Mindfulness Meditation for a Happy Life
With Robert Beatty
May 29 - June 3, 2022
Cortes Island
Meditation is as natural as breathing. With support and skillful guidance, you can learn to use the ancient practice of mindfulness to relax, overcome psychological and emotional obstacles to happiness, and find ease and freedom in your days.
Salish Shorelines: A Saltwater Journey
With Jonas Fineman and Kai Harvey
June 17 - 22, 2022
Cortes Island
Join Cortes Island guides and mariners for a kayaking exploration of the Salish Sea surrounding the renowned Hollyhock Campus. Each day’s adventure offers a safe and comprehensive foray into the seascapes and histories of Desolation Sound and the Discovery Islands. Launching from various beaches around Cortes Island as well as from the 43 foot schooner Misty Isles, each day we will access new waters with the Hollyhock campus serving as base camp. We will explore the expansive and intricate coastlines of the gulf islands. Learn about the geology, history, and ecology as we explore coastal ecosystems by kayak. Expand your…
Leadership Naturally
With Ronna Schneberger, BRM, Kim Holst and Susan Abookire, BSEE, MD, MPH, FACP
June 22 - 26, 2022
Cortes Island
The world needs YOU and your full range of unique gifts, brilliance and power. For centuries people have come to know who they are, what they are here to offer and how to offer their gifts through time on the land. Join this specialized nature immersion to discover how the land can help you access your highest leadership potential.
Mindful Self-Compassion
With Martin Thomson-Jones, PhD and Joel Grow, PhD
July 3 - 8, 2022
Cortes Island
Mindful Self-Compassion training teaches us how to develop the warm-hearted, connected presence we need during moments of difficulty.
Discover Cortes: Nature Adventures (July)
With Bill Ophoff
July 3 - 8, 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.
Tantra for Couples: Cultivating Sacred Intimacy
With Devi Ward Erickson and Chris Erickson, PhD
July 8 - 13, 2022
Cortes Island
Tantra is an ancient spiritual science designed to activate, heal, and enrich every area of life. Ancient Tantric practitioners knew that deep loving intimacy and connection between couples is the cornerstone of having a healthy, prosperous, and balanced society.
From The Roots Up: Relating in a Fractured World
With Rachelle Lamb
July 13 - 17, 2022
Cortes Island
Learn a life-centric orientation to relating that will relieve you from the endless mania for self-exploration, self-healing, self-worth, and instead direct you towards a solid enduring alliance with life that is informed by embracing one's rightful place on a living planet with its own inherent wisdom and rhythms.
Stand Up Paddle Board (SUP) & SUP Yoga
With Marie-Soleil Boisvert
July 17 - 22, 2022
Cortes Island
Imagine practicing yoga while floating on the clear ocean water surrounding Cortes Island. Let yourself be immersed by the gentle rocking of the ocean and the fresh saltwater breeze kissing your skin, bringing calm to your nervous system.
The Mystery of the Soul
With Margie Gillis and Thomas Atum O'Kane, PhD
July 17 - 22, 2022
Cortes Island
The mystery of the soul can be embraced, experienced, danced, and explored but never exhausted or diminished. Carl Jung said “The great spiritual illness of our time is the loss of soul."
The Transformational Enneagram
With Russ Hudson
July 22 - 27, 2022
Cortes Island
Explore how a deeper understanding of the Enneagram can be a tremendous help in the possibilities and challenges emerging in our time. Create a deep experience and appreciation of the higher aspects of the Enneagram (Essential Qualities, Virtues, and Holy Ideas) and how these aspects of consciousness impact our individual awareness, our relationships and our sense of purpose in the world.
Healing Family & Ancestors: Ritual & Resonant Family Constellations
With Jill Purce
July 22 - 27, 2022
Cortes Island
Transform inherited patterns into magical blessings. Jill’s unique ceremonial, shamanic healing rites, using chant and family constellations, restore coherence within family fields in oracular ways, unavailable in normal therapy. Individuals and families welcome.
Time of Transition
With Thomas Atum O'Kane, PhD
July 22 - 27, 2022
Cortes Island
Life changes are times of passion and opportunity. Working with teachings from Jungian psychology and various spiritual traditions, detach and break free from old roles and expectations. Ritual, reflection, and wisdom guide your journey and passage toward your new sense of self.
