Recording of “Jock’s Journey”
With Jock McKeen
Open Dates
Online
Listen to Jock and his son, Kevin Wong, as they discuss Jock’s journey from doctor to co-founder of Haven, to current day. Jock McKeen, co-founder of the Haven, began his career as a medical doctor. Jock will discuss with Kevin their mutual attraction to the sciences, and Jock's expansion into the Eastern approaches to medicine and health. The journey continues onto Jock's meeting of Kevin’s father, psychiatrist Bennet Wong, and how their sharing of ideas eventually led to the birth of Haven. During this time, Kevin earned his PhD in Biochemistry, which led to rich conversations between Jock, Ben and…
Luminaries on Demand
With Jock McKeen, Greg Gurel, Bettina Rothe, Cathy McNally, Cathy Wilder, Dr Fred Voon, Lizanne Foster, Victoria Creighton, Maggie Ziegler, Bev Bagnall-Hope, Frank Hope, Jennifer Roger and Blair Stanley, Kelly Price, Kevin Wong and Peter Joyes
Open Dates
Recording
This is a recording archive of the live Lunch with Luminaries seminars that have been hosted at The Haven Online starting in 2021. This webinar series shares different perspectives on a variety of topics of interest to our community. These talks pay homage to early Haven days where co-founders Ben and Jock invited various thought leaders into conversation - sometimes they agreed with the ideas shared and sometimes they didn't.
String Ensemble 2025
January 31 - February 3, 2025
ONLINE: Group Check-in – February 6th
February 6, 2025
Are any of these statements true for you? ~ I sometimes feel isolated and alone. ~ It's important to me to be heard and acknowledged. ~ Hearing about other people's experiences helps me feel connected. ~ I want to learn more about the Haven or practice the skills I've learned. ~ I benefit from reminders and accountability to check in with myself and prioritize my wellbeing.
Dynamic Embodiment: Somatic Breath & Energy Skills Training
With Linda Nicholls and Sean Kearns
February 18 - 23, 2025
The Haven
An experiential training program in the concepts and practice of the transformative body, breath and energy flow approaches, which are part of Haven core programs. The spirit of this time together is one of creative exploration through a variety of energetic and expressive approaches. Immediate feedback both as the “subject” and as the “practitioner” provide a rich and rare opportunity for learning.
ONLINE: Group Check-in – February 20th
February 20, 2025
Are any of these statements true for you? ~ I sometimes feel isolated and alone. ~ It's important to me to be heard and acknowledged. ~ Hearing about other people's experiences helps me feel connected. ~ I want to learn more about the Haven or practice the skills I've learned. ~ I benefit from reminders and accountability to check in with myself and prioritize my wellbeing.
Anger, Boundaries and Safety
With Greg Gurel
February 20 - 23, 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.
Grieving: Endings, Losses and Change
With Linda Nicholls
February 28 - March 3, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jan 30, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jan 30, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
Whether transitions are planned or unpredicted, whether changes are chosen or beyond our control, they are endings demanding that we leave people, things, places, or a way of life behind. Through a range of experiential forms, including the creative use of ceremony, you will learn about the grieving process and have the opportunity to release the grip that the impact of your losses has on your heart, your mind, your body, your feelings, your life.
Couples Alive: Foundation
With Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell
March 5 - 9, 2025
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Feb 4, 2025 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Feb 4, 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.
Come Alive
With Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell
March 9 - 14, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Feb 8, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Feb 8, 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.
Out of Province Yoga
March 15 - 21, 2025
Haven Work Party
With Louise Amuir
March 16 - 20, 2025
The Haven
Interested in supporting the Haven? Interested in spending time outdoors doing physical work? We have a long list of projects and are looking for some people willing to roll up their sleeves for 6 hours a day while enjoying the camaraderie of others. When the work is done enjoy soaking in the hot tub, a dip in the ocean or watching the sunset. Facilitated evening sessions will be provided as an opportunity to debrief, check-in and connect. The types of work you can expect... cutting back shrubbery using loppers general grounds clean up of fallen branches, dead plant material, etc…
MINI LAUNCH: Youth Leadership Training
With Denise Goldbeck
March 21 - 23, 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.
