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Anger, Boundaries and Safety
With Greg Gurel
May 22 - 25, 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.
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, 2025
亲临加拿大海文學院 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.
Act Natural: Rediscover the Play in Life
With Jane Geesman and Sarah Lucht
June 19 - 22, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before May 21, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until May 21, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition and meals.
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 Jane Olynyk and Jo-Ann Kevala
June 22 - 27, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before May 24, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until May 24, 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.
Couples Alive: Foundation
With Cathy McNally and Graemme Brown
June 30 - July 4, 2025
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jun 1, 2025 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jun 1, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
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.
LAUNCH: Youth Leadership Training
With Denise Goldbeck
July 6 - 11, 2025
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.
Come Alive in Nanaimo
With Graemme Brown
July 13 - 18, 2025
The Bethlehem Centre in Nanaimo, BC
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular tuition price. Remaining balance due on or before Jun 14, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jun 14, 2025.
The magic of Come Alive is in our unique history, renowned communication and relationship models and our community dynamic. 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.
Kids in the Spotlight #1 (KITS)
With Denise Goldbeck
July 13 - 18, 2025
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 20 - 25, 2025
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 27 - August 1, 2025
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
August 3 - 8, 2025
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 10 - 15, 2025
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 16 - 19, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 18, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 18, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
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. Annika Raithby will be teaming up with Teens Alive creator…
Come Alive
With Ian Curtin and Cathy Wilder
August 17 - 22, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 19, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 19, 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.
Teens Alive 2
With Annika Raithby and Linda Nicholls
August 19 - 22, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 21, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 21, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
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. Annika Raithby will be teaming up with Teens Alive creator…
Befriending Your Inner Critic
With Louise Amuir and Gillian Chandler
August 22 - 25, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 24, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 24, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
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.
Women & Sexuality: Stirring your Cauldron
With Elfi Dillon-Shaw
August 22 - 25, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 22, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 22, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
Let’s come together and support each other to let go of shame and discover joy. In an atmosphere of con-sensuality and confidentiality, women will have the opportunity to experiment with erotic states of being through Psycho physical experimental breath and movement exercises, contemplation and conversation.
Boundaries: The Vital Edge
With Linda Nicholls
September 11 - 14, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Aug 13, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Aug 13, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
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.
Couples In Conflict
With Ian Curtin and Colleen Cuggy
September 19 - 21, 2025
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $40.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Aug 21, 2025 to qualify for CAD $40.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Aug 21, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
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.
Come Alive
With Ian Curtin and Susa Holt
September 21 - 26, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Aug 23, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Aug 23, 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.
Sexual Intelligence
With Elfi Dillon-Shaw and Gary Dillon
October 2 - 5, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Sep 1, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Sep 1, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
In an atmosphere of consent and confidentiality, we will strengthen our vitality through breath work, movement, listening, reflection and sharing. We will explore ancient tantric and taoist wisdom, as well as modern sexology and sexual health sciences.
Living Alive: Self Awareness
With Jo-Ann Kevala and Louise Amuir
October 3 - 28, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $500.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Sep 4, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
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.
Four Agreements for a Better Life
With don Miguel Ruiz Jr.
October 5 - 9, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Sep 6, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Sep 6, 2025. Package prices include room, tuition, and meals.
Join us for “The Four Agreements for Better Life ” with don Miguel Ruiz Jr, and don Jose Ruiz as they reveal the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.
Come Alive
With Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell
October 26 - 31, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Sep 27, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Sep 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.
Embodied Resilience: A Therapeutic Yoga Retreat
With Kelly Price
October 30 - November 2, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 1, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 1, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
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.
Couples Alive: Foundation
With Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell
October 31 - November 4, 2025
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 2, 2025 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 2, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
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.
Pathways to Resilience
With Graemme Brown and Karla Osborne
November 3 - 7, 2025
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 5, 2025 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 5, 2025.
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.
Anger, Boundaries and Safety
With Greg Gurel
November 6 - 9, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Oct 8, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
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
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 9, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 9, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition and meals.
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
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 have these ‘transformative experiences’ neglect to integrate them sufficiently. The transformative potential of the experience and the resources invested are wasted, or worse, the person’s world is completely destabilized. Our intention with this workshop is to honor the transformative potential that lies in participants' past…