
| Speaker: |
Bena Stock, LL.B., M.C., R.C.C., Founder and Counsellor, The Lawyer Mindset |
| Air Date: |
This is an archived recording of a webinar hosted on May 8, 2024. |
| Registration: |
Member: $45 (+GST)
Non-Member: $65 (+GST)
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| CPD: |
1.25 Hours (Ethics) |
SYNOPSIS
We are happiest, healthiest, and most successful when we adopt healthy lifestyles and work habits. Long hours, demanding managers, bosses and clients, complex files, and difficult opposing counsel can be occupational hazards in the legal profession. Understanding how you respond to these challenges, and learning coping strategies to manage stress and anxiety, will help you build a flourishing career.
This webinar explores:
- Lawyer well-being and mental health in the legal profession.
- The importance of recognizing your automatic stress response.
- Strategies to shift your thinking so you can better manage stress and anxiety.
- How perfectionism fuels procrastination and undermines self-confidence.
- How to build resilience and optimism.
Registration includes access to a workbook tailored to the psychoeducational aspects of this webinar.
This workbook is designed to help shift your perspective when adversity strikes so you can navigate difficult life experiences. Exercises will guide attendees through changing thinking patterns, identify their strengths, challenge perfectionism, increase resilience, and more.
ABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKERS
About Bena Stock LL.B., M.C., R.C.C.
Bena is a former litigation lawyer with 24 years of legal experience in professional negligence and insurance defence. While working for the Lawyers Indemnity Fund of BC, she discovered that the role she enjoyed most was helping lawyers with the emotions that sometimes accompanied reporting an error or a possible error. She decided to retire from law to obtain a master’s degree in counselling so she could make lawyer well-being her career focus.
Bena is the founder of The Lawyer Mindset. She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and a member of the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors. Bena is also a former Associate Director of the Lawyers Assistance Program of BC. She has helped many clients in the areas of anxiety, depression, anger management, and relationships, as well as career coaching, and career transition. Bena believes in strength-based counselling and works toward helping clients discover and build on their strengths while learning new strategies to overcome life’s challenges.
She is a frequent presenter to law firms and legal organizations on topics relating to lawyer wellness, including how to maximize mentoring, time management, bolstering resilience, and overcoming procrastination, to name a few.
ACKNOWLEDGING FIRST NATIONS TERRITORIES
This recording is hosted by CBABC, which is located on the traditional and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, including the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam First Nations. We encourage our members to explore the rich history and knowledge of Indigenous people, and to continue learning about their experience in Canada, past and present.
TECHNICAL INSTRUCTIONS
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Closed captioning is available in the video player.
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