Hollyhock Gathering

July 24 - 28, 2023

Date and Time Details:
Starts with dinner on July 24
Ends with lunch on July 28
Sample program schedule

Location:
Cortes Island

Contact: Rhys-Thorvald Hansen
rhys@hollyhock.ca

Tuition:
Generous: $995 CAD
Standard: $745 CAD
Reduced: $495 CAD

Tuition is on a sliding scale $495-$995. The suggested tuition of $745 covers the costs of convening this event. If you feel moved to deepen your support, contributions above $745 expand our program accessibility and create increased opportunities for connection and skill-building across generations and geography.

Thank you for your generosity and for being an important part of our community. Together, we can plant the seeds of meaningful experiences for personal development and social transformation that will continue to grow for years to come.

Campus Rates:
Campus rates include accommodations, meals, Hollyhock activities, use of hot tubs and campus facilities (does not include tuition). Click here for details.

Scholarships:
Program experiences are enriched by having a multitude of voices and experiences that reflect global plurality. Our scholarship program is one of our key strategies to expand program access to underrepresented and marginalized communities.

A limited number of scholarships are available per program with awards ranging from partial to full tuition. We encourage applicants from those whose identities intersect with, but are not limited to: Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, 2SLGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, newcomers, youth, and elders.

Please apply for a scholarship within your program registration form. We ask for a 5% refundable deposit to apply. Contact us directly if you are unable to pay this deposit.

  • Private Cabin Oceanfront – CAD $3,441.00
  • Single w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $2,641.00
  • Single w/ensuite – CAD $2,481.00
  • Single w/shared bathroom – CAD $2,141.00
  • Couple w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $4,150.00
  • Couple w/ensuite – CAD $3,834.00
  • Couple w/shared bathroom – CAD $3,518.00
  • Twin w/ensuite oceanfront – CAD $2,077.00
  • Twin w/ensuite – CAD $1,917.00
  • Twin w/shared bathroom – CAD $1,757.00
  • Three-share w/shared bathroom – CAD $1,593.00
  • Women Dorm – CAD $1,397.00
  • Male Dorm – CAD $1,397.00
  • Mixed Dorm – CAD $1,397.00
  • Tent Site Single – CAD $1,377.00
  • Tent Site Couple – CAD $2,554.00
  • Commuter – CAD $1,237.00
    • (All prices include CAD $1,137.00 base amount)

Change rarely comes in isolation, but instead is rooted in the resilience of community connectedness. The new Hollyhock Gathering invites us to refill our reservoirs, and drink deep from the well of innovation, joy, and renewal. 

This unique program is both exploration of the richness of our communities and a summer holiday. Convening cross-sections of program participants, presenters, and partners to learn and grow in the intersections of personal and social transformation.  We bring together a vibrant, diverse group of movers and shakers, social entrepreneurs, educators, healers, artists, and thinkers to explore social transformation and relational reciprocity.

Participants are invited to attend the Hollyhock Summer Fundraising Soiree, kindly hosted by Victoria and Ian Watson. The larger Hollyhock community will join us for drinks and appetizers followed by exceptional entertainment. There will be an invitation to help support Hollyhock’s work to build a fair just and inclusive future.

Operating on the principle that real creativity at Hollyhock gatherings happens over tea or while swimming in the Salish Sea, as well as in workshops. This event has a flexible structure with plenty of time for informal conversation, creative expression, and fun.

  • Morning plenary sessions feature dynamic, interactive presentations by social entrepreneurs, innovators, and artists from a variety of disciplines from the greater Hollyhock community
  • The afternoons are self-organized open space — participants share their work and ideas with each other in simultaneous sessions. Afternoons also afford time for swimming, hiking, kayaking, massage, creative arts, and the like.
  • In the evenings we do our very best to experience collective joy through dance, storytelling, play, an oyster barbecue, and connecting deeply with place

For those of you who’ve been to Hollyhock before, there will be familiarity. For those who are newly arrived you will find a warm welcome. For all of us who will be in attendance, there will be a wealth of opportunity–in the uncertainty of our collective happening–for us to recognize, reconnect, and remember our interdependence.

Facilitated by:

Khari Wendell McClelland is an award-winning musician and sought-after facilitator who uses the arts and experiential activities for transformational learning.

Learn more about Khari.

 

 

 

Plenary Speakers include:

Black woman with white hair facing the camera. She is wearing a black shirt and has silver dangling earrings.

Akaya Windwood facilitates transformation. She advises, trains, and consults on how change happens individually, organizationally, and societally. She is on faculty of the Just Economy Institute, is Lead Advisor at Third Act, and is founder of the New Universal Wisdom and Leadership Institute, which centers human wisdom in the wisdom of brown womxn. She was President of Rockwood Leadership Institute for ten years, and directs the Thriving Roots Fund, which supports young womxn’s finance and philanthropic learning and leadership based in generosity and interconnectedness.

Learn more about Akaya.

Desirée Dawson is a JUNO Award nominated recording artist, songwriter, producer, yoga teacher and sound healing facilitator. Desirée is passionate about music’s role in collective healing by encouraging listeners to find a connection within themselves and the people and land around them. She moves in and out of genres seamlessly and can be found performing and creating many different styles of music. She is a lover of harmonies and her songs focus on her main instrument, which is her powerful yet soothing voice.
Learn more about Desirée.

 

Krista Tippett is an American journalist, author, and entrepreneur. She created and hosts the public radio program and podcast On Being. In 2014, Tippett was awarded the National Humanities Medal by U.S. President Barack Obama.

 

 

 

 

Tzeporah Berman BA, MES, LLD (honoris causa) has been designing environmental campaigns and working on environmental policy in Canada and beyond for over thirty years. She is currently the International Program Director at Stand.earth and the Chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. She is the Co-founder of the Global Gas & Oil Network, the former co-director of Greenpeace International’s Global Climate and Energy Program, and the co-founder of ForestEthics (now Stand.earth).

Learn more about Tzeporah.

Schedule

A detailed schedule will be available 1-2 weeks in advance of the program. View preliminary schedule here.

Terms & Conditions

You may find our terms & conditions here.

Categories : , ,