The Journey to Consciousness Program
Class One: Phobia and Addiction | Class Two: The Art of Creative Resistance | Class Three: ARC-Talk | Class Four: The Process of Integration | Class Five: The Ties that Bind | Class Six: A Return to Consciousness
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The Path of Integration is a visual model taught in The Journey to Consciousness program that sheds light upon the mysteries of the personal growth process. It clarifies your growth process helping you to understand the behaviours, resistances and break-throughs that are a natural feature of each stage of the inner growth process. It even allows you to predict some of your growth features ahead of time.
The Journey to Consciousness Program follows the Path of Integration. On the “Path” you see and experience personal growth in action. You learn how to stay on top of resistance, understand how sabotage is an indicator of growth rather than failure, how freeing emotional expression can prevent the need for disease, pain and discomfort and discover why forgiveness of yourself inevitably leads to authentic forgiveness of others. As you negotiate each stage, increasingly you experience the freedom and power of conscious awareness and Presence. You bear witness to the manifestation of a conscious lifestyle on all levels.
The Journey to Consciousness classes are designed to support the unique path of your personal growth process. At the same time they teach you valuable skills to support others in their own growth as professional and non-professional caregivers.
One of the main tools used throughout this program to ensure permanent change is ARC-Talk. ARC-Talk helps establish non-invasive communication between yourself and your physical body. It successfully challenges, negotiates and re-trains the emotional patterns that directly limit your life’s choices and keeps you unfulfilled.
ARC-Talk can be used as an adjunct to your personal growth. It can also be easily combined with any other bodywork or therapeutic modality. Adding ARC-Talk to a healthcare practice allows the caregiver to converse with the client before, during and after a session, in safe, nurturing ways. The client’s experience is clarified and deepened. As well, the caregiver learns how to gently and safely talk about the emotional patterns that may be contributing to a client’s physical lack of well being.
Caregivers also learn how to intricately follow emotional process. They discover the relevance of unconscious language and how to form questions based both on the story that is presented as well as the unconscious information the client provides. This is a fascinating study that provides a window into seeing what lies beneath a person’s surface behaviour opens the door to communicating needs that often go unrealized and unheard.
Some of these skills are accompanied by energy work. The form of energy work ARC teaches is a natural outcome of inner Presence. An ARC caregiver has the option of applying them either in a one-on-one sitting format or as bodyworkers, with the client lying fully clothed on a massage table. All skills can be applied personally and for the support of family, friends and professional clients.
Participants typically experience significant personal change during this program. People leave with a greater sense of Presence and well-being, alongside greater clarity and the ability to make choices leading to greater fulfillment in all areas of their lives.
The Journey to Consciousness: Class One
Phobia and Addiction
This class opens the door into denial, the first stage on the Path of Integration. We learn how every issue in the personal growth process starts out at a stage of denial. We discover the difference between external blame and the willingness to take self-responsibility. Becoming responsible and dedicated to our own personal growth journey is the only road to influencing and guiding others to change.
This leads us into an exploration of the energetic, emotional and spiritual aspects of addictive and phobic behavior. Adapting the mindfulness techniques learned in previous classes, we learn to elicit information regarding personal history, emotional associations and lifestyle that can result in phobic or addictive behavior. Participants develop the communication skills to gain greater conscious awareness of the underlying threads and themes beneath phobia and addiction within themselves and others. These communication skills are combined with meridian balancing techniques to release and resolve phobic and addictive behaviour.
Sample Topics:
- How to access personal history, emotional associations and lifestyle that impact phobias and addictions
- An overview of Chinese medicine and its systems of meridians
- Recognizing emotional charged issue from presented unconscious information and 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
- An overview of Chinese medicine and its systems of meridians
The Journey to Consciousness: Class Two
The Art of Creative Resistance
Research hints that longevity and health is a reflection of our ability to adapt to change. We all resist change, but few realize the power resistance has in our everyday lives. Resistance is the next stage on the Path of Integration.
Most of our resistance is active beneath our conscious awareness. This class teaches a dynamic model that allows us see our resistances in action. We define the reasons why resistance has such power. We learn that resistance is creative energy that was originally designed to keep life familiar and generally risk-free. Participants of this class learn the tools to identify, negotiate and eventually overcome resistance to give you the experience of being in charge of your life. When this creative energy is re-directed, resistance becomes an active support towards change and fulfillment in our personal relationships, careers, desires and ambitions.
This class also explores the concept of healthy leadership. Discover your own innate healthy, authentic leadership. As you uncover your resistant trends, your healthy leadership will naturally emerge.
Personal growth and change should be natural, gentle and sensitive to the timing of each individual. Join us and learn to invite healthy change into your life.
Sample Topics:
- The connection between resistance and anxiety around survival
- Reasons resistance is created in our early years
- How resistance serves to limit and contain our lives
- Ways to recognize and respond to resistant behaviours
- Discovering your inherent leadership skills
- ARC-Talk techniques to support emotional change
- Leadership Meditation: an experiential discovery of your Authentic Self
- Techniques for changing the role of defense parts
- Making choices for personal fulfillment
The Journey to Consciousness: Class Three
ARC-Talk: Dynamic, Authentic Open-Hearted Communication
A cornerstone of ARC teachings is how stress and emotional issue directly influences the occurrence of pain, discomfort and physical well-being. This class presents the reasons why emotion becomes a symptom. In the third stage on the Path of Integration, we explore how healthy emotional expression may prevent the incursion of physical issues. Learn the value of developing healthy relationship with your emotions, and how healthy emotional expression may prevent physical pain and discomfort.
