Resources
Find even more resources to bolster well-being in the legal profession during Well-Being Week in Law and year-round.
Building Workplace Well-Being
Workplace Well-Being Handbook For Law Firms 2021
Law Firm Well-Being Program Benchmarking Report 2021
Alcohol Use Policy Template for Legal Employers
Workplace Well-Being Infographic
Well-Being Toolkit
ABA Employee Impairment Policy Template
Tristan Jepson Healthy Workplace Guidelines for the Legal Profession
Lawyer Well-Being YouTube Channel
Check out the Lawyer Well-Being YouTube Channel where we’ll be posting more great videos like this one:
Stay Strong
PHYSICAL WELL-BEING
Striving for regular activity, good diet and nutrition, enough sleep and recovery. Limit addictive substances and seek help for physical health when needed.
Tips to Optimize Your Brain
Sleep Hygiene Checklist
Defeating Digital Distractions
Self-Care Plan Worksheet
Align
SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING
Fostering a sense of meaningfulness and purpose in work and life, and aligning your work and life with your values, goals, and interests.
Use Your Strengths For Growth Worksheet
Engage & Grow
Career & Intellectual Well-Being
Seeking personal satisfaction, continuous learning and growth in our professional and personal lives, and financial stability. Engaging in creative or intellectually challenging activities that foster ongoing development and monitoring cognitive wellness.
Use Your Strengths For Growth Worksheet
Connect
Social Well-Being
Building connection, belonging, and a reliable support network. Contributing to our groups and communities.
Enabling Lawyer Well-Being Through Diversity & Inclusion
Meaningful Connections Through Movies
Movies have many layers that shape people’s experience in ways that can influence well-being—including fostering social connection. By watching movies with others and having shared experiences and/or using movies as a foundation for meaningful conversations, we can deepen our connection to others. This Activity Guide provides ideas for creating a Movie Club that facilitates meaningful connections. To try it out, follow the instructions in the Movie Challenge Activity Guide. Post about your experience on social media using the hashtag #WellbeingWeekInLaw.
Read NowGrow Your Gratitude
Gratitude is defined as a sense of thankfulness and joy in response to receiving a gift. Multiple studies have found the positive power of gratitude for fostering social connection, pro-social behaviors, and mental well-being.
Try out different ways of practicing gratitude to bolster social connection and well-being.
Read Now
Feel Well
Emotional Well-Being
Valuing emotions, developing an ability to identify and manage emotions for health, to achieve goals, and to inform decisions. Seeking help for mental health when needed.
Resilient Thinking I: 6 Steps to Tame Negative Emotions (Worksheet)
Resilient Thinking II: Activities to Boost Positive Emotions (Worksheet)
Recognition & Rewards
Perceived efforts/contributions are fairly balanced with perceived rewards provided by the employer (e.g., compensation, esteem and social rewards, job security, career opportunities).
Strengths-Based Feedback Activity Guide
Strengths-Based Feedback Activity Guide: Provides practical guidance for supervisors on delivering strengths-based feedback.
Balance
Our culture supports members ability to maintain good health and functioning while feeling fully engaged in and satisfied with their contributions to their work and families and themselves without perceiving too much conflict among those roles.
Aligning With Your Values Activity Guide
Aligning With Your Values Activity Guide explains individual and team activities to identify one’s core values and ways to align those values with one’s work and personal life.
Getting Serious About Balance & Self-Care For Solo Lawyers: Perspectives and Strategies From Professional Women of Color
Professional coach Pamela DeNeuve interviews Melanie Fenwick Thompson and Phillis Williams about strategies for creating balance and valuing self-care as solo practitioners and unique challenges for people of color.
Effective Leadership
Perceived efforts/contributions are fairly balanced with perceived rewards provided by the employer (e.g., compensation, esteem and social rewards, job security, career opportunities).
Positive Leadership Development Activity Guide
Positive Leadership Development Activity Guide: Effective leadership is a key contributor to workplace well-being. This Guide provides multiple activities for starting down the path of leader development.
Inclusion
Our organizational members feel supported and valued for their unique, individual traits and talents; feel a sense of belonging; and have access to and feel fairly treated by the organization’s structures and processes.
Things In Common Activity Guide
Connecting Over Things In Common Activity Guide. We often share more in common with others than what meets the eye. Getting beyond the surface attributes and gaining a better understanding of the experiences, identities, and other aspects of our lives that we share with our colleagues can help us bridge differences and work together more effectively.
The Cost of Assimilation in the Legal Profession
The Cost of Assimilation in the Legal Profession: Voices Of Our Diverse Colleagues (2021). Well-Being Week Team, 28:28 mins.
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome As a Black Woman In Law
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome As a Black Woman In Law (2021). Well-Being Week Team, 17:04 mins.
Culture of Trust, Fairness & Transparency
Our work environment is characterized by the shared values of trust, honesty, transparency, and fairness.
Positive Leadership Panel Activity Guide
Positive Leadership Panel Activity Guide: Guidance for organizing a panel of top leaders addressing issues related to trust, fairness, and transparency.