Seminars & Speaking Engagements
Seminar Descriptions
1. "Climate Reality" Presentations (to be announced)
2."Using the Science of Character for a Strengths-Based Perspective that Optimizes Personal Resilience for Adapting to Climate Change"
Learn your top strengths and the mental and emotional well-being benefits of using those strengths. Additionally, learn how to develop other strengths. Further, learn to spot strengths in others. Using strengths in these ways leads to improved resilience, positive communication and relationships, allows for engagement of differences in a more positive way, and helps foster compassion and empathy, all of which provide a feeling of connectedness with others and humanity, and a foundation for better relational capabilities. Based on the Science of Character, developed by Dr. Martin Seligman and Dr. Chris Peterson, this program offers a perspective that focuses on what is best about human beings, and what we can do to be at our best.
3. "Mind-Body Well Being"
The body and mind share a powerful connection. When one is out of balance, it often affects the other. This program will explore whole-person well-being, with an emphasis on practicing mindfulness through mind-body techniques. In addition to providing positive effects such as re-setting the nervous system, mindfulness can combat negative emotions, and help prevent ‘secondary trauma’. The seminar includes neuroscience-supported mindfulness techniques and interactive exercises for reducing stress. The seminar also includes Mind-Body and Positive Psychology strategies for greater well-being while adapting to Climate Change and some exercises proven to increase personal resilience and optimism.
5. Upcoming and Past Speaking Engagements:
2021
Upcoming Climate Reality Presentations (to be announced)
Featured Speaker on Zoom, "Resilience for Lawyers," Aliant International Law Firm, April
Mental Health Panelist, "Health in the Climate Crisis Conference: Integrative Appproaches for Individuals and Communities," May 15-16, sponsored by Bastyr University
Train-the-trainers - Japan (on Zoom), "Mind-Body Techniques for Stress Relief," January, May and June
2020
Train-the-trainers - Japan (on Zoom), "Mind-Body Techniques for Stress Relief," November
Featured Speaker on Zoom, "Work Smarter - The Power of Recharge," Houston Area Law Librarians, Sept.
2018 and 2019
Speaker, "Lawyers are at Risk for Secondary Traumatic Stress," NM Legal Aid, Abq., N.M.
Speaker, "Well-Being in the Practice of Law," Inn of Court, Santa Fe, NM.
Presenter, "Using the Science of Character for a Strengths-Based Perspective that Optimizes Relational Capacities," American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution Summit, September.
Presenter, "Mind-Body Well Being," NM Bar Annual Conference at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa, August 10.
Featured Speaker, "Well-Being in the Practice of Law," Colorado Defense Attorneys Association Conference in Telluride, July.
Seminar entitled "Mindfulness, Resilience, and Lawyer Well Being," First Judicial District Bar Association 3.5 hour CLE seminar, July.
Featured Speaker, "Start the Year Off Right - The Path to Lawyer Well Being," First Judicial District Bar Association, January.
2017
Keynote Speaker, "Work Smarter - The Power of Recharge," and Featured Speaker "Positive Psychology for Lawyers," Wisconsin Solo and Small Firm Conference in the Wisconsin Dells, October.
Keynote Speaker, "Positive Psychology for Lawyers - Tools for Quality of Life and Superior Professionalism," "Lawyers are at Risk for Secondary Traumatic Stress," "RX Mind-Body Techniques for Better Professionalism," and "Work Smarter - The Power of Recharge," Missouri Solo and Small Firm Conference, June.
2016
Featured Speaker, "Positive Psychology for Lawyers," and "Work Smarter - The Power of Recharge," Oklahoma Bar Association Solo and Small Firm Conference, June.
Keynote Speaker, "Regulator Wellness," National Organization of Bar Counsel, August in San Francisco.
Speaker, "Positive Psychology for Lawyers - An Introduction," Oklahoma Bar Association, April.
2015
Featured Speaker, "Positive Psychology for Lawyers - An Effective Intervention for Professionalism, Substance Abuse, and Relapse Prevention," ABA Commission on Lawyers' Assistance Programs National Conference, Oct.
2013 and 2014
CLE seminar, "Neuroscience, the Brain, and the Benefits of Positive Emotions," NM State Bar, Sept.
Multi-week class in iRest® Meditation for Lawyers," NM State Bar Lawyer Assistance Program, Fall.
Week-long train-the-trainers in Tokyo Japan, "Positive Psychology and Mind-Body Techniques for Stress Relief," May and Nov.
CLE seminar, "Work Smarter," NM Defense Attorneys, Fall.
CLE seminar, "Well-Being for PNM (Public Service Company of NM) Attorneys."
CLE seminar, "Neuroscience and the Lawyer's Brain."