Modeling What Matters Workshop
Modeling What Matters: A Two-Day Wellbeing Experience for School Leaders
International School Of Nanshan Shenzhen
Saturday & Sunday, November 1 and 2, 2025
Prioritizing well-being is essential for school leaders, but modeling it authentically is hard when you're caught in common but unsustainable habits. Modeling What Matters is a two-day wellbeing experience designed to help you pause, reflect, and reset your leadership practices. Through guided reflection, peer connection, and practical strategies, you’ll learn how to release draining patterns, lead meetings that support adult wellbeing, and create a school culture rooted in trust, balance, and belonging. This isn’t just about self-care, it’s about leading in a way that sustains you and those you serve.
This is not just about self-care. It’s about releasing the habits that drain you and embracing a leadership style that sustains both you and those you lead, creating the conditions for everyone in your community to flourish.
Registration price is $475 for ACAMIS members and $575 for non-ACAMIS members.
Workshop Outcomes
By the end of this two-day experience, you will:
- Have clarity on how to center wellbeing in your leadership and interactions, without burnout or overwhelm.
- Understand the social and emotional needs that underpin wellbeing for yourself and the adults you lead.
- Be equipped with practical strategies to design meetings that foster connection, trust, and psychological safety.
- Feel renewed and empowered to lead wellbeing initiatives that model what truly matters, creating healthier, more connected school communities.
Program Agenda
This program is divided into 2 days, day 1 (Saturday) will start at 8:30 and finish at 16:00, while day 2 (Sunday) will start at 8:30 and finish at 11:30.
Day 1 - Reset to Prioritize Wellbeing
Overview:
Step away from the daily pressures of leadership to reconnect with your own social and emotional needs. Reflect on well-intended but draining habits that may be getting in the way of your well-being. Gain insight into the universal needs that support sustainable leadership and develop practices that restore balance, build connection, and align your leadership with your values. Join a community of peers who understand your challenges and leave with practical tools to lead wellbeing authentically and intentionally.
Day 2 - Designing Meetings that Meet Adult Wellbeing Needs
Overview:
Building on your personal reset, turn your attention to leading with care. Explore how to shift everyday routines, like meetings and check-ins, from sources of pressure to opportunities for connection, trust, and belonging. Discover how meeting design can become a tool for building the supportive, thriving culture your team deserves.
Speaker's Biography
Kristine Mizzone
Career: Consultant, Collaboratory Consulting, LLC. / International School Counselor Association / The College of New Jersey
Kristine Tesoriero Mizzone is an educational consultant who supports schools in the areas of social and emotional learning (SEL) and organizational and middle level leadership. Additionally, Kristine works with the International School Counselor Association (ISCA) as their Learning and Development Coordinator.
Recommended Hotel
Atour Hotel (Shenzhen Nanshan Vanke Yuncheng)
Address: Liuxin 1st Road, Phase 5, Vanke Cloud City, Xili Street, Nanshan, Shenzhen
深圳南山区西丽街道西丽社区打石一路万科云城五期泊寓公寓
Prices: Estimated price of 500 RMB.
Note:
Hotel is within 5km from the host school.