Guest Faculty

Haven Guest Faculty teach some of the more specialized programs for personal development and professional development at The Haven. Programs ranging from music and spirituality, creativity, and even running, these guest leaders programs compliment The Haven's core personal development and professional development programs.

 

 

 

 

guest faculty

 

Our Guest Faculty are highly qualified and experienced facilitators from a range of backgrounds and disciplines, and are closely associated with The Haven.

 

Margaret Adams and Rick Griffin have co-led relationship workshops for the past 25 years.  Viewing relationships as a primary avenue through which we learn about ourselves, they are continually expanding their learning by exploring issues as they arise in their own partnership.  They lead Life after Separation and new in 2013, Relationship Skills for Singles.
	Eric Bibb was born into a musical family and has been singing, song-writing, and performing since a young age. Surrounded by greats like Pete Seeger, Odetta, Paul Robeson, and his father Leon Bibb, Eric learned music and life at the feet of people who were masters of both. Eric leads Spirit in the Song, an exploration of music and creativity.
	Dave Busse, B.Ed., MBA, CEC, PCC. Through all of his experiences he has come to the understanding that his greatest pleasure is partnering with leaders in organizations and supporting them in developing both their personal and organizational capacities. Dave’s experience in places like Beijing (Olympic prep), Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi have shown him that leadership development is the essential element of successfully growing any change initiative. If unsupported by capable and adaptive leadership at all levels in an organization, great ideas can and do fail miserably.
	Marjorie E. Busse,, CEC, MCC. Marj’s 25 years of experience in business, with 12 years as a leadership and business coach, give her an exceptional breadth and depth of knowledge of organizational and interpersonal dynamics combined with a heartfelt understanding of life as a leader. High-energy, highly observant and highly skilled at getting people out of their comfort zone, Marj connects easily with people and invites them to explore, to take chances. She knows from long experience that learning only happens when all aspects of the brain are engaged in the process.
	Carollyne Conlinn is a partner in Essential Impact, a coaching firm which integrates the best of business savvy with tools for personal excellence in the work place and all areas of life. Since leaving her corporate executive position she has been helping organizations create a corporate climate that allows individuals to excel and teams to achieve exceptional results. In 2005 one of her clients, the University of British Columbia, was awarded the first Vancouver ICF Prism Award for excellence in integrating coaching into their organization.
	Gary Dillon MA has studied psychology, theology, and movement therapy, with an emphasis on Esalen massage and Hawaiian shamanic bodywork. He has wide experience in Taoist and Western esoteric transformations of Eros and offers a renewed and modern vision of sexuality and spirituality moving together. He co-leads For Play and Conscious Sexuality at The Haven and teaches internationally with his wife Elfi Dillon-Shaw.
Judith and Gerry Fewster PhD are senior psychotherapists and educators who direct one of ten international IBP institutes dedicated to the advancement of human potential through relationships (see www.ibponline.org). Gifted facilitators, they lead Body, Self & Soul: Intro to IBP introductory seminars as well as a two-hundred hour foundational IBP training program at The Haven (see The Haven web site for details). They have published extensively on relationship issues, including Gerry's biography of The Haven's founders, Ben & Jock.
Ashanti Fraser, M.Ed., Dip.C., C.C.C. and Sarah Fleury, B.Comm., Dip.C. have been working with groups of people throughout North America for a combined total of over 55 years. They draw on a wide variety of healing and spiritual traditions including western psychology, eastern traditions, bodywork, hypnosis, meditation and attunement as well as experiences in business, education and public service. Ashanti has also maintained a very successful counselling practice for over 30 years. This breadth and depth of expertise allows them to be creative, spontaneous and personal, effectively supporting others in being more alive, more aware and evermore loving. Dedicated to bringing awareness to each moment of their everyday lives and to living truthfully and totally from no fixed position, they have discovered an immense gratitude for everything life offers. Sarah and Ashanti specialize in assisting people to see possibility rather than limits, truth rather than illusion and encourage active insight which allows movement, change and a deep ease of being to come to life. To find out more about Ashanti and Sarah visit their website www.sammasati.com
	Jane Geesman MFA has 25 years' experience as an actor, director and teacher and has trained and led programs at The Haven since 1993. She is currently on the faculty of the Portland Actors Conservatory. Jane has a reputation for creating a safe, fun, and dynamic environment for people interested in both the craft of acting and the process of gaining confidence on stage and in life. Jane leads Act Natural at The Haven with Sarah Lucht.
	David Hatfield has led improvisational a cappella workshops nationally and internationally since 1997. He was the conductor of the improv choir House of Song. His experience ranges from street performing to off-Broadway, from fully choreographed to fully improvised. He holds a diploma in Jazz Studies and is completing an M.Ed. in Social Ecology. He leads The Singing Soul.
	Adrian Juric, M.A. Phil., M.Ed (Counselling Psychology) is a writer, educator, retreat leader and professional counsellor who has worked in the fields of education and psychology in Canada and abroad for the past seventeen years. A student of literature and nature, he is fascinated by the deep forces that constantly act to bring new forms of outer and inner identity into being, and believes that the changing landscape of the human psyche is best understood through the lenses of poetry and the natural world.
