and Hiawatha met and the creation of the first wampum made from reeds carrying three pieces representing the eyes, ears, and throat. Participants explore how these teachings connect to listening clearly, speaking honestly, and carrying responsibility within community.
Following the formation of the Confederacy, the workshop returns to the original three-reed wampum and traces its expansion into the Fifteen Condolence Wampum Strings, examining their role within governance, grief, leadership restoration, and the continuation of the Great Law.
Replica Condolence Wampum Strings are incorporated into the workshop to provide participants with a direct connection to the teachings and to support discussion surrounding memory, governance, and the carrying of knowledge across generations.
Participants also create their own three-piece wampum string using sinew and three white replica wampum beads representing the eyes, ears, and throat. The piece is taken home as a personal reminder of responsibility, reflection, listening, truth, and the teachings explored throughout the workshop.
Depending on the age group and setting, workshops may also include hands-on activities such as creating personal wampum strings, reflective art projects, discussion circles, or other experiential activities connected to the teachings being explored.
The Three Sisters and Food Sovereignty
Explores the origins and teachings of the Three Sisters through Haudenosaunee understandings of responsibility, sustainability, reciprocity, and relationship to the land. Participants are introduced to the Creation Story with a focus on the origins of Indigenous foods and the role of corn, beans, and squash within Haudenosaunee food systems.
The workshop examines the relationship between the Three Sisters and the interconnected ecosystem they create together, while comparing Indigenous agricultural practices to Western-style gardening systems. Participants learn how the Three Sisters support one another naturally through structure, soil health, moisture retention, and protection, and how these approaches differ from colonial agricultural models introduced onto Turtle Island.
Using The River as Teacher framework, the workshop also explores how colonization disrupted Indigenous food systems, altered agricultural practices, and separated communities from traditional relationships with land and food. Discussion emphasizes the importance of cultural food systems, sustainability, and the restoration of Indigenous growing practices within contemporary learning spaces.
During planting season, participants are guided through the planting process and each participant plants a white corn seed while also receiving a bean seed and squash seed to take home.
When offered outside of planting season, the workshop includes an art-based project connected to the teachings, food systems, and relationships explored throughout the session. Activities are adapted based on age group, season, and learning environment while remaining grounded in Indigenous knowledge systems and land-based learning practices.
Rates and Availability
Consultation and workshop rates are determined based on scope, duration, group size, travel requirements, and organizational structure. A non-refundable booking fee of $300 is required at the time of booking and will be applied toward the overall cost of the consultation or workshop. Travel and accommodation costs are billed separately following the completion of the consultation or workshop unless otherwise outlined within an agreement.
To inquire about rates, availability, or to request a proposal, please contact One Dish Project directly. One Dish Project operates independently through Indigenous-led frameworks grounded in accountability, relationship-building, and community responsibility. We reserve the right to decline consultation or workshop requests that are performative, extractive, or not aligned with the values of meaningful engagement and community-led change.
Meet the Facilitator
Sha'tekayenton Brant, OCT
Kenhte:ke Turtle Clan
Sha’tekayèn:ton Andrew Brant is Kanyen’kehá:ka from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory and the Executive Director of One Dish Project. His work focuses on Indigenous education, land-based learning, governance, language revitalization, food sovereignty, theatre, and community-based programming grounded in Haudenosaunee knowledge systems.
He is an Ontario Certified Teacher qualified in Intermediate and Senior First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Studies and Kindergarten to Grade 12 Kanyen’kéha. His work has included curriculum development, literacy intervention, governance education, land-based programming, theatre production, and experiential learning across both educational and community settings.
Sha’tekayèn:ton is also the Artistic Director of Sewatokwà:tshera’ Theatre, an Indigenous-led theatre initiative operating through One Dish Project that uses storytelling, performance, and community engagement as extensions of Indigenous resurgence and education work. The theatre focuses on bringing Indigenous stories, governance teachings, and contemporary community realities to the stage through both professional and community-based productions.
The inaugural production, Cottagers and Indians by Drew Hayden Taylor, is directly connected to conversations surrounding food sovereignty, land relationships, environmental responsibility, and Indigenous governance systems. The production reflects the same core principles carried throughout One Dish Project’s educational and land-based programming.
Sha’tekayèn:ton is the creator of The River as Teacher framework, an Indigenous-led approach to learning that connects governance, relationship-building, land, responsibility, and systems thinking through experiential education. The framework has been implemented with post-secondary students at York University and with secondary students through land-based programming at the One Dish Project Learning Space in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.
In May 2026, he presented The River as Teacher framework at the Aboriginal Education Research Forum in Winnipeg. In October 2026, he will present One Dish Project at the Assembly of First Nations 4th National Climate Gathering as a model for Indigenous sovereignty and community control over education and food systems.
Through One Dish Project, his work brings together education, food sovereignty, governance, language revitalization, theatre, arts, and land-based learning as interconnected parts of Indigenous continuity rather than separate systems of work.
Get in Touch
To for any inquiries or to book a workshop or speaking event, please contact onedishproject@gmail.com
Booking 4-6 weeks in advance is much appreciated.