Falling Awake: The Ecology of Wonder

With David Abram

July 30 - August 4, 2021

falling awake

Date and Time Details:
Starts with dinner on July 30
Ends with lunch on August 4

Location: Cortes Island

Tuition: $565 CAD

Package Price: $1,120 - $2,355 CAD / 5 nights. Includes tuition, room, all meals, and Hollyhock activities (depends on accommodation choice). Taxes and fees are additional. A $395 deposit is required at registration, with the balance due on your departure day.

Scholarships: Full and partial scholarships are available based on financial need. We prioritize Indigenous people, people of colour, people who identify as LGBTQ2IA+, youth, elders, and those who can articulate how their Hollyhock experience will support positive impact in their life and communities. A $195 refundable deposit is required (please contact us if you are unable to pay this deposit). Apply within your registration form.

Health & Safety: Learn more about our Covid-19 policies and procedures here.

  • Single w/ensuite Oceanfront* – CAD $2,812.50
  • Single w/ensuite* – CAD $2,397.50
  • Single w/shared bathroom* – CAD $2,187.50
  • Couple w/ensuite Oceanfront* – CAD $4,210.00
  • Couple w/ensuite* – CAD $3,815.00
  • Couple w/shared bathroom* – CAD $3,420.00
  • Twin w/ensuite oceanfront* – CAD $2,107.50
  • Twin w/ensuite* – CAD $1,907.50
  • Twin w/shared bathroom* – CAD $1,707.50
  • Women Dorm – CAD $1,257.50
  • Male Dorm – CAD $1,257.50
  • Mixed Dorm – CAD $1,257.50
  • Tent Site Single – CAD $1,232.50
  • Tent Site Couple – CAD $2,215.00
  • Commuter – CAD $1,057.50
    • (All prices include CAD $932.50 base amount)

How can we open a fresh and unshakeable solidarity between humankind and the other animals, plants, and elemental forces that compose this breathing biosphere? The climatic changes now underway ensure that civilization will experience dramatic transformations in the near term future, indeed that humanity is about to undergo a sea change of immense proportions. How can we help such metamorphoses unfold in a manner beneficial not just to human elites, but to the greatest possible range of species, ecosystems, and cultures?

A dawning recognition of the primacy of place, an awareness of wildness unfolding wherever we turn our attention, a fresh humility in relation to other earthborn beings (whether salmon or cedars or storm clouds), and a radically transformed sense of the sacred — all these are struggling to be born at this moment in the world’s unfolding. How can this transformed awareness settle deep into our muscles and bones, and how can it come most powerfully to expression in our lives?

Join us for a program vivid with personal experience and collective exploration — a gathering rich with solitude, storytelling, and heartfelt conversation. Together, we’ll pool our discoveries toward engendering a new experience of the enveloping earth— as an exuberant, improvisational, and sentient reality— and of ourselves as full-bodied participants (along with the bears and the crickets) in the emergence of that reality. There will be some light walking and time spent outdoors.

This program supports you to:

  • Expand your perceptual and sensory skills
  • Enter into richer relationship/rapport with the more-than-human natural world
  • Learn new ways of tuning to your home-place, deepening your experience of the local earth
  • Wildly expand your philosophical toolkit
  • Awaken to the beauty and power of indigenous cosmologies
  • Expand and intensify your sense of wonder
  • Hone your poetic and storytelling skills
  • Become a more effective agent of cultural metamorphosis

David is an excellent presenter – knowledgeable, soulful, poetic and passionate. I am profoundly grateful for this experience. – Martha Sorensen, 2019

Schedule

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Terms & Conditions

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Note: Currently the Canadian-USA border is closed and the presenter for this program is from the US. Should the presenter not be able to travel, you will receive at least 2 weeks notice and have the option of transferring your deposit to another booking this year with a 25% discount, or getting a full refund.

Listen

An audio essay on the pandemic, by David Abram, from March, 2020
An interview with David Abram, from August, 2020

Watch

Narrated and informed by David Abram, Becoming Animal is a film about the interactive human/animal experience. Watch the trailer below:

 

About the Presenter

David Abram

David Abram, PhD is a cultural ecologist and geophilosopher who teaches widely on several continents. He is the multiple award-winning author of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World, and Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology. Hailed as “revolutionary” by the Los Angeles Times, as “daring” and “truly original” by the […]

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