Learn to Facilitate the TRANSFORMATIVE ARTS Method
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 immersive creative exploration.
We use creative process to catalyzes profound transformation. We draw from all modalities of art—clay, collage, painting, poetry, pastel, music, movement, dance, theater and improvisation, maskmaking and more.
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.
Do you feel a ripening inside—a creative and visionary potential stirring within you ready to emerge?
Creativity is innately healing and inherently transformative. It restores our connection to self, to source, and to one another—offering not escape from the world, but a way to meet it with vision, vitality, and courage.
We work with the arts not to make artists, but because creative process itself is the doorway—a direct pathway into peak flow, whole-brain coherence, and integrated intelligence often described as genius.
“Genius is childhood recovered at will”
~Charles Baudelaire
In creative flow, the wonder and joy of childhood returns. The body relaxes and the heart grows wide. In playful exploration our sense of what is possible expands.
We lose track of time as we lose ourselves in the process. We enter the timeless. There, in the fields beyond time and space, we move in the quantum field of all possibility. As we learn to follow the energy intuition becomes a living current of guidance rather than a fleeting glimpse.
In creative flow the fire of the soul ignites. Our consciousness enlarges. Even as we relinquish the mind’s vigilance true clarity sharpens. We remember why we came to earth.
During July 12-31 you will experience this freedom and expansion. For some this is all that is needed. You can stay connected through our online programs, come for more courses or one of our retreats. And for some, this is the opening to another life.
When you witness the intensity of our times, do you feel a call to step forward and serve?
LEARNING TO FACILITATE OTHERS
The Transformative Arts Certification is an in-depth, immersive training for those who sense that creativity is not merely personal expression, but a calling—a force meant to be stewarded in service to awakening, healing, and human flourishing.
Creative power not as a luxury or talent reserved for the few, but a core human faculty essential to our evolution.
Held in Assisi, Italy, a place long devoted to beauty, simplicity, and spiritual devotion, this program gathers those who feel a moment of convergence: years of creative exploration, spiritual inquiry, lived experience, and inner ripening are ready to cohere into a clear path of service.
What This Program Cultivates
• Deep personal transformation through creative process
• Integrated intelligence: intuitive, imaginative, somatic and spiritual ways of knowing
• The capacity to catalyze and guide transformative creative process in others
STRUCTURE
TRANSFORMATIVE JOURNEY—
A foundational immersion focused on personal healing, self-discovery, and creative liberation.
Full Certification Training in 2026 begins with this onsite foundation program July 12-31 in Assisi, Italy.
TEACHER TRAINING —
A closely mentored initiation into facilitating the Transformative Arts Method™ and training to catalyze and guide creative emergence in individuals and groups.
The CERTIFICATE PROGRAM is comprised of TWO LEVELS:
LEVEL ONE
FOUNDATION
THE TRANSFORMATIVE JOURNEY
A powerful vessel for a transformative journey. This level is open to all who seek personal healing, inner transformation and spiritual growth.
LEVEL ONE Requirements:
ONSITE
“A Transformative Journey” is a three week creative immersion that serves the foundation.
ONLINE
Continued training in 10 online sessions.
PROJECT REQUIREMENTS
Personal Quest Final Project
Two Private sessions
LEVEL TWO
TEACHER 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.
LEVEL TWO Course Requirements:
Successful completion of LEVEL ONE
Graduate Teaching Seminar
Mentoring:
Experience as a Course Assistant
Experience Student Teaching
Two Private sessions
Final Teaching Project
Successful completion of both LEVEL ONE and LEVEL TWO requirements confers a Transformative Arts Teaching Certificate™
CHOOSING YOUR PATH
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 Level One Foundation.
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 TEACHER TRAINING.
The full training includes the Level One Foundation and the Level Two Teacher Training.
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.
Upon graduation you are granted permission to teach the TRANSFORMATIVE ARTS METHOD.
Graduates are invited to participate in an ongoing support network and are listed on the Academy site as a Transformative Arts Facilitator.
INVESTMENT
LEVEL ONE FOUNDATION
$4,897 Tuition includes all classes and mentoring, field trips and outings, all materials and studio fees.
Meals and accommodation are separate.
ONSITE in Italy July 12-31, 2026 + additional online support and training.
LEVEL TWO TEACHER TRAINING
$4,897 Tuition includes year long teacher training and cohort. Fully online with some onsite options.
FULL TEACHER TRAINING
$9794 Tuition in total for teaching certification.
$1,000 discount for payment of level one and level two tuition together.
LEARN MORE
Schedule a zoom to explore the program and decide if its right for you.
CONTACT: info@awakeningartsacademy.com
HOW TO APPLY
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 !
