Contemplative practices are about learning from our own unique, personal experiences. We call them "practices" because over time, with repetition, our learning grows as our experience changes. Relational practices like storytelling, deep listening, dialogues, meetings, and circles Your donations make a difference! Please make a gift to CMind today. Joe Belluck Board of Directors.
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Identifying and honoring our source traditions, teachers, histories, and lineages. Undertaking antiracism as an integral aspect of contemplative awareness and action. Join our Email List. Others seek to promote democracy and fairness. Still others hope to correct societal injustices. Along the professional path, rigorous training in analytical thought, combative discourse and a narrowing focus on a body of written rules tends to obscure or overshadow those original guiding principles.
Professional stress and burnout are commonplace. As a result, many lawyers find that the details of their daily work, the analytic decisions they make and the directions they pursue on behalf of their clients bear little resemblance to the values and aspirations that originally led them into a law career. This venture began a series of experiments within a new model: bringing together law students, faculty and practitioners in a shared space for a retreat experience that included instruction in and time for both contemplative practices and group discussions about combining these practices with a life in the law.
The premise was simple: If lawyers had the time and tools for quiet contemplation, their professional actions could be informed by their own deep and abiding personal values. The Law Program ceased to operate as a free-standing program of the Center as of January 1, The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society presently focuses its efforts on broadening the reach of contemplative practices in society through Higher Education via the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education and related programs and events.
The Center intends to continue to support the ongoing work of lawyers and legal academics to transform legal education, building on the work of Charles Halpern, Leonard Riskin, and other pioneers in the movement to bring together mindfulness and law with whom we have been affiliated over the years.
We look forward to working with both new and experienced law teachers in this transformative and inspiring work. We invite you to become involved in their new endeavors:. Meditation goes to work: When conflict and stress hit you at work, try looking East to calm yourself and find better ways to cope by H. Cummins Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune , January 20, No Justice, No Peace. The Center for Law and Renewal is a non-profit whose mission is to equip law professionals with foundational principles, tools and practical skills that advance the renewal of professionalism, the spirit of justice, and the exercise of ethical leadership in the legal profession and community life.
Cutting Edge Law is an online resource for anyone interested in the growing community of those who seek alternate approaches to the traditional adversarial legal system.
The Institute for Mindfulness Studies brings the contemplative practice of mindfulness to practitioners of law by offering instruction in techniques specifically designed for attorneys. The International Alliance of Holistic Lawyers is a non-profit organization to dedicated to finding more joy, satisfaction and meaning in life.
IAHL Members are exploring different ways of practicing law, learning how to deal with the stress of the legal profession, and are passionate about helping the legal profession become more open and responsive to its clients and the world at large. The Mediate. Video and audio recordings from much of the conference are available on the conference website , along with guided meditations, syllabi from related law courses, and relevant books and articles.
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