Stress Management through Mindfulness Meditation

Course provides basic instruction in mindfulness meditation techniques as well as a conceptual framework for understanding chronic stress, the problems it creates, and the solution.  Discover how chronic stress can adversely affect your legal practice and learn practical, hands-on skills to help eliminate it.  Course includes time for meditation practice and question/answer sessions.
 
Registrants are encouraged to wear comfortable, casual attire for the seminar.
 
•  Introduction
      o       Myths about meditation
      o       Set of skills to be developed during course
 
•  Chronic stress
    o       Conceptual model of stress
    o       Chronic stress as it pertains to the practice of law
    o       How mindfulness meditation eliminates chronic stress
 
•  Detailed discussion of the mindfulness skill set
    o       Concentration power
    o       Sensory clarity
    o       Equanimity
 
•  Continuing practice
    o       Tips for continuing the practice after the course
    o       Resources for further practice and study
 
Faculty
Blake Ashley, Mindfulness Instructor