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WELCOME
The Legal Well-Being Blueprint is a highly useful and dynamic new virtual course designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of those responsible for supporting mental health and well-being efforts within their organizations.
This course brings together Patrick Krill and Paula Davis, two leading authorities and trusted voices on mental health and well-being in the legal profession.
Patrick and Paula will illuminate key concepts and important trends around mental health, well-being, and engagement while also imparting practical skills and helpful tools that participants can implement to excel in their professional roles and help their organizations thrive.
This is the only course of its kind and an essential educational resource that will provide meaningful and ongoing benefit to legal professionals and employers.
COURSE OVERVIEW:
This course is a learning program appropriate for professionals currently working in the following roles within law firms or corporate legal departments:
- Well-being and wellness professionals
- Practicing lawyers and legal professionals
- Human resources and benefits
- Professional development
- Learning and development
- General counsel and loss prevention
- Internal coaches, trainers, and others with similar backgrounds
- Any other professional who wants to apply effective, evidence-based, individual and systems-oriented approaches for increasing well-being for the legal professionals with whom they work
- Marketing and public relations
Delivered over eight weeks (six learning modules + two group coaching sessions), this course includes live training classes and coaching calls to give you all the resources, tools, frameworks and support you need. You will meet virtually for one hour each week, to learn the methods, research, tools, and frameworks, and to understand how to discuss concepts and apply the learning in different ways. Two group coaching sessions are integrated into the course to help you continue unpacking what you’ve learned, answer questions, troubleshoot issues, and to help you stay accountable for applying your new knowledge.
You will also have the opportunity to learn more about yourself and your own well-being as you progress through the course, gaining tools and developing insights that you can apply to help protect and enhance your mental health and well-being while working in a demanding professional environment.
YOU WILL GET:
- The synergy of Patrick and Paula’s unique insights and perspectives as two highly experienced thought leaders in the legal well-being space
- Guidance to help articulate the business case for mental health and well-being in law, along with practical tips for how to successfully execute your well-being strategy
- Ongoing access to a library of the lectures, group coaching sessions, and additional micro-learning tools in the form of articles and videos to support your learning
- Worksheets, practice tips and examples, and challenge questions to help you apply the learning
- The opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals and to build a community of peers working toward similar goals, access to a group channel to ask questions, share inspiration, and seek support throughout the training program and beyond
- A certificate of completion (NOTE: To qualify for the Certificate you must attend at least 6/8 live sessions)
COURSE OUTLINE:
Over eight weeks, you’ll be given the latest research, tools, and support you need to help individuals, teams, and leaders in your legal organization increase mental health, well-being, and engagement. Module 1 will be 75 minutes, and the remainder of the modules will be 60 minutes. Together we will cover:
Module
1
Introduction to the Course; Foundations in Legal Well-Being
(75 minutes)
- Discuss the state of well-being in the legal profession in 2024. How has the profession developed a conversation and practice around well-being, where has it stumbled, and what’s next
- Accurately define well-being, mental health, and various well-being related terms and concepts like resilience, engagement, burnout, and more
- Talk about key frameworks and ideas that will serve as a roadmap for the course, including a model + worksheet for discussing these topics
Module
2
Stating the Business Case
(60 minutes)
- Review key findings in the research and important takeaways from our own practices about how to make the business case for well-being in law; provide example calculations and narratives you can use in your own legal organizations
- Discuss barriers to having this discussion and how to overcome them
- Review of current workplace trends and norms related to well-being, both domestic and international
Module
3
Mental Health & Substance Use Essentials,
Part 1
(60 minutes)
- Understanding the spectrum of mental health and substance use, including risk factors and protective factors
- Distinguishing illness from impairment, understanding the benefits of early intervention
- Challenging stigma, dispelling myths about mental health, and cultivating an environment of support
- An overview of the most common mental health problems in legal work environments and the practical warning signs that a colleague may be struggling
- Practical “do’s and don’ts” for approaching a colleague about whom there is concern
- The basics of active listening
Module
4
Mental Health & Substance Use Essentials,
Part 2
(60 minutes)
- Reasons why warning signs are often missed or overlooked, barriers to effective assistance, and how organizations can improve their responsiveness to better support struggling colleagues
- Understanding the benefits and roles of treatment, therapy, aftercare, and monitoring
- Outlining best practices and an organizational protocol for addressing mental health issues in the workplace
- An orientation to available resources and existing support structures for helping legal professionals overcome mental health and substance use problems
Module
5
Group Coaching Session & Case Studies
(60 minutes)
The group coaching sessions are designed to help you continue the learning, answer questions, share examples, troubleshoot issues, and help you stay accountable for applying your new knowledge. This group coaching session will focus specifically on the content you learned in Modules 1-4.
