Tuesday, June 2, 2026
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The Current Topics Track
Presented by the CT Bar Institute
About the Program
A Lawyer’s Guide To Mental Fitness’ is a seminar designed to equip professionals with tools and techniques to cultivate resilience as a defining character attribute by empowering effective stress management to navigate personal and professional challenges. Through actionable frameworks, participants learn to overcome obstacles that impede growth and develop a mindset towards continuous learning and improvement while learning how to deliver in high pressure situations. Whether striving to enhance self-leadership, improve team dynamics, or achieve your personal best,
this course will provide the foundation to thrive in the face of adversity.
You Will Learn
• How to define mental fitness as a trainable skill and understand its role in sustaining high performance under chronic stress
• How to apply practical stress-management frameworks to regulate thoughts, emotions, and behavior in high-pressure legal environments
• Strategies to build resilience as a character attribute by developing faster recovery, emotional awareness, and intentional response strategies after setbacks
• How to translate mental fitness into performance outcomes, including improved focus, communication, judgment, and consistency under pressure
• How to create a personalized mental fitness plan to support long-term well-being, professional growth, and sustainable excellence
Who Should Attend
Attorneys at all career stages: associates, senior associates, partners, and solo practitioners experiencing stress, burnout, or loss of fulfillment who want practical tools.
Credit
CT: 1.0 CLE Credit (Ethics)
NY: 1.0 CLE Credit (Ethics)
The Connecticut Bar Association/CT Bar Institute is an accredited provider of New York State CLE. This program qualifies for newly admitted and experienced attorneys CLE credits.
Attorneys seeking NY CLE credit who have been admitted to the New York State Bar for two years or less must attend the live seminar for skills or ethics credit, a fully interactive videoconference, or simultaneous transmission with synchronous interactivity. Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias CLE credits are only available as non-transitional credits. For further information please see the NYCourts.gov page on CLE: http://ww2.nycourts.gov/attorneys/cle/index.shtml.