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.
FREE ONLINE Group Check-in
October 8, 2026
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.
Come Alive
With Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell
October 11 - 16, 2026
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 Alive: Foundation
With Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell
October 16 - 20, 2026
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.
Couples Alive: Living and Loving
With Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell
October 21 - 25, 2026
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.
FREE ONLINE Group Check-in
October 22, 2026
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 Christina Smith
October 25 - 29, 2026
In person at The Haven
An experiential training program in the concepts and practice of the transformative Haven-style body, breath and energy flow approaches.
Embodied Resilience: A Therapeutic Yoga Retreat
With Kelly Price
October 29 - November 1, 2026
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.
Living Alive: Self Awareness
With Jo-Ann Kevala and Louise Amuir
November 1 - 26, 2026
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.
Anger, Boundaries and Safety
With Greg Gurel
November 26 - 29, 2026
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Oct 28, 2026. 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.
Come Alive
With Cathy Wilder and Ian Curtin
December 1 - 6, 2026
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Nov 2, 2026 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Nov 2, 2026. 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.
Come Alive
With Linda Nicholls
January 1 - 6, 2027
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Dec 3, 2026 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Dec 3, 2026. 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.
Self Compassion
With Graemme Brown and Jo-Ann Kevala
January 7 - 10, 2027
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Dec 9, 2026 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Dec 9, 2026.
Using music, guided imagery, gestalt, art, stories and other experiential forms, you will have an opportunity to learn about the paths that lead you away from yourself, and explore paths that can direct you towards self-acceptance. There will be opportunities to explore blame and victimhood, patterns of striving that lead to self-hate, and a variety of ways we can move toward self-compassion.
Come Alive
With Jo-Ann Kevala and Louise Amuir
February 4 - 9, 2027
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jan 6, 2027 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jan 6, 2027. 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.
Practice of Being
With Linda Nicholls and Jo-Ann Kevala
February 23 - 28, 2027
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jan 25, 2027 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jan 25, 2027. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
Practice of Being is the next step for individuals who have experienced the transformative power of Come Alive and are ready to go further. Building on the foundations of self-awareness, authentic communication, and relational presence, this program invites you into a more courageous and embodied engagement with your life, your relationships, and the world around you.
Grieving: Endings, Losses and Change
With Linda Nicholls
March 11 - 14, 2027
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Feb 10, 2027 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Feb 10, 2027. 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.
Come Alive
With Ian Curtin and Susa Holt
March 14 - 19, 2027
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Feb 13, 2027 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Feb 13, 2027. 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
April 1 - 4, 2027
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 3, 2027 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 3, 2027. 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 In Conflict
With Ian Curtin and Colleen Cuggy
April 2 - 4, 2027
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $40.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 4, 2027 to qualify for CAD $40.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 4, 2027. 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 Jane Olynyk and Jo-Ann Kevala
April 4 - 9, 2027
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 6, 2027 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 6, 2027. 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.
Anger, Boundaries and Safety
With Greg Gurel
April 9 - 12, 2027
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Mar 11, 2027. 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.
Satir 1: The Journey to Self
With Louise Amuir, Emmanuel Gaillot and Graemme Brown
April 16 - 21, 2027
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 18, 2027 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 18, 2027. 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". 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 useful to us.
Satir 2: Personal Alchemy
With Louise Amuir, Emmanuel Gaillot and Graemme Brown
April 22 - 27, 2027
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 24, 2027 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 24, 2027. 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". 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 useful to us.
Couples Alive: Foundation
With Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell
April 27 - May 1, 2027
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Mar 29, 2027 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Mar 29, 2027. 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.
Understanding Ourselves and Others
With Jane Kilthei
April 29 - May 2, 2027
The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Mar 31, 2027. 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 Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell
May 2 - 7, 2027
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Apr 3, 2027 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Apr 3, 2027. 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.
Living Alive: Meaningful Connections
With Gillian Enright and Ian Curtin
May 7 - June 1, 2027
Book now and get CAD $500.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Apr 8, 2027. Package pricing includes tuition, accommodation and meals.
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.
Come Alive
With Cathy Wilder and Jo-Ann Kevala
June 1 - 6, 2027
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before May 3, 2027 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until May 3, 2027. 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.
