Important changes to VJLAP’s 12-Step and Wellness Support Meetings:
1. Effective immediately, the Monday 12-Step Support Meetings will commence at 6:30 PM instead of 8:00 PM. VJLAP will no longer host a Monday 12-Step Support Meeting at 8:00 PM. Changes will be made to the event calendar.
2. After 04/08/24, there will no longer be Monday Wellness Support Meetings at 6:30 PM. If you are interested in such a meeting, there is a Thursday Wellness Support Meeting (1, 3 and 5th Thursday of the month). Changes will be made to the event calendar.
3. Effective immediately, there will no longer be a Wednesday 12-Step Meeting at 6:00 PM. There is a Wednesday 12-Step Meeting at 5:30PM and a meeting on the 1, 3 & 5th Monday of the month at 6:30PM. Changes will be made to the event calendar.
4. Please also note the Thursday Wellness Support Meetings that had been every Thursday will only be the 1, 3 & 5 Thursday of the month. Changes will be made to the event calendar.
Thank you for your attention to these updates. If there are questions, please reach out to Barbara Mardigian at bmardigian@vjlap.org.
This S support group meets virtually every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. . It is currently being held online and open to all seeking support managing problems with relationships and sexual behavior. The meeting is hosted on Zoom** and may be accessed using your desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone, or via telephone. Meeting ID: 940 5489 7206
This 12-Step support group meets every Wednesday at 6:00 p.m., is hosted in Richmond, Virginia, and is open to all seeking support with managing concerns related to substance use. It is currently being held virtually using the link below. Join Virtually: The meeting is hosted on Zoom** and may be accessed using your desktop, laptop,
This S support group meets virtually every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. . It is currently being held online and open to all seeking support managing problems with relationships and sexual behavior. The meeting is hosted on Zoom** and may be accessed using your desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone, or via telephone. Meeting ID: 940 5489 7206
This 12-Step support group meets every Wednesday at 6:00 p.m., is hosted in Richmond, Virginia, and is open to all seeking support with managing concerns related to substance use. It is currently being held virtually using the link below. Join Virtually: The meeting is hosted on Zoom** and may be accessed using your desktop, laptop,
This S support group meets virtually every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. . It is currently being held online and open to all seeking support managing problems with relationships and sexual behavior. The meeting is hosted on Zoom** and may be accessed using your desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone, or via telephone. Meeting ID: 940 5489 7206
This 12-Step support group meets every Wednesday at 6:00 p.m., is hosted in Richmond, Virginia, and is open to all seeking support with managing concerns related to substance use. It is currently being held virtually using the link below. Join Virtually: The meeting is hosted on Zoom** and may be accessed using your desktop, laptop,
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1:00 – 2:00: Building a Better Workplace Wellness Initiative, Margaret Ogden Presentation Summary: Are you looking to start a wellness initiative in your workplace? Has your organization already started one, only to have it flounder as the pandemic uproots our old practices? This session will give legal professionals tools to create focused, accessible, and evidence-based well-being
2:00 – 3:00: Proposed Rule Bans Lawyers Having Sex with Clients, Renu Brennan (Bar Counsel) and James McCauley Presentation Summary: The Virginia State Bar’s (VSB’s) Standing Committee on Legal Ethics has proposed rule 1.8 (k) which would prohibit sexual relations with a client unless a consensual sexual relationship existed between them when the client-lawyer relationship
3:00 – 4:00: High Stakes Performance Training, Dr. Lorie Hood Presentation Summary: Work like a high-stakes performer. Play like a polar bear. This session teaches the skills and abilities for legal professionals to (i) use High Stakes Performance techniques and methods to manage energy, not time and of Conscious Self Evaluation and increasing self-awareness and
9:00 – 10:00: Addiction is Not a Moral Failure, Dr. Stephen Loyd Presentation Summary: This session reviews how understanding addiction can benefit members of the legal profession; provides an understanding of addiction from a limbic system/frontal lobe perspective; identifies the role of the brain and amygdala in substance use concerns; and emphasizes the importance of
10:00 – 11:00: Codependence in the Legal Profession Presentation Summary: This session reviews common personality traits within the legal profession and what makes our profession a "profession at risk." It explores the distinction between enabling, motivating, supporting, and encouraging behaviors and encourages "carefront," confronting with compassion by identifying a discrepancy in actions and words, with a genuine
11:00 – Noon: Wellness in the Legal Community, Justice William C. Mims Presentation Summary: In this now prolonged pandemic "season," how do we continue to respond in a healthy way? What do we do? What should we do? What do healthy habits look like in this "new, for now, normal?" Drawing from the statistical reports
This S support group meets virtually every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. . It is currently being held online and open to all seeking support managing problems with relationships and sexual behavior. The meeting is hosted on Zoom** and may be accessed using your desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone, or via telephone. Meeting ID: 940 5489 7206
This 12-Step support group meets every Wednesday at 6:00 p.m., is hosted in Richmond, Virginia, and is open to all seeking support with managing concerns related to substance use. It is currently being held virtually using the link below. Join Virtually: The meeting is hosted on Zoom** and may be accessed using your desktop, laptop,
This S support group meets virtually every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. . It is currently being held online and open to all seeking support managing problems with relationships and sexual behavior. The meeting is hosted on Zoom** and may be accessed using your desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone, or via telephone. Meeting ID: 940 5489 7206
This 12-Step support group meets every Wednesday at 6:00 p.m., is hosted in Richmond, Virginia, and is open to all seeking support with managing concerns related to substance use. It is currently being held virtually using the link below. Join Virtually: The meeting is hosted on Zoom** and may be accessed using your desktop, laptop,