Well-Being in Law Week

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SPECIAL EVENT: WELL-BEING IN LAW WEEK
WEEK-LONG EVENT BY ZOOM

Co-Hosted by Robin Oaks, SBCBA Director of Well-Being,
Attorney at Law and Well-being Coach/Trainer/Consultant

Monday, October 28 Through Friday, November 1, 2024; Each Day at Noon – 1:15 pm

Five days of nationally recognized speakers presenting about well-being in law each – at noon by Zoom (click the link here). Earn MCLE Credits (5 hrs. total.) Wellness Competence, Ethics and Elimination of Bias.

Come listen to and engage with a stellar line-up of nationally recognized presenters sharing wellness and well-being strategies and specific topics of interest for all legal professionals.

Lawyer MCLE Credits for Each Presentation
AND Daily Drawings for Fabulous Prizes!

COST:
Weeklong Package: $120 Members, $30 Individual Session
$140 Non-Members/$35 Individual Session
$90 Weeklong Package for Students/Legal Staff/$25 Individual Session
Click the link here to register online.

Day One:

DATE/TIME: Monday, October 28, 2024, Time: 12:00 – 1:15 pm BY ZOOM
MCLE CREDIT: 1/2 hour WELLNESS COMPETENCE: 1/2 hour ELIMINATION OF BIAS
TOPIC: Unlearning Silence to Unleash Our Talents and Support Legal (and Life) Success

Elaine Lin Hering, J.D., facilitator, speaker, and author of Unlearning Silence, How to Speak
Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully:

Ms. Hering will explore how we silence ourselves, we silence others, and how we are silenced by those at work and in our lives. She’ll highlight the many meanings of silence, its negative impacts, and how unlearning silence can support success as legal practitioners and life
satisfaction.

Day Two:

DATE/TIME: Tuesday October 29, 2024, Time: 12:00 – 1:15 pm BY ZOOM
MCLE CREDIT: 1 Hour WELLNESS COMPETENCE
TOPIC: Psychological Well-being for Legal Professionals: What is it and how do we find it?

Dr. Nicole Alea Albada, Ph.D., Professor/Researcher UCSB Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept., Director for Education and Outreach, Center for Aging and Longevity Studies, Director of the Thinking About Life Experiences (TALE) Lab:

Dr. Albada will explore how psychologists measure well-being, and outline how our minds and well-being pathways across our legal career timelines affect fostering and experiencing well-being.

Day Three:

DATE/TIME: Wednesday, October 30, 2024 Time: 12:00 – 1:15 pm BY ZOOM
MCLE CREDIT: 1/2 hour WELLNESS COMPETENCE, 1/2 hour ETHICS
TOPIC: How Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence Impact Judicial Decision-making and Ethics, and Buffer Law Practice Stressors

Judge Jeremy Fogel, Director of Berkeley Judicial Institute, Berkeley Law School.

Judge Fogel will explore the factors affecting judge’s decision-making, and ways to address the stressors legal practitioners face, while sharing how mindfulness and emotional intelligence skills – and compassion, positively promote ethical and civil conduct and optimize legal outcomes.

Day Four:

DATE/TIME: Thursday, October 31, 2024, Time: 12:00 – 1:15 pm BY ZOOM
MCLE CREDIT: 1 hour WELLNESS COMPETENCE
TOPIC: Successfully Overcoming Procrastination and Writer’s Block

David Rasch, PhD, psychologist and author of The Blocked Writers Book of the Dead: Bring Your Writing Back to Life!:

Lawyers, judges, law students, and law professors often struggle with starting, sustaining, and completing legal writing projects. Dr. Rasch and attorney Meehan Rasch explore the complexities of the legal writing process, common issues, and practical tools for improving writing productivity.

Day Five:

DATE/TIME: National Love a Lawyer Day Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, Time: 12:00 – 1:15 BY ZOOM
MCLE CREDIT: 1 hour WELLNESS COMPETENCE
TOPIC: A Cardiologist’s Holistic and Evidence-based Guidance for Managing Stress and Lawyering and Living “Whole-Heartedly”
PRESENTATION: Dr. Jonathan Fisher, M.D., FACC, author of Just One Heart, A
Cardiologist’s Guide to Healing, Health, and Happiness (2024)

Dr. Jonathan Fisher, a practicing cardiologist, will present about the mind-body and heart connection and the “seven timeless traits of the heart” for stress management, successful legal practice – and life satisfaction. Highlighting the similar stressors that doctors and lawyers face, Dr. Fisher will share the science and strategies that he teaches his patients and colleagues, and he learned from his own quest discovering the roots of healing, health, and happiness.

