Leadership through Self-Care

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Leading Through Self-Care

Harvard Thinking Routine: Beauty & Truth

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INTRODUCing

Moving Mediation

Digital awareness

Let's be real

constant notifications, endless scrolling, and nonstop updates can leave us feeling overwhelmed and disconnected. It’s hard to focus, reflect, or even breathe when our minds are always online.

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Today we will step away with

INTENTION

and reflect using a Harvard Thinking Routine called, "Beauty & Truth"

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Overview

Your group will choose one of the following:

• walk around the lake
• walk around the track
• walk to the store (teachers, please supervise)
• walk around your building
• sit quietly near the lake

While participating, use your senses to observe your surroundings.Afterward, reflect using the Beauty & Truth thinking routine.

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The goal

to go off-Grid

fully present in the moment, noticing your surroundings, sensations, and thoughts without judgment.

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Let's Go for a Walk

There are a few rules:

• You can only talk with your friends face to face
• You have to look for beauty in nature
• Listen to the sounds of outside
• Breathe in the fresh air

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After your walk let's

REFLECT

using a Harvard Thinking Routine called, "Beauty & Truth"

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Understanding Beauty & Truth

How might beauty conceal truth when filtered through social media or digital edits?

Can I find truth in this moment of quiet, connection, or reflection?

How might beauty reveal truth when I’m fully present?

Can I find beauty in what I see, hear, or feel when I’m not distracted by notifications or screens?

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why does this matter?

Taking breaks TO CONNECT—is leaDING THROUGH CHANGE. When we pause, we build emotional awareness, clarity, and the kind of reflection that helps us grow into thoughtful, grounded leaders.

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Thank you

When you give a boring presentation, you only hear the snores of your audience and there's so much text that there's no room for even a single image.

A presentation is NOT WOW when it's boring and you see the drowsiness taking over your audience because no one has understood anything.

Do it your way, but use this space to include a quote, highlight a relevant fact, or emphasize a specific idea you want to underscore.

Use images in your presentation

Visual content is a cross-cutting, universal language, like music. We are able to understand images from millions of years ago, even fromother cultures. We perceive visual content better. Visual content is associated with cognitive and psychological mechanisms. Things enter through the eyes, the first image is the one that counts. We associate visual content with emotions. Our brain is prepared, from a biological point of view, to process visual content. Almost 50% of our brain is involved in processing visual stimuli.

When you make a WOW presentation turn interactivity and animation into allies and only hear applause.