ONSITE: Living Alive: Meaningful Connections

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. The focus for Living Alive: Meaningful Connections is relationships – how you see yourself, how other people see you, and how you engage in relationships.

In a highly experiential and choice-based environment, you’ll immerse yourself in The Haven’s models and concepts, with opportunities to go deeper, practice, and expand your range of being. Participants are encouraged to question their assumptions, explore their beliefs, and challenge their patterns in a respectful environment. Join a community of seekers and engage in the ultimate experience of self-discovery and transformation.

Living Alive program Highlights:

• An in-depth opportunity to engage more consciously and fully in your life and relationships.
• Time away to reconnect with yourself and nature on The Haven’s beautiful 7-acre oceanfront property.
• An opportunity to take your personal growth and Haven-style learning to the next level 
• For those who have attended a Come Alive, we will take a deeper dive into The Haven’s models: Communication, Power & Strength, Resonance, Selves.
• For those who have not attended a Come Alive there will be plenty of opportunities to learn, practice and integrate these models.
• Guided experiences designed to heighten your physical, intellectual, and emotional awareness.
• A meaningful and enduring investment in your wellbeing: 25 days of radical self-discovery and transformation.
• Experienced program leaders, who are highly trained at The Haven and in their various professions.
• Deep investment, continuity, and care from assistants and interns who bring a variety of diverse and complementary skill sets to their Haven training. This support team means a low ratio of participants to leaders. 
• A long history with hundreds of Living Alive participants reporting continued personal and professional transformation post-program.
• Take-home tools to support integration of learning.
• A full program schedule, plus daily breaks for introspection, connecting with others, rest, relaxing in the oceanfront hot tub, exploring nearby trails, and more.
• Achievement of pre-requisites required to pursue a Diploma or Certificate at The Haven (if that’s of interest!)

Living Alive: Meaningful Connections

Relationships: discovering how we see ourselves, how others see us, and how we are in relationships.

Living Alive: Meaningful Connections (formerly Phase II) is for you if any of the following applies:

• I want to develop greater self-awareness of how I establish, maintain, end relationships – close, casual, and professional.
• I want to learn how others interpret and experience my style of relating.
• I am going through a transition involving others and am unsure what happens next.
• I want to discover how I respond to topics such as commitment, vulnerability, security, romance, power struggle, attachment styles, ‘Family of Origin’, caretaking vs caring, embodiment, conflict, sexuality.
• I want to build relationship skills and shift patterns of dependency, jealousy, defensiveness, control, blame, placating,  etc.
• I want to examine and explore my beliefs and biases around gender, sexuality, sensuality, and intimacy.
• I want an opportunity to integrate someone from my personal life into my learning at The Haven. Contact the registrars to learn more about the optional 3-day Relationships component where you can invite someone to join your experience.

“I can have meaningful, alive relationships without denying or disconnecting from what is true in my mind, body, heart. I can be transparent and open about my reality, and thus open the bridge to knowing another. This is the kind of stuff my dreams are made of.”

– Rye Green, Living Alive Phase II

Accommodation:
We are offering private and shared room options – if room sharing is not permitted due to tightened Covid restrictions in the fall then we will be in touch with participants about moving to single accommodation.

Investment: 

Accessibility and inclusion are important to us. We’re offering a 15% discounted tuition price if you register by October 1st.  Get all of your meals, shared accommodation, and 25 days of programming starting at $7863.75 +tax.

We are able to offer a limited number of partial bursaries through the Community Diversity & Inclusion Fund.   Applications must be received at least 4 weeks prior to the program start date.  Learn more and apply for support by contacting Anne Hainsworth, anne@haven.ca.  Bursary Application Deadline: October 1st, 2021.  

Schedule:

November 1st your program begins with dinner at 6pm, followed by an orientation at 7pm and your first session at 7:30pm

Daily schedule:

• Breakfast 8-9:00am
• Morning session most days 9:15am to noon, with a break midway
• Lunch noon to 1:00pm
• Afternoon session most days 2:30-5:30pm, with a break midway
• Dinner 5:30 – 6:30pm
• Evening session most days 7:00 – 8:30pm

Afternoon and evening sessions can vary.  Your program finishes at 11:30am on the last day, and lunch is included

Transportation:

If you are travelling to Gabriola as a foot passenger on the Gabriola Ferry a shuttle to The Haven can be requested.  Information on this option will be included in your pre-arrival email.

Recommended Resources:

Here are book titles that can complement and enhance your learning in this program. You can purchase when you are at Haven, or order online. Click to learn more:

+ Being: A Manual for Life by Bennet Wong & Jock McKeen

+ Joining: The Relationship Garden by Bennet Wong & Jock McKeen