family law supervisor, relationship counseling, wellbeing coaching, Mindfulness teacher

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Lawyers are human too. You are expected to perform as if nothing touches you and to appear confident and competent at all times. But the reality is different. Practising law takes you through a full range of thoughts and emotions both positive and negative. How are you feeling today?

Someone has done or said something that really annoys or upsets you. Again! You need help to make your relationships at work better.
I'm talking your talk already! You are interested in people and how we think and feel. You understand that as a lawyer our brains and emotions are an important part of what you do. You'd like to learn more about psychology and neuroscience and how it can help you in the law.
Your dream job is now a gilded cage. Part of you feels squashed. You need to find a better way to live and work.
It's not all about you. You have staff and colleagues you care about and you want to make sure that the workplace you create is a psychologically safe and happy place for them. You are looking for good quality, relevant training and one to one support for your staff.
It's just all too much. You desperately want a break from work but you fear it will be even worse when you return. You are looking for help to realign life and work so that you get time to recuperate and enjoy the good things in life.
You know where you want to get to in life. You just need someone to stretch and support you so you can attain your own definition of success and create your own sense of fulfilment and wellbeing.
You are bombarded by constant demands and just want to hide away in the bathroom. You need practical ways to reduce the stressors and become more resilient to those you can't avoid.
You love your job and you want to be as good at it as you can be. You'd love someone to mentor you, challenge you and help you grow as a person and as a lawyer.
You have big decisions to make and it's hard to figure out what to do. You need someone to act as a sounding board and to help you align your decisions to your core values.
You feel the urge to bring something into existence, whether that's a business project or a new creative endeavour like a book or an art project. You need a coach with a creative flair to help you make it happen.
You've suffered a loss. Maybe it's a divorce or a bankruptcy, a partnership bust up, bereavement or a diagnosis of an illness. Whatever it is it's rocked your world and knocked you off kilter. You are not looking for therapy but you do need someone to help you build your new future.
You are stepping up into leadership or starting a new job. Or maybe it's time to retire or take a longed for sabbatical. You need to evaluate what you want from this new life and who you need to grow into as a person to make the most of your opportunity.
You love helping people but you are sick of spending all day every day listening to people fight, to stories of abuse and trauma, poverty and neglect. It feels like you want to clean yourself out. You need a regular place to offload and process the content of your work.
You keep making resolutions and promises to yourself even when it's not New Year. But somehow you always let them slip by. You want someone to help you get accountable to yourself and to help you change the mindsets that trip you up.
There are a hundred and one other ways you could be feeling today. I can't list them all but I can work with them all. Positive or negative, there are reasons behind them all, and actions you can take to make life the way you want it.

Traditionally the profession has not been good at acknowledging these feelings and meeting the needs they create. There is much talk about 'wellbeing' but few people empowering you to actually make your life better. Instead, lawyers struggle on alone in silence.
It is my purpose to change that.

About Helen L. Conway

I experienced all of these emotions in my work as a former solicitor and barrister specialising in family law and as a full-time District Judge in the Family Court, County Court and Court of Protection for over 10 years.

I learned that wellbeing is not just the absence of the stress-induced illness that plagues the profession. It is the positive state of having enough of all that you need, physically, intellectually and emotionally. It includes feeling supported, resilient, fulfilled, and happy at work. It is about having a sense of meaning, purpose, and balance. It is also about having sufficient personal time to enjoy life with family and friends, to engage in sustaining activities and to recuperate.

Having experienced what it is like to be depleted of all these positives and having suffered the consequences, I spent several years learning how wellbeing is really achieved and sustained. Having now achieved it in my own life, my purpose is to share what I learned with you so that you can create your own sense of wellbeing.

As a qualified coach, trained mindfulness teacher and associate at JSA Psychology, I combine my legal experience and my psychology knowledge to empower others to create and sustain a genuine sense of wellbeing at work and in their personal lives

You can read more about on my About page..

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family law supervisor, relationship counseling, wellbeing coaching, Mindfulness teacher

I focus on four common needs:

Space to think

A pause to reflect on work and its demands. A place to offload and process the toxic relationships and stories of abuse and trauma you hear . Someone who can support you to grow and develop as a lawyer and individual.

Workplace wellbeing

Practical ways to manage stress, prevent burnout and create a sense of meaning, purpose and yes, even joy at work and in your personal life.

Relevant bespoke CPD provision

Soft skills training and one to one self-development work that meets your precise, individual needs, relevant to the exact situations you face at work.

Support through transition

Stepping into leadership, career change, starting a business, returning to work after a break, retirement or making a passion project happen on the side. All these are easier with someone alongside you.

I do this by offering three types of service:

One to one
Family Law Supervision

An ongoing relationship providing professional support and one to one continual professional development to family lawyers

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One to one coaching

Support for you if you need to make changes in your life, have a goal to achieve or find yourself at a transition point such as stepping up into leadership, job change or return to work. I also work with clients wishing to work on passion projects to bring balance and pleasure into their lives.

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Group Training

Bespoke in house courses, online teaching and keynote speaking for conference providers

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I'd love to talk with you about what exactly I can do for you. Feel free to book an initial no-obligation call to start the conversation.
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