Equity, diversity, and inclusion within indigenous coastal environments comes with collaborative projects and building relationships.

How you can support NLWs practice in coastal environments is diverse, yet all comes back to the Narrative. The story is our greatest space for inclusion and equity.

We welcome partner opportunities in collaborative social media, events and activations. Projects and opportunities help change the narrative and humanize the Indigenous position in coastal recreation and environs.

A small commitment goes a long way.  In a collective effort, like water droplets, all combine - flows to a life-changing program for youth and young adults. 

Step 1: Follow up Phone /Text / Email message choosing one or more combination of the following options below.

A. Social Media Collaboration We are all connected, however, many of us just don’t know it yet. Sharing social media supports the Narrative and introduces our Native Like Water Programs to friends, media outlets. Greatly helps. It also saves gas, trees, printing, energy.

B. Events, attracting donation: Events and social collaborations that celebrate our work and inspired others to give. Follow up phone call, email or conversation is needed to join our support base.

C. Product Support Collaborations: Our program uses quality and organic product support . Sponsors, Equipment, Organic products, Flight Miles, are items that benefit our program. Sponsorships requires a follow up email confirming product support and delivery.

D. Open Volunteer Proposals: Professionals, teachers, artists, community collaborators:  We are always looking to Grow, Learn, and Connect. You are a catalyst of change and you’re innovation is appreciated. Bring it on! This is for you. We want to hear from you and your ideas!

E. Social Media Paid Campaigns.  Contact us for specific projects.

NLW Consulting Services.
NLW Cultural Practitioners and NLW Lead Mentors are offered via NLW Consulting Services.

NLW are Top Shelf Speakers, Educators and Wellness `Professionals. Our core crew of NLW Practitioners and mentors change lives. NLW Consulting is a fast way to the Flow State. Various subjects as EDI plans, spiritual, academic and plant-based medicinal ways.

Consultant List of speakers, presenters, trainers, story tellers, practitioners.

Marc Chavez, NLW Founder and Director. Chavez speaks on Environmental Subjects and particular the modern practice of Coastal Cultures across Turtle Island. Chavez is also a motivational speaker that can bring audience from drop-out to drop-in.

Kaliko Kahoonei, Waterman-SUPsquatch Trainer, is a 3rd generation waterman from Hawaii. His uncles and grandfather were some of the early divers, fisherman and surfers of Hawaiis westside. Kaliko specializes in SUP surfing and longboard. Along with that, he is the operator and instructor for crafts such as SUPsquatch a 6 person (or more ) Paddleboard as well as tandem bodyboarding. With NLW, Kaliko is offering the first Supsquatch  training certification in the country, including the cultural educational significance of Indigenous surfing and restoration of cultural ways and environments..

Trisha "Mama T" Gonsalves, Associate Coordinator, Nutritional Wellness and Joy Cultivator. Mama T is a passionate advocate of using sustainable practices to grow food organically and use food as medicine. "Ancient ways in modern days" is her motto. She was brought to Hawaii 20 years ago from San Diego on a singing tour.  She quickly fell in love with the islands, the people, and the Aloha way of life, and feels very blessed to call Hawaii home. She teaches classes throughout the islands and hosted a cooking segment on morning television. 

Jerome Gross, Wellness: Mind, Body, Spirit, Yoga: Jerome has been in private practice as a Hypnotherapist since 1995 and has been teaching yoga for 20 years and with Intertribal Youth for over 17 years. As Founder / Director of the Effulgence Academy, Jerome teaches this specialized mind-body-wellness routine at fitness centers and holistic health centers as well as to individual clients since 2002. Mr. Gross also taught physical education for two years and developed programs for San Diego City School's Race and Human Relations and Health Integration Program. Students are presented with the tools and strategies to develop positive qualities and highest potential physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Jerome has studied and experienced native traditions, making it relative cultural needs and personal success. The specific tools and strategies taught in the mini lessons will culminate into a routine that Jerome developed for the San Diego Public Schools and in private practice as a spiritual counselor and therapist, called the Process of EFFULGENCE™

Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Surf Scholar, NLW Advisor, Auntie: Of the Colville Confederated Tribes, Dina is a renown scholar and writer in American Indian Studies, teaching at California State University San Marcos, and is a consultant and educator in environmental justice policy planning. A scholar in the field of critical sports studies, Auntie Dina examines the intersections of indigeneity and the sport of surfing. As a public intellectual, Dina is the author of two books, “All the Real Indians Died Off” and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans, and her most recent As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock. Born and raised in Southern California, Dina is a life-long rider of waves. She first learned how to surf on Oahu’s North Shore where she lived in the early 1980’s and was one of the very few women of the time to regularly surf the famed Pipeline break. She brings her Indigenous identity and knowledge into harmony with surfing to teach about surfing as a place-based phenomenon that always takes place in Indigenous ancestral homelands.

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