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Intention and Celebration: New Year at The Haven
With Louise Amuir
December 30, 2025 - January 1, 2026
at The Haven
As each year slowly and surely brings itself to a close, we have the opportunity to reflect and connect at The Haven. Each person can embrace the spirit of The Haven in their own way, to turn their page, from last to next, with intention.
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.
Grieving: Endings, Losses and Change
With Linda Nicholls
March 5 - 8, 2026
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Feb 4, 2026 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Feb 4, 2026. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
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 22 - 27, 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.
Living the Question
With Louise Amuir and Jo-Ann Kevala
March 29 - April 3, 2026
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Feb 28, 2026 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Feb 28, 2026.
This five-day experiential program invites you to explore life’s essential paradoxes through Haven models, breathwork, expressive arts, and experiential practices. Grounded in self-responsible relational living, this workshop will bring curiosity and compassion to the human dilemmas that shape our experience.
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.