The Facilitators:
Bennet Wong, M.D., F.R.C.P.(c) received his psychiatric training at the Menninger School of Psychiatry. Jock McKeen, M.D., Lic.Ac.(UK) first studied at University of Western Ontario for his medical degree then at the College of Chinese Acupuncture, Oxford, England. Since retiring from private practice, Wong and McKeen have blended an in-depth approach to self-development aimed at integrating the individual in body, mind and spirit with emphases on responsibility for the self in health, relationships, and lifestyle. They are sophisticated, highly educated, they facilitate gently, with good humor and are skilled at creating a safe atmosphere where personal sharing flourishes.

Wong and McKeen are the founders and co-Directors of The Haven, a licensed residential educational center in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia, on the west coast of Canada. They are feature presenters at conferences and workshops around the world, travel and teach extensively in Asia as well as Europe, and bring an ease with cross-cultural approaches to their work. Wong and McKeen have served on the boards of major corporations and act as consultants to numerous agencies, corporations and groups. In addition to their numerous articles in professional journals, their books include A Manual for Life , As It Is In Heaven, In And Out Of Our Own Way, The Relationship Garden and The (New) Manual For Life.

Joann S. Peterson, M.S.W., A.C.S.W., Dip.C., Ph.D, is the Director of Education at The Haven, a licensed residential educational center in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia, on the west coast of Canada. Peterson leads a wide variety of groups, including The Anger, Boundaries and Safety Series for The Haven. She facilitates personal and professional development seminars throughout North America and Southeast Asia. Her clinical work focused on families in crisis, she served as a consultant for agencies and trained professionals in psychology and social work for over 20 years. She has authored numerous articles, written research grants in the field of child abuse prevention and has written a book about responsible anger expression, Anger, Boundaries and Safety, soon to be published.

For the last 15 years Linda Nicholls, Dip. C., M.T.C., Ph.D. has written, developed and facilitated workshops through The Haven, a residential, educational institution on Gabriola Island, British Columbia. These experiential, personal and professional development workshops include topics such as separation and loss, disengaging depression, body and breath work training, the human shadow and personal mythology, effective boundaries, obsession and the mirroring process. As an individual counselor, coach, business consultant, teacher and workshop leader, Nicholls brings a lighthearted direct style of working with people, and facilitates others in getting the most our of their lives personally and professionally by teaching lifestyle strategies and transforming limiting patterns.


The Filmmakers
Jennifer Sass is an educational video producer whose passion for improving her relationships with others drew her to Drs. Wong and McKeen’s workshop. Sass’s previous credits include the best-selling discussion video Women Seen on Television, and Letting Go, about friends coming to terms with a terminal illness. Married for 36 years (and counting), Sass brings her life experience as a partner, group facilitator, guest-speaker and writer to this project.

Lisa Day, A.C.E. is the editor of the renowned feature documentaries Stop Making Sense; Hail! Hail! Rock ’n’ Roll and Laurie Anderson’s Home of the Brave. Great Balls of Fire and Noises Off are among her other feature film credits. A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Day recently edited Nothing But the Blues, a performance documentary featuring Eric Clapton and produced by Martin Scorcese. She is also the producer-director of the illuminating look at the world of classical guitar, Dancing on Little Wires.