Daring greatly to build wellness and belonging in our schools

March 15 & 16, 2023 @ 8:00am- 3:00pm

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This pre-conference is about Building Belonging Through Courage, Connection, Compassion and Vulnerability. Participants will explore how they can develop this work in their personal and professional lives through growth and understanding about vulnerability and courage building. Using Brené Brown's research participants will use her book and workbook Daring Greatly to become counselor leaders in their schools where they can continue to create an environment of belonging for all stakeholders.  Lessons from the Daring Greatly book and workbook will also be transferable to content that you may share with students, parents, and teachers and that relate to the new ISCA standards. This work is both a personal and professional deep dive so come prepared to work in large groups, small groups, and be creative and vulnerable as you Dare Greatly!

Our time together will be focused on building knowledge, skills and understanding around:

• Vulnerability and courage

• Self-compassion and self-care

• Values clarification and resiliency

• Trust building and empathy

• Shame and perfectionism

• Wanted and unwanted identities

• Creativity and authenticity

Read more about this pre-conference here!

Facilitator: Chrystal Kelly

Chrystal Kelly is a passionately committed educator who has been advocating for students, staff and families through counseling, teaching, coaching, and mentoring for the past twenty years.  She worked in universities with international students early in her career and was a High School Counselor in Colorado for ten years before joining the international school counseling.  She currently works in the beautiful country of Oman.  She is dedicated to helping people and her areas of focus are wellness, grief and loss, safeguarding children, crisis prevention, and transition.  She also enjoys leadership and is a Student Protection, Crisis and Wellness Team Advocate, Muscat School Counselor Group Coordinator, International School Counselor Association Task Force Committee Leader, TCNJ Internship Supervisor and PREPaRE School Safety and Crisis Preparedness Curriculum Trainer.  Chrystal became a Certified Daring Way Facilitator (CDWF) in 2020 and is committed to sharing Brené Brown’s work with the world.

School Counseling Leadership

March 16, 2023 @ 8:00am- 3:00pm 

School counselors are critical leaders in international schools and they are instrumental to meeting schoolwide goals. Beyond the work that they engage in with students, counselors collaborate with the school-wide leadership team, facilitate meetings with teachers, design parent education sessions and present to a wide-reaching audience.  The skills needed for these aspects of the counselor role are often not included in counselor preparation programs. Considering this, along with the fact that international schools are busy places with frequent changes and new initiatives, counselors want to feel prepared with the leadership skills they need in order to create systemic change in their schools.

This pre-conference will focus on building knowledge, skills and understanding around:

• Change Theory and Leadership

• Decision-Making Processes 

• Designing and Facilitating Effective and Collaborative Meetings

Read more about this pre-conference here! 

Facilitator: Kristine Tesoriero Mizzone 

Kristine Tesoriero Mizzone (M.Ed: Educational Leadership; Curriculum and Instruction) is an educational consultant who supports schools as they move from theory to practice by offering personalized consulting services in the areas of: instructional leadership, instructional coaching, action planning, collaboration and team-building processes, professional learning, and leadership skill-building.  Additionally, Kristine works with aspiring school leaders as an adjunct professor for The College of New Jersey and for ISCA as a professional learning director.