Our Services

We offer a choice of format:
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+ A series of short sessions

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This is our most popular format.

By breaking up the material into shorter sessions (usually 30 minutes, including Q&A), this approach feels lighter than a single, longer session.

Each session offers a standalone experience on a single topic, so your people can attend whichever sessions fit their interests and schedules.

+ A standalone session

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This format is a natural fit for a retreat, academy, or other special event.

A session can run anywhere between one and two hours, per the organization’s preference.

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+ The Art of Collaboration: How to Have Positive, Productive Interactions at Work

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When it comes to workplace interactions, mindset matters; the way we engage with others has a major impact on our emotions, well-being, and work. In this program, we explore simple ways to cultivate positive, effective interactions, no matter your role or seniority, so that you and your colleagues can produce your best work while avoiding burnout and conflict.

We identify some of the social and emotional roots of difficult interpersonal interactions, make the “business case” for cultivating qualities like patience and empathy, and explore evidence-based strategies for doing so.

We offer this program as a single 30-minute session. However, the most comprehensive version is a four-part series consisting of the following 30-minute sessions:

Session 1: Cool Under Pressure

This session focuses on the value of approaching interpersonal interactions, especially difficult ones, with a calm intentionality that allows us to choose our words and actions skillfully while preserving our own well-being. To cultivate this calm intentionality, we learn and practice a mindfulness method with the dual purpose of slowing down the rushing mind and cultivating a clear awareness of our own emotional landscape.

Session 2: Calm During Conflict

This session explores a cognitive bias, common to all human beings, that can lead us unwittingly into conflict and impede the sorts of attitudes we’d prefer to bring to our interpersonal interactions, like calm, patience, and reflectiveness. Drawing on both mindfulness and social psychology, we learn to see through this cognitive bias and act in ways that defuse tense situations.

Session 3: Responsive, Not Reactive

This session focuses on the arising of internal tension and discomfort during difficult interactions and how, left unnoticed, these inner experiences can influence our outward behavior in unhelpful ways. It offers a mindfulness method that clarifies our perception of our own internal tensions and impulses so that we can respond thoughtfully rather than react impulsively.

Session 4: Unshakeable Well-Being

This session highlights specific mental habits that research has shown to improve well-being and increase the experience of positive emotions even when confronted with the distress of others. We explore methods for cultivating these habits both in formal mindfulness practice and during interactions with others. The outcome is a warm, relaxed attitude that makes the day more enjoyable and transforms the way we engage with people.

+ The Well-Being Toolkit: How to Thrive in a Demanding Field

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Working in the law can be deeply rewarding, but it also has its challenges, even in the best of times. Add in everything going on in the world, and it’s natural to sometimes feel stressed, anxious, or overwhelmed. How can we maintain our own well-being in the face of all this?

This program equips lawyers and staff with practical, evidence-based methods for managing stress and anxiety, boosting positive emotions, and cultivating calm and focus, even under pressure.

+ 30-Second Stress-Busters

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This session answers the question: “What if I’m really struggling, and I’ve got only 30 seconds to do something about it?” We explore three techniques that are uncomplicated, quick enough to do in 30 seconds, and remarkably effective at dealing with stress and anxiety. A legal professional’s day moves fast; sometimes, we don’t have more than 30 seconds between our last meeting and our next one. If we want to preserve our own well-being and effectiveness, we need tools that take that reality into account.

+ 30-Second Mood-Boosters

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Managing difficult experiences like stress and anxiety is only part of the well-being equation. We can also cultivate more of the “good stuff”: positive moods and pleasant emotions that support our flourishing and mental health. In this program, we identify specific mental habits that research has shown to boost mood, increase the experience of positive emotions, and improve overall well-being. We then explore evidence-backed methods for activating that mood-boosting effect in 30 seconds or less, as well as a handful of methods that go deeper.

+ Defeating Digital Distractions

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Modern technology often feels addictive, and this is no accident. These devices were precision-engineered to grab and hold our attention, and the problem has only grown worse with the widespread adoption of remote and hybrid work. It’s up to us to learn how to use our devices skillfully so they enhance, rather than erode, our productivity and well-being.

In this program, we do just that. Participants learn ways to minimize the disruptive impact of their devices so they can enjoy their benefits while avoiding their pitfalls. They will also learn how to honor their obligation to be reachable and responsive while still creating space for focused work and thought.

+ Solving Sleep Problems

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Sleep: we all need it to function, and we all seem to be getting too little of it. Occasional, short-term sleep issues are no cause for concern, but chronic insomnia can harm a person’s health, well-being, and ability to function. Legal professionals are especially susceptible due to the stresses and high stakes of our work.

In this program, we explore strategies for overcoming insomnia and improving sleep quality. We learn ways to avoid common sleep mistakes, to make our bedrooms and lifestyles more conducive to healthy sleep, and to combat stress and negative thought patterns around sleep.

The program avoids unrealistic advice for lawyers like “Make sure to get eight hours of sleep per night.” Even during a stretch of intense work when a full night’s sleep isn’t realistic, these methods remain useful.

+ How to Manage Anxiety

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Anxiety is a topic that’s relevant to anyone these days, but it’s always been a feature of working in the legal field. After all, the stakes are high, the deadlines are tight, the clients are demanding, and it is, in many ways, an inherently adversarial profession. These are inherent parts of the work that we can’t change… but we can change how we respond to them.

In this program, we explore why anxiety arises, how we typically react to it, and how we can work with it more skillfully using simple, straightforward methods.

+ How to Calm and Focus the Mind

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This session focuses on meditation as a tool for calming the mind, which allows us to experience a soothing inner quiet, reduce stress, and increase our well-being, even in the midst of a busy workday. Research also indicates that meditation boosts focus and other aspects of executive function, unlocking new levels of effectiveness and cognitive performance. In this program, we learn what meditation is, why it’s so beneficial, and why it’s particularly useful for legal professionals. We then learn a simple, effective meditation technique and try it out together.