Living the Legacy: Honoring the Life & Teachings of Atum O’Kane
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
July 11 - 16, 2025
Dear Soul Friends,
We are writing you with an invitation to participate in a special retreat program at Hollyhock this year, “Living the Legacy: Honoring the Life & Teachings of Atum O’Kane”. July 11- 16, 2025.
Atum had been scheduled to lead a Gathering of the Spiritual Guidance Community on those dates, so this new event is based on conversations with Atum following the 2023 Spiritual Guidance Gathering @ Hollyhock––going deeper into the practices themselves in 2025, in a retreat format, by doing the practices together to the point of entering the states they are meant to evoke, and beyond. We know the teachings––he gave us everything––and as Emmanuel reminds us:
Our task now is to put the teachings we have received into practice for the remainder of our days…to continue to gather as a community and to continue his work.
We know from experience there is exponential power in doing these practices as a collective, in sacred space.
The program design team is KK Hodder, Hollyhock’s Program Planning Manager; Margie Gillis, long-time collaborator with Atum; Kairn Carrington, ordained by Atum to carry the work into the world; Steven Flynn, musician and tech wizard for Atum’s online programs; Oriane Lee Johnston, Hollyhock Program Director during Atum’s first decade teaching here.
These streams will be woven through our time together:
- We’ll work with a series of specially-selected audio recordings of Atum leading us in the practices.
- Margie guiding us in movement to embody the states evoked by the practices and sustain them after we each return home.
- Kairn will offer the collaborative work she and Atum had begun together, “Holding the Centre in The World Today”.
- Groups-of-four sharing on specially-selected themes and enquiries.
- Music; live performance, Atum’s favourite tunes and singing together,.
The July gathering is a time to honour, reinforce and grow the sparks that Atum ignited in each one of us.
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.
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