Women+ in Climate: Leading with Light
Retreat Highlights
- Explore the invisible dimensions of reality that coexist with our physical world, where you connect with your helping spirits
- Open the subtle pathways of perception that enable you to sense, see, hear, touch, smell, taste, and feel while journeying throughout the invisible realms
- Use those subtle pathways of perception to cultivate a shared language with your helping spirits that generates mutual understanding and clarity
- Refine the inquiries you present to your helping spirits in order to optimize the guidance you receive
- Journey to receive accurate guidance and potent healing for yourself and on behalf of others
- Practice the art of telling a healing story, relaying guidance to others when you journey on their behalf
- Meet the benevolent helping spirits who co-exist alongside you in the place where you live and learn how to create harmony together
- Learn how to navigate safely, purposefully, and effectively in the invisible spectrums of reality
About this Retreat
Your Guides
Details of this retreat
The path forward requires both resilience and community. Women+ in Climate is a gathering for women and gender-diverse leaders in climate and nature to align to their deepest wisdom in a heart-centered space, guided by love, connection, and justice.
Our Vision
We envision a world where women are the light in the darkness, guiding humanity toward a future of belonging, equity, and care for the Earth. This gathering will create a nurturing space for connection, reflection, and collaboration among climate scientists, poets, artists, Indigenous leaders, policy-makers, philanthropists, and activists.
The Invitation
This is more than a meeting. It is a sanctuary for those who labor for a just and sustainable world—a place to return to the womb of collective wisdom, to inhale deeply, and to find strength to stay in the work.
About the Gathering
The Women+ in Climate gathering is an invitation to women and gender diverse climate and nature leaders to come together to learn from each other, lift each other up, share, rest, dance, play, and weave together our connections, work and collective efforts to weave a way forward.
Hosted at Hollyhock, the gathering centers on a vision of joy, rejuvenation and connection for women and gender diverse climate & nature leaders, supported through programming to feed our head, heart, body and soul.
Anchored by practices including meditation, dance, yoga, ritual, and land-based practices, the gathering aims to offer a sanctuary for women in the climate movement to reconnect with themselves, each other, and the Earth. The emphasis is on nurturing resilience and solidarity to face climate and biodiversity challenges together, and tapping into a collective energy and creativity that emerges when women gather.
The goal is to share and learn from each other, dream together, and look into energizing a movement to protect and restore the earth.
Through sharing space across diverse perspectives, the emergent agenda facilitates fresh perspectives and deepened relationships, opening the door to the strategies we need to address our planet's crisis.
Our Commitments
Heart-centred Leadership: Moving beyond strategy to center care, compassion, connection, and vulnerability as powerful tools for change.
Community as Strength: We cultivate a lasting network of mutual support, inspiration, and courage.
Justice and Liberation: Ensuring representation from racialized frontline leaders and honoring the interconnected struggles for equity, biodiversity, and climate justice.
Program Outcomes
Key outcomes focus on personal rejuvenation, strategic recalibration, and community building within the climate space. The program provides a platform for women and gender diverse leaders to:
Engage in practices of healing, grieving, and self-care, nurturing both individual and collective well-being
Share strategies, skills, and tools to advance climate work across diverse perspectives.
Foster cross-sector collaboration, encouraging participants to step beyond their silos and weave together insights, surfacing core challenges and core solutions across fields.
Plant seeds for united strategies and coalitions, bolstered by mutual support and resource-sharing
This gathering is ultimately intended to inspire and equip women and gender diverse leaders to return to their climate work with renewed vision, strength, and an interconnected approach that goes beyond conventional strategy, embracing collective wisdom and action.
