Upcoming Events ARC’s Sixth Annual Summer Gathering and Workshop Join ARC friends, old and new, for a Friday night potluck and gala followed by two full days of classes. More Information August 6 - 8 Shawnigan Lake, BC Pre-requisite: One ARC Workshop Community Service Day Under the supervision of The ARC Institute co-founder, Pietro Abela, ARC Health Practitioners offer free forty minute sessions to the public. By donation. More Information September 18 Rotary House, Qualicum Beach, BC Open to the Public The Essence of ARC Introductory Gateway Class Practice open-hearted listening skills as a means to create intimacy in your life. Learn how we communicate through unconscious body language and how to hold “presence” - a deep sense of self-awareness - in stressful situations. Discover how daily stresses and emotions influence physical conditions. There will be a special two hour segment where students can experience working with horses to increase body and emotional awareness, enhancing personal presence. More information October 1 – 3 Abbotsford, BC Open to the Public

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ARC Presentations

Come experience ARC at one of our presentations. ARC presentations are educational, entertaining, dynamic and enriching. Or, another alternative would be to organize a presentation for yourself, your friends or employees and invite us to come to you. An ARC Presentation is simple to arrange. We have the staff on hand to make the event an easy yet meaningful experience. We cater to small and large groups in your home, health food store or business. ARC presentations are ideal for all caregivers, parents, teachers, professionals or anyone simply wishing to learn more about themselves. In an ARC presentation everyone leaves with a different perspective on life and the lives of those around them. For more information on how to bring and ARC presentation into your life, email us at contactus@thearcinstitute.com.

Open-Hearted Communication

Is communication a challenge for you? Do you tend to communicate from your head rather than your heart? Do you know the difference? Are you happy with how people respond to your communication?

In this evening class co-founders of The ARC Institute, Pietro and Melanie Abela, extract essential themes from the ARC program, to teach some of the keys to communicating with an open heart. Open-hearted communication is authentic, inviting, intimate and safe. It requires inner safety, reflection and the ability to listen with full conscious awareness. Learn how to recognize the subtle body language that lies beneath the words we use in conversation and how it influences the choice of language. Pietro and Melanie will demonstrate ways to use unconscious verbal and body language as tools to create heart-felt communicate with others. There will be simple supervised practice sessions to learn these skills. This evening class is ideal for those wishing to enhance their communication skills with friends, family as well with clients from both a professional and non-professional perspective.

Duration: 2 Hours

Avoiding Burnout, Exhaustion and Fatigue

As North Americans we devote more hours to our careers than any other nation in the world. Burnout can be a silent killer; a condition that can easily creep up on us without ever realizing its presence until it is too late. This class identifies the four stages intrinsic to burnout: fatigue, exhaustion and burnout.

Through energy management we can successfully avoid and remedy each of these states. ARC Founders, Pietro and Melanie Abela, lead you through a series of exercises and power meditations that will stimulate your energy, provide rejuvenation as well show you ways to better recognize when you have crossed over the threshold into energy loss. Identifying the times you lose energy will automatically create a life of greater creativity and vitality alongside one of peace and calmness.

This presentation is ideal for all caregivers, parents, teachers and anyone who wants to give a little something to themselves.

Duration: 2 hours

An Evening of Supervision

This mini workshop is ideal for all professional healers and bodyworkers as well as those attracted to hands-on work but have little or no formal training. Through lecture and exercise ARC Founder Pietro Abela demonstrates how Presence is the key to enhancing awareness of your client’s health issues. Discover how sustaining self-awareness substantially increases your effectiveness as a caregiver.

In the second half of the evening Pietro will utilize his extensive professional knowledge and experience to give individual insight and personal hands-on guidance to support you on the road to reaching your highest healing abilities. Learn how to give your clients the most effective healing experience. This presentation compliments any health modality.

Duration: 2 Hours

The Journey to Consciousness

Do you sometimes feel you are driving in the dark with no map? Do you ever wish to have a guide to your inner growth? This presentation introduces the Journey to Consciousness: a way to map to your personal growth. Join ARC founders, Pietro and Melanie Abela, as they guide you through the key stages of our inner growth journey. Learn the value of sabotage, discover how to overcome your limitations, find the pathway to your inner power. The Journey to Conscious is your legacy: the pathway to your natural abundance and the fulfillment of your longing.

Duration: 2 Hours

Group Healing

It is well known that more hands provide more energy and, at times, greater healing potential. This class teaches, demonstrates and constructs the ways to provide highly effective group healings. The secret is not so much how many members there are in the group, but where those group members are placed. When participants are strategically placed according to laws of sacred geometry the amount of energy produced can be enormous. This class teaches these placements as well as how to synchronize on-table treatments. All class participants will have the opportunity both to be a member of a group healing and to receive a group energy healing.

Duration: 6 hours

Living In An Expanded State

ARC co-founders, Pietro and Melanie Abela take you on a journey that explores the human energy system. This dynamic presentation uses myths, legend as well as current research to de-mystify an integral knowledge that is rarely ever utilized in our society. We look at why in some parts of the world understanding the energy system is considered an essential aspect of existence, and why in our society we may be under-utilizing our fullest energetic capabilities. Through lecture, meditation and exercise this dynamic evening looks at ways in which we can regain the expanded states necessary for the energetic world to open up to us and become part of our daily existence.

