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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The Gateway Classes

Healing Begins with Presence

The Gateway classes are ARC’s introductory courses. Personal Presence is the cornerstone of all of ARC’s classes. In each of the Gateway classes, participants receive extensive teaching, supervision and guidance in opening to and sustaining Presence in everyday life. Healing begins with Presence. It is the foundation and starting point for all of the various teachings and techniques taught in the Gateway classes.

Participants must take one Gateway class as a pre-requisite to enter The Journey to Consciousness Program, The Healing Presence Program or the Traveler’s Guide to Presence Program.

Join us on the first steps on the journey to self-fulfillment realizing your passion and purpose.

The Essence of ARC

(16 classroom hours)

Join Master teacher and founder of The ARC institute, Pietro Abela, on a journey that takes you to the Essence of who you are. Discover your limitations and how to step beyond them!

In this class, you’ll 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. Learn effective hands-on healing techniques for cleansing, release and renewal.

Pietro Abela’s one-on-one supervision and guidance nurtures the emergence of your unique, intrinsic healing gifts. Discover how to share your healing gifts for the benefit of yourself, friends, family or clients.

The Essence of ARC is a conscious step towards healthier living, deeper relationships, and the manifestation of your passions.

Sample Topics:

• Presence as the foundation for developing observational listening skills
• Recognizing and working with the self-limitations
• Identifying states of imbalance and restoring balance in oneself
• The anatomy of energy and expanded sensory perception
• The loss of grounding as an early childhood survival strategy
• How to read unconscious language: use it as a guideline and assessment of health-care approaches
• How to assess and clarify an individual’s overall health
• Learn the Linear Chelation for treating health issues such as disease, physical symptoms, discomfort, stress and mild emotional issues

Personal Presence: Committing to the Path

(One Day)

Presence begins with being present to ourselves. Thus, commitment to ourselves is the first step on the traveler’s path of presence. Learn how to attend to those times when you lose presence. Create a lifestyle where people experience feeling safe with you and are willing to be open with you. Discover how divided attention results in the loss of presence and how conversely focused attention opens the door to safe, intimate relationships. This class is the first step on the path to presence and ultimately getting what you want out of your life.

Sample Topics:

• How to create intimacy in relationships
• Why we lose conscious awareness: The value of knowing how to return to consciousness
• Defining how time stands still and stretches out when we are in Presence
• Understanding the various stages within our personal growth process
• How to make choices that allow us to feel we are in charge of our lives

The Search for Fulfillment: Creating Inner Trust

(One Day)

Attending to self-sabotage is the next step on the Traveler’s Path to Personal Presence. Sabotage has its highest potential of occurring when we commit to change. Too often we give into moments of sabotage. Yet, when sabotage is re-framed, it becomes a reliable informant: telling us when parts of our system feel threatened or wary about our movement towards change. This allows us to directly attend to the needs of those parts of ourselves and create inner trust.

This class teaches how to install inner boundaries for the parts of ourselves that may create resistance on our path to personal growth. Learn how to bring these sabotaging or resistant parts of ourselves on board to create an environment of support, trust and enthusiasm for the personal journey you travel on.

Sample Topics:

• Managing the multiple parts of our ego

• Why survival-anxiety exists beneath many of our coping strategies

• The Importance of developing inner boundaries so that we feel safety, trust and direction in our lives

• Becoming Authentic in all relationships

The ARC-Talk Workshop

(16 classroom hours)

Body dialogue is opening new doors into personal growth and process work. In this class discover how to facilitate emotional release using of unconscious language and learning how to identify the difference between head-talk and body-based communication. Practice the art of creating questions that reach the client’s core issues quickly and effectively while maintaining emotional safety for both your client and yourself. Learn powerful techniques as a caregiver, to retain self-awareness (“Presence”) while following your client’s process. ARC-Talk is a gentle, effective body-based dialogue technique that will take any health-care modality and training to a deeper level.

ARC-Talk participants receive extensive supervision on all ARC-Talk Techniques from the founder of The ARC Institute, Pietro Abela.

Sample Topics:

• Deepening your work as a non-professional or professional health-care provider, teacher or parent by adding simple, supportive communication skills
• Learn how to hold presence while following another’s personal process
• Read and interpret unconscious body language
• Creating questions to support the movement into deeper self-awareness
• Identifying the difference between head-talk and body-oriented communication
• Facilitating emotional release using gentle, effective body-oriented dialogue
• Discover The Linear Chelation technique for treating health issues such as disease, physical symptoms, discomfort, stress and mild emotional issues