Frequently Asked Questions

Each one of us is already has everything we need inside to be successful. This is the central tenet to all ARC teachings.

The question every ARC course seeks to address is what holds the student back from the success he or she strives for. ARC is successful in identifying the individual limitations we either inherit from past models or unconsciously create ourselves. From this perspective, ARC provides proven tools, skills and insights with the individual in mind and the “how- to” move beyond these limitations.

ARC’s staff are interested in you and fully committed to supporting the realization of your personal goals. ARC instructors are highly skilled at seeing your potential. ARC instructors do not question if you are capable but instead provide the questions so that you can see how capable you are.  

Anyone who has goals, dreams and desires for improvement and self-discovery would be interested in taking an ARC course.

Personal growth and Self-Care is a fundamental element in The ARC Institute’s courses.

A central tenet of ARC is that internal change is reflected in external change. Self-growth and development are the catalysts for the manifestation of one’s life desires and passions. ARC Instructors and staff work toward this goal with each one of their students.

BodySpeak is an 8-step dialogue technique and a powerful creative communications process. BodySpeak asks the questions that draw upon the body’s own wisdom and helps the body safely and gently heal. 

Facilitators of BodySpeak quickly discover how to form questions based both on the presented story and the unconscious language. This fascinating study provides the window into seeing what lies beneath a person’s surface behaviour and opens the door to providing for needs that often go unrealized and unheard. 

BodySpeak has been described as a profoundly respectful process where the caregiver is expected to know the questions but never the answers. 

BodySpeak is currently being used effectively in school and college teaching programs, health-care facilities, business management, counselling professions, senior care, parenting and personal relationships. 

While BodySpeak is introduced in all of the Gateway courses it is expanded upon in The Journey to Consciousness Program as a tool for self-growth and a therapeutic tool in the care for others. In A Path to Authenticity Program it is taught as a support to your personal growth.

A Path To Authenticity exclusively focuses on the exploration of personal change and self-discovery. The program outlines and guides you through each of the stages upon the journey of personal change needed to reach your individual life’s goals. Participants leave the program with the knowledge, the creativity and the practical tools to step beyond issues such as anxiety, addiction, low self-esteem, lack of confidence and the burdensome weights of past choices. Individuals instead gain the companionship of increased self-confidence, courage and confidence in their inner wisdom.

In The Journey to Consciousness Program your first point of discovery is yourself. The Program also provides you with the skills, tools and training to help others work through their personal issues and concerns and to support them reaching health goals and a renewed passion for life.

It is ARC’s belief that as facilitators continue to successfully work through their own limitations they become more adept at successfully supporting others upon their own journey of self-discovery. 

To enter A Path to Authenticity or The Journey to Consciousness Programs you will need to take one of the Gateway Introductory courses. 

There are three Gateway Courses to choose from: The Essence of ARC, The ARC BodySpeak Workshop or Presence and Possibility. Each Gateway Course specializes in a specific area of personal growth and/or caregiver support. For more information please go to The Gateway Classes.

An ARC Practitioner is a professional health practitioner who primarily uses BodySpeak to work with the emotional issues and stresses that may be preventing you from realizing your goals. An ARC Practitioner believes that emotions and stresses are not only influential in your life’s choices but that they also affect your physical pain, discomfort and disease.

An ARC Practitioner may use ARC’s proven techniques in traditional settings, such as sitting up, face-to-face with the client, or using hands-on energy work or another hands-on relaxation technique while the client is lying down. Some ARC Practitioners provide long-distance phone or Skype sessions. To learn more about ARC sessions or to book a session with a Certified ARC Health Practitioner, please go to ARC Practitioners.

No. Many take The Journey to Consciousness Program with the intent to apply the teaching to their personal lives. Others take the individual courses within the Program to add to, or to improve their present careers or personal interests.

Many past participants have found, for example, the communication skills learned in The Journey to Consciousness courses have improved their parental skills. Teachers regularly take these courses to add to their classroom repertoire, caregivers to increase their self-awareness to avoid exhaustion or burnout, and office workers to increase their vitality in their work days. Health-care specialists regularly take ARC courses to improve on or to add to their current professional skills. 

Whatever your reasons are for taking ARC, the staff will be committed to support you realizing your goals!

To become a Certified ARC Health Practitioner you must have completed:

• One Gateway Course
• The Journey to Consciousness Program
• A Path to Authenticity Program
• Give two ARC sessions to a client with an ARC faculty member in attendance

Assignments act as a bridge between the classroom and day-to-day living. People who have opted to do assignments have consistently reported greater success in applying the tools, skills and learning taught in ARC courses into their personal relationships, careers and health issues.

Assignments are available in The Journey to Consciousness Program as a means of further study and active support between classes. Students may choose to do all of the assignments, some of them or none at all. This is purely an optional service offered by ARC. The faculty fully supports how the student chooses to participate in classes. 

Please note: Assignments are not available in the Path to Authenticity Program.

When you are a Certified ARC Health Practitioner, The ARC Institute acknowledges the attainment of a professional standard that permits you to offer ARC sessions to clients.

In addition, Certified ARC Health Practitioners may use the ARC name and logo, access professional materials, advertise their services on the ARC Website, and receive other marketing and promotional aid. 

The ARC Institute holds a number of private sessions, classes and workshops annually to support the ongoing professional development of ARC Practitioners. 

For more details, please go to the Continued Education Page

Certified ARC Health Practitioners are required to re-certify after their first year of certification and every two years thereafter. 

ARC has proven to be effective in the treatment of most physical symptoms, discomforts and disease conditions, both chronic and acute. ARC excels in the treatment of emotional issues, especially those issues that impinge on lifestyle and have causative relation to physical complaints.

ARC Practitioners have reported successes treating a myriad of complaints, including phobia and addiction, anxiety and depression, fatigue, low energy, post-traumatic states, abuse issues, eating disorders, spiritual transitions, digestive problems, immune disorders and recurring health conditions. 

You may contact an ARC Practitioner of your choice personally by phone or email. Alternatively, you can contact The ARC Institute to recommend a practitioner suited to your personal health goal.

Click here for the Directory of ARC Practitioners

We invite you to experience a potentially life-changing ARC session with one of our Certified ARC Health Practitioners.

Experience why ARC has taken a significant step for the future of health-care!