The Path of Radical Transformation – Shantam Zohar with Stefania d’Amore

Cultivating Kindness, Courage and Community

A journey to unearth the wisdom of body, mind and spirit

The Path of Radical Transformation incorporates personal and relational practices designed to cultivate mental health, organic healing and sustainable growth.  With origins in a broad array of contemplative modalities, the path promotes self-realization, sound clinical practice, and transformational group work.

The training and ongoing journey introduce participants to contemplative practices and therapeutic skills grounded in the forms of Authentic Movement, meditation and Kum Nye, compassion and self-compassion, chanting, relational mindfulness and Mindful Communication. The following seven skills will be presented, discussed, exemplified and explored:

1. Sensing, Feeling, and Thinking: the building blocks of immediate, tangible experience. We will learn to identify and represent these appropriately as they arise and come into being. We will consider the Buddha’s words, “There is a body here” as a practical antidote to dissociative strategies so common to the human condition.
2. Modes of Self: How we hold, perceive and represent ourselves has a major effect on our wellbeing and the wellbeing of others. We will explore several self-states and their potential uses and abuses in the relational field.
3. The Mindful Narrative: Mindfulness practice delays the formulation of automatic narratives, thus providing practitioners with a cherished gap between interaction and conditioned reaction. We will consider how to make best use of this valuable repose.
4. Wise Endurance: staying with it is a central practice in many contemplative practices. We will establish personal guidelines for the ways in which we take things upon ourselves in the clinical setting and in relationships at large. When is it best to sit and observe and what is the value of following impulse?
5. Relational Impact: somatic countertransference and witness consciousness are seen as pivotal ingredients of the ongoing relational echo. How to know what’s mine and what’s yours? When does such categorization support sanity and when is it an obstacle to establishing contact and deepening trust?
6. Motivational Insight: What do we strive to experience and what to avoid? Posing this one question, we will learn to distill the atom of motivation within complex action.  
7. Compassionate Contact: and at the heart of it all: Karuna. The heart’s trembling in response to pain and suffering. We will embrace the power of love.

The above nourish all healing relationships, magnifying brilliant sanity and sacred presence.

The workshop will include Authentic Movement, a relational, bare awareness embodiment practice. With origins in Jungian thought and Dance Movement Therapy, the form is broadly used to support clinical practice, artistic expression and transformational group work. It manifests as a relational practice within unity consciousness, where mover and witness are not separate.

Outcome

The Path of Radical Transformation allows practitioners to share an interdependent journey of body-mind and spirit exploration, to gain significant adequacy in body/mind integration and self-expression, develop subtle communication skills and harness kindness and compassion effectively both in and outside of the clinical setting.


Enrollment is annual; however the Path is ongoing, allowing for deepening growth.


After two years, participants will be certified to use the forms and depth principles of The PORT within their fields of expertise.

Who may apply

This in-depth course may well be of interest to practitioners of many fields, including psychotherapy, counseling, complementary and orthodox medicine, body-oriented therapy, expressive art therapy, Yoga and meditation. We welcome people attending for various reasons including: existing therapists and complementary health practitioners looking to learn new skills; those wanting to cultivate greater interpersonal skills; those interested in personal development (it is not necessary to want to be a therapist); Authentic Movement practitioners seeking to deepen and broaden their practice and people interested in exploring the link between psychological and spiritual wellbeing. People potentially interested in Psychotherapy, Authentic Movement, Compassion Focused Therapy, Mindful Communication and Relational Mindfulness. We welcome people from all spiritual traditions or none: no prior conceptual knowledge is assumed.

Date and venue

The program requires participation in at least 9 days of training per year and consists of three residential modules:

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from Friday 14^th of November to Sunday 16^th of November 2025
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from Friday 13^th of March to Sunday 15^th of March 2026
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from Wednesday 8^th of July to Sunday 12^th of July 2026.


The first two modules will take place in the beautiful setting Maguzzano Abbey in Lonato (BS), on Lake Garda. The third module will be held at Casa Sangam, a charming retreat for holistic practices near Gubbio (PG), in the green heart of Central Italy.


If it is not possible to attend one of the main modules, partecipants are offered the possibility to attend one or two complementary modules (first scheduled date: January 17–18, 2026) to reach the required total number of training days.

Partecipation fee

The participation fee is 1370 euros + 25 € for the annual registration in the organization. The payment (including the annual registration for who still hasn’t done it this year) has to be done through bank transfer to:                          
Associazione Sati Mudita           
Iban IT83 E030 6909 6061 0000 0128 339      
Bic BCITITMM                 
Causal: Surname and Name of the Participant – The Path of Radical Transformation
Or through the following paypal account: segreteria@satimudita.com
The fee does not include meals and accommodation, which must be paid separately on-site at the residential venues. At Maguzzano, the cost of full board and lodging in a single room with a private bathroom is €80 per night (€70 per night in a double room). At Casa Sangam, accommodation is available in single, double, triple, or quadruple rooms, with prices ranging from €90 to €130 per night depending on the chosen option.


Shantam David Zohar is Co-founder and Director of the three-year Mindfulness Based Psychotherapy Program certified by Tel Aviv’s Bar Ilan University, and the two-year Authentic Movement Training. Zohar is an award-winning author and has studied and taught awareness practices for the past thirty years. He is an adjunct faculty member at Tel Aviv University, maintains a private psychotherapy practice and delivers workshops on Authentic Movement and interpersonal mindfulness practice internationally. Zohar has completed a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies at Naropa University and an MA in Core Process Psychotherapy at the Karuna Institute and Middlesex University. He is a member of the Israeli Interdisciplinary Council for Psychotherapy. 


Stefania d’Amore is a physician who works in the Palliative Care field in a hospice in Northern Italy. She is the co-founder of Sati Mudita and co-director of the Milan Mindfulness Centre. She deeply values the transformative potential of groupwork and offers Contemplative Retreats and professional Trainings in Mindfulness in Relationship and Ars Moriendi (Art of Dying) with CPD credits.
Stefania is also a theologian and her work and research over the years has led her to weave together science and contemplative traditions – on the threshold of medical, relational and spiritual practice. Her integrative view has been particularly shaped by her many years of training within the psychospiritual approach of Core Process psychotherapy with Anne Overzee and Deirdre Gordon.

For further information please contact us: segreteria@satimudita.com