The Arc Institute

Overview

Seattle, Washington

The ARC Institute is a school of consciousness. "ARC" stands for A Return to Consciousness. The ability to "return" is a crucial tool for sustaining our inner power.

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Description

We cannot hold the conscious state every moment of every day. Life is made to challenge us. ARC training provides the tools for developing the dynamic inner resources to experientially "feel" imbalance as it occurs and then, learn how to return, regain and hold full and expanded awareness. A Return to Consciousness is the rediscovery of a creative living that offers greater choice, balance, compassion and inspiration.

At ARC when we speak of consciousness we mean opening up to an experience of full awareness in all aspects of life. It means living with greater clarity, so we don't become overwhelmed and distracted by day-to-day living. In this way, we are able to make decisions without being overly influenced by our past, or based on unfounded worries about the future. Consciousness is an experience of being fully present - of being in the Now! Consciousness is living our authentic strength and power.

When we return to consciousness we experience physical, emotional, mental and spiritual tolerance to stress, and thus disease. This leads to healthier living, fuller relationships and career changes that reflect our innate passions.

Each of the programs The ARC Institute offers is designed to deepen and nurture the journey to consciousness.

Continuing Education Opportunities include:

Annual Summer Workshop: An annual summer workshop designed to introduce the student to the latest in ARC health-care approaches, current research, and BodySpeak™ for personal growth and professional development.

Master Classes: ARC students receive support in their development and approach to BodySpeak™. Participants are given the opportunity to work on selected clients for a few minutes each under the supervision of ARC's founder, Pietro Abela. Using the formats of discussion, demonstration, instruction, and analysis from video-taping sessions, Pietro demonstrates the options and approaches that could be applied in the session, giving guidance on the development of practitioner timing and the use of BodySpeak™ to enhance client process.

Supervised Sessions: ARC Practitioners give an ARC session with either a client of their choice or a client chosen for them while under the supervision and guidance of ARC’s founder, Pietro Abela. At the session’s end, the practitioner receives extensive verbal and written feedback. Feedback includes recommendations and support for the practitioner’s next steps for their personal and professional development.

Personal Mentoring: A personal session by phone or in person with Pietro Abela to discuss professional or non-professional client case studies, the practitioners' approach, techniques, and moments the practitioner may have lost Presence due to transference or counter-transference issues.

Session Viewing: The student observes Pietro Abela giving a professional session to a client (with client consent).

“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

“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

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Instructor(s): Pietro Abela

Instructor Bios: Pietro Abela is the founder and visionary of The ARC (A Return to Consciousness) Institute. He is a master ARC therapist, and a distinguished teacher, mentor and workshop leader. He directs The ARC Institute in partnership with his wife, Melanie.

Pietro began on his path as a healer through his experience of teaching music in his early twenties. His colleagues often commented on his natural ability to communicate with his students. He guided them to learn from their own experiences and express their unique talents, skills and musicality. Through composing music, he learned to express deep authenticity, which prepared him to do the same in his healing work years later. Today, Pietro is widely known for his ability to help both students and clients express their unique gifts, abilities and passions.

Pietro was first attracted to the healing arts as a profession in 1986. He completed a two-year certification program at the Khalsa Health Institute in Seattle, WA, where he learned to assess physical conditions using kinesthetic techniques. In the process he discovered that he had a gift for energetic work. He began an intentional path of study and research on the physical manifestation of energy and emotions. This path led him to study with many well known individuals in the energetic health field, including Barbara Brennan and Rosalyn Bruyere. In his experience as a student, he saw ways that energetic healing could be taught more efficiently. He noticed a need for techniques that would allow the innate healing abilities of both clients and students to emerge. He also felt that increased supervision and mentoring would greatly benefit students.

When Pietro entered private practice in 1990 as an energy bodywork practitioner, he found that many of his clients expressed their inner emotional issues through the manifestation of physical symptoms. To address this, he pioneered a form of non-linear dialogue, which accessed the source of problems through re-structuring the client's emotional organization. Pietro's dialogue techniques were designed to dovetail with energetic bodywork, and going directly to the emotional core. Pietro's clients found that inner obstacles were removed more quickly than with traditional therapy, and that their personal life goals and desires were more readily realized.

Many of Pietro's clients began to approach him to learn his healing techniques. This led to the development of the Energy Dynamic Health and Self Care Program in 1994 and the opening of The ARC Institute with his wife Melanie in 1999. The ARC program initially attracted students interested in becoming Certified ARC Practitioners. However, other features of the ARC program have attract many students who are primarily interested in self-growth and personal development

The ARC Institute has continued to evolve under the guiding light of Pietro's vision, artistry and compassionate response to human needs. He is currently working on a book, A Return to Consciousness. Pietro maintains a busy private practice in Canada and the United States. He travels internationally with his wife, Melanie, giving presentations, classes and workshops for The ARC Institute.

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