Tuesday, January 21, 2020 | 9:30 am – 12:00 pm
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Join the City Bar’s newest committee, the Mindfulness and Well-Being in the Law Committee, to discuss how you can improve your practice, enhance your resilience, reduce your bias, enlarge your community, be more self-compassionate, and serve more competently through mindfulness and well-being tools. The New Year always provides another opportunity to improve old habits and introduce new ones. We can spend the time on ourselves and at the same time advance our professional goals because there is ample support that our occupational, emotional, physical, intellectual, spiritual, and social needs should be top priorities for achieving and maintaining our competence as members of the legal community. See The Path to Lawyer Well-Being: Practical Recommendations for Positive Change (2017); see also The Report from the National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being (2018).
This program will discuss how mindfulness and well-being practices are paramount to adhering to our ethical obligations as members of the Bar. Participants will learn how to build better resilience, improve their emotional intelligence, become more inclusive, and cultivate more happiness and gratitude. The program will provide mindfulness techniques, self-compassion tools, loving-kindness exercises, and opportunities to develop better creativity, forgiveness, play, and deep listening skills. A significant amount of the program will also provide an understanding of diversity, inclusion and bias and the skills necessary to reduce it.
Program Fee:
Free for Members | $50 for Nonmembers -
Vaughn Browne
Agency Attorney
New York City Fire DepartmentJordana Confino
Director of Professionalism & Special Projects
Fordham Law SchoolCraig Dobson
Dobson Law LLCBrooke A. Ford
Associate Director
TuneSatWeijin (Gina) Leow
Diversity and Inclusion Manager
New York City Fire DepartmentCecilia B. Loving
Deputy Commissioner & Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer
New York City Fire DepartmentWendy M. Star
Director of Policy Initiatives
Office of Diversity and Inclusion
New York City Fire DepartmentLisa Podemski
Juvenile Rights Division
Legal Aid Society -
TBD
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New York: 2.5 Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias
New Jersey: TBD
California: TBD
Pennsylvania: TBD
Connecticut: Available to Licensed Attorneys
Sponsoring Association Committee:
Mindfulness & Well-Being in Law, Robert Chender & Cecilia Loving, Co-ChairsCo-Sponsoring Association Committee:
Mental Health Law, Karen P. Simmons, ChairSponsorship Opportunities are Available! Please Contact:
Angie Avila, Manager, Membership Outreach and Sponsorships | (212) 382-6608 | aavila@nycbar.org