"Perhaps you’ve heard of the story of a child who questions his tribe’s folklore about the internal struggle between the good and the bad wolf by asking an Elder:
“How do we know which wolf will win?”
The Elder replies:
“It depends which one you feed”...g
Turning Point:
Go for your metamorphosis with support and alliance. connection and inspiration. Turning Points can be Individual workshops or in groups.
Always starting with the Transformation Game to help focus your direction and create a framework...
Our program includes:
Guided relaxation, Transpersonal Hypnotherapy, Active Imagination, Past Life Regression, Life Between Life Therapy, Shadow Alchemy ,individualized yoga and voice programs (when desired) and Ayurvedic massage.... Each Turning Point program is highly individualized including a variety of therapies according to each participant's needs.
Special focus includes outlining the next steps.....Which can include mentoring and guidance and feedback as continued support after the program is completed.
Transformation Game:
Imagine a game that works with memory and bringing to conscious mind unconscious patterns to bring insight about how to live in your own life....
Shadow Alchemy
Writing to heal
Ever wanted to create a record that helps you makes sense of your own journey?
Using Active Imagination and Guided Hypnosis and Active dreaming you can enhance your journey and create closure on your transformation:
There you begin to understand how to become the hero of your own life...
Remember: Even we Therapists Need therapy:
Healing the Wounded Healer
After years of being there for others healers need their own space and time to work on their own issues. This workshop will consist of different steps using various techniques that will explore the mythical archetypal story of Chiron as the wounded healer in your own personal story.
Regression for Regressionists:
Ever watch an inspired session and feel the pull to do some exploring within yourself? Regression for Regressionists is a week of exchanging and research and focus on personal development within a group of fellow therapists.
Active Dreaming:
Explore how to re-enter a dream with allies, or connect to the wisdom of ancestors or regress to a current of past life dream, follow dream re-enactment, or just be traveling in your mind...
Experiential exchanges and Research weeks:
Small groups only...... Feel free to Inquire about the next one...
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A Turning Point can be a time of decisive change. It’s when things cannot go on as before and you seek to discover new impulses to find how life inspiration can be channeled into motivating your journey down a new path.
What is it?
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.
We have found that during weekly hour-based therapy, there is usually not enough time to deeply address the major themes in one’s life at the level in which each person needs to go. And often a retreat may be a wonderful experience, but what happens after when you return to the same environment you were in before? An essential part of our program is creating together with you next steps frameworks. These next steps are guided by listening to what comes up in therapy and dialogue, listening and discovering what you really want and need. There are moments when we need to step outside of the environment we are living in, in order to discover how to create the way to building what we really want.
Individualized Programs
Each Turning Point is deliberately pitched at the right level of intensity and duration for each Individual participant.. The process provides a space to uncover what is quintessential to your life right now and gives you the opportunity to work on yourself as thoroughly as you wish.
As each of us are following an individual path, so too do our therapeutic and healing methods vary according to what you need. The focus is that you receive what you need. Each Turning Point program is different for each person.
We develop Turning Point to be deliberately pitched at the right level of intensity and duration for each Individual . The process provides a space to uncover what is quintessential to your life right now and gives you the opportunity to work on yourself as thoroughly as you wish.
What to expect
You will have the opportunity to work on yourself daily with a personalized schedule in a one-on-one setting with each of the therapists. Healing modalities such as Transpersonal Hypnosis, Past Life Regression, Astrology, Life Between Lives, Shadow Alchemy, Conscious Communication, Transformation Game, Ayurvedic massage, guided & deep relaxation, working with Active Imagination, Active Dream work and more, are all individually designed programs that can vary according to your progress to support the frame of assistance you need for your personal development. And we strive for your autonomy so. post turning point you have your own abilities, skills and strategies to rely upon.
We consider that a focus on creating clear next steps throughout your time here along with support post retreat is fundamental as well. Creating new habits that continue post retreat is another essential.
Optional daily group meditations begin your day here to ground yourself and closing meditations facilitate the time and energy to allow yourself a moment of integration and inner peace.
Time alone to Integrate and Time together with other Participants.
You may choose to spend some time with other participants socially and enjoy a support network outside of therapy hours. You will have shared living spaces and I each housing situation you have a private bedroom, and with a private garden, this can allow you the possibility to build bonds with other people sharing a similar journey. Usually clients get to know each other over optional communal lunchtime meals and during the Transformation Game where intentions are discovered and shared and become the frame of reference during Turning Point.
You will also have some alone time in order to integrate everything so that when you complete the program it will come naturally and easy to continue building on the base you are growing for change. We are also aware that some people require more time to integrate so we adjust the rhythm of their programs accordingly.
Location
The location in Tuscany also offers the opportunity for walks on the beach, in the forest, or in the town centre just a few minutes away. The Sanctum sits within a garden of fruit and olive trees and also has a meditation hut, and a small creek on the grounds for walks or contemplation. Ayurvedic massages will be arranged from a centre we have been collaborating with for over nine years. For those who prefer not to have a massage there is also reflexology and reiki, or other options to consider that help integrate mind and body such as Tai chi, Qi Gong or Yoga. What's most important is that you can work with what feels comfortable at the rhythm that suits you.
