Strategic Creative Support

Aligning skills, strategy, and long-term goals

Strategic Creative Support helps Indigenous Nations, communities, governments, organizations, and businesses connect creative work to broader goals—and build the internal capacity needed to carry that work forward.

This service is especially valuable when partners are already investing in storytelling, media, branding, or training, but want support in thinking more holistically about how these efforts fit together and how they can be sustained over time.

Rather than focusing on isolated outputs, this work centres on integration, clarity, and long-term use.

Strategic Creative Support may include guidance and collaboration in areas such as:

  • Branding and visual identity

  • Marketing and outreach strategy

  • Photography and visual storytelling systems

  • Tourism and destination storytelling

  • Narrative development and vision sharing

  • Creative consulting, planning, and facilitation

This work draws on Patrick’s extensive background supporting organizations and communities to develop strategies that reflect their values, priorities, and self-determined narratives.

Areas of Support

Focus on Indigenous Narrative Sovereignty

A core thread across Strategic Creative Support is supporting Indigenous communities in shaping and stewarding their own narratives.

Many projects focus on:

  • Clarifying what a Nation or community wants to share with the world

  • Developing storytelling approaches that feel accurate, respectful, and intentional

  • Building internal skills so local stories are told by local people

The emphasis is not on outsourcing storytelling, but on strengthening community control, authorship, and confidence in sharing stories on their own terms.

Strategic Creative Support often works alongside Education & Training. Together, these services allow communities and organizations to invest in creativity in a way that is connected and intentional, rather than fragmented.

  • Education & Training builds the skills

  • Strategic Creative Support helps integrate those skills into real goals, roles, and pathways

How This Pairs with Education & Training

For example:

  • A filmmaking or media training program is paired with strategic planning to identify future roles or uses for those skills

  • Branding or marketing work is designed so community members can maintain and evolve it as priorities shift

  • Tourism or outreach strategies include capacity-building for local photographers, designers, or storytellers

Together, these services help ensure creative work is integrated, purposeful, and sustainable, rather than isolated or short-term.

Begin a Conversation

If you’re interested in exploring strategic creative support for your organization, Nation, or business, please reach out by email with an overview of your goals, current initiatives, and questions. Our team will follow up to explore fit and next steps.