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Managing Stress for Attorneys and Accountants |
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with Liah Kraft-Kristaine, J.D. LifeKraft Institute * www.lifekraft.com * 877- LIFEKRAFT (877-543-3572) |
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Outline for 6 Hours CPE, CLE Credit: States of Georgia and Florida Hour 1: Potential stress factors and how they affect your practice Using National Institute of Health criteria, determine current stress level and danger factor Define sources of stress and anxiety, both in law practice and in personal life Prioritize major current stressors Hour 2: Ramifications of stress on brain function: short-term memory, cognition, decision-making New research RE: damage to brain by cortisol and other stress hormones The stress cycle and its relationship to cognition Perceptual filters: how and why our entire history affects our stress levels Hour 3: How stress can be managed for efficiency and clarity in law practice The cognitive approach to managing the inception of stress Unearthing the sources of persistent, underlying anxiety that affects your performance Control: How real and believed sense of control affects stress levels Healthy coping skills and mechanisms: when stress factors are out of your control Hour 4: Cognitive problem-solving for stress A reassessment of time management Insurance against errors and omissions: planning for time and stress Exercise in rational/cognitive problem solving using primary and secondary strategies Hour 5: The emotional component of stress: how it can run or ruin a situation Ten effective methods for dealing with stress that has flooded emotional response capacity Exercises: Identifying Time-Outs, healthy methods of release Understanding the choice and responsibility aspects of response to stress Hour 6: The potential damaging effects of stress on the body Methods to break up the effects of physical stress Immunity: the disaster of stress Methods to boost the immune system Focusing and relaxation techniques to increase cognitive performance in your law practice # # # |