High Praise for

10 Steps to Create Your Own Positive Communication Environment
by Ruth Lindeck Forman, M.A.
 

"This book has the most honest, down-to-earth information on communication that I have read. It transcends all barriers and encouraged me to walk the talk. This book is a must for everyone!"

Gail Henderson-Peter, R.N.
Director, Medical Group Training
Kaiser Permanente

"This enlightening book is an outstanding, training and teaching guide and resource. As a mentor teacher for the Los Angeles County Office of Education, I use this book for role playing and group work activities with teachers, principals and administrators. They have responded with such enthusiasm that they are adopting it in their language arts, effective education and multicultural curriculums. It is also a useful tool for conflict resolution especially for at-risk and gang prevention/intervention strategies."

Cedric Anderson
California Teacher of the Year 1996

"Medical education has many deficiencies. This book is an excellent remedy for one of them, our inability to communicate and educate ourselves and our patients."

Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.
Author Love, Medicine & Miracles

"Your soul touched my soul through a BOOK! Your book has helped me with the most demanding part of my life--my family. It has given me the tools to look adolescence squarely in the face with hope and humanity and the insights to heal and restore relationships. Thank you!"

Colleen Rosenthal
Photographer

"Your book reaffirmed things that I knew, things that I had forgotten, and things I promise never to forget again."

Lou Whitley
Vice President of Human Resources

"This book is chock full of nuggets which are food for our minds and souls. It is a book that I go back to often to recharge my batteries when they need recharging, and it helps me connect myself and my students to the 'CREATIVE MAGIC' within each and every one of us. The text has been carefully crafted and purposefully designed for the multicultural reader. It is truly on the 'CUTTING EDGE' for human-kind's march into and for the new millennium."

Richard F. McCormick
Teacher

"I keep your book at my desk and use it as my 'Communication Bible.'"

Mara Slavin, Communications Director
United States House of Representatives

"From a personal and humanistic viewpoint, I loved your Book! The insights it offers are easy to grasp and use to achieve the inclusion for all perople into our society. I highly recommend this book to everyone who believes in a just democracy."

Blenda J. Wilson
Higher Education Leader

"The message in your book is important, timely and powerful. Your insights and reflections about why communication can be ineffective are direct and eye-opening. You capably translate the complex mechanics of communication into a language and skill form that anyone who is seriously interested in positive communication can learn and apply in their daily interactions... The inclusion of a spiritual level in this process, spiritual in the most positive and inclusive sense, is evidence that you speak not just from the mind, but from the heart as well, and therein lies the key to the work - balance.

History has shown us time and again that conflict, unresolved, often ends in violence which is no resolution. Your book provides a powerful tool toward rectifying the breakdown of communication and I hardily recommend this book to those in search of solutions on a personal and global level."

Michell Kendall
Community Relations Manager
National Book Store

"Your book is one of the most meaningful books that I have read. Unlike so many that are so clinical, yours is written at such a basic level with honesty and heart. I call it my Bible. It is a great source of nourishment and discovery. What a powerful tool! Thank you for what you have given us."

Leona Randall
Sales Assistant

"Your book captures the essence of communication and is grounded in a spiritual reality."

Charles Garfield, Ph.D., Author
Second To None and Peak Performers

"The basic principles in this book have practical applications that teach students how to govern themselves. They learn daily life skills so that they have the ability to interact positively with people of diverse ethnic, cultural, religious and multigen erational backgrounds."

Sandy Osborn, Golden Bell Teacher of the Year 1996
Los Angeles County Office of Education

"In this changing environment with new partnerships being formed, personal, traditional communication methods are challenged. Transformations in communication style become necessary to being an effective leader. This book helps me critically analyze my traditional methods and develop a strategy for change to improve communication."

Susan Acquisto, M.S., R.N.
Partner, Professional Health Services

"Thank you for the concept of the 'hand-dome.' It is a powerful explanatory tool that helps me understand why differences can seem threatening. Because of our individual 'hand-dome,' we perceive and process things differently. Our perceptions become ou r realities, and we act accordingly. Unfortunately, we do not always act in a spirit of tolerance. I often return to the image of the 'hand-dome' for understanding and tolerance."

Jim Dias, President
Intercom, Management Consultants

"The communication gap is probably the number one problem in the world today! Your book should be a Bible for all people. Thanks so much."

John T. Loehnert
Former Mayor, Bexley, Ohio

"Like the wave's return to the ocean, Ruth Forman's Communication Is Connection shows us that authentic communication takes place when there is connection to one's source and when there is no division between one's thoughts, one's words and one's actions. This is an excellent book."