	Hilary Leighton's MEd is a natural educator and a tireless advocate for a more sane society.  She studied Ecopsychology at Naropa and is entering her doctoral studies in the field.  She is completing her training in IBP at The Haven, is a certified Laughter Yoga Leader, a Myers-Briggs facilitator, and Director of Continuing Studies at Royal Roads University.  She leads Field Guide to Your Wild Side.
	Sarah Lucht BA, AEA, SAG combines 25 years as a professional actress and acting teacher with her 13 years of work as participant, intern and program leader at The Haven. She studied theatre at the University of Oregon with further studies in Los Angeles and London. She is currently on the faculty of the Portland Actors Conservatory. Sarah leads Act Natural at The Haven with Jane Geesman.
	Storyteller Margo McLoughlin is currently Artist-in-Residence at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. A frequent contributor to Parabola: Magazine of Myth and Tradition, Margo draws on the healing power of storytelling in a wide variety of settings, from hospital chapels to school classrooms, and from inter-racial dialogues to conferences on philanthropy. Visit The Story Field to read Margo's blog. Margo leads Storytelling for Re-Inventing the World.
	Donna Melville is a Certified ChiRunning instructor who has been running for 28 years and coaching for 12. She completed her instructor training three years ago with Danny Dreyer, the founder of ChiRunning, and has taught under the supervision of a master Instructor. Several Haven programs that have furthered her understanding of body sensing and balance. She leads ChiRunning.
	Jim Nelson, M. C. has been a teacher and facilitator for 40 years. His experience includes founding Nanaimo Montessori School, developing child centered programs in Mongolia and, more recently, facilitating groups with people who have recently lost loved ones through death. He co leads Nothing Left Unsaid, a workshop designed to deepen relationships through personal transparency recognizing our time with each other is limited.
	Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over thirty-five years. In leading spiritual retreats, in working with healing and medical communities, and in his teaching as a poet, Mark’s work is widely accessible and used by many. He continues to offer readings, lectures, and retreats. Mark leads a workshop at the Haven based "The Book of Awakening" which was named as one of Oprah Winfrey's Ultimate Favorite things. Visit his website www.marknepo.com
	Lyle Povah leads African drumming and music events worldwide, offering programs in hospital, conference, child and adult mental health, corporate, corrections and community settings. He is a musician/educator, drum circle facilitator, writer, researcher, and children's entertainer, with particular interest in health and wellness, intergenerational learning, spirituality, psychiatric and eating disorders, youth-at-risk, and autism. Lyle runs ongoing programs at the Haven, BC Children's Hospital, St. Paul's Hospital, and the UBC Sauder School of Business. Learn more about Lyle and his programs at The Haven or by visiting www.drummingandhealth.com
	Lee Pulos PhD is an internationally recognized clinical psychologist in private practice and Clinical Assistant Professor Emeritus on the Department of Psychiatry, UBC. He is the author of Miracles and Other Realities, Beyond Hypnosis, The Biology of Empowerment and The Power of Visualization. He teaches Adventures in Consciousness.
	Carrie Southern, BA Psych, CEC. As an Executive and Leadership Development Coach (certified by the International Coach Federation) Carrie has successfully coached individuals and groups working in government, education, entrepreneurism, banking, healthcare and law. With her business acumen and ability to creatively problem solve, she has demonstrated ability to deliver services resulting in personal and professional transformation. Carrie's style has been described as focused, attentive, perceptive, and clear - all with a distinctive human touch.
	Philip Winkelmans MA, PhD has been facilitating his Intuitive Healing programs at The Haven for seven years. For over 30 years he has been writing, teaching and studying systems for enhancing intuition, inspiration, and creativity through psychospiritual technologies. Winkelmans has written the internationally acclaimed book The Art of Purposeful Being: Your Destiny Project and developed an intuitive Tools For The Soul Kit®, which is included in his Intuitive Healing Five-Day Program. He also leads The Intuitive Healing Weekend and Intuition Mastery: The Key to your Creative Power. Visit Phil's website www.toolsforthesoul.com
	Penny Wassman is a founding director of the BC Network for Compassionate Communication and a certified trainer for the international Center for Nonviolent Communication. For more than a decade she has offered NVC workshops and trainings across Canada to corporate and government groups, to First Nations people, to educators, parents and students, care providers, seniors' groups and prison inmates among others. In 2009 she will teach Nonviolent Communication: A Process of Life.
	Victor Wooten is the author of The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth through Music and is described by many as the finest bass player alive. A five-time Grammy award winner, he is known for his solo recordings and tours, and as a member of the Grammy-winning supergroup, Béla Fleck & The Flecktones. He teaches widely, including his Bass/Nature Camps at Wooten Woods in Nashville, Tennessee.

I saw and personally experienced what I believe to be healing on a very deep level. I was amazed that this kind of work was possible, and here it was being carried on in this funky resort on this rustic little island in BC!

 
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