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Mental Health Awareness Week 2023 - Programme of events
This year to mark Mental Health Awareness Week, we've focused on the official theme of anxiety. Sessions include looking at different therapies to tackle anxiety, advice to support children, yoga flow and how nutrition can impact your mental health. Sessions take place 16-19 May, free of charge during lunchtimes.
LawCare at 25 – ahead of the wellbeing curve
As we mark the 25th anniversary of LawCare, it's a timely moment to reflect on the charity's enormous contribution supporting individuals and changing attitudes to mental health and wellbeing in the legal profession.
Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 – programme of events
Explore our full programme of events for Mental Health Awareness Week 2022, which runs from 9-13 May. We are running daily lunchtime sessions, each on a different theme from psychological safety to mindfulness and the impact loneliness has on our mental health and resilience.
The Law Society of Scotland is proud to endorse the Mindful Business Charter
We've launched part four in our video series on the Mindful Business Charter, a community of businesses committed to removing unnecessary sources of stress and promoting better mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.
Sign up for free mental health training
To mark World Mental Health Day 2021 on Sunday, 10 October, we're encouraging all members of the profession to undertake See Me's free, comprehensive mental health training, to help build a positive working culture where people feel able to talk openly about their mental health.
Our Mental Health Awareness Week programme of events
Explore our full programme of events for Mental Health Awareness Week 2021, which runs from May 10-14. We are running daily lunchtime sessions on a different theme, from reflecting on what we've learned about wellbeing during the pandemic, to accessing innate resilience and fertility awareness.
Menopause resource launched to support Scottish legal profession
The Law Society of Scotland, in partnership with Peppy Health, has launched a comprehensive menopause support resource, designed to help individuals and firms access the support that they need.
Senior lawyers to Pass the Badge on World Mental Health Day
A group of senior figures from Scotland’s legal profession are to ‘Pass the Badge’ to mark World Mental Health Day on 10 October.
Mental Health Awareness Week 2020
Explore our week-long events programme during Mental Health Awareness Week 2020, May 18-22. We're hosting a free, virtual event every day, in collaboration with Clio.
Homeworking hacks: our starter for 10
What do you need to think about as a colleague, manager or leader to help manage stress, increase mood and motivation when you’re working from home? Here's our starter for 10.
Scottish solicitor Catherine Hart appointed as a LawCare champion
Catherine Hart, Partner at Digby Brown, is one of 14 new mental health and wellbeing advocates to have been appointed by legal mental health charity LawCare. She talks about her new role as a LawCare champion on World Mental Health Day.
Maximising our potential without compromising our wellbeing
Chetna Bhatt, co-founder and CEO of Being Lawyers, discusses what we can all do to maximise our potential while ensuring our wellbeing at work.
Six steps to help maintain the benefits of your summer break
Our Head of High Street Engagement, Katie McKenna, looks at what you can do to keep the best of your holiday habits once you're back at work.
Law Society launches first sector-wide survey on mental health
We are urging everyone working in Scotland’s legal sector to take part in a new survey on mental health in the workplace.
Are you listening?
Janet Rieu-Clarke, our Accredited Paralegal looks at the art of constructive listening and how we can make a positive difference difference to our colleague's wellbeing.
Need support dealing with a client with mental health issues?
Recent stats suggest that around one in three people are affected by mental illness in any one year, so it doesn’t take a genius to work out that a significant proportion of clients who walk in to a solicitor’s office looking for help, will be in someway affected by mental health issues or suffering from poor mental health themselves.
New Year resolutions
Our Head of High Street Engagement, Katie McKenna, considers what brings her joy as she contemplates new resolutions for the year ahead.
It's Christmas! Here's how to avoid getting stressed.
Our Head of High Street Engagement Katie McKenna offers some words of advice on how to look after yourself and avoid getting stressed over the busy festive period
I'm a solicitor - and a carer
Solicitor Gordon Lennox writes about combining full-time work with the responsibilities of being a carer on Carers Rights Day 2018.
Meditation: Becoming a mindful lawyer, 10 minutes at a time
NQ Solicitor Tim Taylor shares his experience of mindfulness and explains how his daily meditation practise has had a positive impact on his personal and professional development.
Let's talk about stress
Our Head of High Street Engagement, Katie McKenna, shares her personal experience of stress and calls for employers and employees to look stress in the face and take positive action.
Top 7 tips for mentors
Experienced Law Society of Scotland mentors David Bryson and Christopher Morgan discuss their 7 top tips for mentors
Mental health first aid, a simple question?
Mental health first aider, Lyndsey Thomson explains what's involved in the mental health first aid training and what it has meant to her personally.
Law Society launches online mental health resource to support legal professionals
We're marking Mental Health Awareness Week with the launch of a new web-based resource Lawscot Wellbeing.