Open-Hearted Communication

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Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Is communication a challenge for you? Do you communicate from your head or your heart? Join ARC (A Return to Consciousness) founders, Pietro and Melanie Abela, at the Church of Truth on Wednesday, October 12 from 7:00-8:30 PM for a presentation and discussion about Open-Hearted Communication. Learn how to recognize the unconscious language that lies beneath everyday conversation. Discover how subtle body language influences word choice. Using ARC Bodyspeak dialogue, the Abelas will help audience members learn to ask questions that invite safe, intimate and authentic communication. The Church of Truth is located at 111 Superior Street in Victoria, BC. Call 1 (800) 719-4272 for more information. www.thearcinstitute.com

One of the main things to be discussed in Open-Hearted Communication, Pietro Abela says, is how �when we communicate from our heads, we are expressing what we think, or our opinion, while when we communicate from our hearts, we are more clearly expressing what we feel.� Through the principles and practices of Bodyspeak, audience members will be introduced to a non-invasive communication process that successfully re-trains emotional patterns that may influence physical conditions and limit one's life choices. Open-Hearted Communication is open to everyone, including health care professionals, or anyone wishing to learn a communication method that can further personal growth, while supporting healthy relationships to friends, family and co-workers. �Bodyspeak can help anyone converse in a safe, nurturing way,� Melanie Abela added, �and when used in a healthcare practice, can deepen the client's healing.�

When Abela was a schoolteacher 16 years ago, he began paying close attention to his students' overall behavior, specifically, their eye movements, and soon found that when he adapted his language around these movements, the students more readily and easily understood, and truly heard, what he was saying. Thus began Abela�s development of Bodyspeak, one small example of which is posing questions that connect the speaker to the listener�s senses�if a student looked sideways while speaking, for instance, Abela might ask the student what he/she was hearing in that moment; if the student looked upwards, he might ask her/him what he/she was seeing.

Being an �active listener� and paying close attention to the listener�s body language, including eye movements and behavioral body rhythms, is important to good communication and Abela describes how, when working with clients, he notices any changes in rhythms as the client speaks, particularly noting when an �emotional charge� presents itself in the conversation. �As a health care practitioner, I don�t need to know what the emotional charge specifically means, but I do formulate questions around that issue and follow the emotional process that presents itself to me in conversation with the client.� As �open-hearted communicators,� Abela says, �we can be open to what is truly being said to us, rather than searching out for, or trying to listen to, what we think we hear.�

The ARC Institute is a school of consciousness based in Qualicum Beach, BC. ARC teaches physical, emotional and spiritual care for oneself and others by means of workshops, classes, presentations and therapeutic sessions. Since its foundation in 1994, The ARC Institute has dedicated itself to the support and development of high quality education in health-care and personal growth. It is with this objective in mind that ARC continues to present its programs throughout the United States and Canada. www.thearcinstitute.com