Living Alive: Meaningful Connections
With Gillian Enright and Cathy McNally
November 10 - December 5, 2024
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. People from all walks of life, backgrounds, experiences, lifestyles, and locations join us and often experience something profound.
We are grateful for the land and sea that sustain us. We are deeply grateful to learn, live and play on 7 acres of forested land by the sea that is the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territory of the Snuneymuxw First Nation, a community of Coast Salish Peoples. Our peaceful yet vibrant centre on Gabriola Island offers a natural environment that supports the exploration of our innermost selves and our relationships with others. It’s a special place where we can take back our lives and discover our potential.
In a highly experiential and choice-based environment, you’ll immerse yourself in The Haven’s models and concepts, with opportunities to go deeper, practice, and expand your range of being. Participants are encouraged to question their assumptions, explore their beliefs, and challenge their patterns in a respectful environment. Join a community of seekers and engage in the ultimate experience of self-discovery and transformation.
Relationships: discovering how we see ourselves, how others see us, and how we are in relationships.
Living Alive: Meaningful Connections (formerly Phase II) is for you if any of the following applies:
- I want to develop greater self-awareness of how I establish, maintain, and end relationships – close, casual, and professional.
- I want to learn how others interpret and experience my style of relating.
- I am going through a transition involving others and am unsure what happens next.
- I want to discover how I respond to topics such as commitment, vulnerability, security, romance, power struggle, attachment styles, ‘Family of Origin’, caretaking vs caring, embodiment, conflict, sexuality.
- I want to build relationship skills and shift patterns of dependency, jealousy, defensiveness, control, blame, placating, etc.
- I want to examine and explore my beliefs and biases around gender, sexuality, sensuality, and intimacy.
- I want an opportunity to integrate someone from my personal life into my learning at The Haven. Contact the registrars to learn more about the optional 3-day Relationships component where you can invite someone to join your experience.
“I can have meaningful, alive relationships without denying or disconnecting from what is true in my mind, body, heart. I can be transparent and open about my reality, and thus open the bridge to knowing another. This is the kind of stuff my dreams are made of.”
– Rye Green, Living Alive Phase II
Living Alive program Highlights:
- An in-depth opportunity to engage more consciously and fully in your life and relationships.
- Time away to reconnect with yourself and nature on The Haven’s beautiful 7-acre oceanfront property.
- An opportunity to take your personal growth and Haven-style learning to the next level
- For those who have attended a Come Alive, we will take a deeper dive into The Haven’s models: Communication, Power & Strength, Resonance, Selves.
- For those who have not attended a Come Alive there will be plenty of opportunities to learn, practice and integrate these models.
- Guided experiences designed to heighten your physical, intellectual, and emotional awareness.
- A meaningful and enduring investment in your wellbeing: 25 days of radical self-discovery and transformation.
- Experienced program leaders, who are highly trained at The Haven and in their various professions.
- Deep investment, continuity, and care from assistants and interns who bring a variety of diverse and complementary skill sets to their Haven training. This support team means a low ratio of participants to leaders.
- A long history with hundreds of Living Alive participants reporting continued personal and professional transformation post-program.
- Take-home tools to support integration of learning.
- A full program schedule, plus daily breaks for introspection, connecting with others, rest, relaxing in the oceanfront hot tub, exploring nearby trails, and more.
Investment:
Accessibility and inclusion are important to us. We are offering Earlybird tuition pricing of $5950 if you register by October 10th. Full tuition is $6450. Get all of your meals, shared dorm accommodation, and 25 days of programming starting at $8825 +tax. Other shared and private room options are also available. Full payment is due one month before the program start date regardless of tuition price.
- Haven’s Community Fund can help. We are offering limited partial bursaries to help you finance your investment in yourself. We can also offer pre-payment plans. Don’t let program fees hold you back. Learn more. Our funding is very limited and applications must be received by Monday Oct 14th so we have time to process them.
Schedule:
Your program begins with dinner at 6pm to 7pm, followed by your first session at 7:30pm
Daily schedule:
- Breakfast 8-9:00am
- Morning session most days 9:15am to noon, with a break midway
- Lunch noon to 1:00pm
- Afternoon session most days 3:00-6:00pm, with a break midway
- Dinner 6:00 – 7:00pm
- Evening session most days 7:30 – 9:00pm
Afternoon and evening sessions can vary. Your program finishes at 11:30am on the last day, and lunch is included
Transportation:
If you are travelling to Gabriola as a foot passenger on the Gabriola Ferry a shuttle to The Haven can be requested. Information on this option will be included in your pre-arrival email.
Recommended Resources:
Here are book titles that can complement and enhance your learning in this program. You can purchase when you are at Haven, or order online. Click to learn more:
+ Being: A Manual for Life by Bennet Wong & Jock McKeen
+ Joining: The Relationship Garden by Bennet Wong & Jock McKeen
Admission requirements: The student must have the desire and ability to learn. Must demonstrate a capacity for responsible self care, responsible self organization and sound mental health. The student must understand and speak English.
Leaders
Gillian Enright MA, RCT-C, CCC, RMT is an accomplished individual, and group relational counsellor, facilitator, activist, body worker and educator for over 30 years. Her educational path and life experience nurtures her passion for human transformation. She is known for her kind, rigorous, humorous, and questioning ways while encouraging others to know themselves, their relationships, and their communities in loving ways. Gillian’s somatic and complex trauma approach informs her compassion and understanding for those who deal with harm and violence. She dedicates herself to her conscious awake living and leads Haven’s Meaningful Connections-Living Alive 25-day program.
Learn more about Gillian Enright
Cathy McNally BSc, DipC is passionate about people and possibility. Growing up in a mix of cultures, with a background in business and teams, Cathy is curious about the gift of differences, and is committed to connection and understanding. A particular joy is coaching relationships of all kinds. Following a major life change, she is exploring aliveness, loss and meaning through the adventure of movement, voice, creativity, nature, eros and community. Her trademark kindness, caring and fun make her a sought-after group leader. Associated with The Haven since 1989, Cathy believes that “living well, together” is necessary, urgent, and possible.
Learn more about Cathy McNally