Transformative Arts Institute (TAI) combines the arts of Philosophy, Spirituality and the Martial Arts to create a truly unique and powerful seminar series on human potential and life mastery.
Transformative Arts Institute seminars help people identify and remove roadblocks that inhibit self-actualization to achieve freedom, life fulfillment and realization of personal potential. Seminars are designed to assist participants to discover their personal destiny and the map to guide them on their journey to life-mastery.
Based on the teachings of Founder and Author Dawn Callan, TAI’s model is a unique combination of Martial Arts, personal process, meditation, movement, play, music and creative challenges that has successfully trained thousands of men, women and children, at universities and corporations both nationally and internationally for over 20 years. The results of TAI’s work are life changing, powerful, and permanent.
Workshops
Six Hour Workshop - Enroll
The five hour workshop offers self defense instruction that includes use of breath, identification of target areas, recognizing danger signals, hand strikes and kicks, setting boundaries, how to break the "freeze" response and practice with a padded attacker.
Awakening the Warrior Within - Enroll
A weekend workshop offering a unique combination of street self defense techniques, awareness exercises and communication skills. The program's focus is on the development of the inner warrior and the skills necessary to disarm an attack. Self defense techniques include hand strikes, kicks, use of sound and breath, recognizing danger signals, knowing when to strike, defining boundaries, target areas, ground defense, basic survival skills and practice with a padded attacker.
Stalking the Shadow - Enroll
Stalking the Shadow is a one evening and two day workshop available to graduates of the Awakening the Warrior Within two day program. When we stalk our shadows, we use the energy of the warrior to reclaim the lost, abandoned and disowned parts of ourselves so that we may once again have access to their power. We stalk our shadows to become whole again, to regain our authentic selves, to reclaim our souls. Shadow work is about regaining self love.
Meeting the Magician - Enroll
Meeting the Magician is the third level workshop in the Warrior Shadow Magician series, and is available to graduates of Awakening the Warrior and Stalking the Shadow only. This two and a half day residential workshop is about creating the life, the world and the future that we want. The Magician teaches us about manifestation and transformation. Tom Robbins says, "Logic gets you what you need, magic gets you what you want." The Magician is the bridge between the material and spiritual realm, physical plane reality and non-physical plane reality, ordinary and non ordinary states of consciousness. The work of the Magician is about self creation.
As warriors we learn to take responsibility for our world, in shadow work we learn to see the effects of our unconscious creation, the Magician teaches us how to create consciously.
Private Training - Enroll
Dawn Callan offers private instruction in street self defense skills. Warrior skill development and support. For private instruction call (415)457-9009 or send email to mari@transformativeartsinstitute.com, to make an appointment.
Private Sessions - Enroll
Dawn Callan offers private sessions in the use of warrior skills to face some of the challenges in daily life (i.e., relationships, business, health,). For private sessions call (415)457-9009 or send email to mari@transformativeartsinstitute.com, to make an appointment. or can be done over the phone or face to face.
Reconnecting with Your Power: The Art of Personal Safety & Inner Security - Enroll
Renegotiate your Relationship to Fear
A 3-Hour Seminar to Refine the Necessary Skills to be Safe at Home, at Work and when Traveling
Taught by Dawn Callan, founder of Transformative Arts Institute, an entrepreneur, teacher, personal bodyguard, and a 7th degree Black Belt with over 28 years in the Martial Arts and 30 years of spiritual practice.
The workshop will include:
• How to identify a potentially dangerous situation and escalating behavior
• Trusting your instincts
• Methods of diffusing conflict or violence
• Methods of self-protection and protecting others
• Breaking the panic/freeze response
• Setting verbal and physical boundaries
Awakening The Warrior Within October 2000 Class Workshop photos and video