Module
6
Lawyer Strong ® Part 1: Unpacking 6 Core Skills You Need to Know for Preventing Burnout & Building Well-Being in Law
(60 minutes)
- Discuss what burnout actually is and is not; learn the three big dimensions of burnout & nuances associated with it; talk about early warning signs
- Talk about the Core 6 – the framework through which you need to talk about and respond to burnout at work [SKILL #1]
- Research has shown that one of the best burnout prevention techniques is understanding your values and narratives about work. Learn a skill to help you and others identify and talk about these narratives [SKILL #2]
- Mental strength is a key component of both resilience and engagement. Talk about why it’s so challenging for lawyers and legal professionals
- Learn a framework to help limit catastrophizing and ideas to help coach it [SKILL #3]
- Share additional, short strategies, TNT’s (tiny noticeable things) that support
Module
7
Lawyer Strong ® Part 2: Unpacking 6 Core Skills You Need to Know for Preventing Burnout & Building Well-Being in Law
(60 minutes)
- One of the most foundational aspects of resilience and workplace thriving is cultivating the belief that you can overcome challenges and obstacles. Learn a three-part framework to increase this capacity [SKILL #4]
- Good relationships are central to workplace thriving, motivation, and engagement. New research talks about seven types of relationships that are key to helping you manage day-to-day microstress. You’ll learn each of the seven categories along with where you need to “increase your relationship bench” [SKILL #5]
- Talk about the importance of creating a culture of “sticky” recognition and mattering, including new findings from Paula’s research study with ALM. Learn a short, two-minute skill to create “sticky” recognition [SKILL #6]
Module
8
Group Coaching Session & Course Wrap Up
(60 minutes)
The group coaching sessions are designed to help you continue the learning, answer questions, share examples, troubleshoot issues, and help you stay accountable for applying your new knowledge. This group coaching session will focus specifically on the content you learned in Modules 6-7.
Course Dates:
The next cohort of the Legal Well-Being Blueprint will launch on January 24th, 2025, with a second cohort launching on April 18th, 2025
No class the week of Thanksgiving.
Meet Patrick & Paula
Patrick R. Krill, JD, LL.M., MA
Founder, Krill Strategies
Patrick is the former director of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation’s Legal Professionals Program, a leading clinical treatment program for attorneys, judges and law students struggling with addiction and mental health problems. Patrick has authored more than 80 published articles related to addiction and mental health and has been quoted in dozens of national and regional news outlets, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and countless legal industry trade publications and blogs. Patrick’s highly specialized background and unique breadth of knowledge related to mental health and well-being in the legal profession make him a widely sought-after speaker and trusted resource for solving one of the legal profession’s most challenging problems.
Paula Davis JD, MAPP
Founder and CEO of the Stress & Resilience Institute
Paula left her law practice after seven years and earned a master’s degree in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. As part of her post-graduate training, Paula was selected to be part of the University of Pennsylvania faculty teaching and training resilience skills to soldiers as part of the Army’s Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness program.
Paula is the author of Beating Burnout at Work: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being & Resilience, which is about burnout prevention using a teams-based approach and was the #1 best-selling title for her publisher, the Wharton School Press. She is currently working on her second book at the intersection of leadership, well-being, and engagement.