In a study of anger we learn to identify the difference between rage and healthy anger expression. A relationship with anger leads to greater vitality, increased motivation, and profound resistance to the effects of stress that can lead to disease. Participants are introduced to the three foundational concepts of ARC-Talk: Pacing, Contact and Creative Questioning. These concepts are demonstrated and practiced to support personal inner change as well as improving the caregiver’s ability and effectiveness working with others.
Sample Topics:
- Recognizing activated emotional areas from unconscious body language
- Deepening Presence to create an inner receptive state
- Using Presence to identify emotional issues within conversation
- Providing ARC-Talk questions and dialogue to support inner change
- Utilizing the ARC model to nurture the expression of fear, grief and anger
- Learning the foundational communication techniques of Pacing, Contact and ARC’s Creative Questioning
- How to journey alongside your clients: recognizing and following personal timing for change
The Journey to Consciousness: Class Four
The Process of Integration
When resistance is being actively addressed, and emotional expression is healthier, we enter the next stage of the Path of Integration, on our journey to consciousness, the Process of Integration. Integration is where we begin developing relationships with the various parts of our emotional system. For example, instead of our anger being an emotion we avoid, it becomes an ally for stronger, flexible boundaries or greater motivation and vitality. Or, a relationship with our creativity may stimulate us towards ideas and insights that have the potential of financial reward. An integrated emotional system is one where there is trust and communication within the system, where all parts of ourselves are actively working in cohesion towards greater goals for better health, fulfilling relationships or abundance in our lives.
ARC-Talk is a key to the integration process. ARC-Talk is a simple, non-invasive communication tool that gently, safely and successfully re-trains our emotional patterns into roles that are supportive for our present needs. There are eight communication steps inherent to ARC-Talk. All eight steps are introduced, studied and their applications demonstrated in detail. Under the guidance and supervision of the teaching staff, participants receive personal guidance in the practice of ARC-Talk both on themselves and on others.
We invite you to join us in a deeply satisfying inner exploration in one of the core classes on the Journey to Consciousness.
Sample Topics:
- Introducing “Part’s Dialogue,” an important self-communication tool in the Process of Integration
- Learn the Mountain Meditation: a tool to support the process of integration
- Identifying unconscious language and its influence in the use of the eight ARC-Talk steps
- Emotional Mapping to clarify your own or a client’s personal process
- The value of following a person’s process versus the value of challenging the process
- How and when to name limiting behaviour to accelerate the movement towards greater consciousness
- The Path of Integration: a tool to understanding the process of personal and spiritual growth
- Working with one’s personal style and gifts in therapeutic health care
The Journey to Consciousness: Class Five
The Ties that Bind
On the fifth stage of the Path of Integration we explore relationships, co-dependent behaviors and forgiveness. Participants partake in self-study to identify the many forms and variants of co-dependency that may be prevalent in our day to day lives. As well as emotional-based co-dependency, participants uncover the energetic ties that still bind us to unhealthy relationships. Unhealthy relationships may be ones that were once unfulfilling and energy draining, or the current relationships that no longer serve us. Students are shown the way to detach from these ties and curtail the energy loss that can result from them.
This class has a shamanistic and spiritual flavor to it. Participants are introduced to such ancient self-cleansing and self-restoring practices as the Recapitulation Method. We define the nature of forgiveness, and see how forgiveness can become a justified way to avoid confrontation and necessary emotional expression. Forgiveness is a state of grace and a spiritual process of completion.
This class teaches an effective yet gentle, safe method to support the process towards greater forgiveness – and how to arrive at the inner knowing that we have ultimately done our very best.
Sample Topics:
- Identifying co-dependence activity in your life – past and present
- Learning the Recapitulation Method to detach from energy draining relationships and to gain inner freedom
- Exploring the relevance and safety incurred from having personal boundaries
- The importance of timing in detaching unhealthy relational cords
- Understanding the ARC Path of Integration as a map for guiding the journey to consciousness
- Forgiveness: Discerning if it is a state of grace, or a distraction against unresolved issue?
- Applying the techniques from this class to oneself and as caregivers with clients
The Journey to Consciousness: Class Six
A Return to Consciousness
In this final stage of the Path of Integration and the last in The Journey to Consciousness, the whole of the program is reviewed with particular emphasis on topics which participants identify as needing further clarification. Two new dynamic ARC-Talk techniques are introduced. Each skillfully identifies specific qualities of body movement to challenge or support the emotional system. These techniques are effective “short-cuts” to emotional balance, release and integration.
The class is interwoven with a series of discussion groups that focus on being in service in all aspects of our lives: in our careers, as parents, friends and caregivers. Discussions are held on transference and how to recognize when transference is colouring personal or professional relationships. In a supervised setting, students are given the opportunity to give ARC sessions to members of the community who have been chosen by faculty members. Finally, there is a ceremony and the presenting of certificates to celebrate the completion of the program.
Sample Topics:
- Review of ARC Program topics with topics chosen by students needing deeper clarification.
- Two ARC-Talk techniques that succeed in by-passing emotional resistances.
- Becoming comfortable with the inherent uncertainty of emotional process
- Discovering your personal relationship with service, and how you wish to be in service in your life
- Identifying aspects of transference and counter-transference in personal and professional relationships
- Refining ARC caregiver skills through staff supervision and support
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