The ARC Institute

ARC TRAINING OVERVIEW
The Journey To Consciousness Program

This program is a series of 6 classes supporting the gradual movement into greater consciousness, inner expansion and outer awareness in all aspects of our lives. This training introduces the ARC model to understand the inner working of our emotional system. BodySpeak™, a simple, communication tool that re-trains emotional patterns, is taught and developed throughout the program. Topics also include recognizing our limitations and resistances, developing our inherent inner leadership and detaching ourselves from energy draining relationships. Significant class time is devoted to supervised practice of the ARC techniques.

The Journey to Consciousness: Class One
Phobia and Addiction

This class explores the energetic, emotional and spiritual aspects of addictive and phobic behavior. Adapting the mindfulness techniques learned in previous classes, students learn to elicit information regarding personal history, emotional associations and lifestyle that can result in phobic or addictive behavior. Students will develop therapeutic communication skills to gain greater conscious awareness of the underlying threads beneath the phobia and addiction within themselves and others. These communication skills are combined with meridian balancing techniques to resolve and release phobic and addictive behaviour. Therefore, the class learns the location of all meridian pathways in the body as defined in Chinese medicine.

Topics:

• How to gain access to personal history, emotional associations and lifestyle that impacts phobias and addictions
• An overview of Chinese medicine
• The meridian pathways on the body
• Balancing the meridian system
• Recognizing emotional charge by reading unconscious language
• Understanding phobia from a physical, emotional and spiritual perspective
• Identifying addictive behaviours in ourselves
• The cycle of addiction
• Denial, recovery and living in conscious awareness

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The Journey to Consciousness: Class Two
The Art of Creative Resistance

Class Summary:

A cornerstone of ARC work is the belief that the emotions are intimately tied to lifestyle and physical well-being. This class introduces the ARC Path of Integration, our model for emotional reorganization and the blueprint for working with inner change. We begin an in-depth exploration of the ARC BodySpeak™ technique during this class. Students will develop therapeutic communication skills that utilize a form of non-linear dialogue to elicit body-based responses that by-pass the intellect and allow the realm of the feelings to be more directly accessed. Initially, students apply the model to themselves with the aid of self-awareness exercises. Then, students have an opportunity to begin exploration of the model on others as practitioners in a supervised client setting.

Topics:

• The advantages of viewing ourselves as the composite of emotional parts
• How to identify the locations of emotional parts in the body
• Understanding and applying emotional organization to our own lives
• Overview of the BodySpeak^™ technique for emotional reorganization
• Discovering your inherent Self-leadership
• Leadership Meditation: an experiential discovery of your internal leadership
• The creative role of our internal defenses
• How defenses serve to limit and contain our lives
• How to recognize and handle defensive and distractive behaviors
• The emotional parts exiled beneath our distractive behaviours and their impact on discomfort and disease
• Techniques to support gentle, emotional re-training
• Transference and counter-transference

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The Journey to Consciousness: Class Three
BodySpeak^™: The Way to Open-Hearted Communication

This class is one of the core classes in the ARC program. BodySpeak^™ is a simple, non-invasive communication tool that successfully re-trains the emotional patterns that can directly influence physical conditions and limit our life’s choices. There are eight steps inherent in BodySpeak^™. All eight steps are introduced and studied and the applications of each are explained in detail. Under the guidance and supervision of the teaching staff participants are guided in the practice of BodySpeak^™ both on themselves and on others. The Path of Integration is also taught as a map to understand the individual processes of personal and spiritual growth.

Topics:

• An understanding of the eight steps of BodySpeak^™
• BodySpeak^™ as a tool to guide inner change and a support for symptoms, physical discomfort and lifestyle choices
• The value of following a person’s process versus the value of challenging the process
• Identifying unconscious language and its influence in the use of the steps in BodySpeak^™
• How the client draws the map for their own personal process – and how to read the map
• Applying BodySpeak^™ to bodywork modalities
• The Path of Integration: a means to understanding the process of personal and spiritual growth

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The Journey to Consciousness: Class Four
The Process of Integration

This class continues exploring the ARC model presented in Class Two of The Journey to Consciousness Class. Through lectures and hands-on experience students work with trauma, issues of anger, fear, grief and sadness. Students are introduced to the three foundational concepts of bodywork (non-linear) dialogue: Pacing, Contact and Creative Questioning. The class also explores the processes of integration to foster the resolution of issues. Students are supervised in working with these concepts and techniques in practice sessions.

Topics:

• More on emotional organization
• How to recognize charged emotional areas from unconscious body language
• Holding mindfulness and expansion to create an inner receptive state
• Using mindfulness to recognize charged emotional issue from conversation
• Extracting the charged words to provide therapeutic questions and dialogue for inner change
• Utilizing the ARC model to work with fear, grief and anger-based emotions
• Learning the foundational communication techniques of pacing, contact and ARC Creative Questioning
• How to journey with your client
• The Process of Integration technique and recognizing appropriate times to utilize it
• The Mountain Meditation technique for emotional integration

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The Journey to Consciousness: Class Five
The Ties that Bind

This class explores relationships, co-dependent behavior and how to work with these issues in a bodywork context. Students are encouraged to look within themselves in an effort to identify the many forms and variants of co-dependency. As well as emotional-based co-dependency we learn about the energetic ties that bind us to unhealthy relationship. Students are shown to how to detach these cords and curtail the energy loss that can result from co-dependency. This class has a shamanistic and spiritual flavor to it in which the students are introduced to the Recapitulation, an ancient method of detachment and self-restoration. The ARC Path of Integration is used as a reference point for the process of emotional and spiritual growth. Students continue with supervised practice of concepts and techniques learned.

Topics:

• Identifying co-dependence in your life – past and present
• Working with relationships and co-dependency in bodywork therapy
• The recapitulation technique for expanded awareness and inner freedom
• Personal boundaries
• How to follow and occasionally predict the process of emotional development and spiritual growth
• How relationships are reflected in energetic cording
• Detaching unhealthy relationship “cords” in ourselves and others
• The importance of timing in cord detachment therapy
• The complete ARC Path of Integration
• Forgiveness: A state of grace, or a distraction against unresolved issue?
• Applying the techniques from this class to oneself and clients
• Further refinement of a personal style of bodywork therapy

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The Journey to Consciousness: Class Six
A Return to Consciousness

This final class in The Journey to Consciousness program is a five-day retreat. The content of this class is reviewed with particular emphasis on topics which students identify as needing further clarification. Two new advanced non-dialogue techniques are introduced that utilize unconscious body movement. These are effective “short-cuts” to emotional balance, release and integration. The five-days will be interwoven with a series of discussion groups That focus on being in service in all aspects of our lives: in our career, as parents, friends and therapeutic practitioners. Discussions are held on transference and how to recognize when transference is colouring your relationships or professions. In a supervised setting, students give ARC Bodywork Therapy sessions to members of the community who have been chosen by faculty members. There is ceremony on the final day to celebrate the completion of the program.

Topics:

• Review of topics in the ARC Training with emphasis on those students identify as needing further clarification
• Two non-dialogue release techniques for by-passing emotional defenses
• Working through uncertainty and non-confidence
• Students’ personal relationships with service
• How to describe ARC Health Care to others
• Identifying transference and counter-transference

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