nadatodo

nadatodo® (pronounced nah-dah-to-do) means nothing to do—at least for you. It offers services in ideation and strategy, writing and editing, and the healing arts: shamanic ceremony, Reiki and medicine-making. It also brings its own creative concepts and projects to life, while assisting others to do the same.

nadatodo® is spearheaded by Anastasia Koutalianos.

Founded in 2009, nadatodo® started as an online events calendar just in time for the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. Today, it supports clients in all their communication and wellbeing needs—from brand development, style guides, technical reports, print collateral and web copy, to the beyond beyond: energy work and natural products. Past and current clients include Government of Canada, G&F Financial Group, Habitat for Humanity Greater Vancouver, BC Tiny House Collective, Other Sights, BC Housing, Reconciliation Canada, Canada Wide Media, Immigrants Employment Council of BC, health professionals, entrepreneurs, artists, healers and more.

About me/Anastasia

I’m a Vancouver-based writer, editor and communications strategist. I co-wrote the cookbook From the Olive Grove: Mediterranean Cooking with Olive Oil with my mother (Arsenal Pulp, 2010) and dabble with children’s titles. I’m also a Reiki master teacher, shamanic practitioner and maker of natural medicines. I love a good challenge and enjoy working collaboratively with diverse thinkers and shakers. Out of the box is my type of thinking.

I adore art and draw inspiration from thoughtful leaders who want to make the world a better place. In 2015, I was voted best career mentor for my work with MOSAIC, an agency that helps newcomers settle in Canada and the Canadian workplace. Two years later and I would find myself nose deep in a new passion: housing. Tiny and small housing more precisely. I spearheaded a tiny house collective think tank, and soon would co-found the BC Tiny House Collective along with brilliant facilitator and partnership developer Samantha Gambling. At the same time, I was actively on the board of directors of BC’s oldest environmental non-profit, Society Promoting Environment Conservation; and through its educational program, Master Recycler Vancouver, co-founded Talkin’ Trash, the city’s first radio show exclusively on waste on 100.5FM Co-op Radio. (I also co-founded a couple of other radio shows that aired on SFU’s CJSF 90.1FM—nadatodo radio, and Immigrants Don’t Go to Therapy with the lovely and ever-talented artist Rena Anakwe—both blended artist interviews and discussions on current events with fabulous and diverse music.)

On the professional front, I was a research consultant with Indian Affairs for the settlement of abuse claims at former Indian residential schools for almost ten years, and interim director of marketing and communications at Habitat for Humanity in Vancouver. I’ve written and edited for publishing houses, magazines, film companies and websites (not to mention a bunch of private clients), and reviewed local art and theatre performances. I’ve promoted and thrown events, conferences and fundraisers, and hosted and produced community-based radio shows. On a personal note, my family runs Basil Olive Oil Products and produces exceptional organic olive oil that it sells to local retailers and restaurants, so I do my best to champion makers of all things yummy and good for the earth. In my spare time, I support initiatives that conserve, uplift and celebrate our differences.

I have an honours bachelor of arts in French literature and language (with a double minor in history and political science) from the University of Toronto. I studied magazine and book publishing at Langara College, and have a certificate in plain language and usability testing from the International Consortium for Clear Communication. I’m also trained in intercultural competency, ESL instruction, and in 2016, studied project management and facilitation through the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. To me, learning is a lifelong practice. Hence, I love reading and watching way too many “educational” YouTube videos. True confessions! Hahaha.

In more recent years, my love and appreciation of nature have deepened. I credit this greatly to my practice of vipassana meditation. Through it, I’ve gained more self-awareness and a deep relationship with silence. Equally, I tip my hat to my introduction to Reiki, thanks to a friend, and my subsequent training in it. It has taught me that in the void we are all vessels of energy and spirit. (I strongly recommend my Reiki teacher Myorei Zeraffa for those seeking to learn.) And to my road trip to the Yukon in 2019, where my VW Golf and I clocked over 11,000 kilometres across a province, territory and state. I drove curiously, unencumbered by time and worry. I sat in wild pristine beauty for hours on end, often alone, foraging the hillsides for fascinating rock formations and minerals and staring off in the distance—all the while, truly understanding what it is to be free. And of course, to my parents (mom and baba), who continue to inspire me, who have held our ancestral foraging traditions strong, and have shown me the way of the wild plants. Thank you.

My soul is curious as I continue to walk a lifelong path of self-discovery. My earlier steps took me to the main roads, the ones my world dictated as right. As I grow and expand, my intuitive meanderings have led me to smaller side streets and the arteries of my own beating heart. As the Robert Frost poem so famously says, it’s the road less travelled that made all the difference. I completed a one-year shamanic training program with Daniel Leonard and Elaine Hyde of The Medicine Circle on Salt Spring Island; and continue to deepen my practice through journeying, teaching and learning from the spirit teachers before and around me.

To connect, shoot me an email. You can also visit my LinkedIn profile. 

Best wishes,

Anastasia