Intentional Legal
Mindfulness Based Trainings for Lawyers, Conflict Resolution Professionals, and Social Workers
Where you learn to breathe through the Messy Middle …
Who We Help and Why
Intentional Legal, the professional education initiative of Collective Practices, we help lawyers, mediators, and social workers learn to practice with compassionate professionalism.
We do this work because we know that it is the job of lawyers, mediators, ombuds, social workers, and other helping professionals to listen to hard stories. Your job is to help your clients navigate intense situations and to hold space for others’ suffering. And you do all this while keeping your own emotions in check. W
e offer mindfulness-based courses, workshops, and trainings for these professionals who live and work in the space of conflict, care, and complexity.
What We Offer
Group Workshops and Keynotes
We are available for in person or virtual workshops, CLE, CEU presentations, retreats, and keynotes for the following:
Legal and dispute resolution organizations
Clinical and caregiving professionals such as Social Workers, Doctors, Nurses
Law schools and continuing education program
Customized Mindfulness Trainings
Designed for law firms, mediation and other conflict resolution groups, bar associations, social work teams, nonprofits, and multidisciplinary collaborations.All trainings are adapted to your audience and professional standards. Topics include:
Mindfulness for High-Conflict Professionals
Secondary Trauma and the Helping Professions
Self-Compassion as a Professional Skill
Ethical Presence and Listening Practices
Nervous System Literacy at Work
On Demand Courses
Our featured course is called Bringing Mindfulness to Career Decisions, and it is now available on demand. This course was created for professionals who are facing a career or job that is “too good to leave and too bad to stay.” This 8 module course helps you examine this question through the lens of mindfulness. Each module contains a video lecture, an audio guided meditation, and a combination of exercises and journal prompts.
What is Compassionate Professionalism?
It’s the practice of integrating the core values of mindfulness—compassion, presence, ethics, and emotional awareness—into your work life. Without losing your professionalism. Without checking your humanity at the door.
In our trainings, we reframe compassion not as something soft or sentimental, but as a professional competency—one that allows you to work with more clarity, steadiness, and resilience.
We offer tools to help you:
Stay grounded in difficult conversations
Prevent burnout and secondary trauma
Treat yourself and your colleagues with dignity
Respond to conflict without bypassing or shutting down
Because mindfulness isn’t just for the meditation cushion. It’s for the deposition table, the mediation room, the social work intake, and the courtroom hallway.
Why Mindfulness for Legal + Helping Professions?
Because we hold a lot.
Because we witness trauma.
Because we’re trained to stay neutral, but we’re still human.
Mindfulness and meditation can help:
Reduce emotional exhaustion
Increase attention and empathy
Improve ethical decision-making
Build personal capacity to stay present, even when things are hard
Research shows mindfulness improves not just wellness, but professional effectiveness in high-stakes fields. And when paired with compassion practices, it offers a path to work with integrity and heart.
About Kim
Kim is an attorney, mediator, arbitrator, and certified mindfulness and meditation teacher with decades of experience working across the legal, corporate, higher-ed, and wellness fields. She understands the language, the pressures, and the ethics of professional life—and teaches mindfulness in a way that honors those realities.
Her work blends secular mindfulness, trauma awareness, and professional development. She has trained lawyers, social workers, conflict resolution professionals (mediators, arbitrators, ombuds), founders, and cross-functional teams in how to work with more compassion and less depletion.
“I underestimated how hard it would be adjusting to the new demands at work, but with Kim’s help, I was able to breathe again.”
— Intentional Legal CLIENT