Follow up
We create a regular and consistent form of post Turning Point check-ins as well as exercises and sessions that reinforce your ability to follow the next steps you planned and when necessary we help you to adjust them accordingly. In some situations we may recommend continued therapies and exercises. Often, the best results come from attending one Turning Point and a few months later returning to create a complete transformation. Follow-up is also done thereafter to ensure your transformation is supported.
Background
Since the founding of Verziere Sanctum, the Turning Point Retreats have unfolded organically with a constant focus on personal development in small groups and individuals in order to provide people with the attention and support they require.
Our program is based upon many decades of working with clients and with collaborating with other therapists working with clients and over 10 years of experience training and mentoring therapists.
The insights developed from these experiences have led us to thoughtfully combine several methods in practice along with daily debriefing among the therapists to gain a broader perspective in order to create deeper, more profound ways of transformation and develop the next active steps in one's life journey.
Supervision and Feedback
Another important baseline for our program came from years of working on supervised weekends with therapists and volunteers collaborating together for five to seven day periods. Our therapists would work in pairs with one observing and the other facilitating. Between supervision and debrief discussions individual methodologies evolved with the support and collaboration of the observing and participating therapists and their supervisors. This also often included the feedback of the volunteer as well.
Remember even therapists need therapy. Our own therapists continue working with their own personal development both for themselves as growing beings and to be better therapists. Therefore we welcome therapists who need a retreat or respite in order to integrate all they are experiencing.
It is also possible to organise an Individual Turning Point:
working with our therapists in pairs, creating a unique program for yourself that is residential.
The Transformation Game is a board game created by the Findhorn Foundation.
Imagine a game that works with memory and bringing to conscious mind unconscious patterns. A game that helps you to connect to your true Self, to gain insight into what is truly going on in your life, to realise how to transform the things that are holding you back, challenging, or frustrating you, and to discover potential solutions that work for you.
First you discuss and refine what your intention really is.
Then you activate a connection with the game .
After you work with confirming your intention
and then
you roll for your cards which are placed in your unconscious envelope
As the game unfolds you work with memory and discovering resources that you had forgotten, understanding more about past memories and through gaining a broader perspective you find your strengths and insights from within.
While you progress through the levels you learn more about yourself until by the end of the game you are ready to create your next steps and feel inspired to follow them.
The cards are a fundamental part in guiding the process, there are six kinds:
• The Angel cards: Higher energy and archetype wisdom.
• Insights: Represent ideas and ways of moving forward.
• Setbacks: A way of looking into a problem or situation.
• Awareness: Tokens with single words which reflect back a player's growing consciousness and progress in the game.
• Universal Feedback: Cards which mirror the universe in relation to the individual player. It is amazing to experience feedback in the game and work with it, emulating how to cope with feedback in life. It helps you understand another point of view.
• Blessings: Tokens to help you move up faster and clear away pain.
Discover your roots, bring in supportive memory and metaphors in Storytelling: You can become the Hero of your own life, using via active imagination and memory to create a perspective within a document that helps you understand and become who who you really want to be..
Find your myth and become the hero of your own life..
Writing to discover the meaning of your journey as a story within you
--Hypnosis sessions to go deeper into remembering and understanding your own story
- Active imagination exploring scenes and geographies
- Following clues by meandering in your mind...
- Small exclusive groups
- Individualized mentoring support and feedback for personal development
- Daily debriefing
- Gaining perspective while listening to how other stories overlap your experiences
- Exchanges in support, feedback, and continuity
- Defining your personal Archetypes and the inner Myths, you have been living by
- Bring to conscious mind unconscious belief systems.
Healing the Wounded healer
Brave Birds Fly Thru the Fog
But....often....they have guides and allies...
There may come a time, where if you have not taken time to include personal development as part of your preparation in continuing your practicing as a therapist, where you will need to recharge and re-frame your own life and to allow yourself the time to work on your own progression in healing yourself.
After years of being there for others, wounded healers need their own space and time to work on their own issues. It is often fairly common to focus on helping others as it can be so possible to be a supportive ally.
Sometimes we must remember who we are, that we too have chosen life lessons and challenges and if we have not focused on them, we must retreat and retrench and learn some more. And, our challenges are our keys to growing.
We will explore the mythical archetypal story of Chiron as the wounded healer and discover your own personal story..
This sojourn will consist sessions ranging from exploring who we are via archetypes, shadow work, active imagination, and regression work. This highly Individualized process is a journey from being the wounded healer to living the potent medicine we give to others for ourselves...
Facilitators:
Allison Lee Axinn
Lucien Cattai
December 1st - 9th, 2024
When we are working with clients we often find a divine inspiration. Yet at times we also can feel the echoes of our own stories calling from deep within. Regression for Regressionists is about following that call....working on ourselves makes us better therapists and enhances our connection to our souls.
Set within a small exclusive group we set up exchanges and combination sessions so we can explore what is happening within ourselves and follow and listen to our personal development and life callings.
Maximum Participants of 5 only
March 5th - 12th, 2024
Re entering the portals of your dreams to explore and find out more. Dream trackers alongside.Transformation of nightmares or confused dreams
Broader Exploration of the unconscious agenda, lesson plans, intentions
To sign up for Healing Experientials, Volunteering, or information about mentoring please feel free to inquire.....
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