Geopoetics Symposium
April 14 - 18, 2020
Cortes Island
Join artists, scholars, educators, and writers engaging with ecology, climate crisis, and resilience. Leaders in ecophilosophy, place-based education, and geopoetics—an emerging field of creative practice at the nexus of poetics and geography—will dialogue, lead seminars, create, present works, and cross-pollinate.
SVI: Social Venture Institute (Virtual)
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
April 22 - 24, 2020
Online
Connect with fellow mission-driven entrepreneurs and social venture leaders for our SVI program. Network with peers, develop skills, and build deep relationships that will equip you to confidently tackle the day-to-day challenges of running a socially conscious enterprise. SVI is a practical, peer-learning, alternative ‘business school’ within a confidential and supportive setting. Designed to engage and connect leaders of established businesses and non-profit enterprises.
Media That Matters: The Nature of Media
With Bill Weaver, Greg Coyes, Emilee Gilpin and Nettie Wild
May 20 - 24, 2020
Cortes Island
In an era of divisiveness and disconnection, our relationship to media and technology must evolve. Join a collaborative community of professional and non-professional artists and media makers who want to explore new world views and create flow states that support reflection, dialogue, and a deeper relationship with nature.
Activate: digital leadership
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
June 3 - 7, 2020
Cortes Island
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.
Run for Office
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
June 17 - 21, 2020
Cortes Island
Have you ever thought of running for office? Have you wondered what it takes? What it might mean for you? Run for Office will bring people from across Canada together for four days to learn how to build an effective campaign and explore the realities of supporting, running, and holding public office as people from communities who have been traditionally excluded from electoral politics. Join a group of progressives with an interest in running for office, or working in auxiliary roles, at all levels of government in Canada. Gain practical campaign skills, refine personal narratives, discover the personal and emotional realities…
Creating a Climate for Change: Advocacy Training & Networking
With Clayton Thomas-Müller, Tzeporah Berman, Cara Pike and Hollyhock Leadership Institute
June 25 - 29, 2020
Cortes Island
A skills training and networking opportunity designed for people advocating for a safe and just climate future. Connect to a community of practice and learn successful campaigning strategies, while immersing in nature, practicing self-care, and nurturing community resilience.
Summer Gathering: Navigating the Tides of Change
With Rick Ingrasci & Peggy Taylor
July 19 - 24, 2020
Cortes Island
If you want to create a new culture, throw a better party! Join a diverse group of multigenerational change makers for some serious fun. Share your gifts and projects, and learn about local solutions catalyzing wide scale social change.
Climate Hope: Tools for Thriving in the Climate Era
With Karen Mahon Carrington
August 12 - 17, 2020
Cortes Island
Develop new maps to navigate through these times of climate emergency and social upheaval. Discover tools to strengthen your capacity for cultivating joy, acceptance, and right action. Foster personal and community resilience as we work together to restore justice and balance to the world we love.
SVI: Social Venture Institute (Cortes Island)
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
September 16 - 20, 2020
Cortes Island
2020 marks 25 years of convening SVI on Cortes Island! Join over 100 purpose-driven business leaders as you share your challenges and successes in an atmosphere of trust and goodwill. The interactive nature of SVI offers boundless opportunities to ask hard questions, get advice, and build deep relationships. Level up your organization, your network, and your leadership capacity so you can continue your mission to improve the state of the world with greater confidence, energy, and resilience.