Mindful Mondays: City Bar Series on Well-Being and Mindfulness
(Webcast)Build a Well-Rounded Life: Tools and Strategies to Create Balance
Monday, June 1, 2020 | 11:00 am – 12:15 pm
This program does not provide CLE credit
Pema Sherpa
Mindfulness Teacher & Researcher, Consultant
Stacy Lefkowitz Schaffer, Esq
Attorney, Coach, and Healer
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This presentation will examine the emphasis on productivity and the pursuit of and commitment to work as an ideal for personal fulfillment juxtaposed to the philosophy of Purusārtha, translated as the Pursuits of Life. According to this philosophy, fulfillment is the result of finding coherence between the four domains of life, namely, Career, Moral duties, Pleasure, and Freedom. The presenters will offer a workshop to demonstrate how one can realistically incorporate these pursuits into day-to-day life and enhance one’s ability to find harmony between different pursuits in life. The information and practices presented are relevant to participants’ general well-being and applies specifically to the current climate of stress during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Three Objectives:
- The presentation seeks to create awareness around the idea that lawyers’ identities are enmeshed with their work to the exclusion or the diminution of other vital areas of life. An adjunct objective of this theme is to explore the emotional impact on a person when one loses that work identity through job loss or through crises, such as the current pandemic, where a search for broader meaning becomes more pressing.
- The presentation offers a workshop where participants will learn to diversify their portfolio of activities as well as the source of meaning in life. This will allow one to avoid over-identification with a single aspect of life, enhancing their resilience to change.
- The presentation will encourage participants to develop a bias towards action and impart practical strategies to begin making small shifts towards a new, sustainable direction.
Attendees will receive:
- Meditation 101: Beginner’s Guide to Meditation
- Build a Well-rounded Life Worksheets
- Five steps strategy to realistically establish an enduring habit
Program Fee: Free for Members | $50 for Nonmembers
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Pema Sherpa, Mindfulness Teacher & Researcher, Consultant: Born and raised in Nepal, Pema Sherpa has been training in mindfulness principals for over two decades. Having earned her Master’s from Harvard University, she now combines her background in psychology and philosophy to research mindfulness at NYU. She is the founder of Pema Solutions, where she provides mindfulness informed implicit bias training as well as mindfulness informed wellbeing training to corporations. In her work, she borrows from psychology and the robust philosophical wisdom of mindfulness tradition.
Stacy Lefkowitz Schaffer, Esq., is an attorney, coach, and healer. After starting her legal career in Public Finance at Nixon Peabody LLP, she went on to work with nonprofits, such as Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, where she was Director of Legal Services. She left VLA in 2016 and earned her LLM in Taxation at NYU in 2018. Stacy conducts healing circles and practices several forms of energy healing that help others access their own healing for personal growth and spiritual development. She has studied with several master teachers, including Sara Rubin, Tao Porchon-Lynch, and James Van Praagh.
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TBD
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Sponsoring Association Committee:
Mindfulness and Well-Being, Robert L. Chender & Cecilia B. Loving, Co-ChairsCo-Sponsoring Association Committees:
Alternative Dispute Resolution, Charles M. Newman, Chair
Government Ethics & State Affairs, Jennifer G. Rodgers, Chair
Mental Health Law, Karen P. Simmons, ChairCo-Sponsored By:
Lawyer Assistance Program, Eileen Travis, Director
Office of Diversity & Inclusion, Deborah Martin Owens, Executive DirectorSponsorship Opportunities are Available! Please Contact:
Angie Avila, Manager, Membership Outreach and Sponsorships | (212) 382-6608 | aavila@nycbar.org______________________________________________________________