Shen blog

By Cindy O’Dell Ever since the Victor Wooten Workshop last week at the Haven, a one-line song has been playing in my head, “Is that pepper or mouse…

By Ellery Littleton This article presents a summary of some of the basic ideas of Ira Progoff’s “Intensive Journal Process,” and includes a very brief outline of one…

By Susan Clarke I am on my way home from the annual Faculty meeting at The Haven.  It is a long trip with added frustration this year due…

By Gwen Ewan & Cathy Wilder Recently several of us had an experience that reminded us how privileged we are to have been exposed to a way of…

Victor Wooten is the author of The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth through Music and is described by many as the finest bass player alive. We’re…

LeighAnn Vaughan first came to The Haven in 2005 for Shadow Play with Linda Nicholls. She describes it as a ‘life-altering’ experience. Mostly, she realized in those few…

We recently welcomed a group of helpers on the second Haven Unplugged. They did a huge amount of work around the property and enjoyed some great evening sessions…

In the last few years we have featured one of the Haven Models in each of our annual program catalogues. The 2010 catalogue is now available and this…

by Ellery Littleton After writing many haiku in recent years, I decided to have a go at crafting a little book of erotic romantic love haiku. I had…

By Gwen Ewan and Cathy Wilder Gwen and Cathy are members of Haven core faculty and recently volunteered at Sanyu Babies Home in Kampala, Uganda The jail break…

By Wayne Dodge and Gwen Ewan. Gwen and Wayne’s program Self-Compassion: Making Friends with Yourself runs in November. The model of Self Compassion that we teach at The…