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 is a practicing artist and art teacher with a broad range of experience. In the past she has lead workshops on Stress Management for Business women in Edmonton, as well as Compulsive Eating and Personal Growth ongoing groups. For the past 25 years she has co-led relationship workshops with Rick Griffin (see below). She believes strongly that the attachment we form in our primary relationship helps us to live longer and create a safe and meaningful life. Margaret and Rick Griffin have been working on their relationship for 28 years. They are continually expanding their learning by exploring the issues presented in their relationship. They have been sharing these ideas in couple's workshops for the past 25 years. In Process of Connecting and Life After Separation they use their own experiences to create an open and warm learning environment.
	Dr. Corrinne Allyson is a Jungian therapist in private practice. She has over 25 years experience working with dreams to facilitate personal and spiritual growth. She combines Eastern and Western approaches to personal process, having lived and studied within the yogic/Vedanta tradition in India as well as for extended periods in a Zen Buddhist monastery. She leads The Transformative Power of Dreams.
	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.
	Steve and Lokita Carter are the principal lineage holders of Margot Anand's SkyDancing Tantra method in the U.S. They have been teaching Tantra and ecstatic living since 1999 to over 15,000 people, and are the directors of the SkyDancing Tantra Institute USA. Steve and Lokita founded their Institute for Ecstatic Living in 1999 and are the leaders of SpiritWorks Church for Spiritual Partnerships. They will teach Timeless Loving: An Introduction to SkyDancing Tantra.
	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.
	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.
Dr. Rick Griffin has been practicing as a clinical Psychologist for over 35 years. Throughout most of this time he has focused on how relationships work, what brings about and maintains intimacy, and how relationship problems can be repaired. He has a strong belief in the importance of relationships in our lives and sees them as a primary avenue through which we learn about ourselves. In Process of Connecting and Life After Separation Dr. Griffina and Margaret Adams use their own experiences to create an open and warm learning environment.
	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.
	Jennifer Hilton CEC, CHCS has provided facilitation and coaching to people in a variety of positions in organizations. She delights in building relationships and enabling individuals and teams to reach their full potential through expanding self-awareness. Jennifer has a Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching from Royal Roads University and is working towards her Diploma in Haven Counselling Skills. Jennifer teaches Coaching: Engaging Relationships with Cathy Wilder. Learn more about Jennifer at www.nianow.com/jennifer-hilton.
	Hilary Leighton's early deep and vivid experiences in wild nature rooted her belief that all teaching is an act of love and re/membering. A natural educator, perennial learner, and tireless advocate for a more sane and connected world, her inspiration comes from co-creating the conditions necessary for nature-based, soulful learning experiences on the land. Hilary holds an M.Ed, and is currently an interdisciplinary doctoral candidate studying Eco-psychology at UVic. She is practice as an IBP therapist (under supervision), is a certified Laughter Yoga Leader, and the Director of Continuing Studies at Royal Roads University. For many years, she has been both a participant and friend to the Haven.Hilary 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.
	Lyle Povah is a singer/percussionist/guitarist, writer, recording artist and children's entertainer with a special interest in African drumming. He has studied and performed worldwide and is a pioneering educator in areas related to health, creativity and community building. Lyle teaches Drum Talk at The Haven. Learn more about Lyle and his programs at 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.
	Dr. Jim Sellner, PhD, DipC has counselled about 1000 couples and led 150 men's groups over the years. In the last 13 years Jim has facilitated leadership workshops and strategic planning sessions in business. He is author of The Phallic Imperative: Why Men Are Hard to Get Along With!? and Leadership for Einsteins: How To Bring Out the Genius in People While Becoming Great Yourself.
	Donna Melville is a Certified ChiRunning instructor who has been running for 27 years and coaching for 11. 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.
	Shari Ulrich is a two time Juno Award winner, and inductee in the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame, Shari Ulrich was first heard in the early 70's with the quirky Pied Pumkin playing fiddle, mandolin, dulcimer, flute & sax.  She has been a songwriting educator for 20 years, for the Songwriters Association of Canada, at various camps and workshops, and in UBC's creative writing department teaching Lyric & Libretto. She is the Vancouver producer of the Bluebird North songwriter series for the SAC. Shari says "Helping writers to improve their craft is tremendously rewarding. I am ever in awe of the power of music and song, and exploring it with others always teaches me so much - not just about the mechanics and the art form but about the ever fascinating inner world of humans."
	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 Transformation Tango, 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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