We’re open! | We are excited to share that 2022 programs will be rolling out over the next few weeks in December and January. We are beyond happy to welcome you back! Come reset with us.
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Teachers | Interested in presenting at Hollyhock? Submit your program proposal here.
Scholarships | Available for most programs, 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 lives and communities. Learn more.
Upcoming Programs
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SVI365 All Access Pass
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
January 19 - December 8, 2022
Online
SVI is an amazing catalyst for any social venture. This amazing community of people will inspire you, give you gifts you never expected and point you in new directions. Don't miss out! - SVI Virtual 2020 participant For 25 years, attending the Social Venture Institute (SVI) conference at Hollyhock has been a rite of passage for mission-driven entrepreneurs. It is hard to overstate the impact that SVI has had not only on the lives and businesses of the 3,000+ individuals who have participated, but for the very landscape of social enterprise in Canada. More than a conference, SVI is a…
Restorative Summer Holiday
August 14 - 19, 2022
Cortes Island
Reconnect to yourself and nature in our spectacular West Coast island setting. Take a breath of fresh air outside of the city, and enjoy the serenity and beauty of our local landscape. Holidays include accommodations, meals, and scheduled activities such as morning yoga, naturalist walks, and garden tours.
Writing as a Spiritual Practice: The Healing Power of Telling Your Story
With Mark Matousek
August 19 - 24, 2022
Cortes Island
Memoir is a path of self-knowledge. Learn to tell the whole truth and your essential stories will emerge, bringing insight and transpersonal wisdom. Writing exercises and group dialogue guide you toward creative discovery, increased mindfulness, and better composition. Everyone welcome.
Nature & Nurture Yoga: Embracing Abundance
With Fiji McAlpine
August 19 - 24, 2022
Cortes Island
Summer is the season to savour the fruits of the year's growth. The warm air is thick with the smell of sweet berries, and the forests are vibrant and lush. Each day you will be nourished with exquisite food, invigorated by dynamic yoga classes, inspired by diverse nature immersions, and enlivened by connecting with new friends.
Discover Cortes: Nature Adventures (August)
With Bill Ophoff
August 24 - 28, 2022
Cortes Island
The natural world is your classroom as you hike, kayak, and sail amid the wild beauty of Cortes Island. Discover the flora and fauna of both land and sea along with local history and geological phenomena. Explore ancient forests, sandy beaches, colourful tide pools, windswept bluffs, and a mysterious bog.
Drawing Towards the Earth: Making Journals for Life
With S. Portico Bowman
August 24 - 28, 2022
Cortes Island
Learn how to draw with graphite, charcoal, red ocher, and other earth elements. Drawing from the life and works of Paulus Berensohn (1933-2017), you’ll also create a coptic stitch Arcadia Playshop journal and a bookmark in the Bargello tapestry technique. Berensohn’s healing arcadia frames the path to ecological recovery on a global scale.
Depth Ecology Camp
With Nora Bateson, Wade Davis, PhD, Rex Weyler and David Abram
August 24 - 28, 2022
Cortes Island
As humans we do not stand apart from Earth's enduring ecology. To address our global challenges, we must start with our roots as creatures of this Earth. Explore how human society might discover this genuinely ecological frame - living with all beings, accepting our animal nature, and existing inside a living process.
Psoma Yoga Therapy
With Donna Martin & Shelley Winton
August 28 - September 2, 2022
Cortes Island
Experience a gentle body-mind/spirit practice for healing that can be integrated with Hakomi (mindfulness-based self-discovery). Learn how habitual tension and movement patterns may have psychological meaning, discover and transform the roots of unnecessary suffering, and find the keys to true health and freedom. No experience is necessary.
Discovering and Deepening Your Story
With Sonora Jha
August 28 - September 4, 2022
Cortes Island
You may have a glimmer of any idea toward a story. You may have a complete first draft that yearns for nuance and layers. In this workshop, you will find the tools to craft your essays, your memoir, or your work of fiction by breaking out into new discoveries in your voice, your characters, your arc, your story.
Essential Somatics: Free Your Movement!
With Martha Peterson
August 28 - September 2, 2022
Cortes Island
If you have “tried everything” to relieve your back, neck, shoulder, or hip pain for the long term and have only experienced short term relief (or none at all), then this program is for you.
The Art of Leadership
With Michael Bell and Suzanne Hawkes
September 2 - 7, 2022
Cortes Island
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 work together. Come participate in an intensive process of discovering how who you are, and how you show up, impacts the results you create and co-create with others. This internationally acclaimed 5-day program includes training in: Visionary leadership Personal and social power Self-management (managing your own state of being) Feedback and courageous conversations Building effective partnerships and high-performing teams Personal ecology (self-care)…
From Age-ing to Sage-ing®: Deepening the Sage Within
With Annie Klein and Nancy Gray-Hemstock
September 7 - 11, 2022
Cortes Island
A great gift of our older years is the potential for deepening wisdom and expanding possibilities. As more and more of us are living longer, we want these extra years to be vibrant, inspiring and fulfilling. This program will help you discover what gives your life meaning as you age, especially during these challenging times.
