Rising toward Higher Consciousness
Our Core Mission
To raise the collective awareness to solve the mental and emotional suffering to make the world a better, healthier and happier place for ALL people.
Our Purposeful Existence
To share our self-empowerment tools and techniques that we have developed over the last 15 years with the individuals, couples and groups of people, such as aspiring coaches, therapists, leaders, parents, and teachers and more, who are on the path of personal growth and dedicated and willing to make a positive impact in the world.
Our Humble Beginnings
The Rise 2 Realize Institute was founded by Arda Ozdemir in November 2024 due to the request of his clients and students who wanted to learn his unique 5-step Power Method so that they can guide their family, friends and future clients toward an amazing life that they started to experience after using Arda’s teachings. Since then, it has grown exponentially, attracting many participants to our free group events, workshops and retreats.
Our Philosophy
We believe that every ONE has the capacity and potential to live a joyful and fulfilling life.
Our role is solely to facilitate a positive shift through sharing our empowering techniques with individuals, couples and groups so that they can find their OWN answers to the meaning and purpose of their life and make their OWN conscious decisions to break free from their negative drama cycles and limiting life patterns and become UNSTUCK.
Our Inspired Vision
We would love to see every ONE live their full potential!
This vision translates to a life full of joy, love, happiness and fulfillment PLUS meaning and purpose!
We are dedicated to offer our transformative empowerment tools and techniques for free-of-charge so that everyone can benefit from them.
We want to equalize the opportunity to receive help in the field of mental and emotional wellness across the globe.
Our State-of-the-Art Framework
We are proud to provide multi-dimensional emotional mastery and self-realization guidance with advanced self-empowerment techniques, which include self observation meditations, emotional mastery protocols, effective communication strategies and non-dualistic practices.
Our framework, based on the 5-step Power Method is designed to awaken every ONE to their full potential and help them claim the control of their life for an amazing journey toward self-discovery, purpose and meaning.
Our Experienced Team
Elizabeth Ouellette, President and Chair of the Board
Elizabeth provides coaching for individuals and couples, helping them navigate and regulate intense emotional reactions through self-awareness, emotional mastery, and effective communication strategies. Utilizing the transformative Power Method, Elizabeth equips her clients with practical tools and techniques to thrive in every phase of life. Whether overcoming personal barriers, fostering stronger relationships, or managing chronic pain to enhance quality of life, Elizabeth’s coaching empowers her clients to achieve lasting growth and fulfillment.
With a master’s degree in counseling psychology from Sophia University and 20 years as board member and non-profit patient advocate for the Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association (CMTA). Elizabeth is a trusted ally, guiding her clients toward balance, growth and fulfillment.
Yao Zou, Secretary
As a lifelong explorer, Yao is inspired to seek the truth and beauty of life and the world. Her journey started with pursing her Ph.D. in Physics to understand the external world. Motherhood brought her to the internal world of ourselves and intricate interactions of mind, body, and spirit. Through the practice of life coaching, Yao expanded her awareness of the connection of our inner and outer world. She has found alignment, integration and wholeness, bringing her to the path of wellbeing and self-actualization.
As a Certified Professional Coach by the International Coaching Federation, She feels humbled to have guided many of her clients through their journey of self-discovery to their path of healing, growth and transformation. Yao resonates with the vision of Rise 2 Realize Institute and is honored to serve as the Secretary on the board.
Arda Ozdemir, CFO and Treasurer
As a former finance executive in Silicon Valley, Arda embarked on his own personal transformation journey when he was looking to heal his chronic health issues, including depression and anxiety. His quest for personal healing led him to a series of explorations in wellness practices and ancient studies. This journey awakened him to his calling to guide others out of their mental and emotional suffering toward a life full of joy, fulfillment and meaning.
After 15 years of coaching over 6,000 clients, Arda has decided to share his tools and techniques that he developed over the years with public, and offer his teachings free-of-charge at group workshops. Arda’s mission in founding Rise 2 Realize Institute is to solve the mental and emotional suffering in the world and work together toward advancement of the collective consciousness to create better, healthier and happier lives.
Our Unique Approach
Rise 2 Realize Institute lies in the intercept of traditional therapy and life coaching, because we believe that the mental, emotional and physical states are integral part of human existence - and they are NOT separable!
What a client experiences today is a result of their past, as well as of their internal thought patterns and their external circumstances, which form their subconscious internal programming. As a result, our tools and techniques offer a thorough integration of mind, body and spirit, so that our clients connect their past, present and future.
We have experienced over and over again that, only through this integration, our clients achieve their highest potential and actualize their ultimate happiness - a life with meaning, purpose and grace.
Your Future, Your Life
Register today at any of our free classes, workshops or retreats and join the growing number of people who experience True Happiness and become their Real Self!