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  • Single w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $1,897.00
  • Single w/ensuite – CAD $1,777.00
  • Single w/shared bathroom – CAD $1,517.00
  • Couple w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $2,228.00
  • Couple w/ensuite – CAD $2,108.00
  • Couple w/shared bathroom – CAD $1,988.00
  • Twin w/ensuite oceanfront – CAD $1,469.00
  • Twin w/ensuite – CAD $1,349.00
  • Twin w/shared bathroom – CAD $1,229.00
  • Three-share w/shared bathroom – CAD $1,105.00
  • Women only Dorm - Lower Bunk – CAD $997.00
  • Women only Dorm - Upper Bunk – CAD $997.00
  • Mixed Dorm - Lower Bunk – CAD $997.00
  • Mixed Dorm - Upper Bunk – CAD $997.00
  • Tent Site Single – CAD $909.00
  • Tent Site Couple – CAD $1,604.00
  • Commuter – CAD $847.00
    • (All prices include CAD $759.00 base amount)

Date & Time Details:
Starts with dinner on May 6
Ends with lunch on May 10

Location: Cortes Island

Tuition: $465

Package Price: $909 - $1,897 / 4 nights. Includes tuition, room, all meals, and Hollyhock activities (depends on accommodation choice). Taxes and fees are additional. A $395 deposit is required at registration, with the balance due on your departure day.

Scholarships: Full and partial scholarships are available based on financial need. We prioritize Indigenous people, people of colour, people who identify as LGBTQ2IA+, youth, elders, and those who can articulate how their Hollyhock experience will support positive impact in their life and communities. A $195 refundable deposit is required, please apply within your registration form.

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What Ails Thee? Myth, Fairy Tales & The Post-Heroic Journey

With Sharon Blackie, PhD

May 6 - 10, 2020

We’re sorry, this program has been cancelled.

You may be interested in one of the following programs:

Geopoetics Symposium on April 14-18
Mother, Daughter, & the Divine with Patricia and Maeve Hoglund on May 10-15
Heart of the Condor: Andean Wisdom Teachings with Jhaimy Alvarez Acosta on May 20-24
Falling Awake: The Ecology of Wonder with David Abram on August 7-12
Writing as a Spiritual Practice: The Healing Power of Telling Your Story with Mark Matousek on August 22-27
Beyond Interfaith: From Spiritual Misfits to Interconnected Communities with Dr. Shahar Rabi on Sept 20-25
Deep Ecology Camp with Wade Davis, Nora Bateson, and Rex Weyler on Oct 9-13

The guiding mythology of western culture is not only intensely heroic and individualistic in nature, it is also profoundly goal-oriented.

What might a post-heroic mythology look like instead? What stories would we tell if we thought that living a good and meaningful life had nothing to do with finding treasure, defeating our enemies, or living happily ever after, but was about learning to live more deeply, day by day, in a challenged and constantly challenging world? What stories might we find which offer us a richer set of values to live by? Which show us that being and becoming are just as important as achieving and doing?

Explore the rich folkloric inheritance of the West: those ancient myths and fairy tales which remind us that, tucked up safe in the rambling, roundabout lines between once upon a time and happily ever after, lie all the secrets for a meaningful, sustainable life. These are the stories which teach us how to negotiate with the wild that is both outside and inside of us, and which show us what it might be like to inhabit a world in which humans are fully enmeshed. In this world, animals always have something to teach us, trees and plants can save or cure us, and wise old men and women are waiting in the woods to help us.

From the ‘question that must be asked’ in the beautiful and mysterious old romances of the Grail quest, to the soulful initiations offered by Baba Yaga in her house with chicken feet – we’ll rediscover the trail of breadcrumbs which these old stories have laid to help us find our way home through the dark and desolate forests of contemporary life.

Telling stories is innate to all of us. Discover more in this short 13 minute video.

Presenter

Sharon Blackie, PhD
Dr. Sharon Blackie is an award-winning writer and internationally recognized teacher whose work sits at the interface of psychology, mythology and ecology. Her highly acclaimed books, courses, lectures and workshops are focused on the development of the mythic imagination, on the reclaiming of indigenous Western spiritual traditions, and on the…
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