Arizona Psychedelic Society Monday night speaker series presents Tony Piazza

Ceremonial Facilitator & Founder, Trinity Activated

Tony Piazza is a former U.S. Navy Veteran turned ceremonial facilitator and founder of Trinity Activated, a healing platform integrating breathwork, frequency medicine, and sacred plant ceremonies. Following a near-death experience that catalyzed a profound spiritual awakening, he has spent years apprenticing with shamans and facilitating hundreds of ceremonies with medicines including changa, ayahuasca, bufo, and ibogaine. His work emphasizes integrity, safety, and deep preparation and integration. Anthony teaches a grounded, reverent approach to service that bridges ancient wisdom with modern responsibility.

In this introductory session, Anthony Piazza shares his personal journey from a life-altering near-death experience to years of dedicated ceremonial service with sacred medicines. Drawing from lived experience and hundreds of hours in ceremony, he offers a grounded, reverent approach to working with changa as a sacrament rather than a substance. Participants will explore the spirit and intention behind the medicine, preparation practices for both facilitator and participant, and the importance of safety, integrity, and energetic hygiene. Anthony will also cover foundational principles of trauma-aware facilitation, creating safe containers, and supporting meaningful integration. This session is designed for those called to serve responsibly, honoring the plants, the lineage, and the people they support. The focus is not technique alone, but presence, humility, and right relationship with the medicine.

Anthony Michael Piazza is a ceremonial facilitator, healer, and former U.S. Navy veteran whose work centers on integrity, preparation, and right relationship with sacred medicines. His path was catalyzed by a profound Near-Death / Out-of-Body Experience, followed by years of deep ceremonial immersion, trauma integration, and disciplined inner work.

Anthony has extensive experience working with changa as a ceremonial sacrament—not as a recreational substance, but as a sacred technology requiring reverence, discernment, and responsibility. His approach emphasizes that changa is not about intensity or escape, but about how the facilitator holds the field, prepares participants, and embodies alignment before ever offering medicine.

In his talk, Anthony explores the role of changa in ceremonial work, the energetic and ethical responsibilities of facilitation, and what is required of a facilitator beyond technical knowledge—presence, nervous system regulation, humility, self-honesty, and ongoing integration. He speaks openly about the consequences of misalignment, bypassing, and ego-driven facilitation, and why reverence, restraint, and integrity are essential when working with powerful altered states.

Anthony’s work bridges lived experience with grounded wisdom, offering a clear reminder that the medicine does not make the facilitator—the facilitator’s integrity does.

“This talk is not about how to facilitate—but who one must become to do so responsibly.”