Description

One-day and residential retreats structured to introduce attorneys to, and explore, the application of meditative awareness to the practice of law. One-day retreats are co-sponsored by the Marin County Bar Association and Spirit Rock Meditation Center and co-led by James Baraz, founding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and SIM's Guiding Instructor, Dennis Warren.

Residential retreats are co-sponsored by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and Spirit Rock Meditation Center and co-led by a faculty including meditation instructors from various meditative traditions and Bay Area law professors and attorneys.

For a background discussion on the development of these residential retreats see Attorney Retreats as well as a discussion from the American Bar Association Journal of a residential retreat at ABA Article.

Background Material

Two articles about the use of meditative awareness in the practice of law are available for review. See Cal Bar Article for a two-part articles on the relationship between stress and performance and New Jersey Bar Article which discusses a meditative approach for attorneys' use in the workplace.

Dates

See the Spirit Rock Meditation Center website calendar at http://www.spiritrock.org.

Venue

All one-day and residential retreats are being held at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Marin County, California.

Registration

Pre-registration is required. See Spirit Rock Meditation Center for detail.