Emotionally-Safe Relationships Course
Course Highlights
- Expert Guidance: Benefit from Rita Marie’s extensive expertise, experience, stories and guidance throughout the course.
- Enhanced Skill: Gain confidence in your ability to create emotional safety with yourself, your relationships and your groups.
- Practical Applications: Use Connection Practice Boards to navigate conflicts constructively. Learn how to create and sustain emotional safety in diverse settings.
Prerequisites
To enroll in this course, you must complete the Inner Wellness for Success Course. This foundational course prepares you for the advanced concepts covered in Emotionally-Safe Relationships.
Who Should Attend?
This course fulfills the second prerequisite for entry to the Connection Practice Coach Certification Course. The only step remaining is two hours of mentoring. Whether you’re aiming to enhance your professional credentials or deepen your personal practice, this course sets the foundation for your coaching journey.
Meet the instructor
Rita Marie Johnson
Educator, author, and award-winning innovator, Rita Marie Johnson has been sharing her wellness skill worldwide for over 20 years. In 2024, she was named 1 of 10 Most Promising Women in Healthcare and Wellness by Global Healthcare Magazine.
She discovered a synergy between empathy and insight that maximizes social-emotional intelligence, eliminates unnecessary suffering and leads to life enriching choices. This epiphany resulted in the Connection Practice, which transforms confusion into clarity and conflict into connection for people of all ages and all walks of life.
Rita Marie’s implementation of the Connection Practice in Costa Rican schools earned her the Ashoka Changemakers Innovation Award: Building a More Ethical Society, chosen from 79 projects in 32 countries. She has certified over 300 Connection Practice Coaches and Trainers, who have taught it to over 100,000 individuals in more than 20 countries. Her book Completely Connected: Uniting Our Empathy and Insight for Extraordinary Results won a Nautilus Award in the Psychology category of Better Books for a Better World and is an Amazon bestseller.
Rita Marie taught the Connection Practice for credit at the United Nations University for Peace, a graduate school for international leaders. In addition, she brought the Connection Practice to professionals at Stanford, Harvard and Minerva Universities.
A seminar leader and keynote speaker, Rita Marie has presented in the USA, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Europe and Central America, Some highlights include:
- Women in Leadership Summit at Stanford
- INCAE Business School (considered the Harvard of Latin America) for the Annual Reunion of Rectors and Deans of Latin America
- Central American Leadership Initiative (CALI), a think tank sponsored by the Aspen Institute
- Global Summits for Ministries and Departments for Peace
- Rotary International Peace Through Service Conference
- Peace Alliance Conference in Washington DC.
In 2006, Rita Marie and her nonprofit, Rasur Foundation International, initiated a bill in Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly to establish a Ministry for Peace. It passed in 2009. Now this Ministry for Peace serves as a model for other countries to replicate.
Johnson is an Instructor in Executive Education and an Advisory Board Member for the University of California Santa Barbara Extension, Professional and Continuing Education (PaCE), Women in Leadership Certificate Program.
Registration
Join us and take a game-changing step towards a more connected, empowered and successful life. Spaces are limited, so act now to secure your place in this transformative course.
Course Details
- Date: April 12 (Online), April 19 (In-Person at Quizur, Costa Rica)
- Time: 9AM to 5:00PM Pacific Time
- Duration: 8 hours (includes a 30-minute meal break)
- Investment: $247 USD
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