(Webinar) Mindfulness Methods for Challenging Times: Cultivating Calm, Focus and Well-Being

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

Monday, April 27, 2020 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Jon Krop
Founder, Mindfulness for Lawyers

• Description
• Agenda
• CLE Credit
• Sponsors

• In this workshop, lawyer and mindfulness teacher Jon Krop shares the skills to cultivate the calm, clarity, and focus that can be so elusive during this time of crisis. Jon teaches a simple, effective sitting meditation practice and other mindfulness tools tailored to a lawyer’s unique challenges and busy workday. He guides participants through short exercises that sharpen focus, calm the mind, and cultivate resilience in the face of anxiety and stress.

  Jon Krop, the founder of Mindfulness for Lawyers, graduated from Harvard Law School, cum laude, and Brown University, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. After law school, he clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and worked as a litigator at public-interest law firms in Los Angeles and New York City. Jon has taught mindfulness at Harvard, Yale, the Pentagon, and more than 50 top law firms. Jon has practiced mindfulness since 2006 and has studied with teachers from around the world, including psychologists, neuroscientists, and traditional Buddhist masters. In 2014, Jon completed a seven-month silent meditation retreat.

  Program Fee: Free for Members | $50 for Nonmembers

• TBD

  11:00am – 11:10am
  Introduction, the Science, and Meditation

  11:10am – 11:20am
  Stresses of Law Practice and Principles of Mindfulness

  11:20am – 11:50am
  Lawyer’s Workday: The Toolkit of Techniques

  11:50am – 12:10pm
  Working with Lawyer Stress and Anxiety

  12:10pm – 12:30pm
  Integrating Mindfulness into a Lawyer’s Workday

• CLE Credit
  New York: 1.5 Law Practice Management
  New Jersey: 1.8 General
  California: 1.5 General
  Pennsylvania: 1.5 General
  Connecticut: Available to Licensed Attorneys

• 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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