Located on a hill in a secluded park where olive and fruit trees grow, our sanctuary consists of a main house with annexed buildings, a meditation hut, a small creek, and some land where a fire circle and medicine wheel sit about a five minute walk by foot from the town of Pietrasanta.
Since its founding in 2013, the Sanctum has offered Transpersonal Hypnotherapy, Past Life Regression Therapy, Clinical Hypnosis and Advanced Trainings as well as Newton-Institute approved Life-Between-Lives Trainings and Transformation Games. We also work with therapies such as Non violent communication, Active Imagination, shadow work, trauma work, archetypal work and dream work among other techniques. Our therapists are always studying to learn new methodologies and bring them into their practices.
Supervised weekends where volunteers work with newly trained therapists has also always been an essential part of our program.
When Allison Lee Axinn and Paul Aurand along with Lucien Cattai established the Verziere Sanctum at 'The Park', in Pietrasanta, Tuscany the intention was to create a safe place for trainings where therapists in training could also work with the their personal development hand in hand with becoming a therapist.
Supervised weekends and review weeks taught us to continue developing techniques we were already working with: creating a broader perspective by having multiple therapists work with the same client providing other insights, techniques, methods and support. Group debriefs have provided deeper awareness for each session.
The expression that it sometimes takes a village to raise a child has been essential. There are moments when an in-depth support situation creates a real and enduring turning point and a therapist learns their trade as a calling, not only as a job to work at.
In 2020, despite Covid-19, we continued to offer face to face English and Italian trainings, supervised weekends and healing retreats. And as there is always more to learn, so too our staff has evolved and changed adding new Therapists, Instructors and Lecturers bringing their own insights and expertise to our programs, expanding the content as we believe each therapist and client may find some techniques to work better than others. And as therapists inspired by our students and clients we look to learn new ways for effectiveness and enduring results.
About Turning Point
Beginning in around 2005 we began to combine working with more than one therapist working with the same client in individual sessions, creating a possibility for joined support and feedback, and a wider range of therapeutic insight and methodologies. We had observed supervised weekends with students where two or three therapists worked with the same client brought insights and change. Especially when we debriefed together created more possibilities for understanding how to create a more comprehensive therapy. These experiences gave birth to a desire to have an more in-depth comprehensive program for those looking to change their lives.
Since 2018, the Sanctum began to offer these interwoven programs as a residential retreat where in-depth therapy and wellness programs could create a Turning Point.
Turning Point Residential Healing Retreat, is an intensive program created to help people who have chosen to change their lives, transform, heal, and move forward. It is open to anyone who has these desires, wishes, and commitments.
Even therapists need therapy:
Feel free to ask about our Healing Retreats for therapists.
Our groups are small and personal. We like to learn about each student in order to support you in the best way for your individual growth and as a therapist.
Over the years we have had the privilege and pleasure to teach hypnotherapy and other forms of therapy to many kinds of therapists practicing therapy as well as people who have wanted to become therapists and have had life experiences in other arenas. School of life does also buIld a base and background for working with others, sometimes our trainings are about supplementing already developed skill sets too. We have worked energy workers and occupational therapists and other forms of physical therapists, doctors, surgeons, teachers of various nature, psychologists, artists, and many more.
Our basic trainings are open to everyone, especially people who wish to know more about themselves.
Our trainings also have helped therapists to learn how to create their own therapy programs, healing centers and schools. we also provided next step and mentoring support for therapists building their practices and practice centers.
To insure a highly individualized and multifaceted training:
our trainings have a proportional ratio of Instructors, Assistant Instructors and staff to a small individualized group of students.
