Month

M̓i tel'nexw Leadership Transformation

With Chepximiya Siyam' Hereditary Chief Janice George, Squamish Nation, Skwetsimeltxw Willard ‘Buddy’ Joseph, Squamish Nation, Ta7talíya Michelle Nahanee, Squamish Nation and Lloyd James Attig, Muskoday First Nation, Plains Cree

Open Dates
Cortes Island
This program is being rescheduled, please sign up to be notified of the new dates. // Are you ready to unlearn supremacy and apply Indigenous teachings to your work? Learn new ways of being from Squamish Elders and Decolonial Facilitators in this 5-day immersive training and transformation. M̓i tel'nexw Leadership Transformation is an experiential learning designed with an appreciative approach that responds to improving what is currently lacking in “cultural competency” training.

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 […]

Becoming a Spiritual Healer

With Julie Kramer

Open Dates

Work Exchange

Flexible Dates
Cortes Island
Support our Cortes campus and get an intimate behind-the-scenes Hollyhock experience with our month-long work exchange program.

2025 Hollyhock Holiday

Flexible Dates

INTERNAL HOLIDAY PAGE Reconnect to yourself and nature in our spectacular West Coast island setting. Take a breath of fresh air outside of the city, and enjoy the serenity and beauty of our local landscape. Our holiday packages include: Accommodations A variety of accommodations are located throughout our lush campus, ranging in price to suit […]

The Heart of Who We Are: Return to Belonging (Vancouver)

With Caverly Morgan

November 15 - 16, 2025
Bridge & Enrich Lives Society

We all long to be happy. We all long to feel at ease, to be at peace, and to know that we’re okay and we belong. When it feels like the world is on fire, when divisiveness is commonplace, it can seem harder than ever to access such belonging — both personally and collectively. Most […]

Activate Skills: Redefining Leadership for a New Era with Amanda Litman

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute

February 25, 2026
Zoom

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 […]

Meditation, Movement, Mystery

With Jeff Warren

May 13 - 17, 2026
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Feb 11, 2026.

Join writer and meditation teacher Jeff Warren for a journey into the mystery of meditation and what it can teach us about being human. This will be a different kind of retreat. Less structured, more room for silence and spontaneity. The idea is to make space for some of the deeper and more personalized movements […]

Science, Art, Sound & The Sacred

With Merlin Sheldrake, Cosmo Sheldrake and Rupert Sheldrake

July 29 - August 2, 2026
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Apr 29, 2026.

Explore the entanglements between science, art, sound, and the sacred in a beautiful, wild setting. Our imaginations are a critically important superpower and perhaps our primary means of survival. In this workshop, we will spend time both indoors and outdoors -- in gardens, on seashores and in forests -- connecting with the more-than-human world and […]

Nine Patterns of Developmental Pathways

With Dan Siegel, M.D.

August 2 - 7, 2026
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until May 3, 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 […]

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, […]