TRANSFORMATIVE ARTS in beautiful Italy!
Full Certification Training in 2025 begins with an onsite foundation program June 20- July 6 in Assisi, Italy.
Our pioneering program cultivates the unique capacity of the Arts to heal, awaken and transform. 
When we are immersed in the creative flow we open our hearts and minds. It is intrinsically healing. When we tap the Source within we open a channel of inexhaustible inspiration.
At the Academy, we have developed simple, yet profound methods for awakening and uplifting consciousness through Creative Process.
We use all modalities of the arts; painting, clay, collage, sculpture, dance, theater, music, poetry, writing, film, multi-media, etc. as vehicles for a transformative process. Activating the ‘right hemisphere’, we awaken ‘whole brain’ capacities of intuitive intelligence.
This work catalyzes our dormant higher potential. Participants expand their capacities for authentic and spontaneous self-expression, freedom and ease of being, clear, innovative and solution oriented thinking, inner resilience, open-heartedness, radiant vitality and joy.
The Transformative Arts Certificate Program is comprised of TWO LEVELS:
LEVEL ONE
Healing Journey
June 20- July 6 2025
LEVEL ONE foundation provides support for your own healing journey. This level is open to all who seek personal healing, inner transformation and spiritual growth.
A variety of courses expose students to the many modalities of the arts (music and dance, painting, sculpture, theater, film, etc.) and to the principles of art, creativity and consciousness. Our interdisciplinary approach uses all creative modalities as vehicles for self awareness and the activation of higher human capacities. LEVEL ONE confers a certificate of completion.
LEVEL ONE Requirements:
COURSE Requirements:
ONSITE
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Painting from the Heart and Soul
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Free Your Creative Spirit
ONLINE
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Healing Journey
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Powers of Creation
PROJECT Requirements:
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Personal Quest Final Project
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Two Private sessions
Is this for me?
Do you long to live a higher voltage life? Are you ready to come alive to the full spectrum of your capacities? Are you willing to open the channel within and allow your unique creative expression to flow out into the world? Are you ready to experience the transformative current of creative power pulsing through your being? We engage all levels; body, mind, heart, soul & spirit… Are you ready for real transformation? If this speaks to you then you are ripe for the inner journey.
DATES: Level one INNER JOURNEY is from JUNE 20- July 6
This year our program starts with the magnificent ‘Infiorate’ Sacred Flower Festival in the enchanting Umbrian town of Spello!
LEVEL TWO is a Teacher Training.
Practitioners Training
June 20- July 6 onsite in Italy
+ year long online training
LEVEL TWO Professional Training prepares practitioners who are confident to facilitate the Transformative Arts Method ©™ in group workshops, to serve as a ‘creativity coach’ and to integrate transformational process into their professional practices. Level two offers content rich intensives, personalized projects and higher level courses covering theory and methodology.
In addition to coursework, Transformative Arts candidates are mentored in an intimate group, receiving personal attention and guidance as they develop skills, inner resources and experience.
Successful completion of both LEVEL ONE and LEVEL TWO requirements confers a Transformative Arts Teaching Certificate™
LEVEL TWO Requirements:
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Successful completion of LEVEL ONE
Additional Course Requirements:
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Graduate Teaching Seminar
Two additional courses in your chosen focus. Choose from onsite or online courses such as:
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Spirit, Art & Nature
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Rhythms of the Universe; Sacred Sound and Movement
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Quantum Creativity
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Centering: Mandala and Labyrinth (or approved alternative)
PROJECT Requirements:
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Experience as a Course Assistant
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Experience Student Teaching
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Two Private sessions
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Final Teaching Project
Who is this for?
Are you drawn to helping others awaken their full potential? Are you healer, a visionary creative spirit, an awakener? Do you feel called to serve the world at this critical moment? Are you seeking a Dharma that allows the fullness of who you are to be in service to humanity? Are you ready to claim your power to transform- not only yourself but the world? If this speaks to you then you are ripe for the professional training of Level TWO.
Transformative Arts students have come from all over the world- Italy, France, Greece, Denmark, America, Israel, India, Portugal, Canada, the UK and the Philippines. Graduates apply its methods within various professions such as teaching, coaching, counseling, healing, ministry, social services, human resources, organizational and community development, consulting and entrepreneurship.
Decades of pioneering work are distilled in our unique training program
Awakening Arts Academy is a vanguard in the emerging field of Arts & Consciousness. The Transformative Arts method is a full spectrum approach that integrates innovative learning methods with creative exploration. We utilize multiple modalities of art—clay, collage, painting, poetry, pastel, music, theater, movement and dance in a process that restores the genius of childhood and catalyzes profound transformation.
Conjoining frontier discoveries in science and psychology with enduring perennial wisdom, our curriculum nourishes body & mind, heart & soul. Richly informative lectures are complemented with experiential immersion in the studio.
Our program includes online and onsite classes, personal creative investigation and individual projects, small group work, close mentoring and ongoing support.
Our onsite program includes time in the studio classroom as well as direct experience of the rich cultural and spiritual heritage of Assisi, Italy.
An intensive immersion in powerfully transformative creative process within an intimate cohort of 12 students. We are across the street from one of Europe’s finest Yoga & Meditation retreat centers, and near Assisi—home of St. Francis and International City of peace.
A midwifery of the Soul
Our program is unique in offering extensive mentoring of the facilitation process. We use the model of midwifery, understanding the work to be one of knowledge but also cultivated wisdom and subtle attunement.
As a Certificate student you will assist in courses, meeting before or after class for questions and discussion. Next, you will have the opportunity to teach segments of a class – with support and feedback for refinement.
An experience of JOY !
HOW TO APPLY
Each year we take only 12 students for our Transformative Arts Certification program. If you would like more information, or would like to be on the waiting list for our 2025 program, please write info @ awakeningartsacademy.com
HOW TO APPLY