Product Description

Step into spring 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

Agenda & Materials

• 12:30pm - 12:40pm

  Welcome and Introduction

  Panel
  
• 12:40pm - 12:55pm

  The Science and Benefits of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion

  Panel
  
• 12:55pm - 1:05pm

  The Lawyer Brain and Why Mindfulness Is Important for the Legal Profession

  Panel
  
• 1:05pm - 1:15pm

  The Practice of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion

  Panel
  
• 1:15pm - 1:35pm

  Body Scan

  Nina Farber, Boston College Law School , Newton Centre
  
• 1:35pm - 1:40pm

  Breakout Room Discussion

  Panel
  
• 1:40pm - 1:50pm

  Stress Response

  Panel
  
• 1:50pm - 2:05pm

  Break
• 2:05pm - 2:20pm

  Mindfulness Practice

  Bernardo Gustavo Cuadra, Esq., Office of the Attorney General Nonprofit Organizations/Public Charities Division , Boston
  
• 2:20pm - 2:35pm

  Interpersonal Mindfulness (Clients, Colleagues, Adversaries and All Relationships), Mindfulness Competence

  Panel
  
• 2:35pm - 2:50pm

  Role Play - React/Respond

  Bernardo Gustavo Cuadra, Esq., Office of the Attorney General Nonprofit Organizations/Public Charities Division , Boston
  
• 2:50pm - 3:00pm

  What is Self-Compassion

  Panel
  
• 3:00pm - 3:15pm

  Loving Kindness Practice

  Panel
  
• 3:15pm - 3:30pm

  Integrating Mindfulness and Self-Compassion into Busy Lives

  Panel
  
• 3:30pm - 4:30pm

  How to Incorporate Mindfulness into Daily Life

  Panel
  

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.

Chair

Faculty