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In person at The Haven
Couples Alive is our core offering for people in a primary relationship. With support and guidance from highly skilled leaders, you will learn and practice The Haven's models for communicating and relating with your partner and learn from the diversity of experience around you. All couples meet together during the day and into the evenings, with breaks for relaxation, connection, or adventure in between. In addition to group activities, experiential learning, and discussion, there will be opportunities for the program leaders to support each couple with coaching and feedback.
With Linda Nicholls
January 1 - 6, 2025
In Person at The Haven
The magic of Come Alive is in our unique history, renowned communication and relationship models, community dynamic, and oceanfront setting on Gabriola Island. With support and guidance, you will learn and practice the Haven models of communication, relationship and self-responsibility, through a range of opportunities for personal learning. Group activities, discussions and experiences take place in both large and small group settings. Come Alive is our most popular core program and the perfect place to begin or continue your journey in personal or professional growth and transformation.
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.
January 9, 2025
Are any of these statements true for you? ~ I sometimes feel isolated and alone. ~ It's important to me to be heard and acknowledged. ~ Hearing about other people's experiences helps me feel connected. ~ I want to learn more about the Haven or practice the skills I've learned. ~ I benefit from reminders and accountability to check in with myself and prioritize my wellbeing.
January 23, 2025
Are any of these statements true for you? ~ I sometimes feel isolated and alone. ~ It's important to me to be heard and acknowledged. ~ Hearing about other people's experiences helps me feel connected. ~ I want to learn more about the Haven or practice the skills I've learned. ~ I benefit from reminders and accountability to check in with myself and prioritize my wellbeing.
With Linda Nicholls and Sean Kearns
February 18 - 23, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jan 20, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jan 20, 2025.
An experiential training program in the concepts and practice of the transformative Haven-style body, breath and energy flow approaches.
With Linda Nicholls
February 28 - March 3, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jan 30, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jan 30, 2025.
Whether transitions are planned or unpredicted, whether changes are chosen or beyond our control, they are endings demanding that we leave people, things, places, or a way of life behind. Through a range of experiential forms, including the creative use of ceremony, you will learn about the grieving process and have the opportunity to release the grip that the impact of your losses has on your heart, your mind, your body, your feelings, your life.
With Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell
March 5 - 9, 2025
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Feb 4, 2025 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Feb 4, 2025.
Couples Alive is our core offering for people in a primary relationship. With support and guidance from highly skilled leaders, you will learn and practice The Haven's models for communicating and relating with your partner and learn from the diversity of experience around you. All couples meet together during the day and into the evenings, with breaks for relaxation, connection, or adventure in between. In addition to group activities, experiential learning, and discussion, there will be opportunities for the program leaders to support each couple with coaching and feedback.
With Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell
March 9 - 14, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Feb 8, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Feb 8, 2025.
The magic of Come Alive is in our unique history, renowned communication and relationship models, community dynamic, and oceanfront setting on Gabriola Island. With support and guidance, you will learn and practice the Haven models of communication, relationship and self-responsibility, through a range of opportunities for personal learning. Group activities, discussions and experiences take place in both large and small group settings. Come Alive is our most popular core program and the perfect place to begin or continue your journey in personal or professional growth and transformation.
With Denise Goldbeck
March 21 - 23, 2025
at The Haven
The LAUNCH Youth Leadership program has enabled youth from ages 13 to 20-something to coach, teach, and train children participating in KITS, an evidence-based performing arts program. Based on current developmental peer-reviewed research, LAUNCH allows youth to discover their leadership strengths in a practical, hands-on setting. Together, the youth of LAUNCH and the children of KITS form a community mimicking an ancient human village. In these villages, people of all ages developed crucial skills and vital cultures together.
With Kelly Price
April 3 - 6, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 5, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 5, 2025.
When we regularly feel unsafe in our bodies due to chronic stress, chronic pain, illness or trauma, natural patterns within our nervous system can become patterns of dysregulation. If prolonged, these patterns can negatively impact our physical and psychological health, relationships, and ability to connect to joy, meaning and purpose. ~ This therapeutic retreat integrates yoga therapy, trauma theory, PolyVagal theory, internal family systems, attachment theory and neuroscience and offers a holistic framework for embodiment, befriending your nervous system and cultivating physiological and psychological resilience.
With Linda Nicholls
April 4 - 9, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 6, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 6, 2025.
The magic of Come Alive is in our unique history, renowned communication and relationship models, community dynamic, and oceanfront setting on Gabriola Island. With support and guidance, you will learn and practice the Haven models of communication, relationship and self-responsibility, through a range of opportunities for personal learning. Group activities, discussions and experiences take place in both large and small group settings. Come Alive is our most popular core program and the perfect place to begin or continue your journey in personal or professional growth and transformation.
