Mindful Advocacy

Why this program?

This innovative and intensive workshop will help you reach a higher level in your legal practice. It combines and presents the most recent understandings in the neurosciences and behavioral psychology with legal practice to help you gain deeper insights into your own way of functioning, as well as the way clients, witnesses, experts, tribunals, juries, judges, ADR neutrals, colleagues or parties in a negotiation behave and may perceive or respond to offers and suggestions.

Intended benefits for the participants

  • Better understand and use the biological drivers  of human behavior during different types of negotiations and leagl proceedings
  • Gain new insights into clients, witnesses, dealing with opposing counsels and tribunals
  • Acquire new techniques to positively impact decision-making processesand outcomes in all projects, negotiations and trials
  • Improve your interventions
  • Better manage your mental resources

Who is it for?

All lawyers: negotiators, decision-makers, litigators, ADR neutrals (arbitrators or mediators) and all other legal practitioners who are eager to expand their knowledge and enhance their legal practice.

Typical agenda

DAY 1

  • Introduction to the brain: why should lawyers care about neuroscience?
  • Memory, Attention and Evidence Gathering
  • Project & Case Diagnosis: social, emotional and cognitive dynamics of proceedings
  • Decision-making
  • Trust and persuasion
  • Summary & Closure

DAY 2

  • Modulators of human behavior: culture, age, gender and personality
  • Priming
  • Emotional regulation and mindfulness
  • Critical junctures in negotiation and mediation
  • Creativity in negotiation and mediation
  • Applications to the management of your law firm
  • Optimal personal efficiency
  • Summary & Closure
If you are a potential partner or client,
please contact us to know about our business model and explain your needs,
so that we can create an exciting learning experience for your target audience.