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AI for FLOURISHING: WEAVING WISDOM & TECHNOLOGY

October 19 – 23, 2025
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Shape the Future.

October 19 – 23, 2025

AI for Flourishing is a gathering of technologists, practitioners, founders, policymakers, activists, educators, and artists working at the forefront of ethical AI. Together, we will explore what it means to build and steward this technology in service of planetary and human well-being.

AI has untapped potential: revitalizing Indigenous languages, advancing equitable healthcare, restoring ecosystems, democratizing opportunity, and even enabling communication across species.

There are also immense challenges – some known and some less understood – stemming from profit driven models, data privacy and ethics challenges, bias that permeates the models as well as many of the organizations at the forefront of this charge. We are coming together to understand, create, and act with intention – focusing on collective well-being and ensuring this powerful technology is guided with care.

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Meet your 2025 Planning Team

What to Expect

We’re convening leaders shaping AI’s future—from startups and policy labs to global tech firms, creatives and grassroots communities. The outcomes listed below are our shared starting points. These will be shaped, challenged and expanded through dialogue and collaboration.

Program Outcomes

  • Strategic Clarity
    Gain a deeper understanding of the AI landscape and your role within it. We’ll identify power structures driving the field, examine geopolitical dynamics, and explore how to influence AI’s trajectory from both inside and outside dominant systems
  • Practical Tools for Ethical Action
    Walk away with frameworks and resources to immediately apply in your work, including:

    • Models for AI that support human and planetary flourishing
    • Power and systems mapping to identify high-leverage interventions
    • Conscious AI approach integrating ethical reflection, emotion, and wisdom
    • AI for Inquiry methodologies to generate new perspectives and ask better questions.
  • Visionary Inspiration
    What haven’t we dared to imagine about AI? In a sector defined by speed, scale, and efficiency, we’ll stretch the limits of collective imagination—exploring stories, strategies, and speculative futures that place life, care, and interconnection at the center.
  • Enriched Ecosystem
    This is about more than ideas. It’s about people. Participants will leave with a network of trusted collaborators across disciplines—committed to building shared accountability and shaping AI’s future through culture, connection, and courageous experimentation.
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A Three-Year Journey Begins

AI for Flourishing launches a bold, three-year initiative to understand and intervene in the culture and trajectory of artificial intelligence, as it continues to evolve at unprecedented speed.

Each year, we’ll return to Hollyhock to deepen relationships, cultivate cross-sector collaboration, and grow a critical movement for systemic change.

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Who Should Attend

The 2025 gathering includes a cohort of 50 curated participants. The cohort is multidisciplinary, with a diverse group of technologists, practitioners, activists, funders, policymakers, educators, and artists with a shared commitment to shaping an AI future towards human and planetary flourishing.

With a key outcome to shape a more equitable field, we encourage in particular participants from equity-denied communities to attend, including folks who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQ2S+, neurodiverse, physically disabled, and those seeking economic equity.

Scholarships are open until July 6.

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Agenda

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Pricing

Tuition: $1500 CAD

Meals & Accommodation:

  • Campus stay rates are in addition to tuition, and range from $750-2000 depending on your accommodation choice. Campus rates include:
    • Accommodation
    • 3 gourmet meals a day
    • Unlimited coffee & tea
    • Daily movement activities
    • Hot tubs, sauna, and campus facilities

Embrace Ease in your Journey to Hollyhock

Participant Charter

  • Take the stress out of travel and ride the Participant Charter. For your convenience, Hollyhock organizes a charter to take you directly to Cortes Island with pickups in Vancouver and Nanaimo. Enjoy comfortable air conditioning, and an extra opportunity to connect with your fellow participants on board. Top your trip off with a 30-minute boat ride across the Salish Sea, keeping an eye out for whales, seals, and eagles!
  • Spaces are limited, reserve your spot here today.

Scholarships:

  • Hollyhock recognizes that economic opportunity is not currently equal. Our scholarship program is one of our key strategies to expand program access to underrepresented and marginalized communities. A limited number of scholarships are available with awards ranging from partial to full tuition
  • We encourage applicants from those whose identities intersect with, but are not limited to: Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, 2SLGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, newcomers, youth, and elders
  • The First Round of Scholarships is open until  July 6.
  • Learn more about the scholarship process and apply here.

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