THIS MONTH'S FEATURED EDUCATOR
“When They Speak, You hear It In Your Own Language”
Cristin Childres
ZHL Consulting is proud to celebrate Ms. Cristin Childress as the February 2021, "Featured Educator".
ZHL Consulting has created this program to recognize and celebrate the dedicated educators that go above and beyond to educate the future leaders of the world. Once a month we will choose an educator who demonstrates the qualities needed to develop the minds of today’s students.
These monthly Featured Educators are selected with Chengdu as the locus, and radiating out to include Mainland China and the wider Asia Pacific Region. They are recognized on our corporate website, and celebrated on all ZHL Consulting media networks.
Cristin is a warm, passionate, and creative counselor that is dedicated to helping her students and families see more possibilities, realize dreams, and create a life of success and satisfaction that's balanced and value-driven. She has worked in the United States. and now currently in Shenzhen, China.
Cristin also has a business background, previously working for premier brands creating apparel in product management roles. She loved the creative environment and bringing optimism and support to her teammates, but craved deeper meaning and purpose. Through her own life experiences and process of discovery, she fell in love with education, mental health, and kids! From there, the trajectory of her life shifted, as she pursued school counselor education and training. Her unique combination of business and counseling experience has been especially beneficial in education management, programming, and navigating career choices.
Cristin states, "I feel fortunate to have found my calling as a counselor and find extreme joy providing a space and listening ear for others to feel safe and comfortable to be themselves, and allow their voices to be heard. While my approach is playful and trauma-informed my style is heavily influenced by mindfulness, self-compassion, and creative expression."
Cristin currently works at NCIC-Immersion which is a dual language school in Shenzhen, China for Chinese Nationals that uses the Common Ground Collaborative Curriculum framework for learning. In her role as Elementary School Counselor she developed and implemented an ASCA comprehensive school counseling program to reach all students. Helping grow a new school in a foreign country she relied on drive, integrity, and cultural humility for success.
Here are some of her 'Thoughts and Beliefs':
Cristin believes that, "Through creativity, connections with ourselves, relationships with others, and laughter everyone can find their own balanced healthy life. With support and encouragement, I walk alongside students as they connect to who they are, their needs, and the present moment to uncover their problem in a new way, teaching skills and strategies to meet the demands of life."
Cristin says that, "Mindfulness is a skill that can used in everyday life to build stress resilience. While meditation is widely associated with mindfulness I teach students through movement, art, music, and the science of the brain-body relationship."
Cristin is careful to practice what she preaches, "I have a personal daily mindfulness practice and attend silent retreats yearly. From my experience and study I can impart to students a true understanding of the principles and rewards of present moment awareness."
She says, "Classroom Instruction is an opportunity to reach all students and build consistent social-emotional skills. I incorporate classroom-tested tools to safely release stress, regulate the nervous system, express and integrate feelings, and attend to the present moment."
Cristin Childress, ZHL Consulting recognizes and celebrates your excellent work, thank you.
ZHL Consulting has created this program to recognize and celebrate the dedicated educators that go above and beyond to educate the future leaders of the world. Once a month we will choose an educator who demonstrates the qualities needed to develop the minds of today’s students.
These monthly Featured Educators are selected with Chengdu as the locus, and radiating out to include Mainland China and the wider Asia Pacific Region. They are recognized on our corporate website, and celebrated on all ZHL Consulting media networks.
Cristin is a warm, passionate, and creative counselor that is dedicated to helping her students and families see more possibilities, realize dreams, and create a life of success and satisfaction that's balanced and value-driven. She has worked in the United States. and now currently in Shenzhen, China.
Cristin also has a business background, previously working for premier brands creating apparel in product management roles. She loved the creative environment and bringing optimism and support to her teammates, but craved deeper meaning and purpose. Through her own life experiences and process of discovery, she fell in love with education, mental health, and kids! From there, the trajectory of her life shifted, as she pursued school counselor education and training. Her unique combination of business and counseling experience has been especially beneficial in education management, programming, and navigating career choices.
Cristin states, "I feel fortunate to have found my calling as a counselor and find extreme joy providing a space and listening ear for others to feel safe and comfortable to be themselves, and allow their voices to be heard. While my approach is playful and trauma-informed my style is heavily influenced by mindfulness, self-compassion, and creative expression."
Cristin currently works at NCIC-Immersion which is a dual language school in Shenzhen, China for Chinese Nationals that uses the Common Ground Collaborative Curriculum framework for learning. In her role as Elementary School Counselor she developed and implemented an ASCA comprehensive school counseling program to reach all students. Helping grow a new school in a foreign country she relied on drive, integrity, and cultural humility for success.
Here are some of her 'Thoughts and Beliefs':
Cristin believes that, "Through creativity, connections with ourselves, relationships with others, and laughter everyone can find their own balanced healthy life. With support and encouragement, I walk alongside students as they connect to who they are, their needs, and the present moment to uncover their problem in a new way, teaching skills and strategies to meet the demands of life."
Cristin says that, "Mindfulness is a skill that can used in everyday life to build stress resilience. While meditation is widely associated with mindfulness I teach students through movement, art, music, and the science of the brain-body relationship."
Cristin is careful to practice what she preaches, "I have a personal daily mindfulness practice and attend silent retreats yearly. From my experience and study I can impart to students a true understanding of the principles and rewards of present moment awareness."
She says, "Classroom Instruction is an opportunity to reach all students and build consistent social-emotional skills. I incorporate classroom-tested tools to safely release stress, regulate the nervous system, express and integrate feelings, and attend to the present moment."
Cristin Childress, ZHL Consulting recognizes and celebrates your excellent work, thank you.
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