{"id":12058,"date":"2017-06-26T10:47:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T14:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/?page_id=1794"},"modified":"2026-09-09T18:22:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:22:54","slug":"lawyers-in-balance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/health-fitness\/center-for-wellness-promotion\/mind\/lawyers-in-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers in Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>2008 &#8211; Present: 15+ Years of Finding Your Calm<\/h2>\n<p>Georgetown Law&#8217;s free, 8-week Lawyers in Balance program brings students together in community to experience and explore <span class=\"S1PPyQ\">a variety of practical, portable, and adaptable mindfulness practices to help defuse stress, navigate the challenges of law school, and cultivate an increased sense of wellbeing<\/span>. <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lawyers in Balance (LIB) prepares law students to thrive, even in\u00a0the stressful lifestyle that often accompanies the legal profession.\u00a0<\/span>In small groups led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/health-fitness\/center-for-wellness-promotion\/mind\/lawyers-in-balance\/facilitators\/\">experienced Law Center faculty and staff members<\/a>, students in LIB will explore a range of mindfulness practices and tools, such as guided meditation, mindful movement, journaling, mindful listening, and guided imagery. The course introduces a new mindfulness technique each week and provides an opportunity to practice the technique in class. In addition to receiving a toolkit of mindfulness and self-care techniques, participants will get to enjoy the restorative benefits of taking a moment to slow down and connect with others in a confidential setting each week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fall 2026 Lawyers in Balance program: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdgjrm4c5SJNmdEPL3eA-yFEX7Bl_OcjFN-uapO5tSIZAVu8g\/viewform?usp=preview\">Apply here<\/a> by September 16th!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2008 &#8211; Present: 15+ Years of Finding Your Calm Georgetown Law&#8217;s free, 8-week Lawyers in Balance program brings students together in community to experience and explore a variety of practical, portable, and adaptable mindfulness practices to help defuse stress, navigate the challenges of law school, and cultivate an increased sense of wellbeing. Lawyers in Balance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"parent":11981,"menu_order":142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12058","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12058"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37472,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12058\/revisions\/37472"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}