Science, Ecology & Spiritual Practices
With Rupert Sheldrake, Merlin Sheldrake and Cosmo Sheldrake
July 27 - 31, 2022
Cortes Island
Science sheds new light on many spiritual practices, including rituals, pilgrimage, meditation, chanting, and rites of passage. Explore spiritual traditions and reconnect with the natural world through singing, listening, looking, telling stories, thinking, and having fun.
Art of Spiritual Guidance: Two Year Program
With Thomas Atum O'Kane, PhD
July 31 - August 5, 2022
Cortes Island
Spiritual Guidance is an art, a gift and a calling that has been long practiced in contemplative traditions to support spiritual development and personal transformation. The practice encourages the soul’s quest for expression, authenticity and greater intimacy with the Divine within oneself, one’s relationships, and the world.
Falling Awake: The Ecology of Wonder
With David Abram
July 31 - August 5, 2022
Cortes Island
Awaken your animal intelligence, shake your senses free from outmoded concepts, and invigorate your felt experience. Through elemental encounters with the land, creaturely shapeshifting, and heartfelt conversation, open a new relationship between your body and the breathing earth.
Canadian Psychedelic Summit (Application)
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute, Kim Haxton and MAPS Canada
August 5 - 10, 2022
Cortes Island
The psychedelics field is experiencing rapid and exciting growth in Canada and abroad. As we stand on the precipice of establishing a regulated market for medical access, MAPS Canada and Hollyhock invites leaders to pause, connect, and create a vision for the future fitting of the revolution that psychedelics promise.
Whole Human Health: Functional Medicine 2.0
With Dr. Lawrence Cheng and Dr. Devon Christie
August 5 - 10, 2022
Cortes Island
Embody your well-being potential! Create your own personalized optimal wellness plan for lasting health and happiness informed by a synthesis of integrative and functional medicine, mind-body medicine, and leading-edge neurobiology. For anyone seeking an empowered approach to their own personal health.
Imaginal Alchemy: The Evolution of Forest Therapy
With Amos Clifford
August 19 - 24, 2022
Cortes Island
Forest Alchemy is our ongoing exploration of what happens when we connect head, heart, and body in the crucible of the forest. The ancient alchemists combined substances and used the influence of their own minds to study the transmutation of matter and of spirit.
Discover Cortes: Nature Adventures (August)
With Bill Ophoff
August 24 - 28, 2022
Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off listed prices! Offer valid until May 25, 2022.
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
Book now and get 10% off listed prices! Offer valid until May 25, 2022.
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.
Heart of the Condor: Andean Wisdom Teachings
With Jhaimy Alvarez Acosta
September 7 - 11, 2022
Cortes Island
Book now and get 15% off listed prices! Offer valid until Jun 8, 2022.
Ground yourself in the wisdom teachings of the Andes while discovering the keys to harmonizing the three bodies of the serpent (mind), puma (body), and condor (soul). Connect to your heart, Mother Earth, and the Cosmos with the support of traditional Andean Indigenous knowledge, passed down through generations since time immemorial.
From Age-ing to Sage-ing®: Deepening the Sage Within
With Annie Klein and Nancy Gray-Hemstock
September 7 - 11, 2022
Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off listed prices! Offer valid until Jun 8, 2022.
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.
7 Practices of a Mindful Leader
With Lee Klinger Lesser and Marc Lesser
September 11 - 16, 2022
Cortes Island
Book now and get 15% off listed prices! Offer valid until Jun 12, 2022.
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
Book now and get 15% off listed prices! Offer valid until Jun 17, 2022.
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
Book now and get 15% off listed prices! Offer valid until Jun 17, 2022.
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.
Foundations Of Herbal Medicine
With Jasmyn Clift and Kevin Kunzler
September 25 - 29, 2022
Cortes Island
Book now and get 15% off listed prices! Offer valid until Jun 26, 2022.
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
Book now and get 15% off listed prices! Offer valid until Jun 30, 2022.
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
Book now and get 15% off listed prices! Offer valid until Jul 4, 2022.
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
Book now and get 15% off listed prices! Offer valid until Jul 8, 2022.
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.