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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. While we are easing into these new protocols, please give everyone plenty of space until you know their comfort level with closer contact.
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: Couples Alive: Foundation
With Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell
August 18 - 22, 2022
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.
ONSITE: Living Alive: Meaningful Connections
With Gillian Enright and Solanna Anderson
September 4 - 29, 2022
In Person at The Haven
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.
ONSITE: Come Alive
With Cathy Wilder and Al Chambers
September 7 - 12, 2022
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Aug 9, 2022 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Aug 9, 2022.
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: Getting Unstuck: The Alchemy of Humour
With Carole Ames
September 15 - 18, 2022
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Aug 17, 2022 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Aug 17, 2022.
This is a full-on experiential program which can be both fun and challenging. There are creative opportunities for the group to investigate, explore and instigate humour. There is a challenge to identify and explore ways in which each of us “gets stuck”. And with the group’s support each person is invited to tackle a “stuck place”, potentially shifting our experience in the world.
ONSITE: Journey Together: A Satir Approach to Intimate Relationships
With Jennifer Roger and Blair Stanley
September 22 - 25, 2022
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Aug 24, 2022 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Aug 24, 2022.
Couples will gain a deeper understanding of themselves and each other in a safe and guided framework. They will explore together and witness family of origin issues that they bring into their relationship. They will learn about their ‘couples dance’ especially in conflict. They will learn practical tools to break down defensive patterns that will lead to deeper intimacy and healing. Dr. Jen Roger and Dr. Blair Stanley were trained in Satir Family Therapy by Maria Gamori from 2013 until her death last year. They have been in a conscious intimate relationship for the past 10 years. They have created…
ONSITE: Anger, Boundaries and Safety
With Greg Gurel
September 30 - October 3, 2022
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Sep 1, 2022.
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: Pathways to Resilience
With Graemme Brown and Karla Osborne
October 2 - 6, 2022
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Sep 3, 2022 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Sep 3, 2022.
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: Living Alive: Self Awareness
With Jo-Ann Kevala and Carole Ames
October 5 - 30, 2022
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $500.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Sep 4, 2022.
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: Boundaries: The Vital Edge
With Linda Nicholls
October 13 - 16, 2022
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Sep 14, 2022 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Sep 14, 2022.
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.
ONSITE: Come Alive
With Ian Curtin and Susa Holt
October 16 - 21, 2022
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Sep 17, 2022 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Sep 17, 2022.
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 In Conflict
With Ian Curtin and Susa Holt
October 21 - 23, 2022
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $40.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Sep 20, 2022 to qualify for CAD $40.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Sep 20, 2022.
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’…
ONSITE: Discovering Your Path to Self with Satir
With Vicky Frederiksen, Christian Lapointe and Emmanuel Gaillot
October 30 - November 5, 2022
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $120.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Oct 1, 2022.
Virginia Satir developed various processes to help us make sense of ourselves, each other, and the world we navigate. Her objectives were personal growth, congruent communication, and helping individuals to become “more fully human”. We use theories and models from Satir to accomplish this: extending our awareness of who we are and where we come from, acknowledging and appreciating the resources we developed as we grew up in our family of origin, and making choices about how we want to use these resources in the current moment. Through examination and illumination of these past and current resources via a range of methods, you will then be able to expand and redefine them.
ONSITE: Come Alive
With Carole Ames and Jo-Ann Kevala
November 9 - 14, 2022
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 11, 2022 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 11, 2022.
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: The Therapeutic Wiwipson: The Adult Baby Swing – a Healing Process with Individual and Family sessions
With Bev Bagnall-Hope and Frank Hope
November 14 - 17, 2022
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Oct 16, 2022.
The Therapeutic adult baby swing works as a form of decolonized traditional healing. It replicates the infant baby swing in form, motion, song and spirit. Classic and modern psychologies have developed detailed theories of human development and have outlined barriers that get in the way of successful healing. Our experience is that the therapeutic baby swing allows the individual to connect to their past in a meaningful way, for many spiritually. The swing experience takes them back to a time where they can retrieve what they need, resolve what has been left undone and process in the now any old issues and pain.…
ONSITE: Couples Alive: Foundation
With Cathy McNally and Graemme Brown
November 16 - 20, 2022
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 18, 2022 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 18, 2022.
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: Come Alive
With Susan Clarke
December 2 - 7, 2022
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Nov 3, 2022 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Nov 3, 2022.
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.