Trainings
Professional trainings in mindfulness, conflict, responsibility, and steadiness
I offer professional trainings, continuing education programs, workshops, and speaking engagements for people whose work asks them to carry responsibility, conflict, complexity, and care.
My trainings draw from meditation and mindfulness practice, conflict resolution, professional responsibility, nervous system awareness, contemplative reflection, and nearly thirty years of experience as a lawyer, mediator, arbitrator, and teacher.
The focus is practical and humane: how we stay present under pressure, reflect before reacting, and let go of what is not ours to carry.
Presence, Reflection, and Letting Go in Professional Life
Much of my teaching is grounded in the framework of Presence, Reflection, and Letting Go.
Presence helps us return to what is actually happening before we react, harden, or shut down.
Reflection helps us notice what we are carrying, how we are responding, and what a situation may be asking of us.
Letting Go helps us release the residue of responsibility, conflict, stress, and decision-making so that we do not carry every difficult moment into the next room of life.
This framework is especially useful for professionals who work with conflict, human need, ethical complexity, institutional pressure, or emotionally demanding situations.
Who these trainings are for
These trainings are designed for professionals and organizations, including lawyers, mediators, arbitrators, social workers, helping professionals, educators, leaders, nonprofit teams, legal organizations, bar associations, professional associations, and workplaces navigating conflict, burnout, responsibility, or change.
Some programs are designed specifically for lawyers and legal professionals and may be offered as CLE programs. Others are appropriate for interdisciplinary professional groups, retreats, conferences, staff development days, and community learning spaces.
Topics I teach on
My trainings can be adapted for different audiences, timeframes, and professional settings. Topics include mindfulness, ethical presence, conflict resolution, professional responsibility, self-compassion, emotional residue, nervous system awareness, burnout, compassion fatigue, difficult conversations, discernment, mindful life review, and steadiness in high-demand work.
Examples of training themes include:
Presence Under Pressure
Mindfulness and steadiness for professionals working in high-demand environments.
Reflection Before Reaction
Using contemplative reflection to support wiser decisions, better boundaries, and less reactive communication.
Letting Go of Emotional Residue
Practices for releasing what we carry after conflict, responsibility, difficult conversations, or demanding work.
Mindfulness for Professionals, including Lawyers, Mediators, and Social Workers
Practical mindfulness for professionalism, ethics, communication, conflict, and sustainable legal practice.
The Tables of Professional Life
How we show up at work tables, conflict tables, negotiation tables, mediation tables, leadership tables, and decision-making tables.
Self-Compassion in High-Responsibility Work
How professionals can remain accountable without becoming harsh, depleted, or hardened.
Nervous System Awareness for Conflict Professionals
Recognizing stress responses, regulation patterns, and reactivity in ourselves and in the rooms we hold.
Mindful Life Review for Professionals
A reflective process for people entering midlife, later life, career transition, retirement, or a new season of vocation.
CLE and professional education
For legal audiences, selected programs may be offered through Intentional Legal, including CLE and law-related professional education.
These programs can address mindfulness, professionalism, ethics, communication, conflict resolution, law practice, mediation, arbitration, burnout, secondary stress, and professional responsibility.
Intentional Legal now lives here as part of my broader teaching and training work.
Formats
Trainings can be offered as keynote talks, conference sessions, CEU or CLE programs, half-day workshops, full-day workshops, retreats, book-based programs, staff development sessions, or facilitated small-group learning experiences.
I do not offer one-on-one coaching or individual mindfulness instruction. My work is focused on writing, publishing, teaching, speaking, small groups, book circles, and professional learning spaces.
A different kind of professional development
These trainings are not designed to help people become more productive at any cost.
They are designed to help people remain human in work that asks a great deal of them.
The goal is not to use mindfulness to tolerate unhealthy conditions or suppress difficult feelings. The goal is to build enough presence, reflection, and compassion to notice what is happening, respond more wisely, and release what does not need to be carried forward.
Invite me to teach
If you are interested in a training, CEU or CLE program, workshop, conference session, retreat, or speaking engagement, please contact me with a brief description of your group, event, preferred topic, timeframe, and format.