About our work
Canter Communications Studio is the space from which Nadine Canter works with individuals and organizations from nearly any sector to design and implement strategic public affairs and community engagement initiatives. With an award-winning track record of building and growing social impact programs, processes, and coalitions to support and grow self-reliant and interdependent communities no matter the scale, Nadine's work supports redesigning our current systems.
Our founding mission is to re-empower humans to co-generate healthy practices and spaces by reclaiming our interdependence with Nature, because we are Nature. As a thought leader and independent scholar she inter-weaves her study and practices of Communications, Tai Chi Chuan, and Daoism to create safe spaces for exploration and mutual flourishing.
To do this work requires a unique set of skills - most importantly an open heart and belief in the unimagined. Our relationship building and project management skills combine with an entrepreneurial vision, systems orientation, language and cultural narrative expertise, along with patience and perseverance to co-create regenerative pathways at any scale. Nadine's master's degree set the course for her life's work through a focus on the role of visual arts (landscape photography and plein air painting) in the establishment of the National Park System. From that base her master's thesis focused on the role of community engagement (relational) and communications (language, visuals, outreach strategies) practices in top down/bottom up processes to conserve Wild and Scenic River segments in New England and the Pacific Northwest.
While our relationship with protected wild places is changing (and currently quite precarious!) there is now no argument that modernity was founded on stolen lands, broken treaties, and an objectification that othered Nature and severed human's from belonging.
Specialties: Retreat, Event, and Conference Designing; Writing; Management and Leadership Cultivation; Innovation; Contemplative Practices; Facilitation; Relationship Building; Strategic Planning; Mentoring/Advising; and Teaching.
Areas of Particular Interest: Human and Planetary Health, Land Use and Conservation, Creative and Healing Arts, Education, Indigenous Cultures, Agroecology, Bioregonalism, Access and Equity, and Sacred Spaces.
Influencers: Bayo Akomolafe, Joanna Macy, Thomas Berry, Buckminster Fuller, Donella Meadows, Susan Sontag, Hannah Arendt, Satish Kumar, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Tyson Yunkaporta, Terry Tempest Williams, Earth4All, Classical Chinese Medicine, Daosim, Spiritual Ecology, and Ecocivilizations, among many others.
Our founding mission is to re-empower humans to co-generate healthy practices and spaces by reclaiming our interdependence with Nature, because we are Nature. As a thought leader and independent scholar she inter-weaves her study and practices of Communications, Tai Chi Chuan, and Daoism to create safe spaces for exploration and mutual flourishing.
To do this work requires a unique set of skills - most importantly an open heart and belief in the unimagined. Our relationship building and project management skills combine with an entrepreneurial vision, systems orientation, language and cultural narrative expertise, along with patience and perseverance to co-create regenerative pathways at any scale. Nadine's master's degree set the course for her life's work through a focus on the role of visual arts (landscape photography and plein air painting) in the establishment of the National Park System. From that base her master's thesis focused on the role of community engagement (relational) and communications (language, visuals, outreach strategies) practices in top down/bottom up processes to conserve Wild and Scenic River segments in New England and the Pacific Northwest.
While our relationship with protected wild places is changing (and currently quite precarious!) there is now no argument that modernity was founded on stolen lands, broken treaties, and an objectification that othered Nature and severed human's from belonging.
Specialties: Retreat, Event, and Conference Designing; Writing; Management and Leadership Cultivation; Innovation; Contemplative Practices; Facilitation; Relationship Building; Strategic Planning; Mentoring/Advising; and Teaching.
Areas of Particular Interest: Human and Planetary Health, Land Use and Conservation, Creative and Healing Arts, Education, Indigenous Cultures, Agroecology, Bioregonalism, Access and Equity, and Sacred Spaces.
Influencers: Bayo Akomolafe, Joanna Macy, Thomas Berry, Buckminster Fuller, Donella Meadows, Susan Sontag, Hannah Arendt, Satish Kumar, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Tyson Yunkaporta, Terry Tempest Williams, Earth4All, Classical Chinese Medicine, Daosim, Spiritual Ecology, and Ecocivilizations, among many others.
About our founder
Nadine has been puzzling over the impact of stories and media since high school and proceeded to get two degrees in the interdisciplinary field of Communications focused on the impact of all media on society. At her master's degree graduation the Dean of her program affirmed her natural state of being by reminding all the graduates to go forth and Question Authority. More than thirty years later with the informationsphere more complex and volatile than ever she still practices from that place of inquiry.
As an independent scholar, community organizer, and bridge-builder Nadine is rooted by the "we" of unity and holism. Our cultural narratives are in the wrong hands of industrialization and private media ownership which has brought humanity and the planet to this precipice. It is possible to re-attune to our core values to change the root causes of these narratives to rewrite the story. Nadine's personal mission is to create as many disruptive and peaceful ripples as possible to challenge modernity's grip on extraction and white patriarchal systemic oppression. She studies and practices Tai Chi Chuan and Daoism for their emptiness and paradoxes.
Her most important work has been to raise two humans who also work in service to change the story in education and mental health fields. She can be found puzzling on and embracing the mystery with knitting needles, a camera, a book, and a pen - in the woods, by, on, or in any water, in the garden, and around a kitchen island nourishing family and friends.
As an independent scholar, community organizer, and bridge-builder Nadine is rooted by the "we" of unity and holism. Our cultural narratives are in the wrong hands of industrialization and private media ownership which has brought humanity and the planet to this precipice. It is possible to re-attune to our core values to change the root causes of these narratives to rewrite the story. Nadine's personal mission is to create as many disruptive and peaceful ripples as possible to challenge modernity's grip on extraction and white patriarchal systemic oppression. She studies and practices Tai Chi Chuan and Daoism for their emptiness and paradoxes.
Her most important work has been to raise two humans who also work in service to change the story in education and mental health fields. She can be found puzzling on and embracing the mystery with knitting needles, a camera, a book, and a pen - in the woods, by, on, or in any water, in the garden, and around a kitchen island nourishing family and friends.
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