Join the New Jersey Lawyers Assistance Program's Networkers Without Borders for a Zoom webinar this Friday, April 24 at 1 p.m. entitled "Five Habits That Build Resilience & Enhance Well-Being." REGISTER HERE.
The program will include successful leaders sharing well-being habits that help them inspire, motivate, and mentor in the workplace, no matter what the profession.
In this presentation, NJLAP's Noreen Braman will focus on five important habits leaders need in their well-being “toolkit” to help build resilience for those times when stress can be overwhelming. They are:
- Mindfulness, starting with a definition of what it means to be mindful, and how to incorporate that into daily living. Interactive exercises include “in the moment” mindfulness as well as mindfulness meditation.
- Gratitude. Recent studies using functional MRIs have shown exciting changes to the brain that coordinate with enhanced happiness as a result of purposeful gratitude activities. Learn about gratitude journals, gratitude letters and 5 simple gratitude gestures.
- Purpose. Having a “reason for getting up in the morning,” (“ikigai” in Japanese) is arguably one of the most important and powerful factors in happiness, health and longevity, even if your career work is not exactly aligned. This session takes an intense look at personal mission and vision with self-discovery activities and writing exercises that help reveal ways that one’s sense of purpose can be aligned with other aspects of life.
- Happiness, which is explored both as a state of being and as a much maligned “pursuit.” What is happiness and why is global society so focused on it that some countries are using it instead of a GDP? How the other habits covered in this course contribute to Happiness, and why enhancing your happiness is vital to coping when life becomes difficult.
- Laughter. Anthropologists now believe that laughter is a survival mechanism existing in humans even before language, or even a sense of humor developed. Laughter is so powerful it can both lift up the oppressed when used for healing, or take down oppressors when used as a weapon. This session explores that two-edged sword description of laughter as well as introduces the concept of laughter as a well-being exercises that does not rely on jokes or humor.
Noreen Braman is a Strategic Communications professional and author of “Treading Water,” a collection of her humor columns and essays. A member of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor (AATH), Noreen is certified in Laughter Yoga and Laughter Wellness and helps others enhance their well-being through her Smile Side of Life Laughter & Happiness Club presentations and special events, including workshops on 5 Elements of Well-Being, Writing Your Own Mission Statement, Reinvention After 50, The Daughter of Laughter & Chaos and others. She was featured on EBTV3’s Wellness Spotlight.
Noreen has presented laughter for the health of it to lawyers, law firms, bar associations, professional mediators, technology employees, dentists, banking professionals, caregivers, cancer survivors, seniors, children and more! Noreen teaches Laughter Wellness at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of Rutgers University, and will be a keynote speaker at Brookdale Community College’s 2020 Women’s Conference.