Programs

Facilitative Leadership Across Cultures

In this advanced facilitation training, participants will use their leadership experiences as a foundation for learning activities that will deepen their creative resources; increase cultural fluency; and apply new skills in order to prevent, manage and transform conflict in their work.

Building Blocks of Effective Facilitation

The Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Dovetail Consulting Inc. present Building Blocks of Facilitation, an experiential two-day workshop that will introduce you to the basics of effective group facilitation.

Media that Matters

Take your strategic media projects to new levels in an oasis of creativity and professional support.

Speak Out! Using Your Voice for Change

Do you want to enhance your capacity to speak out and be heard? Would you like to become a more effective catalyst for your purpose or cause?

Singing for Joy

Sing with others and fill the air with soulful harmony. This kind of singing is an extraordinary source of energy, joy and connection, and it’s available to everyone

Art of Leadership

This dynamic program is designed for leaders committed to making a difference whether in community, business, education, politics, social justice, or the arts. Learn to empower and engage others in effective action to broaden the impact of your work.

Artful Facilitation Across Cultures

In this facilitation training, participants will use their leadership experiences as a foundation for learning activities that will deepen their creative resources; increase cultural fluency; and apply new skills in order to prevent, manage and transform conflict in their work.

Writing from the Frontlines: Chapter One

Change the world, one story at a time. This dynamic writing workshop is designed for non writers with a story to tell.

The Path of Accomplishment

Those seeking to live a life of integrity are faced with a conflict; how to balance materialistic values and a spiritual life?

Organizing for Change Initiative

 

Sing for Your Life!

Singing together in harmony is a powerful source of energy, joy, and connection - accessible to everyone. Come add your voice to the choir; with songs that are easy to learn, uplifting and fun to sing. No singing experience necessary.

Cultivating Women's Leadership

An experiential training for women interested in drawing from their deepest inner resources to fuel significant progressive change in the world.

Art & Craft of Effective Facilitation

Explore the role of facilitation in enabling groups or teams to function at their absolute best. By revealing the alchemy of what makes groups well-and diagnosing why some groups struggle.

Social Venture Institute

Presented by: Canadian Business for Social Responsibility, Hollyhock Leadership Institute, Renewal Partners, Social Venture Network, Joel Solomon

Speak Out! Using Your Voice for Change

 

Spirited Speaking

Do you want to enhance your capacity to speak out and be heard? Are you committed to addressing the issues of our times or to communicating what’s important to you?

Web 2.0 and Your Organization

Cosponsored by Hollyhock Leadership Institute & IMPACs

Nonviolent Communication

Called a masterwork, compassionate Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a powerful process for relationship building. Abandon old ways of thinking to communicate with clarity and kindness. Improve your personal relationships with the practice of compassionate, non-violent communication.

The Work That Reconnects

This workshop provide an opportunity to move beyond our defenses and distractions to touch our true feelings about our troubled world.

Canadian Environmental Leadership Program

Join North America's most experienced environmental and social change leaders to learn the strategic skills to bring about effective and sustainable change. All of this is done with a commitment to inspire, rejuvenate & connect.

CELP Presenter Biographies

 

CELP Participants Biographies

 

The Nuts & Bolts of Fundraising: How to Identify and Engage your Supporters

Gain skills in individual fundraising, prospect identification, asking in person, asking by mail, and other tactics to bring your organization to the next level. Course content will be relevant to Canadian non-profits.

Get that Grant! Strategies for Grassroots Organizations

Gain skills on how to design and market your projects to grantees, how to build relationships with funders, and how to differentiate your organization. Course content will be relevant to Canadian non-profits.

The Alchemy of Group Facilitation

Learn to identify why groups struggle, how to alter that dynamic, when to intervene effectively and how to empower the group to find the right roles & solutions for its issues

The Big Wild

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The Path of Attainment: Reconciling Ambition, Accomplishment & Integrity

Join Thomas Atum O'Kane to explore the relationship of inner empowerment and outer accomplishment through stories, teachings and group dialogues.

Open Mind, Wise Heart: Contemplative Practice in Personal & Professional Life

Join a retreat for people dedicated to making a difference.

CELP Agenda

 

Negotiating out of the Box

This essential training is for anyone interested in collaborative problem-solving and successful negotiation.

Personal Strategic Planning: Creating Your Future

This is an experiential workshop where you can create a strategy and plan of action to transform your dreams into reality.

Social Venture Institute: Toronto

Join business leaders and social entrepreneurs at the Social Venture Institute (SVI) for an intensive, interactive inquiry into how to face the day-to-day challenges of running a socially conscious enterprise.

Relational Intelligence

Unleash the power of thoughts and words to build strong and healthy relationships.

The Citizen Journalist

Join the award-winning publisher of The Vancouver Observer for a hands on workshop where you will learn how to turn observation of situations, events and people into short pieces of reporting.

Speak Out for Change

From information to illumination: Build your communication skills to catalyze personal and planetary change.

Singing: The Heart of Harmony

Sing together in harmony and experience a powerful source of energy, connection and joy.

Transformational Speaking

Bring your speaking alive. Expand your capacity to speak out and be heard.

Transformational Coaches Training

Transformational coaching integrates spiritual awareness, emotional intelligence, effective action and common sense in a simple yet profound approach to change.

Art of Leadership Level II

This intensive training will expand your abilities as a visionary and strategic leader and will teach you how to work in greater harmony with the forces within and around you.

Song as Prayer

Sing with others and fill the air with soulful harmony.

Advanced Art & Craft of Facilitation

Explore advanced strategies for group empowerment and collaboration.

Transforming Conflict: Belonging to Peace in an Age of Upheaval

Experience conflict as a powerful catalyst of change. Move beyond traditional approaches to explore the inner and outer landscape of conflict.

CELP 2008 Application Forms

 

Effective Negotiation Skills- Overcoming Hurdles & Preventing Impasses

Using interactive exercises, case studies, discussions and videos this course will provide you with the skills you need to become a more confident negotiator.

How Small Groups Raise Big Money: Capital & Endowment

Look at how to ask people for larger gifts than they have ever made, and discuss what has to be in place for capital campaigns to work.

Getting Major Gifts for Your Cause

Learn how to identify prospective major donors, how to plan a major gifts program, & conduct specific campaigns, including developing compelling messages & materials.

Strategic Campaigns - Building Citizen Engagement & Mobilizing People

This workshop is designed to help you run more effective & strategic campaigns that engage the community with your issue. We will examine best practices in citizen engagement and voter education strategies both through case studies & campaign tools.