April 6 - 11, 2025
In Person at The Haven
With Graemme Brown, Louise Amuir and Emmanuel Gaillot
April 13 - 18, 2025
Book now and get CAD $120.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 15, 2025 to qualify for CAD $120.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 15, 2025.
This Satir-based program is an exciting opportunity to utilize your resources and let go of what no longer supports you. Virginia Satir created a number of healing and integrating processes to help make sense of ourselves and each other. Her objectives were personal growth and congruent communication, helping individuals to become "more fully human". This […]
May 11 - 16, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Apr 12, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Apr 12, 2025.
The magic of Come Alive is in our unique history, renowned communication and relationship models, community dynamic, and oceanfront setting on Gabriola Island. With support and guidance, you will learn and practice the Haven models of communication, relationship and self-responsibility, through a range of opportunities for personal learning. Group activities, discussions and experiences take place in both large and small group settings. Come Alive is our most popular core program and the perfect place to begin or continue your journey in personal or professional growth and transformation.
With Elfi Dillon-Shaw
May 16 - 19, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Apr 15, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Apr 15, 2025.
In an atmosphere of consent and confidentiality, we will strengthen our vitality through breath work, movement, listening, reflection and sharing. We will explore ancient tantric and taoist wisdom, as well as modern sexology and sexual health sciences.
With Linda Nicholls
May 17 - 18, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $20.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Apr 18, 2025 to qualify for CAD $20.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Apr 18, 2025.
The association of breath with spirit, with the divine, is deeply rooted in so many of our ancient indigenous cultures, including Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, the meditative and spiritual core of yogic traditions, Christianity and Judaism. This knowledge has been preserved and is practiced today by shamans, mystics, yoga masters, healers, medicine people, meditators and available to all of us should we choose to learn.
With Jennifer Roger and Blair Stanley
May 22 - 26, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Apr 23, 2025 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Apr 23, 2025.
Couples will gain a deeper understanding of themselves and each other in a safe and guided framework. They will explore together and witness family of origin issues that they bring into their relationship. They will learn about their ‘couples dance’ especially in conflict. They will learn practical tools to break down defensive patterns that will lead to deeper intimacy and healing.
Dr. Jen Roger and Dr. Blair Stanley were trained in Satir Family Therapy by Maria Gamori from 2013 until her death last year. They have been in a conscious intimate relationship for the past 10 years. They have created a life committed to learning and growing together. Intimate relationship by nature creates power struggle which is the perfect landscape for growth…”we get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences”…Virginia Satir.
With 琳达· 尼科尔 斯 Linda Nicholls and 李文淑 Wen-Shwu Lee
June 6 - 19, 2025
亲临加拿大海文學院 The Haven
The Mandarin Living Alive programs offer the unique experience of time, space, and guidance to help you (re)discover who you truly are. For 12 days, you’ll have the opportunity to create and establish new or different patterns for conscious living. In Living Alive: Self Awareness the focus is on self-awareness - becoming aware of your individual patterns of behaviour and energy. You'll learn to make more informed decisions about things that affect you, your life, and your relationships. You'll discover, transform, and release energy blockages that negatively impact your health and wellbeing.
With Jane Geesman and Sarah Lucht
June 19 - 22, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before May 21, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until May 21, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition and meals.
Acting on stage requires the ability to call on different aspects of one’s personality and emotional life to tell the story with truth and clarity. This is something we all do in life: We play roles, put on different hats, and behave in specific ways in order to achieve our goals. You will learn to better identify and implement your creative and problem-solving resources in an environment of connection, collaboration, and community – with an emphasis on spontaneity and fun.
June 22 - 27, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before May 24, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until May 24, 2025.
The magic of Come Alive is in our unique history, renowned communication and relationship models, community dynamic, and oceanfront setting on Gabriola Island. With support and guidance, you will learn and practice the Haven models of communication, relationship and self-responsibility, through a range of opportunities for personal learning. Group activities, discussions and experiences take place in both large and small group settings. Come Alive is our most popular core program and the perfect place to begin or continue your journey in personal or professional growth and transformation.
With Cathy McNally and Graemme Brown
June 30 - July 4, 2025
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jun 1, 2025 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jun 1, 2025.
Couples Alive is our core offering for people in a primary relationship. With support and guidance from highly skilled leaders, you will learn and practice The Haven's models for communicating and relating with your partner and learn from the diversity of experience around you. All couples meet together during the day and into the evenings, with breaks for relaxation, connection, or adventure in between. In addition to group activities, experiential learning, and discussion, there will be opportunities for the program leaders to support each couple with coaching and feedback.
