Somatic Skills for Resilience and Trauma Informed Lawyering

Somatic Skills for Resilience and Trauma Informed Lawyering

This is a dynamic, interactive session where you will learn skills to regulate stress, calm your central nervous system, solve problems using different methods, and create interesting visual art; all using proven techniques. You’ll understand and experience discrete, simple, fast and effective breathing, intention setting and art practices, and understand why these are so powerful to learn for lawyers and for them to use them in practice for themselves or others.

Facilitated by:

Julie K. Hester, Director of Administrations & Operations, NCVLI

Presented by:

Rachel Monaco, JD, Founder, LOTUS (Legal Options for Trafficked and Underserved Survivors) Legal Clinic

Rachel represents an evolving vision of the humanities in service to the needs of our time. Lawyer, teacher, artist and philanthropist (Marquette University Law School, magna cum laude, Honors BA English/Theology), she has practiced law and taught in the US for over 20 years, working with trafficked persons, victims of sensitive crimes, individuals with disabilities, and keeps a private practice in mediation and estate planning. She actively mentors others across the spectrum, including art therapy doctoral students, trafficking survivors, young lawyers, emerging founders of nonprofits, and pre-law hopefuls.

She started and runs the Wyldfire Foundation and advises nonprofits. Winner of numerous awards, she is known for innovative survivor-empowerment work to combine creative writing, somatic skills and art therapy with trauma-informed lawyering. She is the founder of LOTUS (Legal Options for Trafficked and Underserved Survivors) Legal Clinic in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Rachel enjoys art and photography, world travel, ultrarunning, riding horses and breeding Hungarian Vizslas. She divides her time between a small farm north of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a cabin on the South Shore of Lake Superior. Reach her at MonacoRachelK@gmail.com, on Facebook or Instagram Rachel Monaco (@moth_orchid77)

CLE Accreditation:

An application has been approved by the Oregon State Bar for 1.0 Mental Health/Substance Use CLE credit. The training may be eligible for CLE credit in other states; a certificate of attendance will be available after the program.

National Alliance of Victims' Rights Attorneys (NAVRA) is a project of National Crime Victim Law Institute (NCVLI).

For more information about NAVRA, visit www.navra.org. For more information about NCVLI, visit www.ncvli.org.