The Law Society is offering a free one-day seminar program in Wagga Wagga, on Monday 21 May 2012, to assist you to meet your MCLE obligations.

The program, which is being held in co-ordination with the South West Slopes Law Society, will run from 9:00 pm to 4:00 pm.

These workshops will help you to recognise and understand the pressures of practice that can lead to poor mental health, poor decisions and poor outcomes.

You will come away with a toolkit of strategies, including case studies, information and resources, to assist you.

• Seminar 5 provides strategies for staying well at work including: identifying how we respond to stress in the workplace and the effects of poor responses; insight into a range of positive and practical strategies to help you manage workplace situations and the pressures of practice; and Initiatives to develop a more effective work environment
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• Seminar 6 involves using your mind to manage your brain and includes: formal and informal practices and strategies to minimise avoidance; improving your awareness of emotive behaviours in the workplace; and providing insight into how your mind works so that you can respond authentically and usefully when confronted with situations which challenge or confound
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Comments from participants

"Thank you!! For funding and delivering such a program. Very relevant and very informative."


"I learnt so much from the day."


"Good presenter - passionate and knowledgeable. . .well aware of the stresses faced by lawyers."


"it was the best seminar I attended in years. . . I wish I had attended such a seminar in 1963."

Cost: The seminar program is free. Places are limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

To register: complete the registration form.

CLE guidelines: If this program is relevant to your immediate or long-term needs in relation to your professional development and practice of the law, then you should claim one 'unit' for each hour of attendance, refreshment breaks excluded.