The Verona Retreats: Anchoring Your Legacy for Self-recalibration and Ownership of Your Story
We are currently living through the most distracting era in human history. If you are a high-level leader, a founder, or a professional with twenty years of experience, you know exactly what I mean. You are bombarded by “The Great Noise”, a constant stream of emails, social media notifications, market shifts, and digital demands. Your success is real, but it feels fragile. It feels like it exists entirely in a “cloud” that you can’t touch. You have built your reputation on the screen, but you haven’t yet anchored it in the soil.
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At AClasses Academy, we believe that the final stage of Institutional Sovereignty is not digital. It is physical. To truly own your genius, you must eventually step away from the noise and enter a space where time moves differently. You need a Fortress of Peace.
This is why we have established the Verona Retreats and Sovereign Immersion. This is not a vacation; it is a strategic “reset” of your entire professional and personal infrastructure. It is the place where the “Story to Asset” framework moves from a blueprint to a reality.
1. The Necessity of the “Physical Table”
In our community, we have mastered the art of “Digital Tenancy.” We are brilliant on LinkedIn, we host powerful Zoom calls, and we build massive followings on platforms we don’t own. But there is a hidden psychological cost to living entirely in the digital world. It breeds a sense of “unrootedness.”
When your entire professional identity is stored on someone else’s server, you are always one “algorithm update” away from invisibility.
The Verona Retreats are designed to solve this. We believe that a legacy requires a Physical Table, a territory where you can sit across from your peers, look them in the eye, and build the kind of “Institutional Trust” that an email can never create.
By moving your influence from the screen to the land, you are telling the world (and yourself) that your authority is permanent. You are no longer “floating”; you are anchored.
2. Why Verona? The Narrative Capital of the World
People often ask me, “Obehi, why Verona? Why not London, New York, or even Lagos?”
Well, the answer lies in Narrative Capital. Verona is more than a beautiful Italian backdrop; it is a global “Source Code” for storytelling. For AClasses, this is where the soil was first broken.
Our research journey began here in 2012 at the Comboni Missionary Center, with what we called “The Multicultural Debate.” It was a foundational dialogue involving Professor Agostino Portera (Chair of Intercultural Education at the University of Verona), the visionary Father Fabrizio Colombo, and a remnant of African and European students.
That single debate sparked a fifteen-year forensic research project titled “The Journey,” an exhaustive exploration of the African presence in Northern Italy, focusing on cities like Verona, Vincenza and Padova.
This work has since been codified into two important books, The Journey: Africans in Verona and The Color Of Our Children. In addition, it has fueled over 1,000 episodes of The Obehi Podcast, founding of the AClasses Academy and other initiatives.
For centuries, the world has looked to Verona to understand the most powerful human narratives: love, power, tragedy, and endurance. When you walk through the Piazza Bra or stand before the ancient Arena, you aren’t just looking at stone; you are looking at Institutional Memory.
Verona is a city that has seen empires rise and fall, yet its Sovereign Identity remains unshakeable. By bringing the African Diaspora here, we are performing a Forensic Narrative Audit.
The Dual-Track: A Meeting of the “Remnant”
The Verona Retreats is a high-status “Nexus” where two distinct groups of the Sovereign Remnant meet:
- The International Diaspora: These are leaders from the US, UK, Canada, and the African continent. They come to Verona to “Reset” their 100-year roadmaps. They are looking for the silence and the “Neutral Territory” required to codify their 20 years of experience into a permanent asset. They come to Verona to “unlearn” the noise of their home markets.
- The Italian Diaspora: These are the local African-Italian professionals who are moving from “Immigrant” to “Institution.” They are the bridge-builders who understand both the “African Rhythm” and the “European Protocol.”
When these two tracks meet at the Village Table in Verona, something miraculous happens. The “Isolation” of leadership disappears. You realize that you aren’t just a “minority” in your local city; you are part of a global, sovereign majority that is building the future.
What Happens in the “Fortress of Peace”?
The Sovereign Immersion is a high-intensity “Shatter Session.” We move through a specific pedagogical roadmap:
- The Excavation: We spend the first day bypassing your “Corporate Mask.” We use the Photo Elicitation Technique and the Hand of Fate exercises to find the DNA of your success.
- The Codification: We take your raw “Tribal Knowledge” and begin the work of building your Signature System. This is where your “Story” officially becomes an “Asset.”
- The Anchoring: We use the history of the land to anchor your mission. We draw the 100-Year Roadmap for your family and your institution.
- The Shattering: We don’t just “talk”; we record. Every retreat is a Content Factory. We capture your insights in 4K studio quality, ensuring that the transformation you experience in Verona becomes a permanent digital asset for your brand.
The Era of the “Physical Anchor”
As we approach the New Shift, the digital world will become even more crowded and automated. We understand that AI will be able to write your blog posts and answer your emails.
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But AI cannot replace your Physical Presence. It cannot replace the way you command a room or the way you facilitate a “Healing Dialogue” in a stone villa.
The leaders who will thrive in the next decade are those who have a Hybrid Strategy: A world-class digital “Foundry” of unique platforms and strong Anchor points. That is what our series of Verona Retreats helps you achieve.
Sovereignty is the ability to move seamlessly between these two worlds. It is the ability to have a global audience online, but a “Sovereign Territory” where you can bring your inner circle to build in private.
Why This Matters for Your Legacy
If you are a parent, a founder, or a CEO, you have a responsibility to leave behind more than just money. You have a responsibility to leave behind Institutional Ground.
Your children need to know that their family has a “Table” in the world. They need to see you standing in your authority, not just “working hard,” but “governing well.” When you attend a Verona Retreats, you are making a statement to your lineage: “We are no longer tenants. We are architects. We own our narrative, and we have anchored it in the history of the world.”
This is the “Spirit of Excellence” that AClasses Academy represents. We don’t just help you “fix your business.” We help you reclaim your place in the world’s story.
Your Invitation: The Table is Set
The “Great Noise” of the world is not going to stop. The digital treadmill is only going to move faster. The only way to win is to step off the treadmill and onto the land. Verona is waiting for you. The “Fortress of Peace” is open. The “Remnant” is gathering.
Whether you are looking to codify your twenty years of professional genius, heal the “Slave Mind” blocks that have stalled your growth, or simply draw the blueprint for the next four generations of your family, the Verona Sovereign Immersion is your destination.
The Next Sovereign Step:
The Verona Sovereign Immersion is an exclusive, high-ticket experience with limited seats to ensure deep, 1-on-1 institutional work. For the Apex Leader: Secure your place on the 2026 Founding Remnant Waitlist.
This ensures you are the first to receive the dates, the villa locations, and the syllabus for our international and local tracks.
For the Immediate Asset Builder: Join the Story to Asset Framework today. Let’s start the “Excavation” of your genius online so that by the time you arrive in Verona, your foundation is already in stone.
