Helping Attorneys Build Mental and Emotional Fitness (03/16/26)

Helping Attorneys Build Mental and Emotional Fitness for Greater Success and Satisfaction

This seminar introduces a neuroscience-based mental fitness framework designed to help attorneys reduce stress, manage emotional reactivity, and improve both performance and satisfaction. Participants will explore how common mental patterns, known as “Saboteurs”, undermine effectiveness, decision-making, and resilience in legal practice. Through practical, evidence-based tools and brief daily exercises, attorneys will learn how to strengthen the brain’s capacity for calm, clarity, and wise action under pressure.

Learning Objectives:
-Identify common mental patterns that contribute to stress, burnout, and reduced effectiveness in legal practice
-Understand the neuroscience of emotional reactivity and sound decision-making
-Learn practical techniques to improve focus, emotional regulation, and resilience
-Apply mental fitness tools to navigate professional and personal challenges with greater awareness, wisdom and    ease
-Build skills to approach legal practice and life with increased clarity, confidence, and well-being 

Guest Speaker: 
Michael Kaplan is the Founder of Vigorous Life and a Chicago-based, national board-certified health and wellness coach, with a deep passion for helping men overcome habits that are getting in their way, become more connected to their authentic selves, and live a more satisfying and vigorous life. 

Moderator: 
Jonathan Beitner is the Founder of Beitner Coaching & Consulting. Jonathan is a frequent speaker and author on topics related to the intersection of professional development and well-being.  He helps individuals identify and achieve their goals, and works with firms, law schools, and Fortune 500 companies to help their lawyers, students, and staff be more productive, happier, and healthier through individual coaching and evidence-based group programming. As a co-creator of the American Bar Association’s Well-Being Pledge, a lead organizer for the inaugural Well-Being Week in Law, and one of the drafters of the Mental Health and Substance Use CLE requirement in Illinois, Jonathan has experience creating and implementing industry-wide initiatives to help lawyers thrive.  He also serves as the Featured Well-Being Coach for the Chicago Bar Association. Jonathan previously practiced as a commercial litigator at an Am Law 100 firm and clerked for federal judges on the Sixth Circuit and Eastern District of Michigan after graduating from the University of Michigan Law School. He lives in Chicago with his wife and two young daughters.

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Please note that audience members do not need video or audio access.  Audience members are able to submit questions via the chat or Q & A features of Zoom. 

Chat: Open in-meeting chat, allowing you to send chat messages to and send a message to the host, panelists, and attendees (if permitted). Question & Answer: Open the Q&A window, allowing you to ask questions to the host and panelists. They can either reply back to you via text in the Q&A window or answer your question live.