Flying SOULO: Your Story on Stage
With Tracey Erin Smith
September 11 - 16, 2022
Cortes Island
Transform your life’s stories into a Solo Theatre Show or Keynote. Through improvisation, writing exercises, and one-on-one coaching, uncover the stories that need to be told and reveal your truth in a powerful and entertaining show. Culminates in a short performance of the work created in class.
7 Practices of a Mindful Leader
With Lee Klinger Lesser and Marc Lesser
September 11 - 16, 2022
Cortes Island
Amidst a world of busyness, take time to stop, reflect, and renew. Leadership is primarily about cultivating clarity, empowering others, and skillfully responding to change. We are all leaders, and have tremendous capacity for influence in our work, families, and relationships.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT): 5-Day Professional Training
With Mark Lau, PhD and Andrea Grabovac, MD
September 16 - 21, 2022
Cortes Island
Take your next step on the transformative journey to becoming an MBCT teacher. MBCT is an empirically validated group program designed to prevent depressive relapse. For mental health professionals. Pre-approval required.
Mindfulness Meditation: A Way of Love and Compassion
With Robert Beatty
September 16 - 21, 2022
Cortes Island
Wake up from the trance of everyday life. You are not your moods, anxiety, compulsions, past wounds, or addictions. Awaken to the freedom, love, compassion, and joy that is your natural state. This program is held in silence (except sessions) — common areas on campus are shared spaces.
Social Venture Institute – Hollyhock (Application)
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
September 21 - 25, 2022
Cortes Island
Social Venture Institute offers the mission-based entrepreneur an opportunity to share challenges, successes, and experiences with peers in an atmosphere of trust and goodwill. Each attendee brings a commitment of social change to their enterprise, whether a for-profit business or a non-profit organization. Over 25 years, SVI has provided more than 3,000 entrepreneurs the opportunity to strengthen their business skills, network with other social enterprise leaders, and rejuvenate their passion and vision.
Foundations Of Herbal Medicine
With Jasmyn Clift and Kevin Kunzler
September 25 - 29, 2022
Cortes Island
A herbal intensive like no other! Learn fun, safe, and effective plant medicine for you and your family. Take home potent medicines you are proud to have made. Plant walks, plant lore, basic and not-so-basic medicine making, beginners botany.
Wayfinding: A Courage & Renewal® Experience
With Dan Hines and Keahi Ewa
September 29 - October 3, 2022
Cortes Island
Finding our way and navigating our lives and vocations relies on our inner resource of courage. Renew your capacity for greater courage in a Circle of Trust®; an inclusive, safe, and disciplined community space. Learn to more fully realize who you are, as your most wholehearted self.
Sensory Awareness: Rediscovering Experiencing
With Judyth Weaver, PhD
October 3 - 7, 2022
Cortes Island
Sensory Awareness is the practice of coming more in touch with oneself. Not attached to any theory or method, the work transcends dogmas, disciplines, and forms. It brings us to the immediate, direct experience through which we can rediscover and return to our own natural ways of being….to our birthrights. This work is practice; not theory or lectures.
Earth Based Medicine
With Yarrow Willard
October 7 - 12, 2022
Cortes Island
In this intensive we will evolve our understanding of holistic health and the earth based medicine path. In doing so, we will explore a variety of techniques, tools, wisdom teaching and old world diagnostic practice, as we build a rich language of relationship with the world around us.
SVI 365: Peer Coaching Circle (Online)
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
October 19, 2022
Online
Get advice on your own challenge and support fellow entrepreneurs in Peer Coaching Circles. For 25 years, attending the Social Venture Institute (SVI) conference at Hollyhock has been a rite of passage for mission-driven entrepreneurs. Join SVI 365 to enjoy bite-sized morsels of the best of Social Venture Institute year-round: real-time problem-solving, inspiring stories, and above all, the opportunity to connect with like-minded leaders seeking to make positive change through venture.
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Levels 1-2 (Vancouver)
With Alina Frank & Dr. Craig Weiner
November 4 - 6, 2022
To be announced closer to date.
Learn powerful evidence-based Clinical EFT tapping techniques to quickly and effectively create changes in negative emotions, thoughts, beliefs, and behaviours. This training is for individuals looking to use EFT for self-help, and to integrate it safely into professional client-based practices. -- Alina Frank & Dr. Craig Weiner, DC, are internationally respected EFT trainers and directors of the EFT Tapping Training Institute.
SVI 365: Peer Coaching Circle (Online)
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
November 16, 2022
Online
Get advice on your own challenge and support fellow entrepreneurs in Peer Coaching Circles. For 25 years, attending the Social Venture Institute (SVI) conference at Hollyhock has been a rite of passage for mission-driven entrepreneurs. Join SVI 365 to enjoy bite-sized morsels of the best of Social Venture Institute year-round: real-time problem-solving, inspiring stories, and above all, the opportunity to connect with like-minded leaders seeking to make positive change through venture.
Activate: Digital Leadership (Application)
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
June 7 - 11, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 15% off listed prices! Offer valid until Mar 3, 2023.
Join the sharpest digital minds from political and advocacy campaigns, creative agencies, and progressive causes, for four days of hard-skills training in digital tactics and leadership. Gain clarity on how to intelligently activate your organization from the inside, and crack the code to engaging your target audience to win campaigns, raise money, and hit your goals.