Thrive and feel alive (AGAIN).
Join us for the Women Lawyers Wellness Summit
Agenda | Tickets | Parking Information | About the Speakers | Sponsors | Testimonials
Everything looks so good on paper.
Everyone knows you are the one who gets it all done, but deep down, you know it’s not sustainable.
You’ve achieved so much in your legal career by always working this hard, but you’re missing precious time with your family. You constantly have to choose between yourself, your work, or your family and the mom guilt never ends.
You are constantly “on,” thinking on your feet, and winning your cases, but all you really want is a safe place to be who you really are.
Expectations are high, stakes are even higher. Chronic stress, burnout, and anxiety are the price you are paying for your success.
What if it weren’t only possible — but easy — for you to feel recharged in life AND enjoy your work?
What if you could…
Break out of your normal routine without sacrificing your success
Shift your focus away from addictive behaviors to scientifically proven tools to reduce stress, feel more connected, and get better sleep
Connect with other similarly aligned female lawyers that just “get you” and can help you in your journey forward
You can at our inaugural Women Lawyers Wellness Summit at Waybird Farm and Forest!
We’ve secured a private full-day experience in the woods designed to instantly calm your nervous system with a laser-focus on sending you back to your life and your legal practice feeling rejuvenated and ready to perform at your peak potential.
The event is packed with invaluable information from a thoughtfully curated panel of industry leaders and influential professionals — doctors, lawyers, coaches, and business owners — who routinely guide high-achieving professionals like you to make instantly accessible life changes that will lead you to feel better, supercharge your professional success, have improved personal and professional relationships, and increased overall wellness and wellbeing.
The event is approved for 6 hours of CLE credits with the Georgia Bar.
Agenda
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Practicing attorney Dani Berry will discuss wellness as it pertains to you individually and to your law firm as an organization and provide practical tips for reducing stress, increasing mental and physical wellbeing, and incorporating spirituality into your everyday life as ways to move from a posture of merely surviving to a posture of successfully flourishing.
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The world needs lawyers. That is a fact. The world does not need stressed out, overwhelmed, anxious, or depressed lawyers. The world needs well adjusted, resilient, happy, and joyful lawyers. This presentation with practicing lawyer, Elizabeth Garvish, will provide:
1) Some science based background on why past programming, stress, anxiety, pressure and negative emotions hinder our productivity.
2) Guidance on how we can change our thoughts and emotions to function optimally.
3) Tips, tricks and tools to change your mindset and inject happiness into your law practice, through a process of innovative self discovery and doing things differently.
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Did you know that research shows that being in nature can improve wellness and mental health and increase our ability to focus? When was the last time you had an hour of time dedicated to simply being in nature? Use this special hour to explore the the truly incredible 45 acres of land on Waybird Farm and Forest any way you want.
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Curate your own personal advisory board, cultivating a safe ecosystem where support thrives in every aspect of your life. Say goodbye to endless networking events and shallow lunches. Learn how to restore your energy sources quicky, set firm boundaries, and elevate yourself through intentional connections. Strengthen your discernment as you craft interactions that fuel your growth.
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Experience Waybird’s specialty woodfire grilled pizzas while collaborating and exchanging ideas with colleagues about proven support systems they have used to lighten there loads at work and at home.
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Work-life integration involves merging your professional and personal roles in a way that they complement each other. It’s the practice of creating room for both work and personal life, aiming for fulfillment in both areas.
Through work-life integration, you skillfully manage your work schedules and personal obligations, ensuring increased satisfaction and productivity in both your professional and personal spheres.
Work-life integration is not centered on discovering a flawless equilibrium between work and personal life. Instead, it requires an individualized flexibility that may evolve as circumstances change. It also accounts for your many commitments, while also making room for your own needs as a person. A crucial aspect to this integration is to establish alignment in your preferences and to remain adaptable as requirements shift in either domain of your life.
Drs. Ketchen and Hunter will discuss how to apply the principles of work-life integration into your own practice and also as a flexible approach for your law firms to help reduce stress and increase productivity and job satisfaction.
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Chronic stress can cause our brain to release higher levels of cortisol and adrenaline and cause unhealthy hormonal imbalances that lead to high blood pressure, weight gain, mood changes, sleep issues, and other health problems. Kristin Oja will talk about how to keep our hormones regulated and in balance to combat stress and other health problems.
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Yoga is an ancient practice that is scientifically proven to reduce stress, depression and anxiety and can reduce levels of cortisol and tap into your parasympathetic nervous system. Learn how to breathe with your movements to become more aware of your bodily sensations and let go of what does not serve you.
