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All in-person programs at the Haven on Gabriola Island
Come Alive
With Al Chambers and Cathy Wilder
May 5 - 10, 2024
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.
Theory & Practice of Transformations Part B
With Jane Olynyk and Graemme Brown
May 17 - 30, 2024
In Person at The Haven
This exciting program is an invitation to complement and integrate your learning in Come Alive, the Living Alive programs, or other adventures in personal growth. In this program you will dig deeply into the intellectual and philosophical underpinnings of The Haven's work. At the same time you will closely examine your own patterns of thought and behaviour and consider the implications and challenges of self-responsible, relational living in the contemporary world.
Couples Alive: Foundation
With Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell
May 24 - 28, 2024
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.
Come Alive
With Susan Clarke
May 30 - June 4, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before May 1, 2024 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until May 1, 2024.
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.
Embodied Resilience: A Therapeutic Yoga Retreat
With Kelly Price
May 31 - June 3, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before May 2, 2024 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until May 2, 2024.
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.
Pathways to Resilience
With Graemme Brown and Karla Osborne
June 3 - 7, 2024
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before May 5, 2024 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until May 5, 2024.
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.
加拿大海文學院探心之旅 《自我觉察精粹：活出生命熱情》Mandarin Living Alive: Self Awareness Essentials
With 琳达· 尼科尔 斯 Linda Nicholls and 李文淑 Wen-Shwu Lee
June 6 - 19, 2024
亲临加拿大海文學院 In Person at 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.
LAUNCH: Youth Leadership Training
With Denise Goldbeck
June 30 - July 5, 2024
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.
Kids in the Spotlight (KITS) July 7-12
With Denise Goldbeck
July 7 - 12, 2024
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 (KITS) July 14-19
With Denise Goldbeck
July 14 - 19, 2024
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 (KITS) July 21-26
With Denise Goldbeck
July 21 - 26, 2024
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 (KITS) July 28-Aug 2
With Denise Goldbeck
July 28 - August 2, 2024
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 (KITS) Aug 4-9
With Denise Goldbeck
August 4 - 9, 2024
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 (KITS) Aug 11-16
With Denise Goldbeck
August 11 - 16, 2024
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.
Come Alive
With Jo-Ann Kevala and Carole Ames
August 17 - 22, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 19, 2024 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 19, 2024.
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.
Teens Alive: Essentials
With Annika Raithby, Mackenzie Dickson and Linda Nicholls
August 17 - 22, 2024
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 19, 2024 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 19, 2024.
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: Essentials
With Annika Raithby, Mackenzie Dickson and Linda Nicholls
August 17 - 22, 2024
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 19, 2024 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 19, 2024.
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 teaming up with Teens Alive creator Linda Nicholls to lead the program with a new updated structure co-designed with David and Linda.
Befriending Your Inner Critic
With Louise Amuir, Graemme Brown and Gillian Chandler
August 22 - 25, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 24, 2024 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 24, 2024.
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.
Journey Together: A Satir Approach to Intimate Relationships
With Jennifer Roger and Blair Stanley
September 18 - 22, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Aug 20, 2024 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Aug 20, 2024.
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.
Couples Alive II: Igniting Passion and Aliveness
With Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell
September 18 - 22, 2024
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Aug 18, 2024 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Aug 18, 2024.
Couples Alive II is about igniting passion and aliveness together and is part 2 in our Haven core series for people in primary relationship. Passionate expression and healthy power-struggle can help establish growth and acceptance – as individuals and as a couple. In this program couples work to identify and share personal characteristics, beliefs and behaviours; go beyond 'good-bad' judgments, and explore how these traits can be embraced to enhance relationship.
Come Alive
With Cathy Wilder and Graemme Brown
September 22 - 27, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Aug 24, 2024 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Aug 24, 2024.
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.
Embodied Resilience: A Therapeutic Yoga Retreat
With Kelly Price
October 3 - 6, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Sep 4, 2024 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Sep 4, 2024.
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.
Anger, Boundaries and Safety
With Greg Gurel
October 3 - 6, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Sep 4, 2024.
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.
Living Alive: Self Awareness
With Carole Ames and Jo-Ann Kevala
October 6 - 31, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $500.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Sep 7, 2024.
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.
Couples Alive: Foundation
With Cathy McNally and Graemme Brown
October 7 - 11, 2024
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Sep 8, 2024 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Sep 8, 2024.
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.
Come Alive
October 27 - November 1, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Sep 28, 2024 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Sep 28, 2024.
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.
Weaving the Threads of Consciousness: Integrating Psychedelic and Peak Experiences
With Linda Nicholls ~ and Michael O'Neill
November 7 - 10, 2024
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 9, 2024 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 9, 2024.
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 […]
Living Alive: Meaningful Connections
With Gillian Enright and Cathy McNally
November 10 - December 5, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $500.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 12, 2024.
Both 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. The focus for Living Alive: Meaningful Connections is relationships - how you see yourself, how other people see you, and how you engage in relationships. You'll have an in-depth opportunity to engage more consciously and fully in your life and relationships.
Act Natural: Rediscover the Play in Life
With Jane Geesman and Sarah Lucht
November 14 - 17, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 16, 2024 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 16, 2024.
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.
Breathe: Recalibrate
With Linda Nicholls
November 22 - 24, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $40.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 24, 2024 to qualify for CAD $40.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 24, 2024.
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
November 28 - December 1, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Oct 30, 2024.
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.
Come Alive
With Ian Curtin and Louise Amuir LIT
December 1 - 6, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Nov 2, 2024 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Nov 2, 2024.
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.