What’s on Your Well-Being Menu?
What’s on Your Well-Being Menu?Over the past 10 years, conversations about health and well-being in the legal profession have become increasingly common, often focusing on the disproportionately high rates of depression, anxiety, substance use, and suicide across the lifespan of those serving in the legal profession — law students, lawyers, and judicial officers. New research is released on a regular basis showing that each cohort is continuing to suffer, often in silence.Those are the facts, but they aren’t the whole story. The reality is that we all have a role in how the story unfolds. In fact, The Path to Lawyer Well-Being: Practical Recommendations for Positive Change, published in 2017 by the National Task Force for Lawyer Well-Being (now the Institute for Well-Being in Law), created an outline for us to fill in. The report identified six dimensions of well-being and steps that individuals and organizations can take to promote and support well-being across those dimensions. We’ve added a seventh dimension — environmental — to the model we use at Thought Kitchen.This session will begin with an overview of the research about lawyer, law student, and judicial officer well-being, and the dimensions of well-being as set forth in The Path to Lawyer Well-Being. Then, there will be facilitated discussion about each dimension of well-being, including the following inquiries:What does each dimension of well-being look like for you?What gets in the way?What does support look like?Participants will leave with an increased ability to:Acknowledge the serious challenges to the well-being of lawyers, law students, and judicial officers and recognize the impact those challenges have on professional conductIdentify the dimensions of well-being and specific practices to support each dimensionConsider the ways in which each of us can impact the culture of the legal profession to support and promote well-beingTopics covered include:Attorney WellnessLaw PracticeLegal EthicsAgenda:Overview of Research and the Dimensions of Well-BeingResearch on lawyer and judicial officer well-beingDefining well-beingIntroduction to the seven dimensions of well-beingFacilitated Discussion of Each of the Dimensions of Well-BeingEmotionalSocialPhysicalEnvironmentalSpiritualIntellectualOccupationalBuilding your well-being menuWhat does each dimension of well-being look like for you?What gets in the way?What does support look like?Questions & Answers (as time permits)Duration of this webinar:60 minutesWhen:Premieres in 9 days | June 04, 2025 9:00 AM PTSpeakers:Jill Carnell - Chief Contemplative Officer, Thought Kitchen, LLCLoretta Oleksy - Mindful Life and Work Coach, Thought Kitchen, LLC