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.

What You’ll Experience

• Reflect Deeply: Step back from daily pressures to reconnect with your own social and emotional needs, deepen your self-awareness, and explore how well-being truly looks and feels for you as a leader.
• Learn Core Principles: Gain insight into the universal social and emotional needs that support connection, safety, and belonging for everyone in your school community.
• Build Practical Strategies: Develop tangible leadership practices to support your wellbeing as a leader and create conditions that prioritize social-emotional health for staff and students alike.
• Connect with Peers: Engage with other school leaders who share your challenges, fostering mutual support and new perspectives.

Agenda

Day 1
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
1 November 2025

Reset to Prioritize Wellbeing

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
8:30 AM – 11:30 AM
2 November 2025

Designing Meetings that Meet Adult Wellbeing Needs

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.

This isn’t just about self-care, it’s about leading in a way that sustains you and those you serve.