With Denise Goldbeck
July 6 - 11, 2025
at The Haven
The LAUNCH Youth Leadership program has enabled youth from ages 13 to 20-something to coach, teach, and train children participating in KITS, an evidence-based performing arts program. Based on current developmental peer-reviewed research, LAUNCH allows youth to discover their leadership strengths in a practical, hands-on setting. Together, the youth of LAUNCH and the children of KITS form a community mimicking an ancient human village. In these villages, people of all ages developed crucial skills and vital cultures together.
With Denise Goldbeck
July 6 - 11, 2025
at The Haven
The LAUNCH Youth Leadership program has enabled youth from ages 13 to 20-something to coach, teach, and train children participating in KITS, an evidence-based performing arts program. Based on current developmental peer-reviewed research, LAUNCH allows youth to discover their leadership strengths in a practical, hands-on setting. Together, the youth of LAUNCH and the children of KITS form a community mimicking an ancient human village. In these villages, people of all ages developed crucial skills and vital cultures together.
With Annika Raithby, Mackenzie Dickson and Linda Nicholls
August 16 - 19, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 18, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 18, 2025.
This program was created 20 years ago especially for teens. In our teen years, we have an important opportunity to learn about our ‘self’ and to learn to communicate clearly from this place of strength. We can improve and deepen friendships and relationships, and also learn to be emotionally self-supporting. Teens Alive is designed to encourage you in this process. Over the last twenty years, David and Linda have gathered and supported a wonderful team of facilitators and youth assistants who have helped make the program what it is today. Annika Raithby and Mackenzie Dickson will be teaming up with Teens Alive creator Linda Nicholls to lead the program with a new updated structure co-designed with David and Linda.
With Annika Raithby, Mackenzie Dickson and Linda Nicholls
August 16 - 19, 2025
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 18, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 18, 2025.
This program was created 20 years ago especially for teens. In our teen years, we have an important opportunity to learn about our ‘self’ and to learn to communicate clearly from this place of strength. We can improve and deepen friendships and relationships, and also learn to be emotionally self-supporting. Teens Alive is designed to encourage you in this process. Over the last twenty years, David and Linda have gathered and supported a wonderful team of facilitators and youth assistants who have helped make the program what it is today. This year, Annika Raithby and Mackenzie Dickson will be facilitating Teens Alive: Essentials and are excited to lead the programs with a new updated structure co-designed with David and Linda.
August 17 - 22, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 19, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 19, 2025.
The magic of Come Alive is in our unique history, renowned communication and relationship models, community dynamic, and oceanfront setting on Gabriola Island. With support and guidance, you will learn and practice the Haven models of communication, relationship and self-responsibility, through a range of opportunities for personal learning. Group activities, discussions and experiences take place in both large and small group settings. Come Alive is our most popular core program and the perfect place to begin or continue your journey in personal or professional growth and transformation.
With Annika Raithby, Mackenzie Dickson and Linda Nicholls
August 19 - 22, 2025
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 21, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 21, 2025.
This program was created 20 years ago especially for teens. In our teen years, we have an important opportunity to learn about our ‘self’ and to learn to communicate clearly from this place of strength. We can improve and deepen friendships and relationships, and also learn to be emotionally self-supporting. Teens Alive is designed to encourage you in this process. Over the last twenty years, David and Linda have gathered and supported a wonderful team of facilitators and youth assistants who have helped make the program what it is today. This year, Annika Raithby and Mackenzie Dickson will be facilitating Teens Alive: Essentials and are excited to lead the programs with a new updated structure co-designed with David and Linda.
With Annika Raithby, Mackenzie Dickson and Linda Nicholls
August 19 - 22, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 21, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 21, 2025.
This program was created 20 years ago especially for teens. In our teen years, we have an important opportunity to learn about our ‘self’ and to learn to communicate clearly from this place of strength. We can improve and deepen friendships and relationships, and also learn to be emotionally self-supporting. Teens Alive is designed to encourage you in this process. Over the last twenty years, David and Linda have gathered and supported a wonderful team of facilitators and youth assistants who have helped make the program what it is today. Annika Raithby and Mackenzie Dickson will be teaming up with Teens Alive creator Linda Nicholls to lead the program with a new updated structure co-designed with David and Linda.
With Louise Amuir and Gillian Chandler
August 22 - 25, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 24, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 24, 2025.
Befriending Your Inner Critic uses music, visual arts, movement, guided meditation, laughter and story to help you build (and rebuild) relationship with your inner critic. Think of it like mediation between you and your critic, or facilitating a creative meeting of the minds.
With Linda Nicholls
September 11 - 14, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Aug 13, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Aug 13, 2025.
A boundary is not a "thing" – instead, defining a personal boundary is an active process that is more accurately described as "boundary-ing." This is an awkward word to say – and often even more awkward to put into practice effectively! And the rewards are well worth it. Discerning, expressing and dialoguing about personal boundaries strengthens our ability to live more compassionately, to access creativity, energy and aliveness so that we enjoy greater intimacy and clarity in our personal and work relationships.
