[ 2012, Rita Schellenberg, Ph.D., LPC, NCC, ACS, all rights reserved ]
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Dr. Rita Schellenberg, LPC, NCC, DCC
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Cultivating Performance
Cultivating Performance provides brief preventative and responsive services to enhance
performance. Below is a list of services provided to schools and to companies who work closely with
school-age populations.
performance. Below is a list of services provided to schools and to companies who work closely with
school-age populations.
- stress, fear, and fatigue management
- relationships and team work
- personal and/or interpersonal issues poisoning performance and climate
- relating and responsibility for promoting creativity in self and others
- mediation and conflict resolution
- clashing values and beliefs
- performance anxiety
- motivation and attitude
- competence and confidence
- physical and psychological demands of performance
- environmental/reality acceptance
- sleep disruptions
- coping strategies (including coping with success)
- developmental issues
- assessing comfort levels with expections/roles
Cultivating Performance services specifically for schools are generally programming based,
including professional development workshops and topic-specific small groups for school counselors
and educators. Areas of focus include:
- professional, ethical, and legal issues related to counseling minors in the schools
- strategies for improving student performance
- recruiting and hiring highly qualified counselors
- anti-bullying strategies and peer mediation programming
- forms and tools for accountable school counseling practices
- strategies for aligning the counseling program with mission of the school
- aligning the school counseling program with the 2012 ASCA National Model
- preparation for state and national credentialing exams (also click on Resources tab)
- stress management for educators and school counselors
- crisis prevention and intervention
- transition programming
Potential benefits of counselor-facilitated consulting services by Cultivating Performance:
| Public and Private Schools |
Performance-driven Industries
- establish the company as one that
recognizes and values the unique needs
of minors, attracting top performers and
building parental support.
- mediate personal, social, and emotional
issues that impede production and
adversely impact individual performance
and quality of company production.
- provide a caring environment that
promotes safety and creativity.
- identify issues early and take swift action
for the least interference with production
and production schedules.
- address developmental, psychosocial,
and emotional needs of culturally
diverse children and adolescents.
- reduce reliance on substances that
often negatively impact performer well-
being, performance, and create costly
production delays.
- provide interviews to identify potential or
existing obstacles to performance.
- reduce potential risk of legal issues
related to school counselor lack of
action or inappropriate action.
- reduce student disruptive behaviors and
incidence of bullying with research-
supported strategies.
- Implement culturally sensitive strategies
for low-achieving and advanced
functioning students to promote
universal and optimal academic
achievement.
- Implement culturally sensitive strategies
that identify promising students, who are
not meeting their potential--the invisible
chiid.
- reduce school-wide violence and conflict
with research-supported peer mediation
programming.
- develop interview questions for hiring
highly qualified school counselors.
- introduce school counselors to forms
and tools to guide accountable practices.
Cultivating Performance: services are provided to children and adolescents at the request of
companies who work with this population and/or parents of those children and adolescents. My goal is to
provide prevention/intervention that restores well-being to the child or adolescent, keeping the company
on track or getting the company back on track using a substance-free, brief, solution-focused approach.
Areas of focus include:
companies who work with this population and/or parents of those children and adolescents. My goal is to
provide prevention/intervention that restores well-being to the child or adolescent, keeping the company
on track or getting the company back on track using a substance-free, brief, solution-focused approach.
Areas of focus include:
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