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Haven Faculty
Sexual Intelligence
With Elfi Dillon-Shaw and Gary Dillon
October 2 - 5, 2025
The Haven
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.
Pathways to Resilience
With Graemme Brown and Karla Osborne
November 3 - 7, 2025
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 5, 2025 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 5, 2025.
Resilience is not merely the ability to endure difficulty: Rather, it is the conscious use of our resources as well as the desire to get back up and dust ourselves off after a set-back or a loss. It is nurturing the faith in ourselves to locate and utilize our innate skills to move beyond just surviving and into thriving and wholeness. In this workshop we will explore how to re-connect with our innate resilience via the ‘felt-sense’ approach, combining a diverse range of modalities.
Anger, Boundaries and Safety
With Greg Gurel
November 6 - 9, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Oct 8, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
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.
Act Natural: Rediscover the Play in Life
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.
Five Elements Practicum: An Oriental Holistic Approach to Energy
With Jane Olynyk
November 21 - 24, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 21, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 21, 2025.
This program is an advanced, hands-on practicum where, through the lens of the 5 elements (wood, fire, earth, metal, and water) and the life force that flows through them, we will examine harmony and disharmony within each of us. This rich holistic model incorporates emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual aspects into how we view and assess ourselves, our world, and processes of change.
Weaving the Threads of Consciousness: Integrating Psychedelic and Peak Experiences
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. Package prices include room, regular tuition and meals.
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 […]
Self Compassion
With Graemme Brown and Jo-Ann Kevala
January 1 - 4, 2026
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Dec 3, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Dec 3, 2025.
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.
The Journey to Self
With Graemme Brown, Louise Amuir and Emmanuel Gaillot
April 26 - May 1, 2026
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 28, 2026 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 28, 2026. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
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". Satir processes allow us to give full expression to the resources we wish to utilize, and to let go of or transform learnings that are no longer useful to us.
Kids in the Spotlight #1 (KITS)
With Denise Goldbeck
July 5 - 10, 2026
at The Haven
Kids in the Spotlight (KITS), created and run by counselor and Developmental Psychology MA Denise Goldbeck, is an evidence-based 5-day performing arts retreat experience that facilitates phenomenal breakthroughs for children, youth, and their families. Over the course of five unforgettable days, participants of Kids in the Spotlight create and perform in a musical production. Along the way, they learn to communicate, respect themselves and others, express themselves confidently, overcome challenges, and heal from difficult experiences.
Kids in the Spotlight #2 (KITS)
With Denise Goldbeck
July 12 - 17, 2026
at The Haven
Kids in the Spotlight (KITS), created and run by counselor and Developmental Psychology MA Denise Goldbeck, is an evidence-based 5-day performing arts retreat experience that facilitates phenomenal breakthroughs for children, youth, and their families. Over the course of five unforgettable days, participants of Kids in the Spotlight create and perform in a musical production. Along the way, they learn to communicate, respect themselves and others, express themselves confidently, overcome challenges, and heal from difficult experiences.
Kids in the Spotlight #3 (KITS)
With Denise Goldbeck
July 19 - 24, 2026
at The Haven
Kids in the Spotlight (KITS), created and run by counselor and Developmental Psychology MA Denise Goldbeck, is an evidence-based 5-day performing arts retreat experience that facilitates phenomenal breakthroughs for children, youth, and their families. Over the course of five unforgettable days, participants of Kids in the Spotlight create and perform in a musical production. Along the way, they learn to communicate, respect themselves and others, express themselves confidently, overcome challenges, and heal from difficult experiences.
Kids in the Spotlight #4 (KITS)
With Denise Goldbeck
July 26 - 31, 2026
at The Haven
Kids in the Spotlight (KITS), created and run by counselor and Developmental Psychology MA Denise Goldbeck, is an evidence-based 5-day performing arts retreat experience that facilitates phenomenal breakthroughs for children, youth, and their families. Over the course of five unforgettable days, participants of Kids in the Spotlight create and perform in a musical production. Along the way, they learn to communicate, respect themselves and others, express themselves confidently, overcome challenges, and heal from difficult experiences.
Kids in the Spotlight #5 (KITS)
With Denise Goldbeck
August 2 - 7, 2026
at The Haven
Kids in the Spotlight (KITS), created and run by counselor and Developmental Psychology MA Denise Goldbeck, is an evidence-based 5-day performing arts retreat experience that facilitates phenomenal breakthroughs for children, youth, and their families. Over the course of five unforgettable days, participants of Kids in the Spotlight create and perform in a musical production. Along the way, they learn to communicate, respect themselves and others, express themselves confidently, overcome challenges, and heal from difficult experiences.
Families in the Spotlight (FITS)
With Denise Goldbeck
August 9 - 14, 2026
at The Haven
Kids in the Spotlight (KITS), created and run by counselor and Developmental Psychology MA Denise Goldbeck, is an evidence-based 5-day performing arts retreat experience that facilitates phenomenal breakthroughs for children, youth, and their families. Over the course of five unforgettable days, participants of Kids in the Spotlight create and perform in a musical production. Along the way, they learn to communicate, respect themselves and others, express themselves confidently, overcome challenges, and heal from difficult experiences.
Teens Alive 1
With Annika Raithby and Linda Nicholls
August 15 - 18, 2026
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 17, 2026 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 17, 2026.
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.
Teens Alive 1
With Annika Raithby and Linda Nicholls
August 15 - 18, 2026
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 17, 2026 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 17, 2026. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
Since 1992, Teens Alive has provided an engaging, supportive environment where young people build emotional resilience, strengthen communication skills, develop their inner strength and confidence and nurture regard for themselves and others. Guided by experienced facilitators, teens learn practical tools to navigate relationships, meet and grow from life’s challenges, and begin to mature into emotionally self-supporting, connected individuals — all within a caring and fun community. www.teensalive.ca
Teens Alive 2
With Annika Raithby and Linda Nicholls
August 18 - 21, 2026
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 20, 2026 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 20, 2026. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
Since 1992, Teens Alive has provided an engaging, supportive environment where young people build emotional resilience, strengthen communication skills, develop their inner strength and confidence and nurture regard for themselves and others. Guided by experienced facilitators, teens learn practical tools to navigate relationships, meet and grow from life’s challenges, and begin to mature into emotionally self-supporting, connected individuals — all within a caring and fun community. www.teensalive.ca
Teens Alive 2
With Annika Raithby and Linda Nicholls
August 18 - 21, 2026
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 20, 2026 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 20, 2026. Prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
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.