Some resources that help with the challenges of practicing law in a VUCA world:
websites
The Reslient Lawyer: a manual for staying well at work
An ebook by Robyn Bradey of RB Counselling & Consultancy Services is a useful reference available to download for free from Lawcover’s website.
Chris Hargreaves created this website to help professionals take their legal knowledge, add some legal skills, and turn that into a fantastic legal career. Full of very sensible tips Chris generously shares his experience and knowledge of social media.
Aimed at junior lawyers working in law firms but a good resource if you are starting out building a personal profile at any age or stage.
The UK Bar wellbeing at the bar site has a helpful section on how to have a conversation with a colleague if you are worried about their mental health. It can be confronting to have these conversations but these sensible suggestions about what to say, and what not to say, are very useful.
The South Australian Law Society has put together a wellbeing and resilience guide (which has a list of other useful resources).
The Minds Count Foundation is an independent, charitable organisation with the objective of decreasing work-related psychological ill-health in the legal community and promoting workplace psychological health and safety. It has created Guidelines which are a free and comprehensive set of resources designed to protect and promote psychological health and safety in the legal workplace. The site has links to research, online forums and stories shared by members of the profession.
Books
Getting to yes offers a straightforward, universally applicable method for negotiating personal and professional disputes without getting taken and without getting angry.
Susan Cain’s Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking shows how dramatically we undervalue introverts and how much we lose in doing so.
Shawn Achor's The Happiness Advantage explains why happiness fuels success, not the other way around.
In The Sleep Diet Dr Carmel Harrington demonstrates the link between the prevalence of lack of sleep and obesity in our society and offers some practical solutions.
Happy Lawyer Happy Life written by family lawyer Clarissa Rayward to give you the tools you need to make the best of your career in the law and, perhaps more importantly, find happiness in your life.
The Wellness doctrines: for law students and young lawyers written by Jerome Doraisamy provides the inspiration a young legal professional needs to take charge of his or her health and wellbeing.
Founded by Dr. Louise Newson, balance app is the only menopause app certified by ORCHA and recognised as safe, accredited, compliant, and trusted to feature in digital health libraries for the NHS and other national health bodies around the world.
Created with a single mission in mind, to make menopause support inclusive and accessible to all, balance app provides evidence-based information to help you become better informed, prepared and empowered during the perimenopause and menopause.