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Anger Boundaries and Safety Waiting List
With Greg Gurel
Open Dates
In Person at The Haven
The boundaried, safe and responsible expression of anger can help you stand forward on your own behalf and create the life and relationships you want. Few emotions are more feared than anger, largely because anger is so often confused with violence. A central theme of this program is that anger and violence are different. It […]
Awareness through Creative Expression Waiting List
With Louise Amuir
Open Dates
The Haven
Become intimate with your creative being and meet aspects of yourself you have never known before, in a fun and respectful environment. Increasingly, science is telling us how creativity correlates with intelligence, academic, social, and emotional success, and the development of the brain’s highest information processing capacities. What role does creativity play in your life? […]
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.
Anger Boundaries and Safety Waiting List
With Greg Gurel
Open Dates
The boundaried, safe and responsible expression of anger can help you stand forward on your own behalf and create the life and relationships you want. Few emotions are more feared than anger, largely because anger is so often confused with violence. A central theme of this program is that anger and violence are different. It […]
记录 Recording | 成為合諧共創的生命 - 在薩提爾與海文的連結中讓生命精彩綻放 Becoming: The Satir & Haven Connection
With 瑪莉亞‧葛茉利 Maria Gomori and 麥基卓 Jock McKeen
Open Dates
加入我們一起來見證這場引人入勝的對話 - 瑪莉亞‧葛茉利，薩提爾模式最重要的導師之一，和麥基卓，海文學院的聯合創始人，這兩位經驗豐富的教育工作者，將在線上有一場對話分享他們所代表的這兩種成長模式。
維琴尼亞‧薩提爾(1916~1988)被譽為世上最早也是最有影響力的家庭治療師之一，但她的成就遠超於此。她與海文學院的兩位創辦人黃煥祥博士(1930~2013)以及麥基卓博士結緣於1970年代，在共同好友瑪莉亞‧葛茉利的介紹下開始他們的友誼。
记录 Recording | 友谊与超越：玛丽亚和琳达的旅程 Friendship and Beyond: Maria and Linda’s Journey
With 琳达· 尼科尔 斯 Linda Nicholls and 瑪莉亞‧葛茉利 Maria Gomori
Open Dates
加入我們一起來見證這場引人入勝的對話 - 瑪莉亞‧葛茉利，薩提爾模式最重要的導師之一，和麥基卓，海文學院的聯合創始人，這兩位經驗豐富的教育工作者，將在線上有一場對話分享他們所代表的這兩種成長模式。
維琴尼亞‧薩提爾(1916~1988)被譽為世上最早也是最有影響力的家庭治療師之一，但她的成就遠超於此。她與海文學院的兩位創辦人黃煥祥博士(1930~2013)以及麥基卓博士結緣於1970年代，在共同好友瑪莉亞‧葛茉利的介紹下開始他們的友誼。
记录 Recording | 青年領導力 Youth Leadership
With 李文淑 Wen-Shwu Lee and 傑米森 Jamison Schulz-Franco
Open Dates
通常我們會以我們所做的工作，我們的交友圈，或是我們的專業成就來定義自己。我們常被告知，年輕正是成長和改變的關鍵時期！我們也被期待著，在兼顧無數其他任務的『同時，』我們不要錯失了這關鍵的年輕時刻！現在加上當今政治和社會的動盪，抗爭衝突，以及全球疫情蔓延，年輕族群的生活真的變成了壓力，而不再是樂趣！無論清晰與否，我們對生活總有願景，我們規劃著如何向世界、向家人，或是向我們的伴侶證明自己。然而，面對這種種喘不過氣的壓力，學校與社會教育給年輕人的，似乎只是讓我們精進在個人的專業科目上，並沒有真正引導我們如何向內看，與自己的情感連結，面對失敗挫折，或者如何建立親密關係。在不了解自己的前提下，我們又怎麼知道自己想要什麼？~ So often we define ourselves by our jobs, our friend groups, our occupations and our accomplishments. As young people we are told that we are in a crucial period of growth and change, yet the expectation is that we do that while managing a thousand other tasks, all at once. When you pile on political and social upheaval, war and conflict, and a worldwide pandemic, life can become more of a stress than a pleasure. Whether we know it or not, we have a vision for our lives, mapping out how we want to prove ourselves to the world, to our families and to our partners. In school we are told about all of the careers that we may follow to fulfill us, but we are not taught how to check-in with our emotional center, how to face our failures or frustrations, or how to be intimate with others. How are we supposed to know what we want in our lives, without truly knowing ourselves first?
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.
Haven Style Embodiment Training
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.
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.
Grieving: Endings, Losses and Change
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.
Kids in the Spotlight Spring Break (KITS)
With Denise Goldbeck
March 23 - 28, 2025
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.
The Journey to Self
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 […]
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.
Sexual Intelligence Part 1
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.
Conscious Breathwork: A Training for Personal Mastery & Professional Skill Development
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.
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.
Act Natural: Rediscover the Play in Life
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.
Kids in the Spotlight #1 (KITS)
With Denise Goldbeck
July 13 - 18, 2025
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 20 - 25, 2025
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 27 - August 1, 2025
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
August 3 - 8, 2025
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 10 - 15, 2025
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, 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.
Teens Alive 1
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.
Teens Alive 2
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.
Teens Alive 2
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.
Women & Sexuality: Stirring the Cauldron
With Elfi Dillon-Shaw
August 22 - 25, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 22, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 22, 2025.
In an atmosphere of consensuality and confidentiality, women will have the opportunity to experience themselves as sacred sexual beings. Knowing that erotic exploration can be fraught with barriers of shame, tension and anxiety, we respect these as each woman's individual space is honoured.
Befriending Your Inner Critic
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.
Boundaries: The Vital Edge
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.
Sexual Intelligence Part 2
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.
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.
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.
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 […]