Stan Levy
Rabbi, B'nai Horim - Children of Freedom

"As life unfolded and I became a wife, mother and professional, I lost my sense of purpose and value. The ideas in this book are powerful! They continually help me to rediscover who I am and empower me with better communication. This has positively aff ected my entire life. Thank you!"

Debra Fisher
Wife, Mother, Cosmetologist, Paramedical Make-up Therapist

"I had listed communication as one of my strengths. I now know that I knew very little about communication, just a lot about talking. . . Instead of noticing the differences in people, I now look for the commonality you describe. This is invaluable in enhancing personal and professional relationships. Your book provides the tools that could surely lead to a more peaceful and productive society."

Regina Stuart, Owner
Stuart Consulting

"As a medical center Chief of Audiology and Speech Pathology Service for 26 years, I am keenly aware of the influence that a positive communication environment has on both personal and professional success. All of us, regardless of our cultural backgrounds, can benefit from guidance in enhancing our interactions with others. That is why I find your book so compelling and helpful. Your book is technically accurate, spiritually uplifting and very readable. Successful communication always springs from your own source--your soul. To the extent the individual can enhance and maintain their 'source-connection,' life on this planet will become more worthwhile and fulfilling. Communication is the essence of humanness and some thoughtful contemplation on how to make it better is welcome. Thank you for a fine book."

Wayne R. Hanson, Ph.D.
Chief of Audiology and Speech Pathology Services
Department of Veteran's Affairs Medical Center

"Communication Is Connection is a practical, insightful guide to effective and supportive communication with patients. The skills that this book enhances are essential to developing and maintaining a successful medical practice. It is a great asset for practice building and personalized patient care."

Lawrence May, M.D.
The Best Doctors in America®

"If I possessed one book, Communication Is Connection would be my choice as a guide for an enriched existence."

Kevin James
Artist - Music Teacher

"It was with great excitement that I read your book, Communication Is Connection. You have taken a serious and timely topic and have made it both interesting and fun. In my own professional experience as a psychiatrist, I too have come across many people who are travelling down somebody else's path in life, not their own. Unfortunately they do not realize it and so they go through life carrying the feeling that "something is missing." That something is their own unrealized passions. Your thoughts about 'source-connection' are very powerful and hit home.

Your book has sparked ideas in my mind that I have used as a professional motivational speaker to give audiences the tools they need to be more successful in both their personal and professional lives. I highly recommend your book to them."

Liane Colsky Ozer, M.D.
President, Ozer Presentations

"I gained new insights into the way people from other cultures communicate and techniques and tools to develop a trust with them. In that trust, doctors, nurses, residents, patients and families and I know that problems are solved and needs are met, redu cing frustration and anger and promoting positive feelings. My 'source-connection' helps me stay calm, centered and focused even in the most difficult situations."

Danielle Buzzarte, R.N.
Discharge Nurse

"Thank you so much for sharing your fabulous book with our Impact Plus group... Our students will learn much from your 10 Step program. It is a great resource for our race-relations/cross-cultural relations group."

Carole Donahue
Impact Coordinator, Impact Plus Leadership Training
El Camino Real High School
U.S. Academic Decathlon National Champions, 1998

"During my two years serving as Resort Manager for the Five Diamond Four Season Resort Novis, located in the West Indies, I often referenced Ruth's book for its cross-cultural content. In fact, I found it to be so helpful, it is now used by many of the local managers and expatriate managers as they strive to improve their cross-cultural skills."

Mark Tamis
Executive Assistant Manager
Four Seasons Hotel Newport Beach

"Communication is Connection is an insightful digest of principles and information necessary to people who desire to excel at communicating. As an attorney I am engaged in a profession which requires and rewards communication skills. I find it fascinating that my formal legal education which addressed substantive law, legal writing, and routinized forms of legal advocacy never focused on your important concepts... Thus I found your material quite relevant for the legal professional."

James R. Hickey
Attorney at Law

"Ruth Forman has convinced me to continue to learn more about my students, colleagues and myself, find my 'source-connection,' and teach from my heart. Her methods are unique and practical, and she provides many outstanding examples and interpretations from her vast experience in the field of multicultural communication."

Barbara J. Kaplan, MAOM
Department of Pathology
University of Southern California

"Your book helps me rediscover myself and provides me with valuable tools to be a more effective communicator."

David Cohan, MBA
Senior Reimbursement Consultant