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Cortes Island
Support our Cortes campus and get an intimate behind- the-scenes Hollyhock experience with our month-long residential program.
Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation
With Michele McDonald and Steven Smith
April 22 - May 6, 2020
Cortes Island
Experience seven days practicing Metta and Vipassana meditation, followed by seven days of cultivating mindfulness. Develop compassionate awareness and a more loving heart with a unique integration of mindful movement.
What Ails Thee? Myth, Fairy Tales & The Post-Heroic Journey
With Sharon Blackie, PhD
May 6 - 10, 2020
Cortes Island
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From finding treasures to defeating our enemies, the guiding mythology of the West is intensely individualistic and goal-oriented. What might a post-heroic mythology look like instead? Explore rich folkloric stories that remind us of all the secrets for a deeply meaningful and sustainable life.
Mother, Daughter & the Divine
With Patricia and Maeve Höglund
May 10 - 15, 2020
Cortes Island
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Uncover the mystical magic that can arise in the bond of the mother-daughter relationship. Whether your connection needs healing, depending, or celebrating, we will journey through rediscovering the divine feminine that is yearning to be unearthed and brought to the forefront of everyday life.
The Way of the Guide: Forest Therapy
With Amos Clifford and Christy Thomson
May 15 - 20, 2020
Cortes Island
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Way of the Guide explores a process of working in partnership with the more-than-human world to discover and nurture the unique seeds of medicine carried by each person. Supporting the growth of these seeds calls forth a constellation of gifts that is the person’s way of embodying power and beauty.
Heart of the Condor: Andean Wisdom Teachings
With Jhaimy Alvarez Acosta
May 20 - 24, 2020
Cortes Island
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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.
Mindful Self-Compassion
With Megan Prager and Martin Thomson-Jones, PhD
May 24 - 29, 2020
Cortes Island
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Cultivate the skill of self-compassion in this empirically supported training program. Self-compassion is strongly associated with greater emotional well-being, less anxiety and depression, maintenance of healthy habits, and satisfying relationships.
Sea Kayaking Adventures Aboard Misty Isles
With Jonas Fineman and Kai Harvey
May 29 - June 3, 2020
Cortes Island
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Learn to kayak on the pristine and protected waters around Cortes Island, from the comfort of the 43 foot Schooner, Misty Isles. Certified local guides share their knowledge and passion for the coast. All levels of experience welcome. Limited to 12 participants. Jonas Fineman is the seasoned sea captain and owner of Misty Isles. Kai Harvey is a wilderness guide and owner of Cortes Kayaks. They will also be offering this program on Sept 11-16. mistyislesadventures.com
Nonviolent Communication: Relating with Heart & Understanding
With Rachelle Lamb
May 29 - June 3, 2020
Cortes Island
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Learn a simple, creative approach to sustaining connection and addressing conflict. Through instruction, discussion, and practice, discover this potent and emotionally-intelligent language rooted in heart and conscience. For lovers, leaders, and cynics alike.
Beekeeping & Hive Health
With Steve Sheppard, PhD
June 7 - 12, 2020
Cortes Island
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Honey bees and humans have interacted for thousands of years. Use your senses fully to engage in a process that strives to build a mutually beneficial relationship with them. Awareness of the complexity of this highly social organism is key to appreciating the art of mindful beekeeping. All experience levels welcome.
Fostering Resilience for Health Professionals
With Mark Lau, PhD and Andrea Grabovac, MD
June 7 - 12, 2020
Cortes Island
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Revitalize, restore, and build resilience during this Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) meditation retreat for physicians, health professionals, and their partners. This retreat includes teacher-guided mindfulness practice and discussion, with a focus on meditation technique. Drs. Lau and Grabovac, MBCT mentors with the UCSD Mindfulness-Based Professional Training Institute, also offer a 5-day MBCT Professional Training at Hollyhock, Sep 25-30.