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Did you know that deep sound vibrations by a soothing instrument can help you decompress? Sound baths are a meditative practice involving the use of resonant music that can calm your nervous system. Immersive sounds that fill the room and the body aim to help people relax and let go of stress, anxiety, or other worries and concerns. Listening to sound frequencies produced by some instruments can bring your body into a state of relaxation similar to the state that is induced by meditation. People report feeling deeply relaxed after sound baths, which may have health benefits.
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After collaborating at a women’s mental health and wellness event, Betty Davis and Elsie Brotherton discovered that they shared a lot in common, including both being serial entrepreneurs and mothers to young children. Wanderbar, a traveling taps trailer, was born out of their friendship and love for new and exciting ventures. Wanderbar will feature non-alcoholic drinks at the event!
Tickets
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Parking
Important: The venue for this event has limited parking. Parking will be reserved for the speakers and for the first 20 registered attendees who choose “Reserved Parking” below.
All subsequent attendees must ride a shuttle bus (included) to the venue. Select “Free Shuttle” in the menu below.
We will send out more information to all registered attendees as the date nears.
About the Speakers
Danielle (Dani) Berry, J.D., is the Founder and Chief Wellbeing Officer at Wellworks Consulting, a company that provides wellbeing consulting services to individuals and mindfully led organizations. Dani’s mission is to help individuals thrive under stress, and organizations find solutions that maximize organizational and individual engagement and wellbeing. Dani is also a Partner at Lavender Hoffman Emery, LLC, where she provides companies with practical solutions to employment law issues. Dani’s legal practice also includes defending self-funded employee benefit plans and plan members against lawsuits and arbitrations initiated by hospitals. Prior to joining Lavendar Hoffman Emery, Dani served as managing attorney for a small boutique firm in Atlanta specializing in employment law, and before that, as the administrative partner in the Atlanta office of a national Am Law 100 firm where she practiced complex defense and employment litigation. Dani received a BBA and JD from the University of Georgia. Dani is a registered mediator and an active member of the Attorney Wellness Committee of the State Bar of Georgia. She is a former yoga instructor, having completed over 200 hours of yoga teacher training. Dani loves spending time outdoors with her two boys, Miles and Mack, and her labradoodle, Frankie. Learn more about Dani and support her work here.
Elizabeth Garvish founded Garvish Immigration Law Group, LLC in 2011 with the mission to be the “Happiest Law Firm in America.” In June 2022, Elizabeth was recognized as a Legal Innovator at the Daily Report’s Georgia Legal Awards and has been recognized for two consecutive years (2023 and 2024) as one of Georgia's Titan 100. She is ranked in the 2023 Chambers USA Guide and was included in the 2023 LawDragon Inaugural 100 Leading Immigration Lawyers Guide. Elizabeth is a frequent speaker and presenter on U.S. immigration topics, wellness and law practice management topics. She is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) serving on various national committees as well as serving as the Past Chair of the Georgia-Alabama Chapter of AILA. She also served for many years as the local Coordinator of AILA’s national Citizenship Day Naturalization Drive, and was recognized for her development of this program on local level as the recipient of the State Bar of Georgia’s H. Sol Clark Pro Bono Award in 2008. In 2012, she was recognized as an Agent of Change by the New Leaders Council and she received the AILA Champion of the Year award from the Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network in 2015. For many years, Elizabeth hosted an internet radio show on wceg.org called “Beyond the Border.” She earned her B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and her J.D. from Tulane University School of Law. She is AV rated by Martindale Hubbell, recognized by Georgia Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers, licensed to practice law in Georgia, Texas and South Carolina and fluent in Spanish.
Allison Hare is the former sales executive turned professional women’s coach with a special heart for overfunctioning moms who secretly are running themselves into the ground but nobody would ever know. She’s the host of the award-winning, top 1.5% globally ranked podcast, Late Learner, and a personal coach for professional mothers and a keynote speaker. She founded the Effective Collective membership designed to connect high-performing mothers that want to powerfully live, work, and play in full alignment. You can learn more about Allison here.
Dr. Bethany Ketchen, PhD, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with 17 years of service in the Veterans Health Administration. Presently, Dr. Ketchen serves as the Program Director of a residential treatment program at the Atlanta VA HCS that provides wraparound services for Veterans experiencing homelessness and addiction. While not a Veteran herself, she is the daughter of a Vietnam Veteran and a proud Atlanta native. Dr. Ketchen received her academic degrees from Duke University and Georgia State University. She currently holds a faculty appointment as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine. Professionally, Dr. Ketchen is passionate about health equity, diversity and inclusion, and women’s health.
