Finding Joy in the Practice Through Empathy and Self-Compassion
Date: Dec 30, 2024 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Location: Online
Member Price: $143.00
Non-Member Price: $179.00
Section Price: $0.00
Areas of Law: For All Attorneys
Earn up to 2.4 credits! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
- Kim Smiley
- The Empathy Effect and Empathy Empire Foundation
Presenters
- Robert A. Bianchi, Esq.
- Former Morris County Prosecutor and Certified Trial Attorney
The Bianchi Law Group, LLC, Parsippany
NJSBA/NJICLE bring you a joyful way to end the year with this special program on self-compassion.
Are the pressures of legal practice weighing you down? Do you struggle to maintain empathy for your clients, colleagues or even yourself amid deadlines, disputes and demands? This innovative CLE program is designed for lawyers to explore the transformative power of empathy and self-compassion as tools for personal and professional resilience.
The program is led by Kim Smiley – a Harvard-trained expert in empathy, mysticism and the divine feminine, and Robert A. Bianchi, Esq., a practicing lawyer who understands the unique challenges of the legal profession and has been speaking about mindset and joyfulness practices to audiences for over 15 years. They will provide actionable strategies to help you navigate the stresses of legal practice while fostering a deeper connection to your own well-being, as well as your clients, family and friends.
This seminar will help you:
- Prevent burnout and build resilience in a high-pressure environment.
- Enhance your ability to advocate for clients by fostering genuine empathy.
- Improve relationships with colleagues, clients, family and yourself.
- Develop practical tools for handling pressure and ethical dilemmas with clarity and compassion.
Find out how joyfulness and empathy practices will make you a more effective lawyer and litigator!
Join our experts to gain practical techniques that will improve your personal and professional well-being, enhance emotional intelligence and interpersonal effectiveness and build sustainable habits of empathy and self-care in a demanding field, and the care of clients, family, and friends in a demanding profession.
About the Presenters:
Kim Smiley
A Harvard-trained expert in compassion, Smiley spent most of her career in the nonprofit sector, enriching the lives of vulnerable populations. An empathy activist, she inspires 275,000 followers in 75 counties through her nonprofit The Empathy Effect and Empathy Empire Foundation. Smiley is also the host of Empathy Empire, a podcast and vlog profiling some of the empathetic people on the planet.
Robert A. Bianchi, Esq.
Bianchi is a New Jersey Certified Criminal Trial Attorney, partner at the Bianchi Law Group, and former Morris County Prosecutor. With decades of experience, he has won numerous criminal jury trials, multimillion-dollar verdicts. He has appeared in excess of 1,200 TV appearances as a national TV legal analyst and TV anchor. For decades, Bianchi has uniquely been lecturing to lawyers, business, leaders, educators, students and the community on mindset practices and his signature lecture called Joyful Journey. He has started a new newsletter entitled “Sirens & Summations—A Path to Joyful Living,” based on his unique life experiences from the perspective of a trial lawyer and EMT. Bob’s mindset and joyfulness practices have brought him to the TEDx Stage.
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