• Single w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $2,373.00
  • Single w/ensuite – CAD $2,213.00
  • Single w/shared bathroom – CAD $1,873.00
  • Couple w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $3,614.00
  • Couple w/ensuite – CAD $3,298.00
  • Couple w/shared bathroom – CAD $2,982.00
  • Twin w/ensuite oceanfront – CAD $1,279.00
  • Twin w/ensuite – CAD $1,649.00
  • Twin w/shared bathroom – CAD $1,489.00
  • Three-share w/shared bathroom – CAD $1,325.00
  • Women Dorm – CAD $1,129.00
  • Male Dorm – CAD $1,129.00
  • Mixed Dorm – CAD $1,129.00
  • Tent Site Single – CAD $1,109.00
  • Tent Site Couple – CAD $2,018.00
  • Commuter – CAD $969.00
  • (All prices include CAD $869.00 base amount)

Date & Time Details:
Starts with dinner on August 10
Ends with lunch on August 14

Sample program schedule

Location: Cortes Island

Tuition: $525 CAD

Campus Rates: Campus rates include accommodations, meals, Hollyhock activities, use of hot tubs and campus facilities (does not include tuition). Click here for details.

Scholarships: We believe that everyone should have equitable access to Hollyhock program experiences, and that our diverse community should be reflected in all that we do. We are committed to identifying and removing barriers to access through our scholarship program. While we strive to be accessible and inclusive to all, a limited number of scholarships are available ranging from 25%-90% of costs.

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.

Please apply for a scholarship within your program registration form. We ask for a 5% refundable deposit to apply. Please contact us directly if you are unable to pay this deposit.

Health & Safety: Learn more about our Covid-19 policies and procedures here.

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Grief, Joy and the Way Forward: Life in a World on Fire

With Kairn Mahon Carrington, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, LaUra Schmidt, Tzeporah Berman and Britt Wray, Ph.D.

August 10 - 14, 2022

This was by far the best workshop that I have ever attended, or could even have imagined. – Priya Huffman, workshop leader, pscyho-therapist, potter and poet.

Our world is teetering on a precipice and we are losing our balance. Every day we are met with new disasters, new disappointments, and warnings that the worst is yet to come. How do we find our way in this time of upheaval, where the old is dying, and the new is yet to take form?

Eco-anxiety is now a recognized phenomenon across the globe. While grief, anxiety, anger and avoidance are all natural responses to the pain and suffering around us, they can also threaten to overwhelm us and drain the joy from life.  How can we stay present to the suffering in the world, do the work that is ours to do, while showing up fully in our own lives and avoid burning out or turning away?

Now is the time to build our resilience – as individuals and collectively. Most of us have little or no framework to process the challenges of living through this time of interconnected and overlapping crises. Together we will explore a wide range of tools and perspectives including processes for metabolizing grief, tools for dealing with anxiety, continuing to decolonize our worldviews, somatic practices, the conscious cultivation of joy, as well as the latest learnings from climate psychology and neuroscience. We will develop resources to navigate this time of dissonance and disconnection from a place of strength rooted in love.

This workshop was transformative on all levels. It wove together the most helpful tools and insights from psychology to social change theory, to somatics and spiritual wisdom, all to create REAL “hope” in relation to resilience and reconciliation in our Climate Era – Dr. Faith Cohen, 2019

Sessions will be held outside in the natural healing beauty of the coastal rainforest, gathering outdoors in the forest, garden, and on the beach, as much as is practical. There will be chocolate.

Program elements include:

    • A guide for processing our eco-anxiety and grief
    • Deep time connecting with the more-than-human natural world
    • A view into how some indigenous cultures view the climate crisis and solutions they offer
    • Somatic practices for alleviating the impact of ongoing stress and trauma
    • Frameworks for dealing with uncertainty
    • Ritual and practices to reconnect with joy and inspiration
    • An exploration of active hope

Learn more about Climate Hope and other resources

Working in the trenches of the environmental movement, I have turned to Kairn Carrington for years, for solace, for inspiration, for laughter. Now with this workshop she is distilling the best of that wisdom into five incredible days. I want everyone to go to this workshop – Tzeporah Berman, Stand.earth/Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

Facilitator Team

Kairn Mahon Carrington, Climate Hope with
Melina Lubicon-Massimo, Indigenous Climate Network
LaUra Schmidt, Good Grief Network
Tzeporah Berman, Stand.earth, Fossil-Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
Dr. Britt Wray, author of Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis

Schedule

A detailed schedule will be available 1-2 weeks in advance of the program. View sample schedule here.

Terms & Conditions

You may find our terms & conditions here.

Health & Safety

Learn more about Hollyhock’s current health and safety policies here.

 


Discover how meditation helped Karen and other activists develop “The Love Strategy” to save the Great Bear Rainforest:

Presenters

Kairn Mahon Carrington
Kairn Mahon Carrington is the founder of Climate Hope, an organization dedicated to building our personal resilience to fully engage with the climate crisis, so that we can collectively step back from the abyss and begin to build our world anew. Kairn has been breaking ground at the intersecting paths of…
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Melina Laboucan-Massimo
Melina Laboucan-Massimo is Lubicon Cree First Nation from Northern Alberta, Canada. She has worked on social, environmental and climate justice issues for the past 15 years. Currently a Fellow at the David Suzuki Foundation, Melina’s research is focused on Climate Change, Indigenous Knowledge and Renewable Energy. Melina holds a master’s degree in…
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LaUra Schmidt
LaUra (she/her) is a truth-seeker, community-builder, cultural critic, and grief worker. She is also the granddaughter of a holocaust survivor. Inspiration finds her in natural landscapes and honest, open-hearted dialogue. LaUra graduated with a BS in Environmental Studies, Biology, and Religious Studies. Her MS is in Environmental Humanities. LaUra has been studying…
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Tzeporah Berman
Tzeporah Berman BA, MES, LLD (honoris causa) has been designing environmental campaigns and working on environmental policy in Canada and beyond for over thirty years. She is currently the International Program Director at Stand.earth and the Chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. She is the Co-founder of the Global…
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Britt Wray, Ph.D.
Dr. Britt Wray is a Human and Planetary Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her research focuses on the mental health impacts of climate change. She is the creator of the…
Learn more about Britt Wray, Ph.D.