ARC Institute A Return to Consciousness

Testimonials

"Pietro and Melanie are the best teachers anywhere. They succeeded in moving us all into a greater awareness of who we are. Everybody should take ARC because it opens you up to each other. It creates a community within you and this extends out to each other.

I cannot say enough about the course and the way they put it together. It’s unlike anything else."

- Jacquie Brock – Retired Nurse

"It's the only method that has been able to lay out for me a specific and logical reasoning behind why change happens when the techniquesare applied. There is no mystery here; this is not based in some airy-fairy, vague concept of "spiritual growth", but rather on a very logical sequence of reactions based solidly in psychological reality. It just makes sense, and all of it is based in a well-ordered system that serves real, lastingchange.

ARC is the only healing technique I have ever learned that actually delivers on its promise: Permanent change."

- Kristen McHenry – Administrator

"Right now, I'd say ARC-work is leading edge. Pietro and Melanie are riding the crest of a very big wave. ARC isone of the most elegant models I've discovered... and I sniffed around and experience quite a number over the past 25 years."

- Madelainne Joss – Pet-Care Specialist

"When I found you, I finally found what I was looking for. The way you have structured your course really fits my learning needs in terms of the continuity from one workshop to the next and the continuous support throughout the course. On top of this, the supports you offer the beginning practitioner are exactly what I need to help me fulfill my dreams of going into business doing the work."

- Ethel Sabbagh – Retired Nurse

"I have been a seeker for 25 years looking for ways to heal myself so that I can fully embrace my life and those whose lives touch mine. I have studied and experienced many different modalities on my journey. ARC is simply the most effective and efficient modality I have ever experienced."

- Melissa Vanry - Designer and Mother of Two

"Pietro and Melanie both have the unique ability to be exceptional workshop leaders as well as personal one-on-one therapists – unlike anyone else I've ever come across. I haven't found anyone that can also combine their one-on-one talents with their workshop abilities. With their profound work you can get your life back."

- Angelique DeNance – Seattle, Washington

"Pietro's integrity is impeccable. He does not waiver from the truth, no matter what is being asked of him. He honors each student, and creates an entirely safe environment, in which each person can fully explore and express all aspects of his or her being. He does this through an inimical blend of deep listening, humor, intelligence and deep presence. He also conveys deep respect for the students and their processes.

What is different about ARC is that the goal is to move the student/client into independence and personal responsibility... It brings about true healing."

- Susan Rosales – Newcastle, Washington

"I do not believe I could have achieved the growth I have had in the last two years without the encouragement, knowledge and loving support I have received through ARC work. Thank you for your kindness, challenges and loving presence."

- April Inness – Workshop Instructor, Practitioner and Accountant

"Pietro and Melanie offer to their students not only what they have researched but what they have lived. Their insight into the challenges of their students not only stem from their work but from their own experiences as human beings. The model they have developed is by far the most comprehensive teaching of human emotional organization and energy dynamics that can be found. It serves to move people forward, no matter where they are in their own personal journey."

- Amy Hanson, Vancouver Island, BC

"What more could one ask for than ways in which we can learn to love ourselves... one often hears "it's all about self love"--sounds simple but it’s not. The work you've shared has helped me to isolate the ways in which i don't love myself. It’s given me an organization and connection to those parts, and now, for the most part i am still figuring out the rest, but it is so much closer... thank you for all of your sharing, insight, time and feedback on the homework and in our many conversations... mainly just thank you for sharing yourselves, you both bring wonderful things to this world."

- Heather Faris - Health Practitioner

"ARC has set me on a path that is expanding my personal growth in every direction, spiritually, emotionally, psychologically and physically."

- Daphne Wilson - Physiotherapist

"ARC has not only helped to create a space within myself to grow and nurture a sense of who I am, but also the courage to be that person."

- Jo-Ann Svensson – Health Practitioner

"Pietro and Melanie are both very innovative - they are always evolving, always working on new ways and methods for being more effective. Both are geniuses at communication. I have seen Pietro in a classroom full of students with wildly diverse learning styles and needs, and he has somehow been instinctively able to understand and work with each student's individual needs until they were able to master the technique or understand the concept."

- Kristen McHenry – Administrator

"ARC practices what it preaches. A return to consciousness IS what actually occurs when in a client/student experience with Pietro.

Pietro knows his material with wisdom and confidence--AND DELIVERS ON IT----a true 21st century sage."

- Angelique DeNance – Seattle, Washington

"An awesome experience to take this course! I feel more present, more aware of my actions and re-actions – can flow more easily over and around the boulders in the stream of my life. Thank you!!!"

- Jacquie Brock – Retired Nurse

"Pietro and Melanie are people and teachers I trust unconditionally. They have amazing skills personally and professionally yet they do not try to hide their fallibility and humanness. They are approachable, they take responsibility for their own words and actions. They are not afraid to say sorry or admit they made a mistake.

ARC offers people complete acceptance as a student and a human being. ARC teaches amazing techniques and concepts for healing oneself and others that really work on a physical and a deep emotional level."

- Anita McHarg – Pre-school Teacher

"Many things make Pietro a great teacher: He is genuine, he really practises what he teaches, he has a sense of humour and doesn't take himself too seriously. he is very much present for the students and aware of subtle shifts in the students, environment and the over-all dynamics of the classroom, he explains abstract concepts in very concrete and understandable terms. he is absolutely committed to the highest standard of excellence in teaching and practice."

- Bonnie Thiessen – Vancouver Island, BC

"With Pietro and Melanie’s support I have learned: In order to change me, I need to become aware and I can change the world by first changing me.

Pietro walks his talk. He is real, he is not striving to be a high and mighty teacher, he shares from his personal history. I admire all of the growth that he has done to come from where he was to where he is now.Trulyinspiring!"

- Robin Maynard-Dobbs – Nutritional Coach

"ARC facilitates the opening of the inner consciousness so we are invited to shine from our own life’s purpose. ARC engenders a deep sense of trust in ourselves, and a trust in human evolution towards lovingly empowered, sensitive, expansive, unity-focused beings."

- Bruce Finlay – Computer Consultant

"Pietro is open to everyone's thoughts and ideas, and brings gentleness and humor to his teaching. What I have learned from ARC that I did not get from anywhere else: a new way of looking at myself and thinking about what I can be."

- Louise Hirasawa, Seattle, Washington

"Melanie is the consummate magician. Her teachings are perfectly complementary and necessary to Pietro’s."

- Fiona Stevenson – Edmonton, Alberta

"This has been an invaluable tool for me to know and love my true self as well as understanding others in their road to wellness/wholeness."

- Carol Engram – Powell River, BC

"ARC has just been mind blowing. it has been so right for me. Nothing has felt more authentic. It realizes the Authentic Self more than anything I have ever tried."

- Theresa Twynstra – Social Worker