Reconciliation Canada: Charting a New Way Forward
At this year’s Social Venture Institute Hollyhock, happening September 27-October 1, one of our featured interactive case studies will be…
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Two Minutes of Hope
As we bear witness to the increasing severity of the climate crisis, we are faced with questions that cut to…
#EveryChildMatters
Content warning: This post mentions Indigenous residential schools, sexual assault, death, and the ongoing violence committed against Indigenous peoples. Over…
Call for Healing Justice
Melina Laboucan-Massimo and Nikki Sanchez talk about the importance of supporting BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) frontline land defenders,…
Statement on Anti-Asian Racism
Since the beginning of the COVID 19 pandemic, anti-Asian racism has been on the rise across North America. We saw…
Purpose at this Pivotal Time
Akaya Windwood and Sarah Crowell help us get clear on our purpose during a time of convergence between the pandemic, the fight…
The Root of the Matter: 4 Equity Lessons for Social Entrepreneurs
With a career rooted in food systems, everything comes back to growing from soil for Nikki Silvestri. Co-founder of grassroots…
How do you stay hopeful?
In a world full of turmoil – from species extinction to divisive political leaders – how do we stay hopeful?…
Climate Hope
I recently made the trip to Victoria to have dinner with my son Aedan who is in environmental studies at…
IndigenEYEZ and Two-Eyed Seeing
Kim Haxton of the Potowatomi First Nations is co-founder of IndigenEYEZ, an organization that is dedicated to inspiring an intergenerational…
Change the System, Not the Climate
Conversations concerning the climate are swiftly changing. As the sense of immediacy grows, so is the understanding that drastic measures…
How Are We Talking About Climate Change?
In the last few years there has been an increase in media coverage of climate change exploring everything from extreme…
Create to Liberate
All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you. – Octavia Butler Creativity is not reserved for…
What does Yoga have to do with Social Justice?
In Yin Yoga, easeful poses are held for about 2-5 minutes. The long slow holds – and more importantly, the…
Recover Your Sanity
…I walk through this wicked world searchin’ for light in the darkness of insanity Elvis Costello As a teenager of…
On Nativism
Recently, I had a conversation around the usage of the term Native. I found myself in an uncomfortable place discussing…
Listen to Learn: Conversations in the Village
We have been given two ears and one mouth so that we listen twice as much as we talk. We…
The Power in Vocal Communities
There is an awesome power in the human voice and when uncommon voices are blended for the common good, they…
Singing is Back!
Good news. Singing is back! The ancient practice of people coming together in song is having the revival it deserves. …
The Song In All of Us
[mk_audio mp3_file=”https://hollyhock.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/morely.mp3″ audio_author=”Morley” player_background=”#5db59c”] “It’s amazing what lives inside of us; what magic is in each of us. Everyone has…
Radical Dharma
IN CONVERSATION is a production of Banyen Books & Sound, Canada’s most comprehensive body-mind-spirit bookstore. “Love and justice are not two. Without…
Why I Love My Tiny House
Hi! I’m Charlene. I’m the Program Director at Hollyhock. As some of you may know, my partner and I decided…
Can We Clean Money?
Late last year, Indigenous Climate Action (ICA) rejected a $150,000 grant from Aviva Canada. The decision, in my change agent…
7 Images of Trust
Trust. I’ve been considering the source and nature of trust. I tend to think in visual images and poetic metaphors,…
5 Reasons Why I Live In A Tiny House
As a teacher of sustainable living, it was an easy pick for me to design and build my own tiny…
New Year’s Reflection | Rev. angel Kyodo williams
Rev. angel Kyodo williams plans to enter the New Year by reflecting on the last. In this video, she shares…
Poses & Power for Peace
Yin is always in relationship to something else, the b side, or heads to tails. Yin is feminine, yielding, solitary…
Mary Waldner SVI VANCOUVER TRUE CONFESSION FEATURE
SVI True Confessions allow us to hear from inspirational leaders who share their trials, tribulations and triumphs in creating businesses…
One ‘Bike’ at a Time
I spoke with Barbara Alink on a chilly November morning. Our conversation began with the uncertainty that seems to be…
Deep Leadership and Deep Lessons – Junxion’s Mike Rowlands on SCI 2014
Besides being known in the SCI circles as the Super Social Vision Portal guru and theme song leader (think those…