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June 6, 2022: In line with current BC Provincial Covid guidelines, Haven does not require masks to be worn in public spaces including session rooms, while those who wish to continue wearing masks may do so. We will no longer require proof of double vaccination for program participants and leader teams for core programs. Individual leaders may require additional protocols if they choose, this will be noted on the program description.
All staff, guests and participants are required to self-monitor for symptoms of illness, and are asked to isolate from others when showing symptoms.
ONSITE: Pathways to Resilience
With Graemme Brown and Karla Osborne
March 5 - 9, 2023
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Feb 4, 2023 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Feb 4, 2023.
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, including practical applications of Polyvagal Theory, Satir-Model, various attachment theories, Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems, Wong…
ONSITE: Come Alive
With Linda Nicholls
March 12 - 17, 2023
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Feb 11, 2023 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Feb 11, 2023.
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.
ONSITE: Kids in the Spotlight (KITS) Spring Break
With Denise Goldbeck
March 19 - 24, 2023
at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Feb 16, 2023.
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.
ONSITE: Anger, Boundaries and Safety
With Greg Gurel
March 23 - 26, 2023
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Feb 22, 2023.
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.
ONSITE: Embodied Resilience: A Therapeutic Yoga Retreat
With Kelly Price
April 13 - 16, 2023
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 15, 2023 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 15, 2023.
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.
ONSITE: Come Alive
With Susan Clarke
April 14 - 19, 2023
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 16, 2023 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 16, 2023.
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.
ONSITE: Couples Alive: Foundation
With Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell
April 20 - 24, 2023
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 22, 2023 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 22, 2023.
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.
ONSITE: Here I stand! A Creative Dive into Finding and Crafting Purpose (Spring)
With Damian John and Sue Muirhead
April 28 - May 2, 2023
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 30, 2023 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 30, 2023.
This season we endeavour to create alongside the infusion of light and life that Spring brings with her. With breath and movement, connection and the stories held deep in our bones, we choose this time to create art and hold sacred the telling of our Spring tales. Your art, story, and the sharing of it is most important. Like the season of Spring we will use it to help wake ourselves and others and join the earth in her timeless and beautifully complex dance of awakening.
ONSITE: Self Compassion
With Graemme Brown and Jo-Ann Kevala
May 4 - 7, 2023
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Apr 5, 2023 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Apr 5, 2023.
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.
ONSITE: Come Alive
May 18 - 23, 2023
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Apr 19, 2023 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Apr 19, 2023.
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.
ONSITE: Anger, Boundaries and Safety
With Greg Gurel
May 25 - 28, 2023
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Apr 26, 2023.
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.
ONSITE: Living Alive: Self Awareness
With Carole Ames and Jo-Ann Kevala
May 29 - June 23, 2023
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $500.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Apr 28, 2023.
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.
ONSITE: Come Alive
June 11 - 16, 2023
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before May 13, 2023 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until May 13, 2023.
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.
ONSITE: Teens Alive: Essentials
With Annika Raithby and Mackenzie Dickson
August 19 - 24, 2023
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 21, 2023 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 21, 2023.
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…
ONSITE: Come Alive
August 19 - 24, 2023
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 21, 2023 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 21, 2023.
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.