Leading Mindfully

Business Law Section Mindfulness Series

Join us for the third program in the Business Law Section Mindfulness series. Building on the Introduction to Mindfulness and Mindful Decision-Making CLE programs, this program explores the fundamental qualities of mindful leadership and how those qualities relate to legal practice and the various leadership roles lawyers hold.

The program will highlight the seven ingredients of mindful leadership and their application. The discussion will provide a framework for becoming a successful leader by being physically balanced, emotionally connected and mentally focused and ethical. Guided by a faculty with backgrounds in leadership and mindfulness and their application in law and business, this interactive program will include exercises you can utilize and practice to incorporate mindfulness into your professional roles that enable you to become more effective leaders.

In this program, faculty will examine:

• How the application of the ideals of mindfulness work in the reality of a lawyer's day-to-day practice

• How one can overcome leadership challenges in a competitive environment or with adversarial relationships using the techniques discussed.

Allow mindfulness to be an everyday tool to enable you to be a better leader in your firm, company or other leadership positions.

Location
Philadelphia Bar Association
1101 Market St. - ARAMARK Bldg.
11th Fl. Conference Center
Philadelphia, PA 19107

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS CLE PROGRAM

Presenters

Tanuja Dehne, Esq.
Silver Bay Realty Trust Corp.

Marci Krufka Taylor, Esq.
Mantra Partner

Curt Woolford, MA, E-RYT
Crozer-Keystone Health System

Esther Wyss-Flamm, PHd, MEd, E-RYT
Healing Arts Studio, LLC

Introduction
Katayun Jaffari, Esq. 
Chair, Business Law Section
Ballard Spahr LLP

Read more about the Mindfulness Series here:
Business Law Section MINDFULNESS SERIE

Mindful Decision-Making

CLE - Mindful Decision-Making
Business Law Section Mindfulness Series
Hosted by Saul Ewing LLP

Day-to-day decision-making can be stressful. For an attorney, the stress of decision-making is complicated by several factors: the legal issues themselves, the reactions of the involved parties, and the non-legal ramifications of any particular decision. Sometimes an attorney's healthy concern for the client's emotions and reactions can snowball into anxiety. All of this competition for mind share can stymie decision making. The challenge of decision-making may lead to delays in action, which can have worse consequences than a bad decision itself. It is said that"Mindful decision-making begins with the recognition of our need to act."

This program -- the second CLE course in the Business Law Section Mindfulness Series -- examines mindful decision-making and how a mindful approach leads to ethical decision-making. Our faculty will provide a mindfulness foundation, offer a definition for mindful decision making, and walk you through a process for making decisions mindfully and ethically. This interactive program will enable you to incorporate mindfulness into your decision-making process, apply the tools of mindful decision-making to a current decision you face, and leverage the skills of mindfulness to represent your clients ethically and zealously.

Mindfulness is an awareness of life in the present moment creating the opportunity to pause, breathe, and connect with oneself so that we may be able to moderate our reaction and respond thoughtfully to our clients and colleagues. For the same reasons, practicing mindfulness in law enhance our capacity to be more genuine and present for what arises in our interactions.

In this program, faculty will highlight:

• Definitions of Mindful Decision-Making

• A Process of Making Decisions Mindfully

• Practical examples, resources and tips

Allow mindfulness to be an everyday tool to enable better focus in your practice of law and bring an enjoyment into your work environment.