Previous Year's Chapel Talks

Keep on Learning: A talk about living your life in pursuit of knowing more than you already do and pushing those around you to do the same.

Sixth Form Reflection: Reflecting on some of the important life lessons The Hill School has taught me, and our responsibility as graduates to share and apply those same lessons with the world around us.

Love Your Flaws: Through out out life we constantly put ourselves down and let others control us. We bully ourselves instead of loving our insecurities and flaws. 

Truth-shattering: Learning to accept multiple truths as a means of understanding each other better.

Letting Go: Sometimes we have to let go of the old in order to step in to the new

Happily Ever After: A talk on learning to love ourselves when we don't live in a fantasy world. 

17,280 frames:  Mr. Lehman shares his personal experience making a stop-motion animated film in college and how extensive planning, painstaking execution, and resilience can be the key to “doing it right,” even in a pandemic.  

Who Inspires You?: What I learned from inspiring people who stand for something bigger than themselves.

Just Care: A talk about shifting our mindset from apathetic to empathetic and passionate.

Embracing my Voice: A talk on accepting your imperfections and appreciating the strengths they give you. 

Empathy: Empathy is one of the most important qualities that we, as a society, heavily overlook. A testament to its ability to allow us to make connections, create relationships, and add purpose and meaning to our lives.

Celebrating Inclusion Week: Celebrating Inclusion Week and remembering that there is strength in unity and the experiences of women.

Balancing: Dealing with embarrassment and learning how balance the anxiety that comes with it.

Choosing to Win: Life offers breaking points, and we need to determine if we let those cripple our forward movement or embolden us to rebuild our foundation through honest, painful, and empowering introspection.

Embracing the Quarter-Life Crises: A talk on identity and what defines you at this moment. Your identity will change, but embracing these identity crises are what make us who we are.

A Story I Never Dare to Share: How food became a problem and how I faced it.

The Grace of Effort: How we can gain strength from learning to take ownership of our own skills and confidence.

Letting Go of Control: Everyone has a part of their life they hold on to for control which holds them back or creates unnecessary stress and obstacles. This chapel talk is about how I learned to learn to live my life to create lasting memories.

Heroes Among Us:  How ordinary people do extraordinary things, and what their heroism can mean in our own lives.

Summary of Evolve Beyond What is Expected of You: Instead of asking why you deserve Hill, ask yourself why does Hill deserve you?