Stewarding your visions into reality
Dream Doula Consulting is an Indigenous, woman-owned advisory, planning, and engagement service stewarding organizations and Nations to action and actualize their intentions.
Realize your dreams
My Mission
​A doula is a trained professional who provides holistic support to your creative projects.
Dreams are our hopes and aspirations and offer healing and resilience to our personal and professional lives.
Being a "Dream Doula" means, once we co-create a pathway to your destination, I will support your journey with expert guidance.
Actualize your intentions as we navigate pitfalls and opportunities, access useful resources and tools, and mark and champion your progress together.
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What is it you wish to achieve?​
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What's important to plan for and what do we need to pack?​
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Where have we gone off track and how do we return to the path?​
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What have we discovered along the way to hinder or help our journey? ​
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How can we set you up for and celebrate success along the way?
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About
Tansi. Gaileen dishinakashoon.
Greetings. My name is Gaileen.
My family names are Flaman, Sabiston, MacLeod, Thomas, Swain, Lariviere, Schaeffer, and Bengert.
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I am your trusted guide, walking with you along the pathway to bring your vision to life.
Services
My services range from single task-based contracts to comprehensive projects
Consultation and Engagement
Effectively involving groups, committees, and communities in active decision-making processes that affect positive environmental and behavioral change. Engendering awareness, empowerment, and agency grounded in earth-based wisdom, feminine leadership, and a whole-person approach.
Program Planning and Facilitation
Designing and organizing transformative learning experiences, facilitating self-leadership among staff, volunteer boards, and community members, and achieving organizational goals. Integrating diverse methods, practices, and tools to co-create pathways and processes.
Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation
Embracing a two-eyed seeing approach to building respectful and meaningful relationships between Nations and non-Indigenous organizations. Weaving trauma-informed practices and a strengths-based approach to co-create safer, braver spaces for collaboration and shared decision-making.
Dream Doula Details
Discover my credentials, diverse projects, and guiding principles.
Working With the Best Clients and Partners
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The Net and Paddle Experience
"A Truth and Reconciliation Workshop"
Rachel Mason, owner of Arrive Consulting, has worked extensively with Indigenous organizations, social impact businesses, government and non-profit organizations for over 20 years. Dream Doula Consulting has partnered with Arrive to deliver The Net and Paddle Experience and follow-up reconciliation services.
The workshop base cost is $5000. It is also required to provide:
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A room large enough for BOTH: a circle of 30 people and tables and chairs for 30 people
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Refreshments, including: Coffee and tea, morning snack, full lunch, afternoon snack
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A portion of the workshop cost goes directly to the Indigenous Elders involved in its development.
We invite government and private-sector organizations to pay an additional $500-$1000 to subsidize the cost of delivering the workshop to a youth group or non-profit agency, or to contribute to the mentorship of Indigenous youth facilitators.
About Me
My pronouns are she/her and I am Métis, of Oji-Cree and Scottish ancestry on my mother’s side and mixed European ancestry on my father’s. I am blessed to live on the ancestral lands of the Hul’qumi’num-speaking people, specifically of the Quw’utsun Tribes and Malahat Nation. I am an authentic leader and “life doula” with highly developed organizational, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
I am driven to align with others in stewarding their potential and realizing their dreams and have a passion for co-creating safer, braver spaces for all my relations, human and otherwise. I have decades of community development, planning, and integration experience serving newcomers, Indigenous peoples, and youth. I am a feminist, environmentalist, and social justice advocate and ally choosing to see the world through a "both/and lens.
I enjoy infusing creative and embodied activities and experiences into my working methods and lifestyle. I am a fierce ecstatic dancer, rewilding woods-walker, moon gazer, and witchy e-bike rider and live with my two teenage daughters, my mom, and my cat, Cleo.
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Education and Training
2021-2022
MNBC Business Management Program
UBC Sauder School of Business
This certificate program integrates leading edge knowledge, practical entrepreneurial training, and Métis cultural contexts. Educated in key business topics such as strategy, marketing, operations, and accounting. Created a business capstone project generating encouragement from business leaders as a potential social enterprise and additional revenue stream.
2021-2022
Indigenous Economic Development
Royal Roads University
Intended for rising leaders of Indigenous enterprises and governments, this graduate certificate program supports the growth of self-determinate, independent nations and individuals. Invited by the department to partake, I gained a deep understanding of Indigenous economic development, and how to develop and manage Indigenous enterprises and strategic partnerships.
2020-2021
Professional Project Administrator
Royal Roads University
I was educated in collective leadership, data managment and reporting, budgeting, MS Office Suite, communication, presentation, and proposal writing, and I graduated at the top of my class. Capitalizing on the cultural supports woven into the program, I was often sought for testimonial and program support. I was invited into the RRU program research team, was recommended to an external consulting firm, and launched my business from this foundational training. This program and the supports catalyzed life-changing personal and professional development.
2018
Reconciliation through Indigenous Education
University of British Columbia
I gained understanding and knowledge of practices that advance reconciliation and helped me envision how Indigenous histories, perspectives, worldviews, and approaches to learning can be thoughtful and respectful. This impactful course in reconciliation emphasized changing institutional structures, practices, and policies, as well as personal and professional ideologies to create environments committed to strengthening relationships with Indigenous peoples.
2015-2016
Values-Based Leadership
Royal Roads University
I learned how to align my decisions and actions with values which helped me become a more courageous, confident, and trusted organizational leader and mentor, better able to respond to some of the great challenges of our time. I developed the ability to establish trust through transparency and authenticity, to foster engagement toward a positive organizational culture, to model effective and collaborative relationships, and to lead values-driven teams.
Get in Touch
2787 Gregory Road, Shawnigan Lake, BC, V8H 2E8
778-677-2734