Completely Connected by Rita Marie Johnson

Uniting Our Empathy and Insight for Extraordinary Results

Everything Changes When You Know How to Connect

Stunning in its simplicity, revolutionary in its impact, Completely Connected is the profound made practical. It’s not just about connecting with others, though your relationships will never be the same. It’s not just about connecting with yourself, though that’s where it all starts.

Inside Out, Bottom Up, Top Down and All Around

This uniquely powerful skill unites heart and brain, empathy and insight, and your inner life with the outer world. Doing so builds social-emotional intelligence, a valuable asset in living a productive, joyful, engaged life.

From personal relationships to the business world – to teaching kids how to be contributing members of society – Completely Connected guides you through the essentials of being human.

In this book, Rita Marie Johnson shares the Connection Practice and its impact. Read about this unique method for connecting with ourselves and others that is supported by scientific research and testimony from people around the world.

You’ll discover how to:

Achieve maximum brain function for greater creativity and performance
Resolve conflicts quickly and effectively for a safe, productive environment
Release negative baggage and boost confidence and self-esteem
Promote collaboration and a sense of belonging in teams and groups
Integrate your inner strengths and find practical answers to living in the world

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Completely Connected is an Amazon bestseller:
#2 in the Conflict Resolution & Mediation category
#5 in the Communication & Social Skills category

Recipient of the national Nautilus Award in the Psychology Category of Better Books for a Better World

Press Release

Rita Marie Johnson, Rasur Foundation International CEO, Receives Prestigious Nautilus Book Award for Completely Connected, A Guide to the Prevention of Violence

GILROY, Calif., June 14, 2016 – Rasur Foundation International, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching a social-emotional skill for a more connected world, announces that its founder and CEO, Rita Marie Johnson, has won an esteemed Nautilus Book Award for Completely Connected: Uniting Our Empathy and Insight for Extraordinary Results. For 18 years, Nautilus Book Awards has recognized Better Books for a Better World, books that promote conscious living, positive social change and spiritual growth as they stimulate the imagination to new possibilities. Selected from hundreds of 2015 book submissions, Ms. Johnson’s book won a Silver award in the Psychology category.

“In light of the horrific events that plague our society, from vicious bullying to acts of terrorism, I hope my book will open a dialogue about how unnecessary suffering can be eliminated through the social-emotional competence of the Connection Practice,” said Bay Area resident, Rita Marie Johnson. “Many people throw up their hands and feel helpless in the face of violence, which is a symptom of disconnection. The Connection Practice efficiently builds the skill of connection, as we have witnessed in the United States and other countries like Japan, where they recently published my book in Japanese. Isn’t it time that we looked at the deeper problem and solved it through this innovative, scientifically verified method?”

The Connection Practice, a scientifically based social-emotional method developed by Johnson, has already impacted over 100,000 students in Costa Rican schools, supported by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, President Oscar Arias. Now close to 150 trainers have been certified and thousands of adults in the United States and other countries have engaged in the practice. Eileen Rockefeller, an author and philanthropist – who was an early supporter of social-emotional learning in US schools – has endorsed the method as “a much-needed, simple and effective approach.”

The prestigious Nautilus Book Awards honors books that inspire and connect our lives as individuals, communities, and global citizens. Conferred to prominent authors such as The Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra, Thich Nhat Hanh, Charles, Prince of Wales and Desmund Tutu, Nautilus Book Awards winners are selected in a three-tier judging process by experienced teams of book reviewers, librarians, authors, editors, book store owners, and leaders in the publishing industry.

About Rasur Foundation International

Rasur Foundation International (RFI) envisions a world where generational pain is transformed into generational peace. Through coaches and trainers certified by RFI, the Connection Practice is spreading rapidly in schools, businesses, nonprofits and in faith-based communities worldwide.

Testimonials

What They Say

Peace among human beings is a difficult goal to achieve because of our passions and prejudices. Combining empathy and insight, as Rita Marie Johnson proposes in this book, is a valid and proven way to improve human relations.

In Completely Connected Johnson draws from scientific evidence and her extensive personal experience to produce a work that is eminently readable and convincing. This is transformative learning at its best and makes a vital contribution to peace theory, education, and action. People of all ages and walks of life are offered a skill that transcends polarizing win-lose approaches to conflict.

In these times when marketing pro-grams tell us what we should want, entertainment tells us how we should feel, and technology is increasingly replacing human interactions, it is crucially important that we all have explicit instruction on managing our inner lives and developing positive connections to others. Rita Marie Johnson's model, the Connection Practice, adds a much-needed, simple and effective approach to our Social-Emotional Learning toolkit.

Completely Connected is brilliant, authentic and potent. Rita Marie Johnson puts leading edge theory into groundbreaking practice and offers us a medicine that is both soulful and acutely relevant

If more people followed this path, we would have a more peaceful, just and humane world. Completely Connected should be required reading for all our school children, who will soon be the future leaders in this country.

Organizations need people who know and are comfortable with themselves and are able to understand and relate to others. This book delivers the tools for people to do exactly that.

The book catapults readers into a new level of personal empowerment through a marriage between who they were before experiencing the Connection Practice and who they will inevitably become after learning it.

This amazingly effective technique dramatically transforms relationships — not only those between people, but just as importantly the relationship with ourselves. It is a quantum leap in turning our impossible conflicts into meaningful, fulfilling connections

When parents, educators, heads of state and federal government, and those that aspire to become world leaders read this book and practice its tools, war will be a thing of the past and hunger won't have a home.

I've always had a vision of peace being possible in this world, but have felt helpless in finding a tangible way to move towards this goal. I now see a way this can happen by supporting one person at a time to learn this practice. This book has inspired me to get more involved in growing this within my community?

Before the Connection Practice some conversations were real struggles that seemed to escalate emotions and misunderstanding. But after being on the receiving and delivering end of these techniques, my wife and I were able to foster compassion and understanding in very difficult areas in our lives. I highly recommend the book "Completely Connected" to anyone that wants to improve their relationships.