Cattail Strategy
Awakening the Erotic Life of the Gift
Suzanne Bowles, IPA, Founder and Director
Suzanne Bowles, founder of Cattail Strategy, brings 20 years of experience in community philanthropy, spirit-centered design, and collective liberation.
She has observed that economic challenges often attributed to shortages of capital or promising ideas are rooted in something deeper: our diminishing collective capacity to recognize, cultivate, and steward the intrinsic wealth of relationship and place.
Over generations, cultures of wealth accumulation have taught us to protect, privatize, and stockpile resources, weakening our capacity to navigate the commons—our shared spaces of concern, responsibility, and possibility.
Even our most promising regenerative initiatives struggle when familiar patterns reemerge: concentrated power, fractured coalitions, declining participation, and unrealized potential.
These are not simply financial or technical failures. They reveal relational foundations in need of repair.
Discover KinPact
For philanthropists and investors seeking relational models of proof.
How do you know your investments reinforce life and aliveness? KinPact offers frameworks to learn from your own investing through established methods, adaptive learning and whole systems health.
KinKitchen
For folks shaped by modern Western culture—often far from ancestral wisdom traditions, land-based practices, and the living rhythms that once taught us how to belong.
We gather in vibrant alive places to remember what our ancestors once knew: how navigate the uncertainty of daily life in relationship to the land.
Through seasonal food, sensory experience, communal practice, and the living intelligence of place, we begin to rediscover unexplored parts of ourselves—and the forgotten gift of relationship, belonging, and aliveness.
KinMaker Return
A 3–5 day immersive experience to reconnect with the deeper sources of wisdom that shape how we relate to wealth, generosity, and responsibility.
Through land-based practice, regenerative philanthropy frameworks shared meals, and collective reflection, participants are invited to:
restore connection with self, community, and the living world
explore grounded and relational approaches to giving and investing
identify personal and collective practices
In their own words…
“Suzanne’s understanding of the dynamics of family and personal generosity coupled with decades of experience in social impact are gifts to any wealth holder looking to advance their giving strategy or sharpen their practice.”
—Judith Hyde, Philanthropist and Board Member of Andes Amazon Conservancy
“I loved learning from Suzanne. She is so professional and always willing to go the extra mile to help you achieve your goals.”
— Zikora Ibeh, Spaces for Change
Contact
I look forward to the connection.
Email
suzanne@cattailstrategy.com
Phone
(978) 895-2661