About Renita

Renita C. Wellman, M. Sc.

Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Ph.D. Courses Completed Spring 2009
Dissertation Completion Date: August 2010, Walden University
BA University of British Columbia: Dean’s List
MSc Walden University

Research: Leadership and Efficacy in Virtual Teams

· Identifying leadership styles and effective use of computer-mediated communications

· Theory: Social cognitive efficacy theory, group dynamics, positive & humanistic psychology

Working with Professionals

· Professionals have sought out Renita Wellman as a creative catalyst and a positioning consultant.

· Renita specializes in context analysis and has an ability to watch the big picture while focusing on individual development

· Renita uses synthesis and communication of key elements of the life story to prepare for or to follow significant life and career transitions.

· She has supported the success of United Nations leaders, college professors, leaders in ecology and community, award-winning film directors, best-selling writers, television producers, actors, musicians, and international students. She has served as professional advisor to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) leaders and assisted them at international functions in the US and Europe.

Education

Continuous study interests: group dynamics, group development and psychology, multicultural and cross-cultural psychology, leadership development, executive coaching practices, psychological reports, marketing, and successful management.

Creative Pursuits

Renita is an accomplished pianist, photographer, and oil portrait artist who sees the soul.

She has contributed to two best-selling self-help books–each of which sold over one million copies–refining the English translation of Beop Jong’s May All Beings Be Happy and writing “One Small Tear” for the Korean poetry anthology Love Like You’ve Never Been Hurt, both edited by best-selling author and poet Shiva Ryu.

My Path to this Point

I was always interested in science and classical music. My mother studied classical guitar, voice and sang arias. My father listened to classical music radio on Sunday afternoons. My uncle Harold read science books to me at age 3. At age 4, my mother took me to my first ballet.

As a teen, I tutored the neighbor kids in math and I studied and played piano. As a young adult I began to teach a few students who began quite shy and then became astonishingly confident performers. I met Madame Dusi Mura, an internationally known classical music performance coach in Santa Monica. Madame Mura taught me to find the music in all things and nobility in all people. Paul Price–joke-teller and wise healer–mentored me in the art of attunement, a practice of radiant energy somewhat like Reiki. Most importantly, Paul taught me the disciplines of consciousness and to respect the divinity in each one. He showed me how to work with, not against, each one’s energies…including my own.

These lessons in remembering the higher callings of human potentials became a part of my reason for being. My studies in clinical psychology, while instructive, seemed contrary to finding the greatness I sensed in each one. I began to be interested in the interviewing process and how much information each person had about their own life. In 2005, I met Michael White (of Adelaide, Australia) and attended his workshop in trauma.  This built upon my interviewing style. This method opened new doors to me in terms of the potential of the interview to not only gain information, but to transform consciousness very quickly and painlessly.

I now use life narratives to grasp the music, the noble spirit, and the bright energies in each person.