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Elective - Cert HCS

The Wild Kindness: Cultivating Erotic Connection in Daily Life

With Elfi Dillon-Shaw and Gary Dillon

Open Dates
In Person at The Haven
This program offers couples the opportunity to practice communicating wants and needs through lighthearted and fun experiments for erotic play. Engage in conversations about intimacy and learn to navigate sexual energy in relationships.

Self Compassion

With Graemme Brown and Jo-Ann Kevala

January 2 - 5, 2025
The Haven
Using music, guided imagery, gestalt, art, stories and other experiential forms, you will have an opportunity to learn about the paths that lead you away from yourself, and explore paths that can direct you towards self-acceptance. There will be opportunities to explore blame and victimhood, patterns of striving that lead to self-hate, and a variety of ways we can move toward self-compassion.

Anger, Boundaries and Safety

With Greg Gurel

February 20 - 23, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jan 22, 2025.
This program offers participants opportunities to both express and witness the safe and boundaried expression of anger. This is helpful for people who have previously expressed their anger violently and no longer want to do this. It is also crucial for people who say they never get angry or, perhaps because of early experiences of violence, avoid any hint of anger today. For both these groups of people, emotional, physical and relationship dysfunction may have resulted. This program will open up exciting new possibilities for you, whatever experiences of anger and/or violence you have had until now.

Understanding Ourselves and Others

With Jane Kilthei and Mark Etkin

May 8 - 11, 2025
At The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Apr 30, 2025.
This 3-day interactive introduction to “understanding ourselves and others” uses the lens of psychodynamics to explore how the process of human development shapes the way we relate to others, even beginning in early childhood. By exploring our own personality patterns, including our defenses, we can learn to recognize those patterns in both ourselves and others. In our work and our personal lives, this awareness can help us be both more compassionate with ourselves, and better able to connect, engage with, and support others as whole people in all the area of our lives.

Anger, Boundaries and Safety

With Greg Gurel

May 22 - 25, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Apr 23, 2025.
This program offers participants opportunities to both express and witness the safe and boundaried expression of anger. This is helpful for people who have previously expressed their anger violently and no longer want to do this. It is also crucial for people who say they never get angry or, perhaps because of early experiences of violence, avoid any hint of anger today. For both these groups of people, emotional, physical and relationship dysfunction may have resulted. This program will open up exciting new possibilities for you, whatever experiences of anger and/or violence you have had until now.