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Kentucky Bar Association

On Tuesday October 8th, Claire will present an ethics seminar for the Kentucky Bar Association “Learn and Earn” program. The session is at 12 PM EST and offered virtually. This means you can eat lunch, get CLE credit, and it is free.

If you can’t make it on Tuesday or practice outside of Kentucky, no worries. The session on Tuesday is the same one that Claire will be offering on LawLine. After Wednesday, it will be on demand. Scroll down or check out my Events page for more.

LawLine

On Wednesday, October 9th at 10 AM EST, Claire will offer the virtual CLE entitled The Truth About Compassion Fatigue, Managing Empathic Overwhelm. This will be available for CLE credit in multiple jurisdictions. You will have to purchase it through LawLine or use your firm subscription.

To learn more about compassion fatigue and empathic overwhelm, check out the blog post from earlier this year. In addition, if you are a LawLine user, go ahead and check out Claire’s other session entitled Real Confidence: Essential Mindfulness Tools for Law Practice and Life.

Pennsylvania Bar Institute

On October 10th, the official date for World Mental Health Day 2024, Claire will offer a virtual CLE for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. This one is inspired by her book, How to Be a Badass Lawyer. It will be for continuing legal education ethics credit and will include an overview of the 4 practices offered in the book: (1) breath focus; (2) body scan; (3) joy; and (4) loving-kindness.

This session is for anyone interested in what makes mindfulness and compassion badass and why it matters to lawyers. In addition to briefly explaining the meditation practices, Claire will share why each of them works. Learn more and register for the live presentation here. If you can’t attend on October 10th at 10 AM EST, the CLE will be available to watch on-demand later.

Conclusion

It is an honor and a privilege to have something to offer the profession in honor of World Mental Health Day. Join in next week if you want to learn, meet me virtually and say hello, or if you just need some ethics credit.

Want to learn more about mindfulness and compassion? Check out my new book, How to Be a Badass Lawyer, for a simple guide to creating a meditation practice of your own in 30 days. And to share mindfulness with your little one, check out my new children’s book, Mommy Needs a Minute.

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It’s kind of a trip that I now teach other lawyers and professionals about confidence. As I have shared several times here, I have struggled with anxiety, overthinking, and self-doubt for most of my life. I was shocked to find that meditation helped me gradually change these habits.

Over time, I changed how I thought about myself, related to the world, and accepted that risk was a part of a good life. Now, after building a law practice, launching a blog, writing some boks, and crafting a new and unexpected identify for myself as a meditation teacher, I feel pretty confident.

How mindfulness can help lawyers build confidence

How did this happen? What steps helped? What does mindfulness and compassion have to do with confidence? I will share all that and more in a CLE that I created by accident but quickly became my favorite to deliver. That CLE is Real Confidence: Essential Mindfulness Skills for Law Practice and Life. I’ll be presenting it live for Lawline, one of the largest online CLE providers, on July 10th at 10 AM EST.

How did I create this by accident? A few years ago, I was asked if I ever speak about “imposter syndrome.” I admitted that I had nothing prepared and delivered a session on compassion instead. In the minutes leading up to that event, I spoke with the organizers and imagined out loud how I “might” go about talking about confidence if I got the chance.

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Why I love this CLE about confidence for lawyers

Shortly thereafter, I was asked to speak to young lawyers and pitched that very same idea. The organizers loved it and so did the young lawyers in the audience. After doing the session, though, it occurred to me that all lawyers could benefit from this session. I soon got the opportunity and delivered it for a group of defense lawyers in Arkansas. To see how that went, check out the testimonial from Jamie Jones on my speaker page.

As I learned, this session is so fun to deliver because it’s practical. Despite our sometimes austere exterior, lots of lawyers struggle with anxiety, self-doubt, and imposter syndrome. The big secret I learned from years of mindfulness practice and training is that you don’t have to deal with all aspects of these conditions at once.

Instead, mindfulness practice helps you focus your attention in a specific way. This allows you to break fear and doubt into pieces and examine each with kind curiosity. Over time, you can learn strategies to manage anxious thoughts, deal with the physical symptoms of fear, and manage the emotions that come up as you do hard things.

How to participate in or watch the CLE

That’s what I will teach in the CLE and, to boot, you should get CLE credit in most states. Join me on July 10th if you want to participate in discussion, ask questions, or share strategies that worked for you. If you can’t make it live, though, you can always catch it on-demand later and contact me with your questions.

To get details or register for the event, check out the page on Lawline here. If you want to experience how mindfulness can support confidence immediately, check out some of these meditations here: