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Leadership Skills
Activate Skills: Redefining Leadership for a New Era with Amanda Litman
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
February 25, 2026
Zoom
Amanda Litman is the co-founder and executive director of Run for Something, which recruits and supports young, diverse progressives running for local office — since 2017, they’ve identified nearly 135,000 young people across the country who want to run. She’s also the author of the book, “Run for Something: A…
Social Venture Institute – Virtual 2026
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
March 5 - 13, 2026
Online
SVI Virtual 2026 will provide you with a forum to share your real time struggles, to problem solve and innovate in this new normal, and create community in a brave and carefully curated space. We will gather for ourselves, for our businesses, and for each other.
Activate 2026
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Khari Wendell McClelland
April 29 - May 3, 2026
Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off campus rates! Offer valid until Jan 23, 2026.
Join the sharpest digital minds from political and advocacy campaigns, creative agencies, and progressive causes, for four days of hard-skills training in digital tactics and leadership. Gain clarity on how to intelligently activate your organization from the inside, and crack the code to engaging your target audience to win campaigns,…
Together: A Gathering for Facilitators (Vancouver)
With Khari Wendell McClelland, Aftab Erfan and Aslam Bulbulia
May 25 - 27, 2026
Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
Skillful facilitation has the capacity to transform spaces and communities. There's a special kind of power that is felt when people come together in circle, to speak truth, and to practice better ways of being in dialogue. Building on the success of its inaugural offering, Hollyhock Leadership Institute, in partnership…
Nonviolent Communication: A Body-Based Approach
With Farah Nazarali
May 27 - 31, 2026
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Feb 25, 2026.
This innovative approach to Nonviolent Communication (NVC) takes the body as the foundation for understanding how we communicate; what stands in the way of skillful communication, and when to take a step back from engaging with others. Explore the deeper layers of communication- body language, tone, intonation, and rhythm and…
Groundwork: Breaking the Cycle of Overwhelm
With Amrita Ahuja and Tommaso Biasiolo
June 24 - 28, 2026
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Mar 25, 2026.
If you feel like life has become a constant cycle of reacting, pushing, and catching up — you’re not alone. Most of us are running on systems that keep us overloaded and exhausted. Surrounded by the beauty of Cortes Island, reset your patterns and restore your focus. Groundwork integrates mindfulness…
Freedom Begins with Letting Go
With Chelene Knight
June 28 - July 3, 2026
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Mar 29, 2026.
Join award-winning writer and creative practitioner Chelene Knight for a transformative journey into letting go and deepening your understanding of self. Through emotionally rich and immersive activities, such as letter writing, discovering personal connections in meaningful objects, guided meditations, and discussions on abstract ideas like love, loss, and grief explored…
Embodied Practices for Collective Thriving
With Roula Said, Julia Aplin, Shannon Litzenberger and Andrea Nann
June 28 - July 3, 2026
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Mar 29, 2026.
In this time of intersecting social, political, and planetary crises, how do we embrace and honour all that is arising in us as bodies? What if we listen closely to what we feel in our hearts, what we know in our bones? Can we resonate care and connection across our…
Radical Dharma: Conversation
With Rev. angel Kyodo williams Roshi
July 19 - 24, 2026
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Apr 19, 2026.
Together we can create the conditions for healing, reconnection, authentic community, and justice. Radical dharma (“complete truth”) is a way to enter the critical conversation about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out, preventing our collective awakening and connection. To shift, we must create conditions for…
Nine Patterns of Developmental Pathways
With Dan Siegel, M.D.
August 2 - 7, 2026
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until May 3, 2026.
In this immersive, interactive workshop retreat with Dan Siegel, participants will learn about their own lives, how persistent patterns of emotion, thinking, and behaviour—known as “personality”—may have formed, and how to enable those potential prisons to transform into platforms of possibility that serve as playgrounds in life. Dan offers a…
The Art of Leadership (2026)
With Suzanne Hawkes and Michael Bell
August 21 - 26, 2026
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until May 22, 2026.
You must apply to attend this program. Applications for the 2026 training are now open. Are you committed to making a difference in the world? In social change, socially responsible business, education, politics or community service? Learn to inspire, engage and collaborate with others in effective action to broaden the…
Social Venture Institute Hollyhock 2026
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
September 23 - 27, 2026
If you believe that business can (and should) be a catalyst for social and economic transformation, you belong at Social Venture Institute. Join Canada’s longest-running social enterprise gathering to find the inspiration, resources, and relationships you need to propel your mission forward. SVI is a five-day oceanside gathering of 100+…