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Mindfulness for Lawyers

Half-day, intensive immersion into the science and practice of mindfulness

  • Product Number: 2180235P01
  • CLE Credits, earn up to:
    4 substantive credits, 0 ethics credits CLE Credit Note
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    Rescheduled from 01/05/2018 to 01/19/2018

    Accomplish your New Year’s resolution by improving your life with a mind in balance workshop for cultivating resilience, focus and well-being in your law practice. A recent article in the Harvard Business Review makes the case that mindfulness is a “must have” for professionals “to keep our brains healthy, to support self-regulation and effective decision-making capacities and to protect ourselves from toxic stress.” Join the Chicago Bulls, LA Lakers, Google, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, ABC’s Dan Harris and thousands of doctors, lawyers, teachers and other professionals around the globe who practice mindfulness to reduce stress and increase focus, optimism, complex thinking, resilience, effectiveness, and overall health and well-being. 

    Mindfulness is an essential foundation for thriving in and sustaining a satisfying legal career and for increasing the capacity to meet the inherent stressors and challenges of a busy law practice and life. In a paper entitled “Building Better Lawyers at Every Level” (2012), the ABA Section of Litigation collected various competency models in response to legal market forces and the need to increase efficiency, cost effectiveness and value to the client. Primary among those competencies was resilience. Mindfulness is the key ingredient in resilience, enabling lawyers to cope with daily hassles, challenging circumstances and uncertainty, and to adapt after experiencing stressful life events. 

    In this half-day workshop, you hear about mindfulness and how it relates to the legal profession. You also have the opportunity to experience various mindfulness training practices and learn how to integrate them into your life and work so you can be more focused, more balanced, and more resilient.

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    Agenda & Materials

    • 1:00 - 1:15 pm

      Taking Stock

      Brenda J. Fingold, Esq., Brown Mindfulness Center, UMass Medical Center, and Mindful Leader , Providence
    • 1:15- 2:05 pm

      The Science and Benefits of Mindfulness

      Brenda J. Fingold, Esq., Brown Mindfulness Center, UMass Medical Center, and Mindful Leader , Providence
    • 2:05-2:55 pm

      Reacting v. Responding to Stress and Challenge

      Brenda J. Fingold, Esq., Brown Mindfulness Center, UMass Medical Center, and Mindful Leader , Providence
    • 2:55 - 3:15 pm

      The Practice of Mindfulness

      Brenda J. Fingold, Esq., Brown Mindfulness Center, UMass Medical Center, and Mindful Leader , Providence
    • 3:15 - 3:35

      Interpersonal Mindfulness (Clients, Colleagues, Adversaries and Relationships Generally)

    • 3:35 - 3:45 pm

      Guided Mindfulness Experiences

      Brenda J. Fingold, Esq., Brown Mindfulness Center, UMass Medical Center, and Mindful Leader , Providence
    • 3:45 - 4:00 pm

      Integrating Mindfulness Into Busy and Fast-Paced Lives

      Brenda J. Fingold, Esq., Brown Mindfulness Center, UMass Medical Center, and Mindful Leader , Providence
    • 4:00 - 4:50 pm

      Networking and Refreshment Break

    • 4:50 - 5:00 pm

      "Ask the Experts" Q&A Session

      Brenda J. Fingold, Esq., Brown Mindfulness Center, UMass Medical Center, and Mindful Leader , Providence

    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. They are posted 24 hours prior to the program and can be accessed, downloaded, or printed from your computer.

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    Brenda J. Fingold, Esq., Brown Mindfulness Center, UMass Medical Center, and Mindful Leader, Providence
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