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Simple Mindfulness Activity Lifts Awareness - Come To Your Senses

Simple Mindfulness Activity Lifts Awareness - Come To Your Senses is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.

Under 5 minutesTIME
Pairs, Small group (4-8)GROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
In personSETTING
High cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Learning Transfer This reflection and learning exercise strengthens Learning Transfer, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. Gather your group to sit in a circle at their desks or find a space on the floor.
  2. Announce that you will soon lead them through a brief exercise to help them reflect on the present moment using their five senses.
  3. Facilitate the activity step by step (as guided by the script) making adjustments according to the needs of your group.
  4. Conclude the meditation by gently inviting your group back.
  5. If desired, invite your group to reflect on their experience in pairs or as a group.
  6. Come To Your Senses Simple mindfulness activity to reduce stress & anxiety.
  7. Come To Your Senses offers a structured group well-being activity that naturally reduces stress and anxiety.
  8. The exercise is a simple mindfulness activity that helps participants develop greater self-awareness and emotional regulation skills.
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Prompts to use +

Gather your group to sit in a circle at their desks or find a space on the floor.

Announce that you will soon lead them through a brief exercise to help them reflect on the present moment using their five senses.

If desired, invite your group to reflect on their experience in pairs or as a group.

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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Simple Mindfulness Activity Lifts Awareness - Come To Your Senses. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Gather your group to sit in a circle at their desks or find a space on the floor.; Announce that you will soon lead them through a brief exercise to help them reflect on the present moment using their five senses.; If desired, invite your group to reflect on their experience in pairs or as a group.; . Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

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  • Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Playmeo; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Playmeo.)
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  • No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
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