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Kids in the Spotlight #3 (KITS)
With Denise Goldbeck
July 19 - 24, 2026
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.
Conscious Breathwork: A Training for Personal Mastery & Professional Skill Development
With Linda Nicholls
July 24 - 26, 2026
The Haven
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.
Kids in the Spotlight #4 (KITS)
With Denise Goldbeck
July 26 - 31, 2026
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.
FREE! ONLINE: Couples Refresh
With Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell
July 28, 2026
Online via Zoom
Join Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell for this free online session where they will discuss the unconscious patterns that quietly shape how we protect, connect, and respond to each other.
Kids in the Spotlight #5 (KITS)
With Denise Goldbeck
August 2 - 7, 2026
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
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
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
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
Befriending Your Inner Critic
With Louise Amuir
August 21 - 24, 2026
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 23, 2026 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 23, 2026. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
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.
Queeriousities
With Michael Jeffery and Loretta (Lo) Laurin
September 9 - 13, 2026
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Aug 11, 2026 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Aug 11, 2026. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
In a world that often asks us to shrink, Queeriousities invites us to expand — into our bodies, our truths, and our collective power.
Together, we will journey into the queer magic inherent in our bodies, emotions, minds, eros, community, and in our integration with wider systems and nature. In community, we will discover and share more integrated expressions of the beauty of queer consciousness, and cultivate the gifts queerness brings to the world in these complex times.
Living the Questions
With Louise Amuir and Jo-Ann Kevala
September 25 - 30, 2026
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Aug 27, 2026 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Aug 27, 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.
When One Door Closes: Transitioning Relationships
With Jo-Ann Kevala and Sonya Dicks
October 1 - 4, 2026
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Sep 2, 2026 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Sep 2, 2026.
During the program, you’ll learn how to distinguish loneliness from true solitude, uncover the relationship patterns that keep pulling you back into the same dynamics, and get crystal-clear about your values, lifestyle needs, and boundaries. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of who you are, what you want, and what you will no longer accept.
Grieving: Endings, Losses and Change
With Linda Nicholls
October 4 - 7, 2026
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Sep 5, 2026 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Sep 5, 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.
Haven Style Embodiment Training
With Linda Nicholls and Christina Smith
October 25 - 29, 2026
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Sep 26, 2026 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Sep 26, 2026.
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
November 26 - 29, 2026
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Oct 28, 2026. 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.
Self Compassion
With Graemme Brown and Jo-Ann Kevala
January 7 - 10, 2027
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Dec 9, 2026 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Dec 9, 2026.
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.
Practice of Being
With Linda Nicholls and Jo-Ann Kevala
February 25 - 28, 2027
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jan 27, 2027 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jan 27, 2027. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
Practice of Being is the next step for individuals who have experienced the transformative power of Come Alive and are ready to go further. Building on the foundations of self-awareness, authentic communication, and relational presence, this program invites you into a more courageous and embodied engagement with your life, your relationships, and the world around you.
Creative Connection
With Louise Amuir
February 28 - March 5, 2027
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jan 28, 2027 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jan 28, 2027.
Grieving: Endings, Losses and Change
With Linda Nicholls
March 11 - 14, 2027
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Feb 10, 2027 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Feb 10, 2027. 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.
Anger, Boundaries and Safety
With Greg Gurel
April 9 - 12, 2027
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Mar 11, 2027. 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.
Satir: The Journey to Self
With Louise Amuir, Emmanuel Gaillot and Emily Reaser
April 16 - 21, 2027
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 18, 2027 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 18, 2027. 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.
Understanding Ourselves and Others
With Jane Kilthei
April 29 - May 2, 2027
At The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Mar 31, 2027. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
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.
Boundaries: The Vital Edge
With Linda Nicholls
June 24 - 27, 2027
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before May 26, 2027 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until May 26, 2027.
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.
Befriending Your Inner Critic
With Louise Amuir
August 26 - 29, 2027
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 28, 2027 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 28, 2027. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
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.
Haven Style Embodiment Training
With Linda Nicholls and Christina Smith
September 10 - 15, 2027
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Aug 12, 2027 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Aug 12, 2027.
An experiential training program in the concepts and practice of the transformative Haven-style body, breath and energy flow approaches.
Grieving: Endings, Losses and Change
With Linda Nicholls
November 18 - 21, 2027
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 20, 2027 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 20, 2027. 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.
Anger, Boundaries and Safety
With Greg Gurel
November 25 - 28, 2027
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.