NAPD 2024 Women's Virtual Conference

The presentation is based on the book, Moms Eat First: 5 Principles to Prioritize Yourself and Create the Change You Crave.

The book was written to help moms prioritize themselves, who often place the needs of everyone else first. There are five key principles shared that focus on reflecting on what is important, rediscovering possibilities, resetting priorities, reclaiming what is important amid adversity, and releasing what you can't control.

Women-identifying attorneys face both internal and external challenges when negotiating with men. Presenters will walk participants through real-world examples, offer battlefield advice, and offer solutions for the internal work and external structures that must change to do our best work. Participants will gain tools to recognize, confront, and process misogyny-charged interactions quickly and effectively to get back to work in negotiations.  Participants will use those tools to prepare themselves for those internal challenges that include knowing gender-based discrimination will happen, knowing that it does happen (to everyone), and preparing for what happens next when these exchanges occur. Tools offered emphasize solidarity, collaboration, and, at times, demands for systemic change. Participants leave more armored with their individual power to win and more appreciative of their gifts, cloaked with and unique to their own womanhood.

This year's workshop will continue the 2023 Imposter Syndrome presentation. We will focus on helping attendees determine where they are on the scale of imposter syndrome, work through strategies and tools attendees can use on their own time for reflection, and work through group scenarios of common imposter syndrome situations and how to address them. We will provide a methodology for driving to a desired outcome by understanding the factors impeding success.

This session will explore that path away from survival mode to strategic wellness and open up questions to ask, “What would it look like if we weren’t merely automatically suppressing the impact of a client's or legal system's traumatic experiences every day?” and “What if the origin of our decisions to address our self-care needs were not on autopilot? “
This session allows participants to actively draft a preliminary plan and examine what strategic wellness and self care planning is.