the library
Resources to inspire, equip, and encourage gentle rebels, deep thinkers, and highly sensitive people
Our ever-evolving library of resources is curated to inspire, equip, and encourage introverts and highly sensitive people in accordance with the latest research. The materials support deepening self-awareness and growth through often accidental creativity, playfulness, and adventure.
Explore First Steps
If you're new in The Haven or you're just exploring, you might find these introductory posts a useful way to dip your toe in the waters of the ideas you'll notice around the community.
The Haven Phrasebook
As a community grows, a shared language naturally emerges. Here you will find definitions for some of the words you might come across around here.
What is a Gentle Rebel?
Gentleness is an act of rebellion in a hostile world. But what does it mean to be a “gentle rebel”?
Explore By Topic
Posts and forum conversations organised chronologically related to topics of interest.
Creative Practice
Articles, discussions, and resources (including prompts) to help you start, maintain, or pivot a creative practice. It doesn’t matter whether or not you consider yourself a “creative person”!
Relationships
Articles, discussions, and resources exploring the joys and challenges of navigating interpersonal relationships as highly sensitive people.
Society and Culture
Articles, discussions, and resources exploring how we can use high sensitivity and creativity to change the world around us, and the impact of an insensitive world on our collective human nervous system.
The Highly Sensitive Trait
Articles, discussions, and resources raising awareness and understanding of the HSP trait to help us proactively design life in partnership with our natural temperament.
Explore By Type
Do you enjoy interviews? Looking for some music to listen to? Fancy exploring our archive of replays from live gatherings? Or maybe you'd like to read/watch/listen to Coming To Our Senses (The Haven Zine). Here you will find the archives organised by their format.
Book Club
An archive of forum threads, session replays, and articles about the books we’ve been reading in the community.
Coming To Our Senses
An archive of Coming To Our Senses; our community zine exploring the intersection of sensitivity, creativity, and culture.
Conversations and Interviews
An archive of conversations and interviews with different voices on fascinating topics through the lenses of high sensitivity and creativity.
Essays and Articles
An archive of written posts exploring themes and topics through the lens of high sensitivity and creativity.
Prompts
An archive of prompts we build and play with together to support journaling, self-exploration, and creative practices.
Explore The Themes
Adventure
Adventure is about entertaining the possibility of taking a different route to the well-trodden path. This can happen on many levels.
Belonging
Belonging is a deep sense of unconditional acceptance at the level of being. The feeling can’t be earned, bought, or sold. It starts within.
Change
Exploring through a lens of change helps us find our place in relation to the ever shifting landscapes within, around, and between us.
Confidence
Confidence emerges when we trust the foundations beneath us. It’s no guarantee of success but it’s about knowing we will be OK when we fail.
Creativity
Whether we are aware or not, our creative spirit quietly infuses every encounter, interaction, and breath that anchors us in space and time.
Inspiration
Exploring through a lens of inspiration helps us notice what we notice and identify meaningful ways to capture and express what we uncover.
Serenity
Serenity is not an absence of noise; it’s how we greet, flex with, and choose to respond to life’s many uncontrollable happenings.
