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  • Single w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $2,548.00
  • Single w/ensuite – CAD $2,388.00
  • Single w/shared bathroom – CAD $2,048.00
  • Couple w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $3,964.00
  • Couple w/ensuite – CAD $3,648.00
  • Couple w/shared bathroom – CAD $3,332.00
  • Twin w/ensuite oceanfront – CAD $1,454.00
  • Twin w/ensuite – CAD $1,824.00
  • Twin w/shared bathroom – CAD $1,664.00
  • Three-share w/shared bathroom – CAD $1,500.00
  • Women Dorm – CAD $1,304.00
  • Men's Dorm – CAD $1,304.00
  • Mixed Dorm – CAD $1,304.00
  • Tent Site Single – CAD $1,284.00
  • Tent Site Couple – CAD $2,368.00
  • Commuter – CAD $1,144.00
    • (All prices include CAD $1,044.00 base amount)

Date & Time Details:
Starts with dinner on August 24
Ends with lunch on August 28
Your program schedule

Location: Cortes Island

Tuition: $700 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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Depth Ecology Camp

With Nora Bateson, Wade Davis, PhD, Rex Weyler and David Abram

August 24 - 28, 2022

Humans do not stand apart from the earth and its living systems. To address our
global challenges, we must start from our roots as creatures of this Earth.

What does it mean to take action and adopt a genuinely ecological frame for seeing our world, our selves, and our human challenges?

This program seeks to deepen the connection with ourselves, the earth, and its living systems. We will be spending reflective, contemplative time together in natural settings, and on ecology adventures in the beautiful landscapes of Cortes Island – along the rugged seashore, meandering creeks, and in lush forests.

Through informative presentations, dialogue, and experiential workshops, we will explore what it means to be human in this time and on this planet. This workshop will be led by world-renowned writers, scholars and activists: Wade Davis, David Abram, Rex Weyler, and Nora Bateson.

Participants will build a deeper reservoir of understanding and skills about wildness, ecological systems, and an appropriate interface with human communities. Through informative presentations, dialogue, metalogue, adventures in nature and hands-on workshops, we will open our eyes to the magic of life’s processes, and connect this to our social and community processes.

Some Books
Wade: The Wayfinders, Light at the Edge of the World, One River, Shadows in the Sun
Nora: Small Arcs of Larger Circles, and her film: An Ecology of Mind
David: Spell of the Sensuous, Becoming Animal
Rex: Blood of the Land, Greenpeace, Chop Wood / Carry Water

Two recent writings by Rex
Thoughts for Young Activists
Ecology? Look it up!

Schedule

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Terms & Conditions

You may find our terms & conditions here.

Health & Safety

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

Presenters

Nora Bateson
Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and educator, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute, based in Sweden. Her work asks the question, “How we can improve our perception of the complexity we live within, so we may improve our interaction with the world?” An international lecturer, researcher…
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Wade Davis, PhD
Wade Davis, PhD, is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. Named by the NGS as one of the Explorers for the Millennium, he has been described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.” An ethnographer, writer, photographer and filmmaker, Wade Davis…
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Rex Weyler
Rex Weyler is a writer and ecologist and a co-founder of Hollyhock. His books include Blood of the Land, a history of indigenous American nations, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; Greenpeace: The Inside Story, a finalist for the BC Book Award and the Shaughnessy-Cohen Award for Political Writing; and The…
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David Abram
David Abram, PhD is a cultural ecologist and geophilosopher who teaches widely on several continents. He is the multiple award-winning author of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World, and Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology. Hailed as “revolutionary” by the Los Angeles Times, as “daring”…
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