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Legal work brings daily exposure to trauma, conflict, and human suffering. These resources support the trauma literacy and wellbeing of those who do this work.

New York City Bar Mindfulness and Wellbeing Toolkit

I highly recommend this toolkit by the New York City Bar Association Mindfulness and Wellbeing Committee.

Useful for adjudicators and advocates alike,

this is a full and thoughtfully crafted resource guide with a wide range of articles, tips, techniques, book lists, wellness app suggestions, assessment tools and inspiring thought pieces.

While the guide opens with fairly rudimentary self-care advice, it quickly stretches into interesting and innovative spaces at the intersection of mental, emotional, physical and spiritual wellbeing.

While designed during COVID, in my view, most of these resources and insights are timeless. This guide is definitely worth perusing with a journal in hand for note taking and reflection.

These are the parts I found most interesting and useful:

Fung Shui for a resilient workplace p9

Cultivating a “good life” through balance p11

Mindful leadership p15

Occupational satisfaction books p14

Stress and burnout tests p16

Study on law school student wellness p16

Occupational Satisfaction articles and courses p17

Oxford Happiness Questionnaire p21

Radical forgiveness p23

Mental health first aid training and other courses p29

Books on lawyering, wellbeing and emotional needs p32