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thecollectivelegacy
Human by design.
Before the strategy, the policy or the platform, there are people who have to trust each other enough to do the work. That is where we build.
The Collective Legacy helps organizations, networks, teams, and communities hold the hard conversations and build collectives that stay human as they grow, rooted in feminist governance, decolonial practice, and anti-racism.
WHY THIS WORK. WHY NOW
Keep the human in it
It is getting harder to stay human together. We are asked to move faster with fewer hands and resources, and more of our deciding happens in threads and inboxes, far from the room and each other. All of this wears away the time people need to understand each other. Trust thins out, hard conversations get postponed, and a team starts running on habit.
We build the rooms where people slow down enough to tell each other the truth, and the ways of working that let a collective keep doing it after we leave. That honesty is what keeps the work moving forward. Groups that trust each other take bolder risks, catch problems sooner, and build ideas none of them could have reached alone.
Radical Imagination
We prototype futures worth inheriting
Collective Courage
We invite discomfort as a catalyst for real innovation
Rigorous Care
We treat care as a technology and match bold ideas with meticulous execution
Accountable Joy
We celebrate progress while measuring impact
WHO WE GATHER WITH
Teams and boards
Networks and coalitions
Communities of practice
Community groups
Retreats and convenings
WORK WITH US
Four ways we work
They overlap, the way good gatherings do
Build the
collective
CULTURE & SYSTEMS INTEGRATION
For networks, coalitions, and teams deciding how they decide, so they can grow without losing their people.
Walk
alongside
EVENTS & LEARNING EXPERIENCES
For collectives that want a thinking partner nearby for a season, a year, or longer.
Gather with
purpose
EVENTS & LEARNING EXPERIENCES
For retreats, convenings, and labs that need to do real work, and leave everyone with a next step they can’t wait to take.
For the conversation your team keeps postponing. We design the room to hold it, so the hard things can be said, heard, and worked through.
Hold the
conversation
EQUITY-CENTRED DESIGN & FACILITATION
EQUITY LOOKS DIFFERENT HERE
What every space
These are the foundations under every conversation we hold and every collective we help build. They are why the work keeps growing after we leave
Feminist governance
Power is visible, decisions are shared, and roles can rotate
Decolonial practice
Many ways of knowing count, and the group sets its own pace and language
Anti-racism as the foundation
We center the people most often harmed in shared spaces because a room that works for them works for everyone
Human design
Rest, care, and joy, are built in, so the collective can keep going.
Responsive by nature
Collectives that work, grow, adapt, and innovate on their own.
WHERE THE WORK HAS BEEN HAPPENING LATELY
International Cooperation Organizations · Public health Organizations · Grassroots networks · Communities of practice · Nonprofit boards · Faith-based organizations
Recent work
COHORT LAB
A learning lab for an international cooperation network
Teams from programs, finance, and communications mapped the power in their own structures and prototyped tools that move decisions closer to communities.
GOVERNANCE
A governance framework for a community capacity-building initiative
Through a governance mentorship we designed an intersectionality framework to ground the organizations governance and policy structure.
FEMINIST GOVERNANCE
Feminist governance practice for a Québec community of practice
A reflection day, a bilingual two-part survey, and a practice framework drawing on indigenous, Black diasporic, queer, and Global South traditions.
PUBLIC HEALTH
Trusted messenger work for a provincial trans health program
Community engagement that carries allyship resources to the people and networks best placed to use them.
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2026-2026
THE FALL/WINTER CATALOGUE · LE CATALOGUE DE LA RENTRÉE
Everybody gets a September
Organizations get a first day too. Six sessions, open for booking through winter. Each one is adapted to your organization before we run it, and each one sends your team holding something they made and understand intricately: a protocol, an audit, a template, a map.
HALF DAY OR FULL DAY
SEVERAL RUN AS A SERIES
ENGLISH, FRENCH, OR FULL BILINGUAL
IN PERSON OR VIRTUAL
01
The Real Org Chart
Le véritable organigramme
Circle this one if your team, collective, department, or board runs on a way of work that nobody designed on purpose.
The Cost of Asking
02
Le prix de la question
Circle this one if you’re about to run a consultation and want it to change something real, or you are trying to understand why the last one fell apart.
Evaluation Is Authorship
03
L’évaluation écrit l’histoire
Circle this one if the last report you commissioned described people who would not recognize themselves in it.
04
Repair Is a System
La réparation est un système
Circle this one if you’re managing restructuring, answering a safeguarding requirement, or repairing after harm, and the policy folder hasn’t matched up.
Before You Automate
05
Avant d’automatiser
Circle this one if your team is already using AI tools and nobody has decided what is allowed.
The Stories We Run On
06
Les récits qui nous portent
Circle this one if the most useful thing anyone said this year staying in a closed-door debrief.
THE TOOL UNDER EVERY SESSION
A question deck for organizations ready to face what they have been carrying.
85 questions across twelve clusters, from power and finance to conflict and narrative, each paired with a followup that takes the conversation one layer deeper. The cards let the hard question arrive from the table instead of from a person, which changes who has to be brave.
ONE OF THREE
This fall, three organizations will each run a full session with the deck at a partner rate.
You get a team that knows how to run the cards on its own. We get your honest read on where the next decks should go.
ASK ABOUT A PARTNER SESSION
READY WHEN YOU ARE
Working Together
If your group is ready to move from naming the problem to redesigning the architecture underneath it, let’s talk.
Thirty minutes about your context and ours
Lessons from (elementary)
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