Hollyhock Leadership Institute
Activate Skills: Mobilization Strategy Development
With Jose Nunez, Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Khari Wendell McClelland
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 […]
Activate Skills: Redefining Leadership for a New Era with Amanda Litman
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
Amanda Litman is the co-founder and executive director of Run for Something, which recruits and supports young, diverse progressives running for local office — since 2017, they’ve identified nearly 135,000 young people across the country who want to run. She’s also the author of the book, “Run for Something: A Real Talk Guide to Fixing […]
SVI Alumni & Friends Meet up (Vancouver)
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
SVI Alumni & Friends Meet up A casual drop-in to reconnect with SVI alumni over delicious food. Connect with fellow SVI alumni! Feel free to bring a friend who would benefit from connecting with the community. See you there. Date: Tuesday March 10th, 5:30 - 8:00pm Location: Tayybeh, 151 West Broadway, Vancouver, BC V5Y 1P4, […]
Activate 2026
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Khari Wendell McClelland
Resilience for Uncertain Times: Wild Earth, Steady Heart
With Kristan Childs and Teddy Kellam
Join Kristan Childs and Teddy Kellam for the Work That Reconnects spiral, a joyful and coherent path to inner wisdom and vitality during unsteady times. “To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe — to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from […]
Together: A Gathering for Facilitators (Vancouver)
With Khari Wendell McClelland, Aftab Erfan and Aslam Bulbulia
Skillful facilitation has the capacity to transform spaces and communities. There's a special kind of power that is felt when people come together in circle, to speak truth, and to practice better ways of being in dialogue. Building on the success of its inaugural offering, Hollyhock Leadership Institute, in partnership with the SFU Wosk Centre […]
Nonviolent Communication: A Body-Based Approach
With Farah Nazarali
This innovative approach to Nonviolent Communication (NVC) takes the body as the foundation for understanding how we communicate; what stands in the way of skillful communication, and when to take a step back from engaging with others. Explore the deeper layers of communication- body language, tone, intonation, and rhythm and what these body-based cues reveal […]
Body Songs: Movement for Therapists
With Katrina Curry
Join Somatic Psychotherapist Katrina Curry and explore the playfulness of Eco-Somatic Movement Psychotherapy, a workshop specifically designed for therapists, social workers and counselors. As therapists we also need time and space for renewal and restoration in community. This five day program offers enlivening care for therapists, sharing movement—somatic and creative expression—nourishment and experiential learning methods […]
Social Venture Institute – Virtual 2026
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
Cultivating Wellbeing for Health Professionals
With Andrea Grabovac, MD, FRCPC and Erin Burrell, MD, FRCPC
Replenish Yourself and Gain Tools for Living with Intention “I left feeling deeply grounded, connected, and renewed.“ - Past participant 2025 Join us for this mindfulness-based meditation retreat for health professionals and partners. Come away to the serene shores of Cortes Island to be replenished, restored, and equipped with tools to help navigate life in modern […]
Groundwork: Breaking the Cycle of Overwhelm
With Amrita Ahuja and Tommaso Biasiolo
If you feel like life has become a constant cycle of reacting, pushing, and catching up — you’re not alone. Most of us are running on systems that keep us overloaded and exhausted. Surrounded by the beauty of Cortes Island, reset your patterns and restore your focus. Groundwork integrates mindfulness with a simple system for […]
Embodied Practices for Collective Thriving
With Roula Said, Julia Aplin, Shannon Litzenberger and Andrea Nann
In this time of intersecting social, political, and planetary crises, how do we embrace and honour all that is arising in us as bodies? What if we listen closely to what we feel in our hearts, what we know in our bones? Can we resonate care and connection across our differences, tuning into our sense […]
Freedom Begins with Letting Go
With Chelene Knight
Join award-winning writer and creative practitioner Chelene Knight for a transformative journey into letting go and deepening your understanding of self. Through emotionally rich and immersive activities, such as letter writing, discovering personal connections in meaningful objects, guided meditations, and discussions on abstract ideas like love, loss, and grief explored through literary greats such as […]
Radical Dharma: Conversation
With Rev. angel Kyodo williams Roshi
Together we can create the conditions for healing, reconnection, authentic community, and 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, preventing our collective awakening and connection. To shift, we must create conditions for radical honesty, where we drop […]
Nine Patterns of Developmental Pathways
With Dan Siegel, M.D.
In this immersive, interactive workshop retreat with Dan Siegel, participants will learn about their own lives, how persistent patterns of emotion, thinking, and behaviour—known as “personality”—may have formed, and how to enable those potential prisons to transform into platforms of possibility that serve as playgrounds in life. Dan offers a view from the trans-disciplinary field […]
A New Way of Being: Claiming Love and Power in Uncertain Times
With Deepa Narayan and Eric Mulholland
We cannot imagine or create a new world with old patterns of thought and ego-driven ways of being. The crises of our time—ecological, social, and spiritual—ask us to go deeper. They call us to source from love, not fear; from connectedness, not isolation. Love is not weakness, sentimentality, or escape. Love is power. It is […]
The Art of Leadership (2026)
With Suzanne Hawkes and Michael Bell
You must apply to attend this program. Applications for the 2026 training are now open. 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. […]
Presence Psychotherapy Training: Integrate Spirituality With Trauma Work (28 CE Credits)
With Michelle Lepak
Note: Continuing Education Credits available. See below for details. Presence Psychotherapy is a comprehensive trauma treatment model that integrates spirituality, work with parts of the mind, and relational attunement to process the many layers and nuances of trauma. Presence Psychotherapy, rooted in evidence-based practice, is highlighted by US News & World Report for trauma healing […]
Social Venture Institute Hollyhock 2026
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
If you believe that business can (and should) be a catalyst for social and economic transformation, you belong at Social Venture Institute. Join Canada’s longest-running social enterprise gathering to find the inspiration, resources, and relationships you need to propel your mission forward. SVI is a five-day oceanside gathering of 100+ CEOs, entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, movement leaders, […]
The Art of Entanglement: Fish, Flow, and Knowing
With Zoe Todd and Courtney Chetwynd
Dive into a creative world where fish, water, and story are teachers. Building on the energy and excitement of last year’s “Fish as Storytellers”, this year’s program moves more deeply into themes of entanglement, reciprocity, and relational ways of knowing. Through art-making, storytelling, and land-based reflection, we’ll explore how knowledge moves in quiet and unexpected […]