Mindful Mondays: City Bar Series on Well-Being and Mindfulness

Healing with the Heart: A Conversation with Sharon Salzberg

Monday, May 4, 2020 | 11:00 am – 12:15 pm (Pre-Recorded)
This program does not provide CLE credit

Sharon Salzberg
Author of 11 books including NY Times bestseller, Real Happiness

Cecilia B. Loving
Deputy Commissioner and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer (“CDIO”) at the Fire Department of New York City

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• Sponsors

• Sharon Salzberg is the world’s leading expert on mindfulness and lovingkindness and a NY Times best-selling author. Along with Cecilia Loving’s focus on the application of lovingkindness to diversity and inclusion, they will focus on compassion, connection and well-being and how the current situation underscores the importance of being kind to one another and how the power of love and inclusion not only makes us feel good, it also enhances our immune system. In one of Sharon’s books, “Real Happiness”, she shares 10 tips for well-being, which we will focus on:

  • Thinking of kindness as a strength, not as a weakness;
  • Looking for the good in yourself, which helps us see the good in others
  • Remembering that everyone wants to be happy
  • Recollecting those who have helped or inspired us
  • Practicing at least one act of generosity a day
  • Doing lovingkindness meditation
  • Listening
  • Including those who seem left out
  • Refraining from speaking ill of others

  Program Fee: Free for Members | $50 for Nonmembers

• Sharon Salzberg, a pioneer in the field of meditation, a world-renowned teacher, and best-selling author, has played a pivotal role bringing meditation and mindfulness into mainstream American culture since 1974. She is co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society, in Barre, Massachusetts, and has authored 11 books, including the New York Times best-seller, Real Happiness, her seminal work, Lovingkindness, and Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection. Her newest book, Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World is forthcoming in June 2020.

  Cecilia B. Loving is Deputy Commissioner and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer (CDIO) at the Fire Department of New York City, where she provides leadership for developing and maintaining a positive and holistic work environment for over 17,000 members. She oversees a number of diversity and inclusion initiatives, including but not limited the Fire Commissioner’s Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, Bravest Women Talks, Women’s Summits, Courageous Conversations, 10-Talks, Diversity and Inclusion Innovation Labs, Inclusion Strategy Videos, Inclusive Leadership Training, and other diversity and inclusion initiatives. She is founder of the Mindfulness Group at FDNY, where she distributes both a Diversity and Inclusion Newsletter and a Mindfulness Newsletter. She is Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the NYC Bar Association Committee on Mindfulness and Well-Being in the Law. She has written several books, including Unbroken Circles, God is a Lawyer Too and Ten Laws of Unlimited Success, as well as numerous articles and blogs, including The Power of Inclusion: Treating Others Well is Essential to Our Well-Being; More Support for Mindfulness: Reduction of Implicit Bias; and Restorative Circles: Finding Solutions from Ancient Traditions

• Sponsoring Association Committee:
  Mindfulness and Well-Being, Robert L. Chender & Cecilia B. Loving, Co-Chairs

  Co-Sponsoring Association Committees:
  Alternative Dispute Resolution, Charles M. Newman, Chair
  Government Ethics & State Affairs, Jennifer G. Rodgers, Chair
  Mental Health Law, Karen P. Simmons, Chair

  Co-Sponsored By:
  Lawyer Assistance Program, Eileen Travis, Director
  Office of Diversity & Inclusion, Deborah Martin Owens, Executive Director

  Sponsorship Opportunities are Available! Please Contact:
  Angie Avila, Manager, Membership Outreach and Sponsorships | (212) 382-6608 | aavila@nycbar.org

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