About Thu’it qun
Indigenous-Led Services for Collective Wellbeing
We partner with Indigenous Nations, communities, and non-profit organizations to achieve short, medium, and long-term goals through Indigenous legal traditions, healing modalities, and community-centred approaches. Our services include community engagement, program and resource development, project management, strategic planning, governance support, and the integration of Indigenous worldviews and trauma-informed practices into organizational and direct-service delivery.
Our areas of specialization include Indigenous Child and Family Services, Indigenous trauma intervention, including intergenerational trauma, the application of Indigenous Storywork in direct practice, and the integration of Indigenous legal principles into governance, operations, and service delivery.
Grounded in Indigenous knowledge systems, cultural values, and relational accountability, we support organizations in aligning their work with nation-based priorities while advancing strategic objectives. We foster meaningful collaboration, build respectful partnerships, and create spaces for dialogue, learning, and healing that honour the purpose each Nation and organization.
Through facilitation, capacity building, governance support, and trauma-informed engagement, we help organizations navigate complex challenges while advancing collective wellbeing, self-determination, and strategic objectives for organizations and communities.
What We Offer
Strategic planning and organizational development
Partnership and relationship facilitation
Trauma-informed engagement and dialogue processes
Indigenous legal traditions and cultural framework integration
Capacity building and training
Community engagement and collaborative decision-making
Program and policy development aligned with Indigenous values
Our Approach
Our work is guided by respect, reciprocity, accountability, and relationality. By centering Indigenous leadership and the lived experiences which guide our work, we help create pathways toward stronger relationships, shared understanding, and collective wellbeing
About Leslie-Ann Paige, MSW
Leslie-Ann is Hul’q’umi’num’ from Quw’utsun and Spune’luxutth. With a Masters of Social Work from the University of Toronto, and ten years of leadership experience within the social services sector, Leslie-Ann’s work has been to advance systemic change that is grounded in Indigenous values and legal principles.
This includes strategic direction, operational transformation and program development within complex systems, including those at the intersection of social justice and systems of oppression. Areas of specialization include:
Integrating Indigenous worldviews and legal orders into direct practice including delegated and clinical services
Systems change including the strategic and executive functions that align governance, policy, and operations with Indigenous laws, teachings, and principles of practice, while strengthening measurable impact.
Advancing Indigenous-led healing modalities within both clinical and community-based contexts. ensuring practice is relational, culturally grounded, and trauma-informed.
Leslie-Ann’s work is rooted not only in professional training and leadership experience, but in the lived experiences of her family and community. This includes the vision and lived impact of her late father, Felix Paige Jr.
