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…

An Invitation to Deepening Your Practice of Being  If you’ve taken Come Alive or another Haven program, you already know the experience of waking up to yourself — that moment when you feel more present, more open, more connected with who you really are and with others.  And you may also recognize the reality of how this is possible:  Being is more than a moment.  Being is a life practice.    A life practice is an intentional, integrated way of living awake and aware A life practice is sustaining the commitment to showing up for yourself and others—daily, imperfectly and…

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…

Email register@haven.ca or call 1-800-222-9211, ext 1 to register. Online registration is not available for this program. Teens Alive 1 is the first of two 3-day back to back programs offered in 2026 and is a pre-requisite for Teens Alive 2.   We are also offering Come Alive at the same time for parents/caregivers of teens. Now in its 33rd year, Teens Alive has supported over 500 teens in developing emotional resilience, genuine communication, compassion for themselves and others, and meaningful connections. Although some teens were reluctant to attend for the first time, many then continued to return year after year. Created by…

Email register@haven.ca or call 1-800-222-9211, ext 1 to register. Online registration is not available for this program. Teens Alive 2 is the follow up program to Teens Alive 1. These 3 day programs are being offered back to back in 2026 and Teens Alive 1 is a pre-requisite for Teens Alive 2. Now in its 34th year, Teens Alive has supported over 500 teens in developing emotional resilience, genuine communication, compassion for themselves and others, and meaningful connections. Although some teens were reluctant to attend for the first time, many then continued to return year after year. Created by Linda…