Music

Exercise creativity and improvisational practice. Music and the arts help you connect on a human level with others and on an eco-centric level with the Earth. Creating and maintaining these points of connectivity enhance our ability to be effective lawyers and advocates through compassion and hope. We bring our best selves to our advocacy work when we understand ourselves, our communities, and the structures in place that lead to inequity, distress, and a gap in basic human rights and dignity.

Use music and the arts to engage in creative play and learn something about our environment. Draw from the world around us and play what we hear, notice, and feel about ourselves, our communities, and the systems and structures around us.

Artistic expression provides a path for joy and hope. An excellent complement to distressing careers and lives.

Creative output may also represent in a responsible and ethical manner injustice, inequity, and inequality around us and provide an important depth of perspective for the pro bono work we do.

Protect separate time to engage creatively and naturally as an essential component of well-being. Wonderful examples of projects completed in law schools are described in these blog posts and podcast: Yale Law | University of Chicago Law | NYC Bar Podcast on Mindfulness and Music