Duration: 2 Hours

How To Find Your Power

This is an opportunity to become acquainted with one of the core themes of ARC. Pietro and Melanie demonstrate how symptoms, physical aches, pains and even unrewarding lifestyles can be reflections of our lack of emotional expression. You will learn how we lose our-Selves, how we are limited by outdated decisions and how the symptom can be a cry for help that is rarely heard. Learn how to negotiate through your internal emotional maze so that the cry for help is responded to. The secret to this journey is ARC-Talk; the ability to dialogue with your emotional “parts” in such a way that they support your ambitions, goals and empowerment.

Duration: 2 Hours

A Hands-On Approach to the Treatment of Shock

It is possible to be in a state of shock long after a traumatic event. As long as shock is present in the system recovery is hampered. This day-long class demonstrates how balancing the meridian system along with some simple dialogue techniques serve to support moving through this state and embrace the healing process so they can resume a normal life. This class is perfectly suited for yourself and enhancing the current skills of any health practitioner as well as those who have no formal training. This is also an ideal way to become acquainted with ARC, its teachings and an opportunity to learn a method that has proven to be highly effective in treatment of this condition.

Duration: 8 Hours

An Evening of ARC Meditation

An ARC meditation evening combines the age-old traditional forms of meditation alongside modern methods that can be easily integrated into a busy schedule. Pietro and Melanie Abela offer the practical skills and applications of meditation and inner focus through lecture, discussion and in-class practice. An Evening of ARC Meditations is an ideal learning opportunity for the experienced meditator to add to their current meditation repertoire and for those with no previous experience to be introduced to an immensely beneficial form of self-care.

Duration: 2 Hours

Creative Codependence: Getting More Out of Life

Codependence is a label that many of us shy away from. The word conjures up images of helpless, needy souls pleading, begging to be liked.

But what if that wasn’t the entire picture?

What if being independent, strong and in control were also symptoms of codependence?  What if codependence was simply a creative way we learned as children to get our needs met?  And what if that same creativity could be used to meet those needs more effectively today?

Join Jo-Ann Svensson of The ARC Institute in this full day workshop as she compassionately explores codependence.  Through discussion and exercises, she will demonstrate the idea that codependence is a unique and healing journey towards reclaiming our wholeness.

Duration: 2 hour presentation - 8 hour workshop

Why We Sabotage Ourselves!

How Self-sabotage is Indicator of Successful Change

Do you have limited success with dieting because you end up bingeing or giving into the forbidden foods every time? Do you make the intention to change as a person but inevitably end up going back to old unhealthy ways? When you self-sabotage, do you feel a failure and end up beating yourself up?

Whether we choose to change and become better parents or partners in our relationships, more proficient in our work or simply more caring or loving people, whenever we step onto the road of personal change we risk a face-to-face encounter with sabotage. Self-sabotage can be so strong it sometimes succeeds in de-railing us, knocking us off track and exposing us to crippling feelings of failure and guilt.

In this evening presentation, founders of The ARC Institute and international speakers, Pietro and Melanie Abela, create a new framework of understanding for sabotage. Join them and learn how sabotage is predictable and preventable and one of the prime indicators of successful movement towards change. Discover how to foresee potential self-sabotage situations before they happen. Find out the quickest and most efficient ways to move out of sabotage and back onto the path of change and self-improvement.

Alchemist Café: Creating Change from the Inside Out

Looking for like minded people to discuss important ideas? Tired of seeking change but not knowing where to begin? Join ARC founders and teachers, Pietro and Melanie Abela, in an exciting and dynamic new forum for creating inner change: The Alchemist Café.

The Alchemist Café is a forum where the collected wealth of innate wisdom and knowledge can come together. Much like the alchemist of yore, who endeavoured to transmute base metals into gold, the Abelas hope that the café will not only create a deeper appreciation for life, but help us find answers to live the life we desire. Facilitated by both the Abelas, the evening will begin with a short introduction followed by open ended questions, sharing and, they hope, lots of laughter and joy. “Our goal for The Alchemist Café,” says Pietro, “is that it becomes a place where people can come into deeper relationship with themselves and others, rediscovering greater choice, balance, compassion and inspiration. The Alchemist Café is about coming home to who we are.”

ARC Circle Workshop

Facilitated by Heather Faris

Circle creates a transition from the mundane to the sacred. It has been used throughout generations as a meeting place, a place where community members come together in equality to speak, be heard and honored in their personal journey. Join me in this sacred circle to learn the process of witnessing – to be acknowledged and to acknowledge others in a deep and respectful way.

On this evening we will:

• Create space to have our inner world witnessed
• Learn and practice the process of witnessing
• Deepen awareness of Self while in relationship to others
• Utilize group energy to support us in our individual process
• Explore symbols to give form and acknowledgement to our personal journey (inner world)
• Engage process work in a non-linear way through creative projects (using various mediums)

Pre-requisite: Essence of ARC or ARC-Talk Workshop
This class will run in conjunction with The Journey to Consciousness Program. Themes will be loosely tied to the concurrent ARC class. It is not necessary to be currently enrolled in the Journey to Consciousness Program to attend this evening.

Duration: 2.5 hours

Authentic Relationships: An Exploration of Transference

Transference is about relating to another as if they were someone from your past. Although it is part of the human condition it inhibits us from being authentic with others and more importantly, our selves. Jo-Ann Svensson will show in this evening presentation how to transform this every day human dynamic into a tool of self empowerment. Through experiential self-reflection and discussion she will demonstrate how to identify when we are in transference and what tools are needed to get ourselves out of it.

Duration: 2 hours