Planning Team
Co-hosts:
Tzeporah Berman, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative
Zainab Salbi, Daughters for Earth
Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN
Pat Mitchell and Hafsat Abiola, Project Dandelion
Presented by Hollyhock Leadership Institute
Schedule
Getting Here
Directions
Cortes Island, B.C. V0P 1K0 Canada
There are a variety of ways to get here. They include:
Seaplane:
1 hr from Vancouver
2 hrs from Seattle
Fly & Water Taxi:
2 hrs from Vancouver
3 hrs from Seattle
Roadtrip
Approx 6 hrs from Vancouver
Approx 10 hrs from Seattle
Public Trnsport (Ferry)
Approx 6 hrs from Vancouver
Approx 10 hrs from Seattle
Other ideas:
Rideshare:
Lighten your footprint and cost by sharing a ride with a fellow Hollyhock traveler – you might make a new friend! Create a free account on our secure Ride Share Board.
Electric Charging Station:
We are proud to offer an electric vehicle charging station on campus. Plan your stops with PlugShare.
Hollyhock Shuttle:
Complimentary for Onsite guests to and from ferry, seaplane, water taxi and ferries.
Accommodation
A variety of accommodations are located throughout our lush campus, ranging in price to suit most budgets. Choose from private, beachfront or ocean facing rooms, dorm-style lodging or cabins that nestle in the quiet seclusion of the forest. Our beautiful campsites are also available, with a cedar bath house conveniently located for your use. Room fees include all Hollyhock basics, like stimulating presenter evenings, delicious, organic meals, morning yoga/meditation classes, guided naturalist walks and tours of the garden, as well as luxurious soaks in our ocean-view hot-tubs. Telephones and wireless Internet are centrally located. Room Options Include: Single: 1 Person Twin: Couple or Friends, 2 beds. Couple: Couples or Friends sharing 1 bed. Family/Friends: 3 or more adult friends or family /2 beds Dorm: Up to 6 people/bunk beds Tenting with full-service bath house (bring your own tent and bedding) Roommates can be assigned, upon request, in twin and dorm rooms only.
Private Cabin Oceanfront
Single w/ensuite Oceanfront
Single w/ensuite
Single w/shared bathroom
Couple w/ensuite Oceanfront
Couple w/ensuite
Couple w/shared bathroom
Twin w/ensuite oceanfront
Twin w/ensuite
Twin w/shared bathroom
Three-share w/shared bathroom
Women Dorm
Tent Site Single
Tent Site Couple
Commuter
Venue & Amenities
Since 1982 Hollyhock has built upon the history of this land as a place of gathering, a pioneering homestead, and the site of an important human potential education centre. On this foundation of gathering, pioneering and learning, Hollyhock’s founders dreamed of creating a lifelong learning and leadership curriculum to inspire, nourish and support people intent on service to a better world.
Hollyhock became a not-for-profit in 2006 to strengthen carrying out our mission into the future. With your help we can keep this as a thriving centre for skill-building, lifelong learning and stewardship of the natural world, inspiring, nourishing and supporting people making the world better for another 30+ years.
Meals
Menu Types
What's Included
- Standard program tuition
- Room
- Meals
- Access to hot tubs, sauna, and Hollyhock activities
What's Not Included
- Travel costs
- Healing arts
- Bodywork
- Store purchases
- Optional additional excursions (kayaking, SUP, sailing)
Customer Reviews
Profoundly grateful!
Hollyhock's virtual Activate Summit was a much needed breathe of fresh air. The program gave me the chance to harvest and claim the long-forgotten power I have within, and the opportunity to connect with like-minded leaders to emerge - as an individual and as part of a community - able to shape the future, inwards out. The depth of knowledge and understanding of workshop leaders and plenary speakers made the program that much stronger - I only wish it was longer!
The Healing is Part of the Journey
seriously funny, in writing and in life
Hollyhock is well known for its beauty of location, but even better known for the delicious dishes its amazing staff serve up. And equally famous for its bread...both gluten and gluten free.
Best of all...inter conversations between everyone attending concurrent sessions. Just pick a table and jump in. This is where lifelong friendships happen.
In this crazy world it's reassuring to know that Hollyhock is there.
Thank you.
Did I mention the view from the outdoor Hot tub? Or the oyster roast on the beach? Yum!
connection, skill building
I strongly recommend this amazing program!
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