The Soulfull Family: The Connection Practice

Join Cheryl Andrea as she interviews Educator, author, speaker, and award-winning innovator Rita Marie Johnson. Rita Marie Johnson has been sharing her method worldwide for over 15 years. The “Connection Practice” she created brought her the Ashoka Changemakers Innovation Award: Building a More Ethical Society, chosen from 79 projects in 32 countries. In 2004, Rita Marie began offering the Connection Practice in Costa Rican public schools. Now close to 1500 teachers have been trained, impacting approximately 40,000 students each year. Annual evaluations revealed that bullying, intolerance, conflicts, violence and misconduct reports had decreased. Rita Marie also initiated a bill in Costa Rica’s legislative assembly in 2006 to establish a Ministry for Peace and it passed in 2009. www.connectionpractice.org