Radical Dharma: The Conversation
With Reverend angel Kyodo williams
June 12 - 17, 2020
Cortes Island
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Reimagine a path of healing and manifest true justice with radical dharma, or complete truth. Navigate grief, apathy, alienation, and burnout while engaging in bold, inclusive conversation. Empower yourself to dismantle racial injustice and advance our collective awakening. Anyone wanting to deconstruct rather than amplify systems of suffering is welcome.
A Training in Lateral Liberation
With Kim Haxton and Kris Archie
June 12 - 17, 2020
Cortes Island
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Explore Indigenous concepts of land, place, and decolonization. Learn about decolonial practices (language, art, economics, gender) and the embodied knowledge of Indigenous peoples. Deconstruct what is considered valid “knowing,” so we can laterally liberate consciousness together.
Summer Solstice: Yoga, Ritual, Meditation
With Mara Branscombe
June 17 - 21, 2020
Cortes Island
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Summer solstice honours the earth’s most dynamic time of expansion, growth, and abundance. Join the celebration with the art of breath, the healing of yoga, mindful meditation, and shamanic practices. Luminously integrate heart, body, and mind.
Radical Dharma Camp
With Reverend angel Kyodo williams and Suzanne Hawkes
June 17 - 21, 2020
Cortes Island
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Gather with people who are already committed to racial justice and anti-oppression. Dive deeper into approaches that confront the intersections of dominance and isolation that keep us from personal and collective liberation. Learn effective tools to challenge the systemic suffering within all of us; practicing wonder, vulnerability, accountability, and love. Reverend angel Kyodo williams is an ordained Zen priest, founder of the Center for Transformative Change, and author of Radical Dharma. Suzanne Hawkes is a facilitator, leadership trainer, and organizational development consultant focused on equitable systems change.
Tantra for Couples: Cultivating Sacred Intimacy
With Devi Ward Erikson and Chris Erickson, PhD
June 29 - July 3, 2020
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Tantra is an ancient spiritual science designed to activate, heal, and enrich every area of life. Learn practical and effective Tantric methods to cultivate a deeply sacred, utterly joyful, and profoundly pleasurable intimate connection - in and out of the bedroom.
7 Practices of a Mindful Leader: Mindfulness, Sensory Awareness, & Zen Practices
With Lee Klinger Lesser and Marc Lesser
July 3 - 8, 2020
Cortes Island
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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.
Discover Cortes: Nature Adventures
With Bill Ophoff
July 3 - 8, 2020
Cortes Island
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With birds and wildflowers at their vibrant peak, explore Cortes Island’s magnificent rainforest and teeming waters. Learn about the stars, the sea stars, and everything in between on this adventure of inspiring hikes, kayaking, beach walks, and a sailing excursion to Mitlenatch Island – the “Galapagos” of the Georgia Strait. Limit of 12 participants.
The Future of Children: Transforming the Educational Paradigm
With Phillip Moore, Gabriela Masala and Solomon Masala
July 8 - 12, 2020
Cortes Island
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Experience a new educational paradigm and activate the wisdom of the inner child. Connect with self, community, and nature through awakening to love-based ways of exploring, learning, and teaching. Expand awareness through imagination, songs, stories, and meditation. Ages 14+
Drawing Towards the Earth: Making Journals for Life
With S. Portico Bowman
July 12 - 16, 2020
Cortes Island
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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.
IndigenEYEZ: Leadership Essentials
With Kim Haxton
July 12 - 16, 2020
Cortes Island
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This leadership training invites you to personally experience and practice change. Strengthen your capacity for healthier relationships; reclaiming your innate power and agency. Learn to create culturally safe spaces for community building that support movement towards positive systemic change. Open to Indigenous and Non-Indigenous participants alike.
The Mystery of the Soul
With Margie Gillis and Thomas Atum O'Kane, PhD
July 19 - 24, 2020
Cortes Island
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The mystery of the soul can be embraced, experienced, danced, and explored, but never exhausted or diminished. Reclaim and celebrate the mystery of your soul with dance and spiritual teachings.
Healing Family & Ancestors: Ritual and Resonant Family Constellations
With Jill Purce
July 24 - 29, 2020
Cortes Island
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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. Excluded relations are reintegrated as powerful allies. Relatives do not need to be living. Individuals and families welcome.
