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 […]
Social Venture Institute – Virtual 2025
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Vanessa Richards
Together: A Gathering for Facilitators (Vancouver)
With Khari Wendell McClelland
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 […]
Social Venture Institute – Sea to Sky 2025
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
A Financial Therapy Retreat with Bari Tessler and Danielle Cohen
With Bari Tessler and Danielle Cohen
Money is far more than numbers in accounts or symbols of status—it's one of our most intimate daily companions. For some of us, it's a constant whisper in our minds; for others, it lingers in the background until suddenly demanding our attention. It's there as we pause before initiating a delicate money conversation with a […]
Climate Readers' Retreat with Guest Author John Vaillant
With John Vaillant, Zoe Grams and Ian Gill
Our world needs scalable, systemic change, and now. But most of us don’t have the time and space in our daily lives to deeply reflect on what our contribution to solving the climate crisis might be. The Climate Readers’ Retreat is an opportunity for people with a passion for climate and democracy to work through […]
Peace in Action: Transform Overwhelm into Focus, Clarity, and High Performance
With Amrita Ahuja
Do you need to get a lot done but don’t want all the stress? Read on. We have a problem - our hustle-and-grind culture pushes professionals with demanding schedules and goals to get things done but leaves them feeling stressed, overwhelmed, and burnt out. Groundwork shows you another way. In this transformative retreat, you’ll learn […]
Writing The Great Turning: Climate Writing
With Jess Serrante and Zoe Young
Discover your path to climate action with creative writing and deep emotional learning. The climate crisis affects all of us, but showing up to this fight will mean healing ourselves as much as it means healing the planet. Creative writing is a powerful tool for looking our grief in the face while allowing us to […]
Activate: Digital Leadership 2025
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Khari Wendell McClelland
Wild Soma Being and Becoming: Embodied Practices for Collective Thriving
With Andrea Nann, Julia Aplin, Roula Said and Shannon Litzenberger
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 […]
Women+ in Climate: Leading with Light
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
Radical Dharma: Conversation
With Rev. angel Kyodo williams Roshi
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 […]
Between the Human Animal & the Animate Earth
With David Abram
How can we open a fresh and unshakeable solidarity between ourselves and the other animals, plants, and elemental forces that compose this breathing biosphere? The deepening contortions of climate change – intensifying droughts, monster floods, flaring wildfires and heart-wrenching geopolitical cataclysms – all ensure that our species is tumbling toward a sea change of immense […]
2025 Canadian Psychedelic Summit
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Kim Haxton
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
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 […]
Social Venture Institute 2025 - Hollyhock
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Vanessa Richards
Listening to Fish and Water: The Art of Survival
With Zoe Todd
UNCONFIRMED DESCRIPTION What lessons can we learn about transformation from fish, water, and other inter-connected oceanic and river beings or ecosystems? As Dr. Leroy Little Bear says, fish have survived multiple calamities on Earth over half a billion years. He urges us to ask the fish for guidance on how to navigate our current moment. […]
From Roots to Reach: Transpirational Growth for Social Ecosystems
With Nadia Chaney and M. Rako Fabionar
As water serves as a nourishing, developmental flow through transpiration—absorbed by roots, carrying nutrients throughout the plant, and offering its essence through leaves into the broader ecosystem—our workshop fosters transpirational growth within communities and organizations. From Roots to Reach: Transpirational Growth for Social Ecosystems is an immersive five-day workshop designed to equip participants with diverse […]
Beloved Community Bootcamp: A Training for Bridge-Builders
With Lisa Gibson
Daily Schedule A detailed schedule will be emailed to you about 30 days prior to your program. Click here to view a sample program schedule.