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Rachel Davey writes: We have just completed a ‘decluttering’ of the fireplace area in the lodge, with the intention of highlighting the beautiful mantel that was created and…

By Adrian Juric. Adrian and Cathy AJ Hardy will be leading Life Transition Through The Lense of Nature at The Haven, June 20–22. Spring is always a time…

By Jennifer Hilton. Jennifer is a Haven Faculty member and a Haven Coach.  I like this definition of being an optimist … at least I do now. I…

Haven faculty member Ernie McNally lived his belief in relationship even as he was terminally ill. By Julie Chadwick. This article originally appeared in the Nanaimo Daily News,…

Join Mitch Miyagawa at The Haven April 25–May 2 By Mitch Miyagawa. Mitch is leading Nonviolent Communication (NVC): A Process of Life,  April 25 –May 2. This week-long program is…

by Ian Curtin Ian is a core Haven Faculty member and a Haven Coach.  Free 20 min starter session now offered by all Haven Coaches. I was thinking…

By Jennifer Hilton. Jennifer and Cathy McNally are leading Communication Fundamentals at the Haven, March 5–8, 2015. This program, created and first led by Ernie and Cathy McNally,…

Kayte Summers is presenting Drama Therapy: Enriching Your Practice with Presence April 4–6 and again in September. Hello to you all. I am writing to introduce my work,…

By Denise Goldbeck.  This article gives a taste of the kind of thing you can expect in Personal Parenting with Denise and Toby Macklin at The Haven Feb 28-March 2. Good…

By Ellery Littleton There … it happened again. Three times in three days. The same card appearing in all three of my tarogram readings. “When the same thing…

By Gary Holdgrafer   Would Still Alive or Second Wind be a better name for Creative Aging? I have just recently read Toby Macklin’s essay entitled Memento Mori:…

Kathleen Alexander first came to The Haven in 1989 as “a new, rather naive physician just starting out the practice of medicine.” “I subsequently did all three Phase…