Welcome and Introduction
Jennifer Marles — Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP, Vancouver
What Does It Mean To Thrive?
Definition of thriving to set the stage for the day
Allison Wolf — Lawyer Coach, Shift Works Strategic Inc., Vancouver
Part I — Say Yes To You: Create The Career and Life You Want
Panelists share personal stories on how they created a career and life that works for them.
Kasari Govender — Executive Director, West Coast LEAF, Vancouver
Elizabeth Mah — Founder, PaperClip Law, North Vancouver, Squamish and Langley
Valerie Mann — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver
Workshop: Strategic Planning For Your Career and Life
Designing your life deliberately! This session aims to challenge your thinking about what is possible for your work, career, pursuits and life. Through a series of questions, we will explore both possibility and practicality in the design (or redesign) of your work and life. For each of these five questions, you’ll hear a story, learn a few prompts, reflect on your own thoughts and then take a stab at articulating your “answer” to someone else. You could walk away with any of the following: validation of your current design, discovery of new insights about what you want, and/or new ways to realize what you want.
Katie Wyka — Performance Coach, Clio – Legal Practice Management Software, Burnaby
Lyndsey Hannigan — Director of Talent, Clio – Legal Practice Management Software, Burnaby
Break
Part II — Thriving Through The Downers
Panelist will share her personal story on working through the downers.
Myrna McCallum — Miyo-Pimatisiwin Legal Services, North Vancouver
Workshop: Overcoming the Confidence Gap With Self-Advocacy and Self Promotion Skills and Strategies to Achieve Success and Thrive
This session will show you how to lay the foundation for a successful career. It will include experiential exercises that offer you the opportunity to explore your strengths and better understand where and how they fit into your organization. You will walk away with something concrete to inspire you to have the confidence to ask for what you need, when you need it.
Bena Stock — Associate Director, Lawyers Assistance Program of BC
Networking Lunch (provided)
Tips and Strategies for Neutralizing the Bullies
This presentation will provide tips and tactics for dealing with bad behaviour in litigation practice and encountered from colleagues or from parties engaged in a transaction. There may be role play opportunities for an interactive element.
Gwendoline Allison — Foy Allison Law, West Vancouver
Claire Hatcher — Pender Litigation, Vancouver
Break
Part III — Thriving Day-to-Day: Strategies for Creating and Managing Energy
Panelists share personal stories on how they thrive day-to-day.
Sara Forte — Forte Law Corporation, Surrey
Teresa Tomchak — Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP, Vancouver
Workshop: Invigorate Your Day to Thrive Through the Grind
Presentation and group work on identifying and minimizing negative energy drains and strategies for building and maintaining positive energy.
Allison Wolf — Lawyer Coach, Shift Works Strategic Inc., Vancouver
Closing Keynote
Marion R. Buller — Chief Commissioner, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry, Vancouver
Reception