What is CP1?
CP1 is the first course in the Connection Practice self study series. It offers a simple, practical method that helps you pause, connect with your emotions and need, access heart – brain coherence, and receive an insight for your next step.
Instead of staying stuck in emotional reactions, CP1 helps you move quickly into empathy and insight and leads you to compassionate actions and wise decision making.
Rasur Foundation International (RFI) is a nonprofit dedicated to spreading the Connection Practice globally.We envision a world where people discover positive solutions to challenges,
connect peacefully with each other and celebrate life.
Module 1: What is The Connection Practice?
Understand the foundation of the practice and how to combine empathy and insight.
Module 2: Empathy
Learn what empathy is, what isn´t, and how it support emotional safety.
Module 3: Insight
Learn the science of heart-brain coherence and how to access a heart-brain insight.
Module 4: The Synergy between Empathy and Insight.
Discover how uniting empathy and insight leads to wisdom.
Module 5: Creating Emotionally-Safe Relationships.
Learn how to express yourself honestly, deepen connection, and navigate conflict.
What You’ll Learn in this Course
- Learn the science behind each step of the Connection Practice.
- Gain clarity on what empathy is—and what it isn’t.
- Learn the science of heart-brain coherence and the steps to accessing a Heart-Brain Insight.
- Learn how to create emotional safety, express yourself honestly, and deepen connections.
- Understand why compassion needs wisdom and vice versa.
Benefits from taking the Connection Practice (CP1) Course:
- Reduce stress quickly
- Release negative emotions
- Open your intuition to attain the answers you need
- Sustain emotional balance
- Resolve conflicts creatively and peacefully
- Accelerate your personal growth
- Gain a skill that improves your daily experiences and will likely add years to your life
Testimonial
Thank you, Rita Marie, great job on creating the Self-Study Course! You and your team did an excellent job with the content, flow, etc.
It is clear, impactful, and engaging.
Your continued mission, dedication and commitment to bringing
Peace to our world will have a huge impact!
Peggy Anderson, CP Coach/Trainer
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.
Register for lifetime access to all three self-study courses
(Parts 1, 2, and 3)!
Bundle includes:
CP1: The Connection Practice (details above) – Go here (Find a Coach or Trainer link) and search on “Self-Study” to find a CP1 Coach.
CP2: The Connection Path (details here) – Go here (Find a Coach or Trainer link) then select (Trainers), then select (Search for Level 2).
CP3: Connection Mediation (details here) – Go here (Find a Coach or Trainer link) then select (Trainers), then select (Search for Level 2).
- Investment: $240 USD
Bonus
As a token of our appreciation, purchasing this course comes
with a complimentary digital copy of Completely Connected.
