A Process Oriented Approach to Conflict

Conflict is natural and, with proper facilitation, can bring us much closer to ourselves and each other.

Act Natural

Awaken your creativity and sense of aliveness and purpose in this unique workshop that blends actor-training techniques with Haven concepts of connection and relationship...

Act Natural II

This program is for participants who have experienced the depth and fun of Act Natural and are interested in digging even deeper into their creative process. Act Natural...

Addiction in the Family

Using the systemic approach as developed by Virginia Satir, this psycho-educational, experiential opportunity will provide you with information to help you begin to deal...

Anatomy and Expression Workshop II

Inhabit your inner landscape, experienced through the world of anatomy and physiology.

Anger, Boundaries and Safety

The boundaried, safe and responsible expression of anger can help you stand forward on your own behalf and create the life and relationships you want.

Awareness through Creative Expression

Become intimate with your creative being and meet aspects of yourself you have never known before, in a fun and respectful environment.

Ayurvedic Lifestyle Retreat

An inspiring and rejuvenating weekend of ancient Ayurveda and Lifestyle.

Befriending Your Inner Critic

This program is for you if you have ever stopped yourself from doing or having what you truly want, by telling yourself you aren't good enough.

Body, Breath and Beat: a 5Rhythms® Workshop

The fastest way to quiet the mind is to put your whole self into motion. This practice invites you to follow your feet and to listen to the wisdom of your body.

Body, Breath and Energy Training

In this vibrant training program you will explore personal issues while learning a variety of energetic and expressive approaches.

Breaking the Bonds of Karma

The ancient path of spirituality begins with a question: Ko hum? Who Am I? 

Breathe!

Breathe! is a wonderful opportunity to acquaint yourself with the powerful benefits of consciously breathing deeply.

Calibrating True North

What gives your life meaning? What do you value?

Career Revisioning

If you are ready for a career change but uncertain of your direction, this program is for you!

Come Alive

Come Alive is an opportunity to revitalize your life, discover and activate your resources and realize your full potential.

Come Alive with Mandarin Translation

潛力蘇醒是重新活化你生命的契機，探索與啟動你所擁有的資源，並充分實現你的潛能。

Couples Alive I: Foundation

Couples Alive II: Edge

The Couples Alive series is for people in primary relationship who want more, and are prepared to go beyond the familiar to find it.

Couples Alive III: Day to Day

The Couples Alive series is for people in primary relationship who want more, and are prepared to go beyond the familiar to find it.

Couples in Conflict

Gain clarity in your relationship in order to make healthy decisions while regarding one another with dignity and respect.

Deep Listening: Core Skills for Coaching

Listening deeply is about listening for what is essential, beyond what is being said or heard, and can enable impactful engagements and connection.

Depression: Conscious Alternatives

In this program you will examine the personal belief systems that support depression and access your capacity to live a fuller, more joyful life.

Dynamic Dialogue: Communicating When It Really Matters

In our lives today — at home, at work, in our communities and the world — the need for dialogue is both important and urgent. The health and well-being of all of us...

Dynamic Empathy

This program offers practical methods to become more empathic, curious and loving, at the same time as strengthening your own sense of self.

Empathy and Freedom, Body and Mind: 5-Day Immersion in NVC

This program is designed to support the ongoing development and integration of Compassionate or Nonviolent Communication (NVC) into every aspect of life.

Eric Bibb in concert

Eric Bibb in concert at The Haven, September 27th, 2018.

Eros and Intimacy, Sex and Spirit for Couples

This program offers couples new ways of igniting their erotic flame and supports them to remember each other in their physical wants and gifts.

Family Reconstruction

Satir Family Reconstruction is a powerful opportunity to update the past and reduce the negative impact of early experiences and learnings.

Five Element Practicum: An Oriental Philosophical Approach to Energy

Oriental Medicine Philosophy, particularly Five Element Theory, is a rich and truly holistic model of viewing ourselves, our world and our process of change and stuckness...

Forest Therapy: Nature's Guide to Wellness

The forest is the therapist. The guide opens the doors.

