The Connection Mediation Course
The Connection Mediation Course offers an innovative approach to resolving conflicts and deepening interpersonal connection and communication. This course is designed for individuals who want to enhance their mediation skills or who want to resolve conflicts for themselves. It includes five, 90-minute modules taught by experienced mediator, Rita Marie. Participants learn to slow down communication, express compassionate honesty, and restore relationships.
Why Take This Course?
Misunderstandings can lead to disconnection and conflict. The Connection Mediation Course provides a step-by-step process for slowing down conversations so both individuals can express authentically, feel heard, and get insights that help resolve the conflict. Here are the key reasons to enroll:
- Enhance Communication Skills: Learn to communicate more effectively in the face of conflict.
- Develop Compassionate Honesty: Shift from judgmental interactions to compassionate, honest dialogue.
- Restore and Strengthen Relationships: Use mediation to rebuild and deepen connections between conflicting parties.
- Promote Inner Peace and External Harmony: Cultivate gentleness toward yourself and others, reducing internal and external conflicts.
- Positive Influence and Leadership: Learn to operate from inner connection to positively impact others and create a more harmonious world.
Prerequisites
Before beginning this online course, you must complete the prerequisites that lay the foundation for your learning journey. There are two options: Either two live, online courses (Inner Wellness for Success and Emotionally-Safe Relationships) or one self-study course, (The Connection Practice). Learning the basics prepares you to fully benefit from our advanced courses.
Maximize Your Learning Experience
Course Overview:
Week 1: Slow Down – Take Time to Connect
Learn how to communication more slowly and thoughtfully to allow connection and healing. Rita Marie demonstrates how this helps in everyday interactions and dialogues on painful issues. You will see firsthand the impact of mindful communication.
Week 2: Moving Toward Compassionate, Courageous Honesty
Focus on transforming judgments masquerading as feelings into honest expressions. Rita Marie demonstrates “stand-up honesty,” teaching participants to express their truth fearlessly and kindly.
Week 3: Restoring Connection
Discover the Connection Mediation process. Rita Marie demonstrates how mediation using empathy and insight restores and deepens connection. This innovative approach takes the dynamics of mediation to a new level.
Week 4: Gentle with Self; Gentle with Others
Address “jackal” thoughts and judgments of oneself and others. Learn how to be gentle with yourself and to encourage this gentleness in others. Rita Marie offers mediation exercises to reinforce these concepts.
Week 5: Get Connected; Change the World
Join Rita Marie and other trainers in exploring how inner connection can influence and inspire others. Hear stories of growth and impact. Celebrate with others how the Connection Practice is creating a more connected and peaceful world.
Join the Movement
The Connection Mediation Course gives you the skill to resolve conflicts between others in a way that will leave them uplifted and more connected. By slowing down, using empathy and insight, and practicing compassionate honesty, you will positively influence others personal and professional lives. Enroll now to be part of a dynamic movement creating a more harmonious world.
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
Register now for lifetime access to the course.
- Investment: $85 USD
Upon completing your registration, you will have immediate access to the course. If you have any questions, please email info@connectionpractice.org.
Purchase Self-Study Bundle
Register for lifetime access to all three self-study courses (Parts 1, 2, and 3)! Bundle includes The Connection Mediation Course plus:
CP1: The Connection Practice (details here)
CP2: Connection Path (details here)
- Investment: $240 USD
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