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First Friday Ethics: August 2026

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First Friday Ethics: August 2026
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SPECIAL EDITION: Burnout and the Modern Lawyer: Recovering Clarity Under Pressure --

Marla Mattenson, Founder of Beacons Global dedicated to teaching ethical practices behind the scenes in business, empowering Texas lawyers to achieve. You struggle because your nervous system is doing exactly what it was designed to do: prioritize urgency over restoration. In the high-pressure environment of a modern legal practice, this pattern can lead to chronic stress, burnout, and reduced clarity in communication and decision-making. In this wellness CLE, you’ll learn why traditional self-care often feels impossible for lawyers and how to regulate stress while continuing to work. You’ll leave with practical tools, including the Capture & Compost Method, to recover clarity under pressure, communicate more effectively (including through vocal tone awareness), boost productivity, and experience relief.

    Why Self-Care Feels Impossible for Lawyers
    You know self-care matters, yet during a demanding workday it often feels unrealistic or indulgent. In this session, discover why a stressed nervous system naturally prioritizes urgency over restoration and why traditional self-care advice rarely works for lawyers. Learn how to embed small regulation practices throughout your workday to shorten stress cycles, “timebending” how long you remain in a stress response.

    Your Brain on Burnout
    Burnout is not just emotional exhaustion, it is a physiological state that changes how your brain processes information, decisions, and reacts to pressure. In this session, learn how chronic stress affects your cognition, communication, and professional judgment, and how to recognize your own stress signals through thoughts, emotions, body sensations, and shifts in vocal tone. Understanding these signals helps you respond more effectively in conversations with clients, colleagues, and opposing counsel.

    Turning Stress Into Relief
    The thoughts and emotions you push aside during a demanding workday do not disappear, they accumulate. In this session, learn the Capture & Compost Method for recording stressful thoughts and later reflecting on them to identify patterns between thoughts, emotions, body sensations, and behaviors. This practice helps you recover from pressure faster, restore mental clarity, and bring greater focus, meaning, and renewal to your work.

    Includes: Video Captions Audio Transcript Slides

    • Total Credit Hours:
    • 3.00 | 3.00 ethics
    • Credit Info
    • TX, CA, PA
    • TX MCLE credit expires: 7/31/2027
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    Sessions

    Credit
    1. Why Self-Care Feels Impossible for Lawyers (Aug 2026)

    Marla Mattenson

    1.00 1.00 0.00 1.00 | 1.00 ethics
    Downloadable Materials
    Transcript (txt)
    Slides (pdf) – 32 pgs

    Session 1 —60 mins 1.00 | 1.00 ethics

    Why Self-Care Feels Impossible for Lawyers (Aug 2026)

    You know self-care matters, yet during a demanding workday it often feels unrealistic or indulgent. In this session, discover why a stressed nervous system naturally prioritizes urgency over restoration and why traditional self-care advice rarely works for lawyers. Learn how to embed small regulation practices throughout your workday to shorten stress cycles, “timebending” how long you remain in a stress response.

    Originally presented: Aug 2026 First Friday Ethics (August 2026)

    Marla Mattenson, Mattenson Coaching & Consulting, Inc - Santa Barbara, CA

    2. Your Brain on Burnout (Aug 2026)

    Marla Mattenson

    1.00 1.00 0.00 1.00 | 1.00 ethics
    Downloadable Materials
    Transcript (txt)
    Slides (pdf) – 38 pgs

    Session 2 —60 mins 1.00 | 1.00 ethics

    Your Brain on Burnout (Aug 2026)

    Burnout is not just emotional exhaustion, it is a physiological state that changes how your brain processes information, decisions, and reacts to pressure. In this session, learn how chronic stress affects your cognition, communication, and professional judgment, and how to recognize your own stress signals through thoughts, emotions, body sensations, and shifts in vocal tone. Understanding these signals helps you respond more effectively in conversations with clients, colleagues, and opposing counsel.

    Originally presented: Aug 2026 First Friday Ethics (August 2026)

    Marla Mattenson, Mattenson Coaching & Consulting, Inc - Santa Barbara, CA

    3. Turning Stress Into Relief (Aug 2026)

    Marla Mattenson

    1.00 1.00 0.00 1.00 | 1.00 ethics
    Downloadable Materials
    Transcript (txt)
    Slides (pdf) – 40 pgs

    Session 3 —60 mins 1.00 | 1.00 ethics

    Turning Stress Into Relief (Aug 2026)

    The thoughts and emotions you push aside during a demanding workday do not disappear, they accumulate. In this session, learn the Capture & Compost Method for recording stressful thoughts and later reflecting on them to identify patterns between thoughts, emotions, body sensations, and behaviors. This practice helps you recover from pressure faster, restore mental clarity, and bring greater focus, meaning, and renewal to your work.

    Originally presented: Aug 2026 First Friday Ethics (August 2026)

    Marla Mattenson, Mattenson Coaching & Consulting, Inc - Santa Barbara, CA