Kids in the Spotlight Spring Break (KITS)
With Denise Goldbeck
March 23 - 28, 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.
Embodied Resilience: A Therapeutic Yoga Retreat
With Kelly Price
April 3 - 6, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 5, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 5, 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.
Come Alive
With Linda Nicholls
April 4 - 9, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 6, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 6, 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 In Conflict
With Ian Curtin and Colleen Cuggy
April 11 - 13, 2025
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $40.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 13, 2025 to qualify for CAD $40.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 13, 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.
The Journey to Self
With Graemme Brown, Louise Amuir and Emmanuel Gaillot
April 13 - 18, 2025
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 15, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 15, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
This Satir-based program is an exciting opportunity to utilize your resources and let go of what no longer supports you. Virginia Satir created a number of healing and integrating processes to help make sense of ourselves and each other. Her objectives were personal growth and congruent communication, helping individuals to become "more fully human". This involves appreciating our past and the resources we developed as we grew up in our family of origin. Satir processes allow us to give full expression to the resources we wish to utilize, and to let go of or transform learnings that are no longer…
Langley Music School
April 24 - 26, 2025
Understanding Ourselves and Others
With Jane Kilthei and Mark Etkin
May 8 - 11, 2025
At The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Apr 30, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
This 3-day interactive introduction to “understanding ourselves and others” uses the lens of psychodynamics to explore how the process of human development shapes the way we relate to others, even beginning in early childhood. By exploring our own personality patterns, including our defenses, we can learn to recognize those patterns in both ourselves and others. In our work and our personal lives, this awareness can help us be both more compassionate with ourselves, and better able to connect, engage with, and support others as whole people in all the area of our lives.
Come Alive
With Leslie Whyte and Cathy Wilder
May 11 - 16, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Apr 12, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Apr 12, 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
May 16 - 19, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Apr 15, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Apr 15, 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.
Conscious Breathwork: A Training for Personal Mastery & Professional Skill Development
With Linda Nicholls
May 17 - 18, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $20.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Apr 18, 2025 to qualify for CAD $20.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Apr 18, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
The association of breath with spirit, with the divine, is deeply rooted in so many of our ancient indigenous cultures, including Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, the meditative and spiritual core of yogic traditions, Christianity and Judaism. This knowledge has been preserved and is practiced today by shamans, mystics, yoga masters, healers, medicine people, meditators and available to all of us should we choose to learn.
Journey Together: A Satir Approach to Intimate Relationships
With Jennifer Roger and Blair Stanley
May 22 - 26, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Apr 23, 2025 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Apr 23, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
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…
Anger, Boundaries and Safety
With Greg Gurel
May 22 - 25, 2025
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Apr 23, 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.
Pathways to Resilience
With Graemme Brown and Karla Osborne
May 26 - 30, 2025
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Apr 27, 2025 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Apr 27, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
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.
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.
Emilie and Robert’s Wedding
June 27 - 29, 2025
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.
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, Mackenzie Dickson 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 and Mackenzie Dickson will be teaming up with…
Come Alive
With Ian Curtin and Susa Holt
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, Mackenzie Dickson 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 and Mackenzie Dickson will be teaming up with…
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 the 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.
In an atmosphere of consensuality and confidentiality, women will have the opportunity to experience themselves as sacred sexual beings. Knowing that erotic exploration can be fraught with barriers of shame, tension and anxiety, we respect these as each woman's individual space is honoured.
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 Cathy Wilder
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
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.
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.
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.
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…
Come Alive
December 1 - 6, 2025
In Person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Nov 2, 2025 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Nov 2, 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.