Professional 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.

Social Venture Institute – Virtual 2026

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute

March 5 - 6, 2026
Online
SVI Virtual 2026 will provide you with a forum to share your real time struggles, to problem solve and innovate in this new normal, and create community in a brave and carefully curated space. We will gather for ourselves, for our businesses, and for each other.

Non-Violent Communication: A Body-Based Approach

With Farah Nazarali

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

This innovative approach to non-violent communication 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 about […]

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Together: A Gathering for Facilitators (Vancouver)

With Khari Wendell McClelland, Aftab Erfan and Aslam Bulbulia

May 25 - 27, 2026
Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue

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 […]

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, […]