Becoming a Spiritual Healer

With Julie Kramer

Open Dates

The Art of Leadership

With Suzanne Hawkes and Michael Bell

August 22 - 27, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Click here to add your application to the interest list for 2026! 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 impact of your…

SoulCollage®: An Enchanting Path to Inner Wisdom & Creativity

With Kimberly Lee, J.D.

August 22 - 27, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Embark on an enlightening journey of self-discovery, guided by the power of your own intuition and creativity. In this immersive workshop, you’ll discover your own inner wisdom through the unique, inspiring SoulCollage® method. This fun personal practice harnesses the magic of images, intuition, and imagination to create simple collages that…

Harmony Within: A Journey of Songwriting and Reconnection

With Leah Abramson and Samantha Parton

August 22 - 27, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Songwriting is a powerful tool for self-expression and connection with our deepest thoughts and feelings. The Harmony Within workshop explores songwriting as a medium, a practice, and a journey through which we can reconnect with our creative source, our vulnerability, and our inner wisdom, harnessing the healing power of music…

Essential Somatics: Free Your Movement!

With Martha Peterson

August 31 - September 5, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
If you have “tried everything” to relieve your chronic muscle or joint pain for the long term and have only experienced short term relief (or none at all), then this 5-day immersion is for you. Come and learn how to restore freedom of movement, resolve chronic muscle tension, so you…

Psoma: Discover When the Body Says Yes

With Donna Martin & Shelley Winton

August 31 - September 5, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
What if we can learn to accompany someone on their healing journey without any suggestion of something wrong, something to fix? How can we recognize healing as an inside job - the unfolding of our intrinsic and natural wholeness? How can we learn to be the kind of presence that…

Presence Psychotherapy Training: Integrate Spirituality With Trauma Work (28 CE Credits)

With Michelle Lepak

September 5 - 10, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Note: Continuing Education Credits available. See below for details. Presence Psychotherapy is a Comprehensive trauma treatment model that integrates spirituality, internal inquiry, and relational attunement to process the many layers and nuance of trauma. Presence Psychotherapy, published in the APA Journal of Integrative Psychotherapy and the International Journal of Trauma…

Kintsugi: Embracing Imperfection

With Yuka Morino

September 21 - 25, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Kintsugi, 金継ぎ translated literally from Japanese means "golden joinery". This traditional Japanese art used to repair broken ceramics uses natural materials, like tree sap or urushi lacquer dusted with gold (or other precious metals) to make the cracks, or broken lines beautiful.  The cracks are called Keshiki 景色 and in…

Cultivating Wellbeing for Health Professionals (2025)

With Andrea Grabovac, MD, FRCPC and Erin Burrell, MD, FRCPC

September 21 - 26, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Replenish Yourself and Gain Tools for Living with Intention Join us for this mindfulness-based meditation retreat for health professionals and partners. Come away to the serene shores of Cortes Island to be replenished, restored, and equipped with tools to help navigate life in modern healthcare. This retreat emphasizes connection as…

Fish as Storytellers: Intangible Knowledge and Lived Practices

With Zoe Todd and Courtney Chetwynd

October 2 - 6, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Drawing inspiration from fish as storytellers in their own right, this workshop will explore storytelling, play, and artistic creation as tools for sense-making. Through interactive dialogue, collective visioning sessions, collaborative art-making, and land-based reflection, participants will explore how diverse relationships in their lives give rise to profound knowledge in storied…

Beloved Community Bootcamp: A Training for Bridge-Builders

With Lisa Gibson and Gabe Wilson

October 6 - 11, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
This 5-day immersive training is designed specifically for facilitators, coaches, and leaders who want to elevate their ability to navigate complex group dynamics and support productive inter-group exchange in an increasingly polarized world. We believe that improving your capacity to lead in these challenging times requires relating to conflict facilitation…

Eldering in Times of Transformation

With Cheryl Rose, Zhiish McKenzie and al etmanski

October 6 - 10, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
“A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species.” - Carl Jung There comes a time when you find yourself, perhaps to your surprise, in a new land which is unlike any part of the long…

Your True Nature: A Cold Immersion & Breathwork Retreat

With Cian Dalton & Carolyn Schmidt

October 15 - 19, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
This retreat invites you to slow down, reconnect, and return to your true nature — through the embodied tools of breathwork, assisted stretching, intuitive movement, and cold immersion. In the pace of everyday life, it’s easy to lose touch with the deeper intelligence of the body. This retreat offers a…

Wild Mushrooms and the Mycology of Consciousness

With Jim Gouin and David Sumerlin

October 15 - 19, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
With Special Guest Paul Stamets Save the world, one mushroom at a time. Fungi, particularly mushrooms, offer powerful, practical solutions to enhance both human and ecosystem health. Through lecture, discussion, and foraging: Learn easy-to-grow cultivation methods using a hands-on approach. Gain the skills to identify at least twenty-five species of mushroom,…

The Heart of Who We Are: Return to Belonging (Vancouver)

With Caverly Morgan

November 15 - 16, 2025
Bridge & Enrich Lives Society
We all long to be happy. We all long to feel at ease, to be at peace, and to know that we’re okay and we belong. When it feels like the world is on fire, when divisiveness is commonplace, it can seem harder than ever to access such belonging —…