Gestalt: The Art & Practice

In this invigorating, ‘hands-on’ program, you will learn about the art and practice of gestalt, a classic experiential form of self-discovery and an effective tool for “...

Get Real: Seeing Yourself. Experiencing Another.

As very young children we form beliefs about ourselves from the messages we receive from the significant people in our lives. Unconsciously, we hold these as ‘truths’...

Giving Voice

Giving Voice is an embodied exploration of the question: What does it mean to be a vibrational being living in a vibratory Universe, born with an innate vibrational medium...

Grieving: Endings, Losses & Change

It has been largely overlooked and undervalued in our culture.  In this program, you learn to grieve fully and responsively.

Group Leadership

Learn to work effectively with others in group process.

Haven Toolkits in Courtenay

The Haven Toolkits are a great way to introduce someone to the work of The Haven.

Haven Unplugged: Giving Back

Haven Unplugged is an opportunity to give back to The Haven by volunteering your time and skills for special projects around the property.

Healing Stitches

In this adventuresome program you will use personal awareness as a means of discovering and advancing your creativity.

Imagine 2019

Join old friends and new in a unique event that will bring people together in a casual, creative and connected environment to bring in the new year at The Haven. Check in...

Inner Wisdom for Women

This program is an opportunity to explore your own intuition and experience the wise and gentle nudging of your inner being.

Inner Wisdom: Goddess Training 101

These three luscious days are intended to re-kindle the sensual, intuitive, and creative parts of each of us. 

Kayak and Hike Family Outdoor Adventure

Outdoor family fun, kayak paddling, hiking and nature adventure! 

Kids in The Spotlight

In this very popular program, children learn about themselves and each other while working together on a creative musical production. 

Landscapes and Soulscapes

Camino Divina Adventure Into the Divine is a gentle, yet enlivening walking meditation retreat that will help you explore a richer, deeper relationship with the...

Laughter Yoga

Enhance your life with this two day retreat and become a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader.

Living Alive Phase I

The 25-day Living Alive Phase programs are exciting opportunities to investigate who you really are and choose how you live your life.

Living Alive Phase I Part A

The 25-day Living Alive Phase programs offer you an exciting opportunity to investigate who you really are and choose how you live your life.

Living Alive Phase I Part B

The 25-day Living Alive Phase programs offer you an exciting opportunity to investigate who you really are and choose how you live your life.

Living Alive Phase II

The 25-day Living Alive Phase programs (I and II) are exciting opportunities to investigate who you really are and how you live your life and relationships.

Living Alive Phase II Part A

The 25-day Living Alive Phase programs offer you a chance to investigate who you really are and how you live your life and relationships.

Living Alive Phase II Part B

The 25-day Living Alive Phase programs offer you a chance to investigate who you really are and how you live your life and relationships.

Living It!

This blended onsite/online program is for people who want to make real, practical use of The Haven in their daily lives.

Moving Forward: Life after Separation

This program will support you to move through pain and confusion to find new life and direction after the end of a relationship.

Moving into Connection

In this innovative and effective program you will use authentic movement to explore and address your attachment and relationship patterns.

Nature Literacy

Greater aliveness - Deeper connection - More confidence

Neuroscience of the Bullied Brain

Abuse occurs across the board in all organizations from schools, to sports, to religion and to the workplace.

New Beginnings

This program is for individuals who want to learn how to create a positive relationship in the future or improve a current relationship.

New Horizons Phase III

New Horizons Phase III is the integrative, conceptual complement to Living Alive Phases I and II.

New Horizons Phase III Part A

New Horizons Phase III is designed as the integrative, conceptual complement to Living Alive Phases I and II. 

New Horizons Phase III Part B

New Horizons Phase III is designed as the integrative, conceptual complement to Living Alive Phases I and II.

Personal Parenting: Window to your Child

This program is for parents, grandparents and caregivers who want to explore and improve their relationships with their children.

Personality Styles: Understanding Ourselves and Others

We all have a personality – our own style of being in the world.  Better understanding that style, as well as understanding the personality styles of others, can open...

Play with Clay

Get grounded and re-energize yourself!

Projection and Transference

This program is an opportunity to directly explore the processes of projection and transference, in the service of others and yourself.

