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CPD: Personal Wellness: Self-Care for Lawyers and Paralegals
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Learn effective self-care strategies for the frequent mental, emotional, physical, and other stress management challenges, that inherently face legal practitioners.
Samantha Glass and Amanda Todd deliver the Personal Wellness presentation and share insights on self-care and managing the various issues that adversely affect legal practitioners.
Expected Takeaways
The Personal Wellness presentation provides strategies to help you with self-care while also helping you:
- To comply with Rule 2.01(3) - Civility;
- To comply with Rule 3.01(4) - Competence;
- To comply with Rule 3.02(1) - Quality of Service;
- To comply with Rule 6.01(1) - General Duty ;
- To comply with Rule 7.01 - Courtesy and Good Faith; and
- To comply with Rule 8.02(1) - Making Legal Services Available.
The personal wellness, meaning physical health including energy and stamina that comes from eating well and exercise as well as mental health including open-mindedness with clearness of conscience and willingness to accept varied perspectives, of a practitioner contributes significantly to the capacity to perform and deliver upon many of the Paralegal Rules of Conduct.
Indeed, wellness is an important state of being that goes well beyond just physical health and includes your mental health, your emotional health, your social health, and your spiritual health. Balancing all components of personal wellness are necessary.