Time of Transition
With Thomas Atum O'Kane, PhD
July 24 - 29, 2020
Cortes Island
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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. Thomas Atum O’Kane, PhD, holds a doctorate degree in transpersonal psychology and is a former senior teacher in the Sufi Order International. atumokane.com
Science & Spiritual Practices
With Rupert Sheldrake, Merlin Sheldrake and Cosmo Sheldrake
July 29 - August 2, 2020
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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.
Falling Awake: The Ecology of Wonder
With David Abram
August 7 - 12, 2020
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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.
Writing as a Spiritual Practice: The Healing Power of Telling Your Story
With Mark Matousek
August 22 - 27, 2020
Cortes Island
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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.
Podcasting: The Story from Hear
With Jenni Schine, Jennifer Moss, Brady Marks and Jacqueline Mathieu
August 27 - September 1, 2020
Cortes Island
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Tune into the power of sound, listening, and community storytelling. Attentive sound-walks, story creation guidance, and technical skills for podcast production advance your acoustic projects within a supportive, group environment.
Forest to Sea: Earth Based Medicine
With Yarrow Willard
September 1 - 6, 2020
Cortes Island
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Awaken your inner herbalist and deepen your connection to the healing power of nature. Learn to create lasting health practices, make herbal medicines, and sharpen your senses as you build relationships with the plants, mushrooms, and seaweeds of the West Coast.
Earth Wisdom, Horse Wisdom: A Nature Retreat with Horses
With Oriane Lee Johnston and Kera Willis
September 11 - 14, 2020
Cortes Island
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Journey into the heart of the world with horses as our guides. Practice breath and body meditation, hands-on touch, joyful play with the herd, and a journey ride on horseback. Limited to 12 participants.
Beyond Interfaith: From Spiritual Misfits to Interconnected Communities
With Shahar Rabi, PhD
September 20 - 25, 2020
Cortes Island
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Learn the tools and skills needed to establish trauma-informed methods of developing long-lasting and sustainable spiritual communities. Engage in meaningful dialogue about the future intersection of faith, psychology, and science. Bring home essential practices for today's diverse and complex world, and embody the heart of your contemplative life.
Peace, Poetry & Prayer
With Farah Nazarali
September 20 - 25, 2020
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Peace is at the core of our being. Peace visionaries know that bringing peace into the world involves courage, collective action, and renewal of the spirit. This program combines peace, poetry, yogic practices, and universal prayers and rituals to dedicate ourselves to inner harmony, family reconciliation, reverence for the Earth, and peace in our world.
Mindfulness Meditation
With Robert Beatty
September 25 - 30, 2020
Cortes Island
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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.
Whole Human Health: Functional Medicine 2.0
With Dr. Lawrence Cheng and Dr. Devon Christie
September 30 - October 5, 2020
Cortes Island
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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.
Wild Mushrooms & the Mycology of Consciousness
With Paul Stamets, D.Sc (Hon.)
October 5 - 9, 2020
Cortes Island
Save the world, one mushroom at a time. Fungi offer powerful, practical solutions to enhance both human and ecosystem health. Roam the wilds of Cortes Island and learn mushroom identification, easy-to-grow cultivation methods, as well as various culinary and medicinal applications. -- Paul Stamets, D.Sc., is a renowned, award-winning mycologist. The Star Trek Discovery series recently named a character - Astromycologist Starfleet Lt. Commander Stamets - in his honour.
Wild Mushrooms & the Mycology of Consciousness
With Paul Stamets, D.Sc (Hon.)
October 14 - 18, 2020
Cortes Island
Save the world, one mushroom at a time. Fungi offer powerful, practical solutions to enhance both human and ecosystem health. Roam the wilds of Cortes Island and learn mushroom identification, easy-to-grow cultivation methods, as well as various culinary and medicinal applications. -- Paul Stamets, D.Sc., is a renowned, award-winning mycologist. The Star Trek Discovery series named a character - Astromycologist Starfleet Lt. Commander Stamets - in his honour.