The Law Society Northern Territory is pleased to offer a free CPD Stress Mastery: resilience in practice presented by Desi Vlahos, CEO and Founder of Wellceum.

Date:        Friday, 14 February 2025
Where:     Darwin Innovation Hub Level 1, 48-50 Smith Street Darwin
Time:       12:00pm to 1:30pm

This free CPD is offered in-person and online however seating is limited and bookings are essential.  To register your attendance for this event click here.

It’s common now to hear the phrase – a good lawyer is a well lawyer. In practice, all lawyers must be aware of their obligations and duties and consider their broader objectives in addition to the literal dos and don’ts. Our mental health and ability to self-regulate as an individual can affect our compliance with our professional responsibilities. We must turn our mind to the bigger picture including the reputation and integrity of our places of work and the profession more broadly. Above all, we must think about how our mental health and wellbeing can affect our ability to serve our clients properly, what expectations the community has of lawyers, what privileges and powers a lawyer has by virtue of their knowledge and position in society and how a lawyer should responsibly exercise those powers and privileges as a member of an ethical profession.

The session looks to cover:

• The importance of personal resilience in dealing with the demands of legal practice and the shared responsibility for workplace mental health.
• Key insights and the latest research on the current state of mental wellbeing in the profession both locally and internationally.
• The impact of workplace stress and conveying your personal ways of working that will assist you and your team to best manage risk and enable you to flourish.
• Resources, strategies and skills that will help develop personal resilience in practice.
• Know about how and where to seek help in identifying mental health difficulties and in dealing with their effects.

N.B. This session is relevant for whole of organisation.

About Desi Vlahos, LLB, Grad Dip Ed:

Desi is the CEO and Founder of Wellceum, a workplace consultancy supporting legal and professional services integrate strategy to manage psychosocial risk, improve employee resilience, and create visible social impact. Desi is also an Australian Legal Practitioner and senior lecturer of the Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice at the Australian College of Applied Professions in partnership with the Law Institute of Victoria. Admitted in 2005, Desi has practiced in mid-tier, suburban and private firms. In 2013, Desi completed a Graduate Diploma of Education with a focus on legal studies and literature. As a certified mental health first aid trainer, Desi is a strong advocate for mental health, the wellbeing of new lawyers and the profession as a whole.
Desi is a director of the Minds Count Foundation and Co-Chair of the International Bar Association Professional Wellbeing Commission. She holds the seat of Co-Vice Chair for the International Bar Association Academic and Professional Development Committee. She also holds a Certificate III in Fitness Training.
Most notably, Desi was named Australia’s Lawyer’s Weekly Women in Law Wellness Advocate of the Year for 2021 and again in 2022.