Freedom Begins with Letting Go

With Chelene Knight

June 28 - July 3, 2026

Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Mar 29, 2026.

Date and Time Details:
Program begins: June 28, 2026 6:30pm
Program ends: July 3, 2026 1:30pm
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Scholarships: Hollyhock programs are enriched by welcoming a multitude of voices and experiences that reflect global plurality. The Hollyhock scholarship program is one of the key strategies we employ to expand program access to underrepresented and marginalized communities. Learn more and apply.

Cancellation Policy : If you need to cancel more than 30 days before the start of the program, you'll be refunded the balance minus the 20% non-refundable deposit. No refunds or credits within 30 days of arrival. Please see Full Terms and Conditions for more information.

  • Private Cabin Oceanfront – CAD $4,375.00
  • Single w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $3,375.00
  • Single w/ensuite – CAD $3,175.00
  • Single w/shared bathroom – CAD $2,725.00
  • Couple w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $5,300.00
  • Couple w/ensuite – CAD $4,900.00
  • Couple w/shared bathroom – CAD $4,550.00
  • Twin w/ensuite oceanfront – CAD $2,675.00
  • Twin w/ensuite – CAD $2,475.00
  • Twin w/shared bathroom – CAD $2,250.00
  • Three-share w/shared bathroom – CAD $2,050.00
  • Women's Dorm – CAD $1,800.00
  • Men's Dorm – CAD $1,800.00
  • All-Gender Dorm – CAD $1,800.00
  • Tent Site Single – CAD $1,775.00
  • Tent Site Couple – CAD $3,300.00
  • Commuter – CAD $1,600.00
  • All Packages Include CAD $1,475.00 Tuition and meals

Join award-winning writer and creative practitioner Chelene Knight for a transformative journey into letting go and deepening your understanding of self.

Through emotionally rich and immersive activities, such as letter writing, discovering personal connections in meaningful objects, guided meditations, and discussions on abstract ideas like love, loss, and grief explored through literary greats such as bell hooks, Maya Angelou, and Toni Morrison, you will learn to release what’s been weighing you down and create space for curiosity, surprise, and joy.

“Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine, cannot come into being. A good definition marks our starting point and lets us know where we want to end up.” —bell hooks, All About Love

This reflective exploration is your invitation to discover what it truly means to let go—with love, intention, and honesty. Rooted in the seasons and drawn from Chelene’s book Let It Go: Free Yourself From Old Beliefs and Find a New Path To Joy, these sessions blend gentle personal storytelling, creative reflection, soft movement, art-making, and deep emotional inquiry. The result is a powerful, often surprising cleanse for your body, heart, and whole self.

Chelene’s deepest desire is to help creative people carve out aligned space to live fully without compromise. She delights in guiding creative souls to value their voices in multiple ways. Letting go can be joyful, playful, and a practice that becomes part of your everyday life. 

During our time together, you will explore the art of reading and rereading, noticing emotional shifts in storytelling, and uncovering the insights these shifts reveal about you. Letting go is a practice. Love plays a role. Language is an open window.

Chelene brings extensive experience as an author, certified coach, and mindfulness facilitator, cultivating a reflective approach that guides creative minds toward surprising and powerful moments of insight and delight. If you are open to being surprised and are a curious soul, these are the only prerequisites.

Leave with clarity on what you want more of, how to call it in, and why it matters, building the foundation for a home you never knew you needed.

What You’ll Gain

  • Reclaim the language you use to describe yourself
  • Reconnect with affirming rituals like cooking, music, letter writing, and deep listening
  • Reimagine how you communicate with those closest to you
  • Establish your emotional non-negotiables
  • How to shape your metaphorical dream home, your inner sanctuary

Expected Activities

  • Writing to and about personal, irreplaceable objects
  • A workshop on saying no with love (boundaries work)
  • Gentle movement
  • Meditations that explore the 5 senses for shifting our inner state
  • Sketching
  • Listening to and responding to personal stories and excerpts from literary guides
  • Reflective writing and seeking out patterns

Testimonial

There is something so serene about Chelene, and there’s also an intensity about her—a passion and commitment to follow her dreams, and to inspire others to do the same, by creating a map, a plan, a way forward. I need a bit of that. And I think I’m on my way. (past client)

Not only is Chelene kind and thoughtful, her experience is unmatched. She is thorough and extremely good at what she does. Her ideas and questions made me dig deeper. Chelene was divinely placed in my life to work with at the perfect time! (past client)

Chelene has a gift for bringing out the best in people. (past client)

Daily Schedule

A detailed schedule will be emailed to you about 30 days prior to your program. Click here to view a sample program schedule.

About the Presenter

Chelene Knight

Chelene Knight is the author of five books, including Safekeeping: A Writer’s Guided Journal For Launching a Book With Love (Anansi, 2025) and Let It Go: Free Yourself From Old Beliefs and Find a New Path To Joy (HarperCollins Canada, 2024). Her work has appeared in the Globe & Mail, The Walrus, Writer’s Digest, Toronto […]

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