Radical Leadership for Radical Time

In a fast paced and complex world, there is an increasing need for leaders to regularly step back and re-align their aspirations, priorities and core values with their...

Refresh: Digital Detox Weekend

We are more connected than ever before, and yet many of us feel disconnected from ourselves, from meaning in our lives, and relationships.

Relationships

This is part of the Living Alive Phase II program and is only open to Living Alive Phase II participants and people they have invited to participate.

Self-Acupressure

Learn the basic tenets of Traditional Chinese Medicine, one of the world's oldest methods of health care.

Self-Compassion

The joy and good humour of self-compassion stand in contrast with the harshness of self-hate. This program explores both ends of this polarity.

Sexual Attitude Restructuring (SAR)

Sexual Attitude Restructuring (or Reassessment), SAR, is an intense learning event designed for people who wish to better understand Human...

Sexual Intelligence for Body, Mind and Heart

This is a dynamic program in The Haven's core curriculum that teaches erotic literacy for body, mind and heart.

Shift! Exploring our Shadows, Ghosts and Hidden Treasures

Are you stuck repeating unwanted patterns in your life? …Living from an old story that is no longer benefiting you?  …Looking for a sense of meaning and purpose...

Spirit in The Song

Join world renowned singer/songwriter/guitarist Eric Bibb on an inner journey that leads to the birth of a new song.

Stirring the Cauldron: Women & Sexuality

This weekend program is for women of every age and lifestyle who want to taste the full energetic potential of their erotic body.

Teens Alive I

Teens Alive has been offered at The Haven for more than twenty years and is an extremely popular program, with many teens returning year after year.

Teens Alive II

Teens Alive has been offered at The Haven for more than twenty years and is an extremely popular program, with many teens returning year after year.

Teens Alive III

Teens Alive has been offered at The Haven for more than twenty years and is an extremely popular program, with many teens returning year after year.

The Gift: Learning to Love and be Loved in Return

Bring your most valuable gift into the creation and co-creation of personal and professional relationships.

The Haven Communication Toolkit in Vancouver

Our toolkits are a great introduction to what we do at The Haven.

The Haven Relationship Toolkit in Fort Saint John

This evening Relationship Toolkit is a great introduction to what we do at The Haven.

The Journey to Self

This Satir-based program is an exciting opportunity to utilize your resources and let go of what no longer supports you.

The Quantum Laugh

An opportunity to energize yourself, ignite your creativity and refresh your ability to see life's challenges differently. And have some fun!

The Singing Soul

The Singing Soul is for people who are ready to let go of "getting it right" and embrace letting it just happen. 

Transform Addictions: Widen your Path in Recovery

This program provides an expanded perspective and increased choice in recovery from various addictive behaviours, by integrating 12-step and Haven models.

Transforming Anxiety and Stress

This program focuses on understanding, harnessing and transforming difficult life energies to foster courageous and productive living.

Understanding People

Why do people say and do the things they do? This program demystifies everyday struggles and psychiatric diagnoses.

Writing and Thinking for the Human Spirit

How is experience understood from one person to the next? How do we recognize what a story is?

Yoga and Ayurveda Immersion: Fall

This program offers seasonal practices that celebrate your body’s innate intelligence, and the significance of being in alignment with nature.

Yoga and Ayurveda Immersion: Spring

This program offers seasonal practices that celebrate your body’s innate intelligence, and the significance of being in alignment with nature.

Yoga for Trauma: Mind-Body Practices for Resilience and Recovery

The Yoga for Trauma program focuses on how the practices of yoga can address the physical, psychological and spiritual challenges of addiction recovery.

Young Adult Symposium: Leaning into Life

This is the first of what we hope will be an annual Haven-hosted gathering of folks aged 19 to 35, interested in creating a more connected, passionate, and caring world....

Youth Leadership Training

This training is for those currently enrolled in the Haven Youth Leadership Training Program, with an intention of broadening their experience and knowledge of...

Youth Leadership Training: Group Facilitation

This training is for those currently enrolled in the Haven Youth Leadership Training Program, with an intention of broadening their experience and knowledge of...