July
Module One Transpersonal Hypnotherapy/ Ipnoterapia Transpersonale
September
Supervision Weekend
November
Supervision Weekend
December
Past Life Regression Certification Training
January
Clinical Hypnotherapy
March
Foundation of Verziere Sanctum
July
Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Certification Training
Past Life Regression Certification Training
Clinical Hypnotherapy Training
Throughout the year
Five Supervision weeks
July
Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Certification Training
Past Life Regression Certification Training
Clinical Hypnotherapy Training
Throughout the year
Five Supervision weeks
July
Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Certification Training
Past Life Regression Certification Training
Clinical Hypnotherapy Training
Throughout the year
Eight Supervision weeks
February
Union Week
July
Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Certification Training
Past Life Regression Certification Training
Clinical Hypnotherapy Training
September
Pre-training Life Between Life
October
Hypno-Dreaming Workshop
November
Life Between Lives Hypnotherapy Training
December
Hypno-Dreaming Training
Throughout the year
Ipno-terapia Clinical and Regressive
Seven Supervision weeks
January
Clinical Hypnotherapy Training
Ipnodreaming
February
Hypnotherapy Regression Training
Formazione Ipnoterapia Transpersonale
March
Ipnodreaming
Past Life regression with Children Workshop -Christine Alissa
May
Advanced Hypnotherapy Training
Ipnodreaming
July
Summer Training:
Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Certification Training
Past Life Regression Certification Training
Clinical Hypnotherapy Training
September
Hypno-Dreaming Training
Ipnodreaming
October
Advanced Hypnotherapy Training
November
Hypno-Dreaming Training
December
Ipnodreaming
Throughout the year
Six Supervision weeks
January
Ipno-sogni Formazione
Hypno-dreaming Training
March
Ipno-sogni Formazione
Hypnodreaming Training
May
Ipnodreaming Training
July
Summer Training:
Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Certification Training
Past Life Regression Certification Training
September
Pre Life Between Lives Training
Ipno-sogni Formazione
Hypno-dreaming Training
December
Life Between Lives Certification Training
Ipno Sogni Certification Supervision
Throughout the year
Five Supervision weeks
Weekly Zoom Supervision Review and Debrief for TranspersonaL and Past Life Regression Certification
January - June
Weekly Zoom Supervision Review and Debrief for Post Training LBL Certification
January
January-June
Weekly Zoom for Students Reviewing
Guest Lectures.
February
Formazione Ipnoterapia Transpersonal Training
September
Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Certification Training
October
Advanced Hypnotherapy Training
November
Turning Point
December
Past Life Regression Certification Training
Turning Point 1
Throughout the year
Seven Supervision Weeks
January- May
Weekly Zoom Supervision Review and Debrief for Post Training LBL Certification
Weekly Zoom review for Transpersonal and Past Life Certification Training
Settimanale zoom per la Formazione di Ipnoterapia Transpersonal e Regressione Certificazione
January
Turning Point 2
February
Turning Point 3
March
Turning Point 4
May
Turning Point 5
July
Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Certification Training
Past Life Regression Certification Training
September
Turning Point 6
November
Turning Point 7
October- December
Weekly Zoom Supervision Review and Certification
Transpersonal and Past Life Certification Training
January
Turning Point January 19-26
Supervision Certification Weekend January 29 - February 5
February
Supervision Certification Week Continued February 1-5
March
Turning Point 1-8
Supervised weekend March 17- 21
April
Supervised Weekend
July
Transformation Game July 10-11
Summer Certification training:
Module 1 Transpersonal hypnotherapy 13-18
Module 2 Past Life regression certification Training. 21-27
August
Transformation Game August 22-26
September
Transformation Game for students September 19-26
November
Transformation Game November 23-28
September - December
Weekly Zoom Supervision Review and Transpersonal and Past Life Certification Training
With Guest Lecturers
January
Supervision Certification Week 19-26
Individual Turning Point 14-18
March
Supervision Certification week 23-29
April
Transformation Game 1-7
May
Supervision Certification Week 23-30
July
Transformation Game 10- 11
(Students only)
Module One Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Certification Training 13-18
Module Two Past Life Regression Certification Training 21-27
September
Turning Point 1-7
Module 3 Advanced Hypnotherapy Training for working with: Fears Phobias, Depression and Anxiety 12 - 19
Module One Italian and English Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Certification Training 21-28
October
Advanced Training 1- 7
December
Turning Point 2-9