Hollyhock Leadership Institute

Activate Skills: Mobilization Strategy Development

With Jose Nunez, Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Khari Wendell McClelland

Open Dates
Virtual

What to Expect Activate Skills is a series of 90-minute interactive virtual workshops designed to support digital changemakers to develop strategies, refine technical systems and discover tools for campaigning and organizing. Workshop Details Mobilization Strategy Development with Jose Nunez Dates to be announced This is a training geared towards developing strategy plans with a focus on […]

More-Than-Human Rights: Pushing the Boundaries of Law, Science & Storytelling to Re-Animate the World

With Monica Gagliano, César Rodríguez-Garavito, Cosmo Sheldrake and Merlin Sheldrake

July 2 - 6, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Explore the ideas and actions on rights of nature that are helping re-enchant the world in a stunning natural setting with César Rodríguez-Garavito, Merlin Sheldrake, Monica Gagliano, Cosmo Sheldrake and the More-Than-Human Rights collective. What does it mean to treat animals, plants, fungi, rivers, forests, oceans, and other more-than-human beings as subjects of rights? Through […]

Women+ in Climate: Leading with Light

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute

July 16 - 20, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
The path forward requires both resilience and community. Women+ in Climate is an invitational gathering for women and gender-diverse leaders in climate and nature to align to their deepest wisdom in a heart-centered space, guided by love, connection, and justice. Co-hosted by Hollyhock, Tzeporah Berman (Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative), Zainab Salbi (Daughters for Earth), Osprey Orielle Lake (WECAN),

Radical Dharma: Conversation

With Rev. angel Kyodo williams Roshi

July 20 - 25, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

It’s time to create the conditions that reimagine a path of healing, reconnect with authentic community, and manifest true justice. Radical dharma (“complete truth”) is a way to enter the critical conversation about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out and prevents our collective awakening. We can only accomplish shifts in […]

2025 Canadian Psychedelic Summit

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Kim Haxton

August 13 - 17, 2025
Cortes Island

Register for the 2025 Canadian Psychedelic Summit!  What to Expect Led by facilitator and ceremonial practitioner Kim Haxton, our time together will center the embodied knowledge of Indigenous peoples, creating space for ceremony, storytelling, and connection with ourselves, one another, and the natural world. With these foundations in place, we will lean into tough conversations […]

The Art of Leadership

With Suzanne Hawkes and Michael Bell

August 22 - 27, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Participation is by application. Click here to apply! 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 […]

Regenerative Finance - Investing in Service of Life

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute, Mike Rowlands and Michelle Lee

September 5 - 10, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

To gather capital influencers and capacity builders with the ability to move capital, in a way that awakens and develops our individual and collective capabilities to think from regenerative principles, so that we invest in service to life systems.  A meaningful shift towards a regenerative economy in service of life requires key capital influences to […]

Activate: Digital Leadership 2025

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Khari Wendell McClelland

September 6 - 10, 2025
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.

Social Venture Institute 2025 - Hollyhock

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Vanessa Richards

September 17 - 21, 2025
Cortes Island
Save the date for Social Venture Institute 2025 happening September 17 to 21 at the Hollyhock Campus on Cortes Island! SVI is an immersive gathering of visionary leaders and social entrepreneurs, dedicated to business as a force for positive social change. Each attendee brings a commitment of social change to their enterprise, whether a for-profit business or a non-profit organization. For almost 30 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.

From Roots to Reach: Transpirational Growth for Social Ecosystems

With Nadia Chaney and M. Rako Fabionar

October 6 - 11, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jul 7, 2025.

You know your work is powerful. Your methods are solid, your impact is real, and you're making a difference. But here's the thing we've both noticed after years of working with organizations, activists, artists, and changemakers: too often, doing transformative work comes at a high cost to our own wellness and that of our teams. […]

Beloved Community Bootcamp: A Training for Bridge-Builders

With Lisa Gibson and Gabe Wilson

October 6 - 11, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jul 7, 2025.

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 as a pathway of self-discovery. […]

AI for Flourishing: Weaving Wisdom & Technology

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute

October 19 - 23, 2025
Cortes Island

“As we walk the tightrope of planetary-scale transformation, it's becoming clear that we need to upgrade not just our technologies and infrastructures, but our ways of relating – to ourselves, to each other and to the living planet.” - Futurecraft AI for Flourishing is a gathering of technologists, practitioners, founders, policymakers, activists, educators, and artists […]