Pathways to Justice 2019

This program will engage participants in mindfulness and compassion practices specifically designed to decrease stress, enhance creativity, gain even greater competence, and increase wellbeing. In these times, legal aid and other public interest and government attorneys face seemingly insurmountable challenges: clients in crisis and experiencing trauma, greater demand for services, and a divisive political and social climate. Scientifically validated and easily accessible mindfulness practices help. They provide tools to understand and manage internal and external stressors. They can be cultivated individually, shared at the organization, and offered to clients. They can help disrupt our negative thoughts and biases, as well as our reactiveness to those around us. This program will offer concrete mindfulness and compassion tools for participants to try out, take away, implement, and share.