"This book is about how all of us can thrive-in good times and in arduous periods. This book is about focusing on more dimensions than just our intellect so we can be prepared for, and rise to, challenges like the ones we have been navigating since Spring 2020"--
"This book is about how all of us can thrive-in good times and in arduous periods. This book is about focusing on more dimensions than just our intellect so we can be prepared for, and rise to, challenges like the ones we have been navigating since Spring 2020"--
Professor Heidi K. Brown is a graduate of The University of Virginia School of Law, a law professor at Brooklyn Law School, and a former litigator in the construction industry. Professor Brown is the author of Untangling Fear in Lawyering: A Four-Step Journey Toward Powerful Advocacy (ABA 2019), The Introverted Lawyer: A Seven-Step Journey Toward Authentically Empowered Advocacy (ABA 2017), and a two-volume legal writing book series entitled The Mindful Legal Writer. Professor Brown champions the importance of openly discussing stressors, anxieties, and fears in lawyering, and helping quiet and anxious law students and lawyers become profoundly effective advocates, in their authentic voices. Professor Brown just released her third well-being book entitled, The Flourishing Lawyer: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Performance and Well-Being.
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Table of Contents: 1. The Field of Positive Psychology: A Booster Shot for Human Flourishing 2. Let's Get to Work Cultivating Our Multiple Dimensions 3. Awareness Amplifier #1: Crafting Character through Flexing Strengths, Like Muscles 4. Awareness Amplifier #2: Finding Flow and Getting Gritty 5. Our Physical Dimension 6. Our Emotional Dimension 7. Our Artistic/Creative Dimension 8. Our Social Dimension 9. The Dimension of Culture 10. Our Spiritual Dimension 11. Our Occupational Dimension 12. Our Intellectual Dimension 13. Our Moral/Ethical Dimension 14. Our "Caring" or Caregiving Dimension Appendix A: PERMA Well-Being Components Tracker Appendix B: VIA Character Strengths and Virtues Tracker Appendix C: Proposed "Flourishing Lawyer Project" Curriculum Appendix D: Sample "Personalized Well-Being Framework"
