ARC Programs and Focus Groups

Personal Growth ARC Bodywork Focus Groups
Professional Support BodySpeak^™

Personal Growth

Personal growth is a fundamental element in The ARC Institute's seminars and workshops. A central tenant of ARC is that internal change is reflected in external change. We believe that self-growth and development should catalyze the manifestation of one's life desires and passions. We work toward this goal with all of our students.

Whether attending for your own self study, to add ARC skill training to your current career or because you wish to train to become an ARC Practitioner, the staff of the ARC is committed to supporting your movement into personal expansion and awareness on your road to greater consciousness. The Spiritual Deepening and Self-Care Focus Group was especially created for those students who wish to focus their commitment on their personal and spiritual growth.

At the same time, ARC recognizes that sometimes, our interactions with others can result in a drain of energy and heightened stress levels. We therefore include in our training several techniques to address these issues and help students learn to retain inner balance and awareness. Personal growth and self-care are core topics in the ARC training.

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ARC Bodywork

ARC bodywork is a collection of proven health care techniques. Each focuses on a specific aspect of health and healing. Each approaches healing as an energetic event and process.

ARC teaches that healing and health is a natural outcome of conscious presence. While techniques are important, the student's success is dependant upon the ability to sustain presence, to center and to retain fullness within the self. In this way, healing becomes an extension of the healer's own state of health and, therefore, unique to the individual healer. The ARC Institute is committed to supporting our students' discovery of their inherent and unique energetic healing skills.

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Focus Groups

Spiritual Deepening and Self-Care Focus Group Certified ARC Practitioner Focus Group
ARC Leadership Certification Program

The Spiritual Deepening and Self-Care Focus Group

In the Journey to Consciousness program weekends students are offered the Spiritual Deepening and Self-Care (SDSC) focus group. Students taking ARC benefit with a greater focus on self-care with personal growth. This self-development group is offered on Sunday afternoons for 1-2 hours relating to the themes presented in each class, through movement, art, improvisational play, and meditation.

The Spiritual Deepening Focus Group is hosted by Melanie Abela. This focus group is only available during The Journey to Consciousness Program classes (Please note: SDSC focus group is not available in The Healing Presence Program).

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Certified ARC Practitioner Focus Group

The Certified ARC Health Practitioner Focus Group is primarily for students who wish to achieve professional status as a Certified ARC Health Practitioner (CAHP). Students may also wish to pursue this tract in order to learn how to apply the techniques and methods taught in the ARC classes on a more informal basis with friends and family.

Students receive extensive personal coaching and supervision from ARC founder, Pietro Abela, both during and between classes. The homework assignments are required for those pursuing this certification.

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ARC Leadership Certification Program

This certification program is designed for ARC Graduates and Practitioners to learn how to hold mindfulness in a group setting where they hold a position of authority. The topics addressed in this program include:

• How to negotiate group dynamics
• How to identify and hold the balance between listening and speaking
• How to read unconscious language from a group perspective
• How to sense and respond to qualitative change in group energy
• Discovering the personal issues that stall or prevent the movement into self-authority

Teacher training and workshop facilitation is also taught in this program. Students are coached step-by-step to prepare and present a lecture, class or workshop. On-going support and feedback is given to cultivate the student's communication style and to help develop delivery techniques to achieve maximum impact.

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ARC's Professional Support Service

The ARC Institute is committed to offering high quality health care to our communities. In support of this goal the Institute offers ongoing support to ARC Practitioners. Several post-graduate Master Classes are offered. In addition, the ARC faculty is available for consultation with ARC Practitioners about challenges that may arise in their practices. The Institute provides an array of assistance and support to new practitioners establishing professional practices. This includes the following tools for professional practice:

• The ARC logo - for marketing and promotional purposes
• ARC business cards, client intake forms, office polices and brochures on ARC sessions
• Participation in health fairs and expos attended by The ARC Institute
• Direct client referrals from the Institute
• ARC website and related media promotional services

In addition, Certified ARC Practitioners are exclusively eligible to participate in Leadership and Teacher Training programs.

Continuous Support From ARC Teaching Faculty

The faculty of The ARC Institute is fully trained to assist students in applying the skills that are taught in our programs. Teachers are committed to the self-growth and personal development of all students. ARC teachers give continuous feedback to validate student progress in the classroom and provide the individual challenges needed to stimulate continued growth.

Support is also given outside the classroom. Peer ARC practice groups are offered three times a year. Certified ARC Health Practitioners and Spiritual Directors are also available to provide private sessions when needed.

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BodySpeak^™

ARC teaches that symptoms, physical aches, pains and even unrewarding lifestyles are influenced by our internal emotional organization. BodySpeak^™ was created as a non-invasive communication process that successfully re-trains the emotional patterns that directly influence physical conditions and limit our life's choices.

BodySpeak^™ is tailor-made for non-professionals and professionals alike as a method to further personal growth, support the health of friends and family, and for use in professional practice.

Adding BodySpeak^™ to an ARC healthcare practice -- or to any energy or bodywork modality --allows the practitioner to converse with the client in a safe, nurturing way and to deepen the client's experience. As well, the BodySpeak^™ practitioner has the ability to access emotional systems that may be contributing to a client's physical lack of well being.

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