Social Innovation

Social Venture Institute – Virtual 2026

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute

March 5 - 13, 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.

Activate 2026

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Khari Wendell McClelland

April 29 - May 3, 2026
Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off campus rates! Offer valid until Jan 23, 2026.
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.
Rev angel Kyodo williams

Radical Dharma: Conversation

With Rev. angel Kyodo williams Roshi

July 19 - 24, 2026
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Apr 19, 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 […]

Red poppies in a garden path

A New Way of Being: Claiming Love and Power in Uncertain Times

With Deepa Narayan and Eric Mulholland

August 16 - 21, 2026
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until May 17, 2026.

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 […]

Suzanne and Michael sitting in conversation

The Art of Leadership (2026)

With Suzanne Hawkes and Michael Bell

August 21 - 26, 2026
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until May 22, 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, […]