With Ian Curtin and Colleen Cuggy
September 12 - 14, 2025
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $40.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Aug 14, 2025 to qualify for CAD $40.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Aug 14, 2025.
This weekend program is for couples who are having difficulty resolving conflicts. This may be the result of a lack of communication, an affair, extreme frustration, years of ‘all work and no play’, or the strain of blending two new families. You will learn valuable tools and develop greater insight and clarity about your relationship. Couples will work together as a pair in a small group setting with individualized attention. Also, each couple will receive a private counselling session to deal with their own particular issues.
September 14 - 19, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Aug 16, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Aug 16, 2025.
The magic of Come Alive is in our unique history, renowned communication and relationship models, community dynamic, and oceanfront setting on Gabriola Island. With support and guidance, you will learn and practice the Haven models of communication, relationship and self-responsibility, through a range of opportunities for personal learning. Group activities, discussions and experiences take place in both large and small group settings. Come Alive is our most popular core program and the perfect place to begin or continue your journey in personal or professional growth and transformation.
October 1 - 26, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $500.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Sep 2, 2025.
The Living Alive programs offer the unique experience of time, space, and guidance to help you (re)discover who you truly are. For 25 days, you’ll have the opportunity to create and establish new or different patterns for conscious living. In Living Alive: Self Awareness the focus is on self-awareness - becoming aware of your individual patterns of behaviour and energy. You'll learn to make more informed decisions about things that affect you, your life, and your relationships. You'll discover, transform, and release energy blockages that negatively impact your health and wellbeing.
With Elfi Dillon-Shaw
October 2 - 5, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Sep 1, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Sep 1, 2025.
In an atmosphere of consent and confidentiality, we will strengthen our vitality through breath work, movement, listening, reflection and sharing. We will explore ancient tantric and taoist wisdom, as well as modern sexology and sexual health sciences.
October 26 - 31, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Sep 27, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Sep 27, 2025.
The magic of Come Alive is in our unique history, renowned communication and relationship models, community dynamic, and oceanfront setting on Gabriola Island. With support and guidance, you will learn and practice the Haven models of communication, relationship and self-responsibility, through a range of opportunities for personal learning. Group activities, discussions and experiences take place in both large and small group settings. Come Alive is our most popular core program and the perfect place to begin or continue your journey in personal or professional growth and transformation.
With Kelly Price
October 30 - November 2, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 1, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 1, 2025.
When we regularly feel unsafe in our bodies due to chronic stress, chronic pain, illness or trauma, natural patterns within our nervous system can become patterns of dysregulation. If prolonged, these patterns can negatively impact our physical and psychological health, relationships, and ability to connect to joy, meaning and purpose. ~ This therapeutic retreat integrates yoga therapy, trauma theory, PolyVagal theory, internal family systems, attachment theory and neuroscience and offers a holistic framework for embodiment, befriending your nervous system and cultivating physiological and psychological resilience.
With Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell
October 31 - November 4, 2025
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 2, 2025 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 2, 2025.
Couples Alive is our core offering for people in a primary relationship. With support and guidance from highly skilled leaders, you will learn and practice The Haven's models for communicating and relating with your partner and learn from the diversity of experience around you. All couples meet together during the day and into the evenings, with breaks for relaxation, connection, or adventure in between. In addition to group activities, experiential learning, and discussion, there will be opportunities for the program leaders to support each couple with coaching and feedback.
With Jane Geesman and Sarah Lucht
November 7 - 10, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 9, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 9, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition and meals.
Acting on stage requires the ability to call on different aspects of one’s personality and emotional life to tell the story with truth and clarity. This is something we all do in life: We play roles, put on different hats, and behave in specific ways in order to achieve our goals. You will learn to better identify and implement your creative and problem-solving resources in an environment of connection, collaboration, and community – with an emphasis on spontaneity and fun.
With Linda Nicholls ~ and Michael O'Neill
November 27 - 30, 2025
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 29, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 29, 2025.
Weaving the Threads of Consciousness: Integrating Psychedelic and Peak Experiences Transformative work is vital to support the shifts in consciousness necessary to adapt, thrive and lead in the complexity of these very interesting times. There are many wonderful opportunities to help these consciousness shifts through psychedelic and other altered state processes however, many participants who […]
December 1 - 6, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Nov 2, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Nov 2, 2025.
The magic of Come Alive is in our unique history, renowned communication and relationship models, community dynamic, and oceanfront setting on Gabriola Island. With support and guidance, you will learn and practice the Haven models of communication, relationship and self-responsibility, through a range of opportunities for personal learning. Group activities, discussions and experiences take place in both large and small group settings. Come Alive is our most popular core program and the perfect place to begin or continue your journey in personal or professional growth and transformation.