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Come Alive
With Graemme Brown and Louise Amuir LIT
January 1 - 6, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Dec 3, 2023 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Dec 3, 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.
Boundaries: The Vital Edge
With Linda Nicholls
February 15 - 18, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jan 17, 2024 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jan 17, 2024.
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.
The Wild Kindness: Cultivating Erotic Connection in Daily Life
With Elfi Dillon-Shaw and Gary Dillon
February 15 - 18, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jan 17, 2024.
This program offers couples the opportunity to practice communicating wants and needs through lighthearted and fun experiments for erotic play. Engage in conversations about intimacy and learn to navigate sexual energy in relationships.
Come Alive
With Carole Ames and Jo-Ann Kevala
February 18 - 23, 2024
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jan 20, 2024 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jan 20, 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.
Self Compassion
With Graemme Brown and Jo-Ann Kevala
February 23 - 26, 2024
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jan 25, 2024 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jan 25, 2024.
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.
Come Alive
With Linda Nicholls
March 10 - 15, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Feb 10, 2024 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Feb 10, 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
April 4 - 7, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 6, 2024 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 6, 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.
Come Alive
With Ian Curtin and Susa Holt
April 7 - 12, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 9, 2024 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 9, 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.
Couples In Conflict
With Ian Curtin and Susa Holt
April 12 - 14, 2024
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $40.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 14, 2024 to qualify for CAD $40.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 14, 2024.
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. Various exercises will be presented to help bring clarity to your relationship, including ‘homework’…
Anger, Boundaries and Safety
With Greg Gurel
April 18 - 21, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Mar 20, 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.
Grieving: Endings, Losses and Change
With Linda Nicholls
April 18 - 21, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 20, 2024 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 20, 2024.
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.
Act Natural: Rediscover the Play in Life
With Jane Geesman and Sarah Lucht
April 21 - 24, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 23, 2024 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 23, 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.
Restoring Wholeness
With Graemme Brown and Karla Osborne
April 22 - 26, 2024
Earlybird discount of CAD $80.00 valid up to Mar 24, 2024
We will learn how to re-connect with our wholeness, exploring the origins and impacts of the traumatic shame that impede us. We will present take-home tools for developing ‘shame-resilience’ as well as exploring how to shift ourselves into a ‘healthy shame state’ where we can learn, grow and re-connect.
Act Natural: Rediscover the Play in Life
With Jane Geesman and Sarah Lucht
April 26 - 29, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 28, 2024 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 28, 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.
Come Alive
With Al Chambers and Cathy Wilder
May 5 - 10, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Apr 6, 2024 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Apr 6, 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.
Theory & Practice of Transformations Part B
With Jane Olynyk and Graemme Brown
May 17 - 30, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $240.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Apr 18, 2024 to qualify for CAD $240.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Apr 18, 2024.
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
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Apr 25, 2024 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Apr 25, 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anger, Boundaries and Safety
With Greg Gurel
October 3 - 6, 2024
In Person at 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.
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.
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.
Come Alive
With Linda Nicholls
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.
Act Natural: Rediscover the Play in Life
With Jane Geesman and Sarah Lucht
November 8 - 11, 2024
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 10, 2024 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 10, 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.
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.
Anger, Boundaries and Safety
With Greg Gurel
November 28 - December 1, 2024
In Person at 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.
Come Alive
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.