Leadership Skills

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 […]

Mindfulness Meets Productivity: Practices to Reclaim Peace & Focus (Groundwork)

With Tommaso Biasiolo and Amrita Ahuja

June 24 - 28, 2026

Are you living in a state of overwhelm? Many of us are moving through our days in a state of quiet (or not-so-quiet) overwhelm. With constant distractions, competing responsibilities, and the pressure to stay “on” at all times, it can feel harder than ever to focus on what truly matters. This retreat offers a gentle, […]

Embodied Practices for Collective Thriving

With Roula Said, Julia Aplin, Shannon Litzenberger and Andrea Nann

June 28 - July 3, 2026

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 […]

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Radical Dharma: Conversation

With Rev. angel Kyodo williams Roshi

July 19 - 24, 2026

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.

August 2 - 7, 2026

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 […]

Activate 2026

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Khari Wendell McClelland

August 12 - 16, 2026
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.
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The Art of Leadership (2026)

With Suzanne Hawkes and Michael Bell

August 21 - 26, 2026

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. […]

Social Venture Institute Hollyhock 2026

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute

September 23 - 27, 2026

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, […]