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Luminaries on Demand
With Jock McKeen, Greg Gurel, Bettina Rothe, Cathy McNally, Cathy Wilder, Dr Fred Voon, Lizanne Foster, Victoria Creighton, Maggie Ziegler, Bev Bagnall-Hope, Frank Hope, Jennifer Roger and Blair Stanley, Kelly Price, Kevin Wong and Peter Joyes
Open Dates
Recording
This is a recording archive of the live Lunch with Luminaries seminars that have been hosted at The Haven Online starting in 2021. This webinar series shares different perspectives on a variety of topics of interest to our community. These talks pay homage to early Haven days where co-founders Ben and Jock invited various thought leaders into conversation - sometimes they agreed with the ideas shared and sometimes they didn't.
Recording of "Jock's Journey"
With Jock McKeen
Open Dates
Online
Listen to Jock and his son, Kevin Wong, as they discuss Jock’s journey from doctor to co-founder of Haven, to current day. Jock McKeen, co-founder of the Haven, began his career as a medical doctor. Jock will discuss with Kevin their mutual attraction to the sciences, and Jock's expansion into the Eastern approaches to medicine […]
ONLINE: Group Check-in
October 16, 2025
Are any of these statements true for you? ~ I sometimes feel isolated and alone. ~ It's important to me to be heard and acknowledged. ~ Hearing about other people's experiences helps me feel connected. ~ I want to learn more about the Haven or practice the skills I've learned. ~ I benefit from reminders and accountability to check in with myself and prioritize my wellbeing.
Film Makers Rooming
October 19 - 22, 2025
Couples Alive: Foundation
With Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell
October 22 - 26, 2025
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
October 26 - 31, 2025
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.
Embodied Resilience: A Therapeutic Yoga Retreat
With Kelly Price
October 30 - November 2, 2025
The Haven
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.
ONLINE: Group Check-in
October 30, 2025
Are any of these statements true for you? ~ I sometimes feel isolated and alone. ~ It's important to me to be heard and acknowledged. ~ Hearing about other people's experiences helps me feel connected. ~ I want to learn more about the Haven or practice the skills I've learned. ~ I benefit from reminders and accountability to check in with myself and prioritize my wellbeing.
Anger, Boundaries and Safety
With Greg Gurel
November 6 - 9, 2025
The Haven
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
November 7 - 10, 2025
The Haven
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.
Couples In Conflict
With Ian Curtin and Colleen Cuggy
November 7 - 9, 2025
In person at The Haven
This weekend program is for couples who are having difficulty resolving conflicts. This may be the result of a lack of communication, an affair, extreme frustration, years of ‘all work and no play’, or the strain of blending two new families. You will learn valuable tools and develop greater insight and clarity about your relationship. Couples will work together as a pair in a small group setting with individualized attention. Also, each couple will receive a private counselling session to deal with their own particular issues.
Five Elements Practicum: An Oriental Holistic Approach to Energy
With Jane Olynyk
November 21 - 24, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 21, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 21, 2025.
This program is an advanced, hands-on practicum where, through the lens of the 5 elements (wood, fire, earth, metal, and water) and the life force that flows through them, we will examine harmony and disharmony within each of us. This rich holistic model incorporates emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual aspects into how we view and assess ourselves, our world, and processes of change.
Come Alive
With Al Chambers and Cathy Wilder
November 25 - 30, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 27, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 27, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition and meals.
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 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. Package prices include room, regular tuition and meals.
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 […]
Come Alive
With Linda Nicholls
January 1 - 6, 2026
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Dec 3, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Dec 3, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
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.
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.
MINI LAUNCH: Youth Leadership Training
With Denise Goldbeck
March 20 - 22, 2026
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 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.
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.
Living Alive: Meaningful Connections
With Gillian Enright and Ian Curtin
May 10 - June 4, 2026
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $500.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Apr 11, 2026. Package pricing includes tuition, accommodation with 30% discount applied, and meals.
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.
Eagles over Easel Room and Meals
May 31 - June 5, 2026
2026《深刻連接與關系轉化之旅》 Mandarin Living Alive: Meaningful Connections
With 琳达· 尼科尔 斯 Linda Nicholls and 李文淑 Wen-Shwu Lee
June 6 - 19, 2026
亲临加拿大海文學院 The Haven
6500加元（不包括住宿和餐费）
報名付訂：3,000加元 全額付款：課程開始前一個月付清
2025年9月30日前支付訂金註冊的早鳥價格為5,500加元。
2025年12月31日前支付訂金註冊的早鳥價格為6,000加元。
2026年正常價格為6,500加元。
Regular program tuition is CAD$6,500
Pay $5500 if you register with deposit by Sept 30, 2025
Pay $6,000 if you register with deposit by Dec 31, 2025
Pay $6,500 if you register with deposit from Jan 1, 2026
報名付訂：3,000加元 全額付款：課程開始前一個月付清
2025年9月30日前支付訂金註冊的早鳥價格為5,500加元。
2025年12月31日前支付訂金註冊的早鳥價格為6,000加元。
2026年正常價格為6,500加元。
Regular program tuition is CAD$6,500
Pay $5500 if you register with deposit by Sept 30, 2025
Pay $6,000 if you register with deposit by Dec 31, 2025
Pay $6,500 if you register with deposit from Jan 1, 2026
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: Meaningful Connections the focus is on relational awareness. Grounded in experiential learning, it invites participants to explore how they connect, maintain, and end relationships—intimate, social, and professional. You will discover your interpersonal patterns and learn how they shape your life.
Manuela and Adam Wedding
June 19 - 21, 2026
LAUNCH: Youth Leadership Training
With Denise Goldbeck
June 28 - July 3, 2026
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.
LAUNCH: Youth Leadership Training
With Denise Goldbeck
June 28 - July 3, 2026
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 #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
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
Chapman Stick 2026
August 27 - 31, 2026