COST:
Weeklong Package: $120 Members, $30 Individual Session
$140 Non-Members/$35 Individual Session
$90 Weeklong Package for Students/Legal Staff
Click the link here to register online.

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GIFTS FROM COMMUNITY DONORS FOSTERING WELL-BEING IN LAW
FIVE DAY SBCBA WELL-BEING IN LAW WEEK EVENT DRAWING

Gifts will be randomly drawn from each of the following well-being categories at the end of each talk. Five lucky winners EACH day! Must be present (by Zoom) to win the drawing gifts.
Good Luck – Be well!

Fostering Well-Being Fun Connections 

  • Gift Certificate for 4-some for golf and carts, after 11am ($376 value) at Santa Barbara Golf Club, Santa Barbara, CA
  • Gift Certificate ($200) for Namaste Indian Bistro restaurant. Santa Barbara, CA.
  • Gift Certificate ($50) for Los Arroyos restaurant. Santa Barbara and Goleta locations.
  • Gift Certificate for 1 hour individualized private golf coaching lesson with Michael Koskin: Golf Pro at Sandpiper Golf Club, Goleta, CA.
  • Gift certificate ($175) for Santa Barbara Salt Caves; meditation in pink Himalayan salt cave rooms, massage/facials, sound healing sessions, unique/locally made health & cooking products.

Well-Being Support Experiences

  • 1 hour phone consultation ($250 value) with Stephanie Kerst, certified Building Biology Environmental Consultant (BBEC); Sage Living; expert, science-based individualized advice for minimizing EMF exposure and for creating environmentally safe/healthy home and work spaces.
  • Gift Certificate ($105 value) for 5 yoga sessions/classes at Yoga Soup. Santa Barbara, CA
  • Gift Certificate ($95); for one full session or two people for half sessions at The Light Zone with Hana Haig; offering red LED light sessions for addressing inflammation, pain, skin rejuvenation, wound issues, and mood/metabolism regulation. Santa Barbara, CA
  • 1 session ($100 value) thirty minutes with Cecily Longo, MFT; counsel/demonstrate re: Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT); a mind-body practice strategy for emotional and nervous system self-regulation and stress management. Santa Barbara, CA
  • Gift Certificate ($50) Island Seed & Feed; safe, natural garden, pet, seed, farm supplies: principles of urban sustainability, organic horticulture and community responsibility. Goleta, CA

Wellness Body-Mind Services

  • Gift Certificate ($275) for Zen Spa (Facials/Skin Treatments). Santa Barbara, CA
  • Gift Certificate ($150) for Evolutions Medical & Day Spa (Facials/Massages). Santa Barbara
  • Gift Certificate ($100) for Patricia Folk (LMT) deep tissue/Swedish massage session. Goleta, CA
  • Gift Certificate ($140) for Joanne Station (LMT) 75 minutes integrative therapeutic massage session (“Serving the Women of Santa Barbara”). Goleta, CA.
  • Gift Certificate ($135 value) for Cielo Spa for one Custom Facial Session. Santa Barbara, CA

Life-Long Learning and/or the Arts for Lawyers’ Well-Being

  • Gift Certificate: Ensemble Theatre Company ($200 value) at the New Vic – TWO tickets for any ETC production for any time through the year (November 1, 2024 through November 30, 2025)
  • Books: The Best Lawyer You Can Be; A Guide to Physical, Mental, Emotional and Spiritual Wellness (Compiled by Steward Levine) ABA Law Practice Division AND Positive Professionals: Creating High Performing Profitable Firms Through the Science of Engagement by Anne Brafford, ABA Law Practice Division.
  • Books by the Well-Being in Law Week Speakers:
    • Book: Just One Heart, A Cardiologist’s Guide to Health Healing and Happiness by Dr. Jonathan Fisher (2024)
    • Book: Unlearning Silence, How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully, by Lawyer Elaine Lin Hering (2024)
    • Book: The Blocked Writer’s Book of the Dead – Bring Your Writing Back to Life, by David Rasch, Ph.D.

PLUS, EACH DAY FOR A LUCKY WELL-BEING IN LAW WINNER– One bag of Organic Purity Coffee, Whole Bean, from environmentally and socially responsible Purity Coffee, free of contaminants, wellness-focused blends: Balance, Protect, Flow, Ease, Calm (Total $135 value)