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. People from all walks of life, backgrounds, experiences, lifestyles, and locations join us and most 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…

Haven Style Embodiment Training An embodied person is said to have “one eye looking in and one eye looking out.”  Meaning, an embodied person is physically, mentally, psychologically and emotionally present and congruent within their self in the moment while also congruent and present in the moment, and responsive to, others and their environment. As we heal we become embodied; as we become embodied we heal.  Authentic, lasting transformation must include our body. Psychological and emotional energy restrictions from traumatic events and neglectful emotional experiences are held deeply in our body, and lie at the root of distress, dissociation and disembodiment. In order to…

Grieving: Endings, Losses and Change Grieving is a powerful capacity that is largely undeveloped, overlooked and undervalued in our culture.  In this program you learn to grieve fully and responsively. Ongoing life experiences of attachment and separation, situations of helplessness and disappointment naturally arouse grief that we tend to suppress. We experience separations, losses and endings through deaths, relationship breakups, aging, career changes, geographical moves, children growing up and leaving home, discrimination, failed dreams, interruptions in life through illness, injury or trauma.  Our personal grief is further fueled by grieving consciously or unconsciously, for our planet, our environment or the…

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. People from all walks of life, backgrounds, experiences, lifestyles, and locations join us and most 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…

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. I’d like to share with you a translation from Sanskrit of one of the many beautiful Yukti verses of the ancient yoga meditation teachings that I find inspiring — the first written version apparently appeared around AD…

Email register@haven.ca or call 1-800-222-9211, ext 1 to register. Online registration is not available for this program. 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 1 is the first of two 3-day back to back programs offered in 2025 and is a pre-requisite for Teens Alive 2.   We are also offering Come Alive at the same time for parents/caregivers of teens. Linda Nicholls and David Raithby created Teens Alive to support people in their teens on their journey to develop…

Email register@haven.ca or call 1-800-222-9211, ext 1 to register. Online registration is not available for this program. 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 2 is the follow up program to Teens Alive 1. These 3 day programs are being offered back to back in 2025 and Teens Alive 1 is a pre-requisite for Teens Alive 2.  We are also offering Come Alive at the same time for parents/caregivers of teens. Linda Nicholls and David Raithby created Teens Alive…

Healthy boundaries are foundational to our well-being in all dimensions of our life – our physical, emotional, psychological, relational and our spiritual life. Undefined, blurred boundaries lie at the root of tremendous unhappiness, for ourselves, others and the world around us.  Especially in the demanding times we are currently navigating, blurred boundaries compound our confusion, stress and frustration. Clearly defined and skillfully expressed personal boundaries strengthen our capacity for living more compassionately, creatively, and with vitality in order to enjoy greater intimacy and clarity in our personal and work relationships. This program is for people who want to: Know, embrace…