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 —…