Louise Amuir
Louise Amuir (she/they), Diplomas in Haven Counselling and Group Leadership is interested in creativity and expressive arts as a means to connect with self and others. Louise is committed to diversity, inclusion, equity, reconciliation, and building collaborative processes.
Louise’s varied life experiences in theatre, writing, art, dance, music, working with street youth, youth in receiving and treatment homes, parenting, relationships, and meditation bring humour, mindfulness, curiosity, and play to her work with people.
As Haven faculty, Louise leads/co-leads: Befriending your Inner Critic; Inner Wisdom for Women; Awareness through Creative Expression; Journey to Self; and Haven New Year visioning programs and co-leads or assists numerous core programmes including Come Alive, Living Alive Intensives I, II, and III. She has been on many teams working in China and in Northern First Nation communities.
Louise has extensive Satir training, delights in surfacing the Shadow, and always leads with heart. Louise has been associated with The Haven since 1989.
Events with Louise Amuir
Haven Work PartyMarch 16 - 20, 2025
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…
The Journey to SelfApril 13 - 18, 2025
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…
Befriending Your Inner CriticAugust 22 - 25, 2025
This program is for you if you have self-limiting beliefs that you’re not enough, or that you’re way too much or if your inner dialogue is getting in the way of how you’d like to be living. If you have ever stopped yourself from doing or having what you truly want because of negative self-talk, we’ll look at some effective ways of transforming your negative self-talk into strong self-allyship. Through a synthesis of creative process work, somatic experiencing and a generous dollop of Satir work, Graemme and Louise will guide you in making a friendship overture to your Inner Critic. …
Living Alive: Self AwarenessOctober 3 - 28, 2025
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…