MEET storyteller & social ENTREPRENEUR tara beaver
Tara Beaver (she/her)
treeblooms.ltd - Storyteller, Writer, Auntie, Mother, Social Entrepreneur, Social Enterprise Specialist, Listener, Youth Council Creator, Dreamer, Emerging Equine Therapist and Equine Lover, Horse sense, Poet
Tara Beaver is a First Nations emerging entrepreneur connected to the Stoney Nakoda Nation and lives in Mini thnii (also known as Morely, Alberta). Mini thnii is located in the Treaty Seven Territory in southern Alberta.
Tara is an emerging business entrepreneur operating under Treeblooms.Ltd with a successful history as a social entrepreneur, creating and developing successful social enterprises like the Nakota Youth Council with equal representation of male and female leadership. Guided by her skills as a storyteller, motivator, creative ideas and expert navigator with a finely tuned intuitive compass.
Tara has impacted and changed leadership (and a life or two along the way) through her storytelling, writing, and communication skills. These communication skills are key to Tara’s future business endeavours: creating workshops to help educate people about the respect of the land. With her success she wants to help Indigenous people and families find their pathway toward healing.
If money was no object, Tara’s ultimate ambition and biggest dreams for her business endeavours include an Equine Therapy facility, community gardens and self sustainability in community.
“Through my traumas, It was through writing and storytelling that I have changed. I didn’t see leadership through writing, but maybe it is. It is pretty cool to see all of these things unfold.”
- Tara Beaver
MORE ABOUT TARA
Tara grew up in Mini thnii on the reserve with her mother. Her father is metis. It was Tara’s mother who taught her about the land. Her grandfather taught her about horses as she grew up in a Rodeo family on the reserve.
While both sides of her ancestral story have been molded and affected by Colonialism, her father's Metis lineage and patriarchal ethnic logic has been a source of discrimination for her, having a light-skinned complexion. However, Tara speaks of this discrimination as one of many contributors that has helped inform her intuitive and empathetic character with a deep sense of the interconnected nature of existence.
What’s interesting about Tara’s emerging entrepreneurial aims with Treeblooms.ltd is that they center around her innate ability to communicate and desire to communicate effectively to as many people as possible in a method they can easily understand.
Tara is an equine expert and believes “there is so much that interconnects with the horse, and you can connect the horse to everybody worldwide….It’s a beautiful thing because I’ve always thought of ways to engage humans and connect them back to the land. There are conversations right now…talking about environmental assessments, traditional knowledge, and trying to mend the gap between both worlds….”
I think the horse is the best way to connect people to understanding when…the biggest gap right now is figuring how to get society to understand where Indigenous people are coming from and vice versa.” - Tara Beaver
Treeblooms.Ltd is utilizing her experience as a social entrepreneur to create workshops designed to teach and help non-Indigenous people. While creating specific workshops for people within Indigenous Nations to develop community engagement.
Tara’s workshops educating people and raising awareness on the issues of family violence overlapping with layers of grief and lateral violence will immediately impact the people and communities utilizing her skills and services, with long-term impacts enduring for generations to come.
Tara's Impact Statement
On a meta-level, Tara’s long-term impact will be helping people find paths to healing and a place of balance through storytelling and writing while helping raise awareness and help prevent lateral violence for generations to come.
“My biggest contribution to the world would be to help find balance between male and female, between the children of earth. That's how I see it because we're all children of the earth, and right now we're all disconnected from our mother. Depending on the audience I'm talking to, being able to alter what I have to say to fit their understanding of the world and the subject we are communicating on.” - Tara Beaver
What's Next?
Tara is currently pursuing her education through Athabasca University while using her social entrepreneurial skills to develop her business around her workshops. Tara continues her growth as a storyteller on her blog at https://treeblooms.ltd/
In time, Tara will move from social and emerging equine entrepreneur to business entrepreneur and equine therapist with an Indigenous-informed natural approach, helping people find their way to healing through what Tara knows best: storytelling, communication, and horses.
Horses are incredible teachers and the world is so lucky to have people like Tara to share her ancestral wisdom through equine therapy. Land based learning with Indigenous leaders is transformational and an opportunity not to be missed. - Vanessa Lesperance, LIFT Circle Lead
The LIFTing Your Leadership program brings together a cohort of 12 entrepreneurs for a combination of business development activities and relational resources co-created by The Indigenous LIFT Collective and co-facilitated by guest Indigenous Aunties bi-weekly.
These stories have been crafted in co-creation with the entrepreneur via the Amplify program which provides a combination of listening sessions and story coaching to create a digital profile for each cohort member. The Amplify portion of the project ensures Indigenous peoples and their perspectives are celebrated, seen and heard.
reGEN media will be creating a six-minute documentary to showcase hope, possibility, and the potential of collaborative partnerships to contribute towards Economic Reconciliation.
The co-creation of this impact initiative in its entirety is supported and made possible with our funding partners, Sunshine Coast Insurance Services Inc. and the Sunshine Coast Credit Union with the support of the Co-operators Advisor Community Fund. The Co-operators Advisor Community Fund supplements Financial Advisors’ donations to their community to help address unmet social, economic, and environmental needs, and build resilient communities for Canadians.
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