2027 《新视野》理论・实践・整合 Mandarin New Horizons
With 琳达· 尼科尔 斯 Linda Nicholls and 李文淑 Wen-Shwu Lee
June 7 - 19, 2027
6500加元（不包括住宿和餐费）
報名付訂：3,000加元 全額付款：課程開始前一個月付清
2026年9月30日前支付訂金註冊的早鳥價格為5,500加元。
2026年12月31日前支付訂金註冊的早鳥價格為6,000加元。
2027年正常價格為6,500加元。
報名付訂：3,000加元 全額付款：課程開始前一個月付清
2026年9月30日前支付訂金註冊的早鳥價格為5,500加元。
2026年12月31日前支付訂金註冊的早鳥價格為6,000加元。
2027年正常價格為6,500加元。
Haven以其专业及包容东西方智慧的教学理念，课程涵盖中国哲学、中医、能量學，以及西方心理学及美學等。在加拿大、北美乃至全球个人身心成长領域均享有盛誉。学院的学员及導師團隊来自各行各业，其中不乏心理学大师：維吉尼亞·萨提亚 Virginia Satir、卡爾·惠特科爾 Carl Whitaker、玛利亚·葛莫莉 Maria Gomori、琳达·尼科尔斯 Linda Nicholls、艾瑞克·毕伯 Eric Bibb，以及各行业精英。
Come Alive
With Cathy Wilder and Jo-Ann Kevala
June 19 - 24, 2027
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before May 21, 2027 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until May 21, 2027. 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.
Boundaries: The Vital Edge
With Linda Nicholls
June 24 - 27, 2027
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before May 26, 2027 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until May 26, 2027.
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.
Teens Alive 1
With Annika Raithby and Linda Nicholls
August 13 - 16, 2027
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 15, 2027 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 15, 2027. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
Since 1992, Teens Alive has provided an engaging, supportive environment where young people build emotional resilience, strengthen communication skills, develop their inner strength and confidence and nurture regard for themselves and others. Guided by experienced facilitators, teens learn practical tools to navigate relationships, meet and grow from life’s challenges, and begin to mature into emotionally self-supporting, connected individuals — all within a caring and fun community. www.teensalive.ca
Teens Alive 2
With Annika Raithby and Linda Nicholls
August 16 - 19, 2027
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 18, 2027 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 18, 2027. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
Since 1992, Teens Alive has provided an engaging, supportive environment where young people build emotional resilience, strengthen communication skills, develop their inner strength and confidence and nurture regard for themselves and others. Guided by experienced facilitators, teens learn practical tools to navigate relationships, meet and grow from life’s challenges, and begin to mature into emotionally self-supporting, connected individuals — all within a caring and fun community. www.teensalive.ca
Come Alive
With Jo-Ann Kevala and Louise Amuir
August 19 - 24, 2027
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 21, 2027 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 21, 2027. 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.
Befriending Your Inner Critic
With Louise Amuir
August 26 - 29, 2027
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 28, 2027 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 28, 2027. 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.
Dynamic Embodiment: Somatic Breath & Energy Skills Training
With Linda Nicholls and Christina Smith
September 10 - 15, 2027
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Aug 12, 2027 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Aug 12, 2027.
An experiential training program in the concepts and practice of the transformative Haven-style body, breath and energy flow approaches.
Living Alive: Self Awareness
With Jo-Ann Kevala and Louise Amuir
September 15 - October 10, 2027
Book now and get CAD $500.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Aug 17, 2027. Package prices include tuition, room 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 10 - 15, 2027
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Sep 11, 2027 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Sep 11, 2027. 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 Alive: Foundation
With Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell
October 16 - 20, 2027
Book now and get CAD $80.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Sep 17, 2027 to qualify for CAD $80.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Sep 17, 2027. 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.
Couples Alive: Igniting Passion and Aliveness
With Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell
October 21 - 25, 2027
In person at The Haven
Couples Alive 2 is about igniting passion and aliveness together and is part 2 in our Haven core series for people in primary relationship. Passionate expression and healthy power-struggle can help establish growth and acceptance – as individuals and as a couple. In this program couples work to identify and share personal characteristics, beliefs and behaviours; go beyond 'good-bad' judgments, and explore how these traits can be embraced to enhance relationship.
Embodied Resilience: A Therapeutic Yoga Retreat
With Kelly Price
November 4 - 7, 2027
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 6, 2027 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 6, 2027. 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 Jane Olynyk and Louise Amuir
November 7 - 12, 2027
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 9, 2027 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 9, 2027. 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.
When One Door Closes: Transitioning Relationships
With Jo-Ann Kevala and Sonya Dicks
November 12 - 15, 2027
During the program, you’ll learn how to distinguish loneliness from true solitude, uncover the relationship patterns that keep pulling you back into the same dynamics, and get crystal-clear about your values, lifestyle needs, and boundaries. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of who you are, what you want, and what you will no longer accept.
Grieving: Endings, Losses and Change
With Linda Nicholls
November 18 - 21, 2027
Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 20, 2027 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 20, 2027. 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.
Anger, Boundaries and Safety
With Greg Gurel
November 25 - 28, 2027
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.
Come Alive
With Linda Nicholls
November 28 - December 3, 2027
In person at The Haven
Book now and get CAD $100.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Oct 30, 2027 to qualify for CAD $100.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Oct 30, 2027. 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.