Dr. Monique Hunter, PhD, has been a licensed clinical psychologist since 2008 and is the Co-Owner of Harmony Within Psychological Services, LLC. She hold faculty appointments with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory School of Medicine and Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Hunter’s clinical interests include working with adults who are experiencing depression, anxiety, relationship issues, reproduction/infertility concerns, and a variety of other mental health needs. As a wife, mother, and business owner, she is personally invested in promoting the wellbeing of professional women. Learn more about Monique and her practice here.
Kristin Oja obtained her Doctor of Nursing Practice, Masters of Science in Nursing with a Family Nurse Practitioner focus, and is a Registered Nurse. She is also an entrepreneur, functional and lifestyle medicine guru, personal trainer, group fitness instructor, and lover of everything health and wellness!
Passionate about taking a Personalized Medicine approach, Kristin focuses on uncovering the root cause of chronic illness and disease. Taking into account her patients lifestyle, diet, genetics, environment, and stress, each treatment plan is unique and individualized.
Kristin has been serving and caring for patients for over 10 years. She strives every day to provide high quality care by doing everything with compassion, integrity, and above all a serving heart.
Kristin founded STAT Wellness, which stands for Strength To Achieve Total Wellness, to help transform medicine. Statistically, as a society, we are getting sicker and sicker. At STAT Wellness, we want to partner with you to help you not only look your best but to feel your best by combining the best practices of medicine + movement. You can learn more about Kristin and support her work here.
Malinie Feeney is a yoga teacher, sound healer and intuitive reader. She is a lifelong student of literature, philosophy and mind-body transformative practices. Knowledge from these studies weave throughout her classes providing students expanded awareness and direct physical experiences that help them become stronger, more grounded, self-confident and empowered.
Malinie received her RYT 200 from YogaRenew, based out of Hoboken, New Jersey in 2020 and RYT 300 from My Vinyasa Practice in 2022. She has been a student herself for over ten years. You can find Malinie teaching vinyasa flow and yin classes in addition to her sound bath offerings.
Malinie started facilitating sound baths in yoga studios, corporate offices and private groups looking to bring sound meditation into people’s lives more regularly. Her sound sessions include crystal alchemy and crystal quartz singing bowls. Each of the bowls are infused with different crystals that connect to the chakras and deeper self. The sound of the singing bowls vibrate through the body allowing you to achieve an inner cleanse and calm throughout your whole being.
Malinie’s vision is to continue holding space for people from all walks of life to slow down, connect to their senses, and become the architects of their own healing. Malinie has been known to put even the most stressed-out lawyers to sleep during a sound bath! You can learn more about Malinie and support her work here.
Elspeth “Elsie” Brotherton, J.D., is an attorney and fitness entrepreneur specializing in concept creation, development, and execution. She is the founder of Highland Yoga, an Atlanta-based yoga studio with 9 locations and a growing franchise program. In 2022, she co-founded Training Collective, a luxury personal training gym based in Atlanta, as well as FitStaffer, a virtual management company for fitness owners. Prior to founding her yoga studios and becoming a full-time entrepreneur, Elsie was a practicing litigation attorney. Elsie graduated from Emory University School of Law. In law school, Elsie discovered yoga as a way to cope with stress and anxiety. Elsie completed her 200-hour teacher training in Dallas, Texas at Uptown Yoga and has since taught over 3,000 hours of yoga classes accruing her E-RYT designation. You can learn more about Elsie here and how to support her work here.
Our Sponsors
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Testimonials
Read testimonials from last year’s attendees:
“This event provided the tools, resources, and community to reframe the way that we work — and in turn, our lives. It helped reinstate the passion I have for the law, while implementing boundaries to be the best lawyer, friend, sister, daughter, and partner I can be. I couldn’t be more grateful to Betty for putting on this phenomenal event and I am so excited to see all of the transformation that occurs for those in attendance in 2024!”
— Morgan G.
“I was lucky enough to attend the Women Lawyers Wellness Summit in 2023 and it was a refreshing, relaxing, and informative experience. We were able to bond over our shared experiences, discuss how we manage our stress, and learn how to do so much more effectively. The support and camaraderie were exactly what I needed! I recommend this event to all women!”
— Winter W.
“Being surrounded by like-minded women lawyers at the wellness program was empowering, enlightening, and therapeutic. I felt comfortable in the space and shared some of my story as well because I felt seen, heard, and appreciated. I highly recommend this program, and I look forward to being a part of many more!”
— Nicole S.