Start the new year with tools and strategies that can improve your life and cultivate greater resilience, self-kindness, focus, and well-being.
In this half-day workshop, you hear about mindfulness and self-compassion and how it relates to law firms, legal services organizations, judges, and law students. You have the opportunity to experience various types of mindfulness and self-compassion practices, both formal and informal, and learn how to integrate them into your life and work so you can be more present, focused, balanced, and resilient.
Mindfulness provides new ways to respond to the inherent complexities of a busy and fast-paced career, and supports people in living life more fully, with greater ease and joy.
In this half-day workshop, you hear about mindfulness and self-compassion and how it relates to law firms, legal services organizations, judges, and law students. You have the opportunity to experience various types of mindfulness and self-compassion practices, both formal and informal, and learn how to integrate them into your life and work so you can be more present, focused, balanced, and resilient.
Mindfulness provides new ways to respond to the inherent complexities of a busy and fast-paced career, and supports people in living life more fully, with greater ease and joy.
Course Content
12:30pm - 12:40pm- Introductions/Overview/Brief Practice
- The Science and Benefits of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion
- The Lawyer Brain and Why Mindfulness is Important for the Legal Profession
- The Practice of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion
- Mindfulness & Self-Compassion for Lawyers: Body Scan
- Laureen M. Cappello, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, PC, Boston
- Breakout Room Discussion
- Mindfulness & Self-Compassion for Lawyers: Stress Response
- Break
- Mindfulness Practices
- Bernardo Gustavo Cuadra, Esq., Office of the Attorney General Nonprofit Organizations/Public Charities Division, Boston
- Interpersonal Mindfulness (Clients, Colleagues, Adversaries and Relationships Generally), Mindfulness and Competence
- Mindfulness & Self-Compassion for Lawyers: Role Play - React/Respond
- Bernardo Gustavo Cuadra, Esq., Office of the Attorney General Nonprofit Organizations/Public Charities Division, Boston
- Mindfulness & Self-Compassion for Lawyers: What is Self-Compassion?
- Mindfulness & Self-Compassion for Lawyers: Loving Kindness Practice
- Tracey Meyers, Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers, Inc., Boston
- Integrating Mindfulness and Self-Compassion into Busy and Fast-Paced Lives
- How to Incorporate Mindfulness into Daily Life
- Please Note
- MCLE webcasts are delivered completely online, underscoring their convenience and appeal.
- There are no published print materials. All written materials are available electronically only.
Speakers
Chair- Tracey Meyers, Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers, Inc., Boston
- Laureen M. Cappello, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, PC, Boston
- Bernardo Gustavo Cuadra, Esq., Office of the Attorney General Nonprofit Organizations/Public Charities Division, Boston
