Inner Wellness for Success Course
Transform Your Life with the Inner Wellness for Success Course
Unlock the secrets to a more fulfilling life with our exclusive Inner Wellness for Success online live and in-person course. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the essence and benefits of the Connection Practice® directly from its creator, Rita Marie Johnson. In this immersive course, you will learn the science behind this skill and then experience the power of this proven method. Through engaging breakout sessions, you’ll cultivate a profound sense of empathy, unlock the secrets of inner wisdom and build authentic connection with yourself and others.
Why Join This Course?
In just 8 hours, Rita Marie will lead you step-by-step, and you will:
- Learn the Practice of Connection: Identify feelings and needs efficiently, laying the foundation for enhanced empathy and satisfying interpersonal relationships. This is vital training for adults seeking to improve their communication skills.
- Achieve Heart-Brain Coherence: Discover the power of harmonizing your heart and brain to tap your inner wisdom reservoir and access a profound insight.
- Develop Essential Social-Emotional Skills: Acquire a simple, efficient path for regulating emotions, nurturing self-awareness, and fostering deeper connections with yourself and others.
Experience hands-on learning
The Inner Wellness for Success Course features hands-on learning with unique magnetic boards. These Connection Practice Boards guide you through a challenge. You will visually identify feelings and needs and follow the steps to gain an insight and choose an inspired action. This is the most efficient tool you will find for personal transformation. The Boards are included in the course materials.
While the Boards are essential, using the optional Inner Balance App or emWave Pro can enhance the experience. These tools offer real-time feedback on heart-brain coherence, resulting in consistent emotional regulation and stress reduction. Although not required, these technologies can support you in achieving your goals.
What You Will Gain
By the end of this course, you will be equipped with a lifelong skill to help you:
- Find release from negative feelings simply and quickly
- Navigate emotional complexities with confidence and authenticity
- Practice coherence to achieve your highest brain function and greater access to intuition
- Prevent conflicts or resolve them peacefully
- Strengthen your spiritual and emotional intelligence
- Foster stronger personal and professional relationships
- Enhance your overall success and well-being
This course is a prerequisite for the Emotionally-Safe Relationships Course, and both are requirements for entry to the Connection Practice Coach Certification Course.
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 the first 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
- Format: Live online course
- Date: January 10, 2026
- Time: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Pacific Time
- Duration: 8 hours (includes a 30-minute meal break)
- Investment: $397 USD
Included in the course:
- Connection Practice Boards (shipped to participants)
- Connection Practice Core Manual (downloaded)
Join a Connection Practice Retreat and Tour of Beautiful Costa Rica
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