The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance Dr. Joseph W. Janesz December 2013 1
Alcoholism in Lawyers • A significant problem • Occupational hazard The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 2
Substance Abuse Statistics • Problem drinking in 18 percent of lawyers who practiced for 2 to 20 years • Problem drinking in 25 percent of lawyers who practiced for 20 years or more. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 3
Genetic Vulnerability The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 4
Addictive Vulnerability • Disorder of Relationships • Disorder of Self-Esteem • Disorder of Mood • Disorder of Regulation – Edward J. Khantzian, MD, Treating Addiction as a Human Process, 2007 The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 5
Personal and Professional Stress • Physical Symptoms • Feelings of anxiety, irritability and flight of ideas – loss of concentration and ability to focus • Decrease in performance • Increase in problematic and compulsive tendencies • Difficulties in relationships • Isolating • Changes in Mood The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 6
Attorney Stress • Client – Bosses • Operate under strict timelines • Competition • Combination of stressors over a long period of time. • Professional survival depends on competence The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 7
Alcoholism: Brain Disease 1. Progressive Disease 2. Disease of the Brain 3. Loss of Control 4. Sick Compulsion 5. Devastating Consequences The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 8
Middle Prefrontal Cortex • Regulate the body • Emotional balance (chaos or rigidity) • Fear extinction – inhibitory abilities • Attune communication • Empathy – imagine what it would be like • Intuition – accessing the wisdom – gut feeling • Response flexibility • Insight – mental time travel – active author of your own story • Moral compass The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 9
Alcoholic Lawyer: Presenting Problems • Combined Drug Dependence/Abuse • Legal Problems – OVI or Drug Possession • High Anxiety • Depressed Mood • Relationship Deterioration and Conflict • Poor Impulse Control • Professional Performance The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 10
E-FORCE – Performance Model • Enhances performance • Bolsters resilience • Improves stress management • Sustains motivation and focus • Promotes execution of goals • Drives excellent outcomes and results • Formula for success and personal satisfaction The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 11
E-FORCE: EQUANIMITY • Equanimity begins with a commitment to balance and stability • A more intelligent and skillful way of living your life • Equanimity promotes and fortifies personal openness, curiosity, creativity, receptivity, acceptance, empathy, and compassion The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 12
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E-FORCE: EQUANIMITY • Mindfulness - involves awareness, attentiveness, and acceptance of the current moment, without over-involvement in cognitive or emotional reactions (Kabat-Zinn, 1982) • Engaged Within the Process The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 14
E-FORCE: EQUANIMITY • Equanimity creates a sonar system to prevent over-identification with irrational or imagined self narratives that are self-limiting and destructive • The role of the “Observer” The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 15
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E-FORCE: EQUANIMITY Mindfulness and Mental Visualization Exercises • Ten Count Breathing Method • Breath of Life • Body Scan • BESTB The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 18
E-FORCE: EQUANIMITY Most of the time we are occupied with our own thoughts – thinking about what has happened in the past or imagining what might happen in the future. Many of us live most of our lives on autopilot. Through mindfulness we develop the capacity to become more aware of what is happening in our lives as they are unfolding. And we do this without coloring it with our judgments, fears, hopes, or fantasies. By reducing distractions, mindfulness helps us focus our attention, enabling us to directly experience what is happening right here, right now. After all, nothing ever happens in the past or in the future. “Now” is the only time where our lives unfold. The only moment when we are alive. Research shows that mindfulness can prevent or reduce the severity of stress-related illnesses, including depression. Studies have shown its positive effects on the immune system, pain, chronic depression, sleep, and anxiety. Mindfulness also leads to increased levels of concentration, tranquility, and a general feeling of well-being. Adapted from Mindfulness App The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 19
The Mindfulness App • http://www.mindapps.se/?lang=en The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 20
E-FORCE: FOCUS • The Five Pillars for Success • The Five Hindrances of the Mind • Flexibility • Feedback The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 21
The Five Pillars of “The Good Life” The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 22
E-FORCE: FOCUS & FIVE PILLARS Five Pillars For Success • Professional and Community • Love and Intimacy • Family and Friends • Physical and Psychological health • Spiritual The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 23
E-FORCE: FOCUS & FIVE PILLARS Action: Identify your Five Pillars that matter most! • Professional and community • Love and intimacy • Family and Friends • Physical and Psychological health • Spiritual The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 24
E-FORCE: FOCUS The Five Hindrances of the Mind • Attachment – sensual craving, greed • Aversion – anger, hostility, impatience, ill will • Sleepiness - sloth (laziness of doing and knowing) • Restlessness – worry, irritability, fear, discontent • Doubt - sinking feeling, lack of hope, depressed The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 25
E-FORCE: FOCUS & FLEXIBILITY The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 26
E-FORCE: FOCUS & FLEXIBILITY The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 27
E-FORCE: FOCUS & FEEDBACK The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 28
E-FORCE: ORGANIZING INTELLIGENCE (OI) The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 29
E-FORCE: ORGANIZING INTELLIGENCE (OI) OI focuses your attention on developing the Five Pillars: • Positions you on clarifying what matters most • Creates your performance arenas • Establishes highly detailed goals and objectives • Establishes vision The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 30
E-FORCE: ORGANIZING INTELLIGENCE (OI) • Mind Dump • Goal Setting • 90 day goals • Staging • Task Pro App The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 31
E-FORCE: OBSERVER • Self-regulate thoughts, feelings and behaviors • The power of "pause" and the art of skillful living through self-narrative (positive self-talk) • Over-identification or self-forgetfulness - power of letting go Mindfulness and Mentalization Training develop these skills. The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 32
E-FORCE: OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK Realistic and Positive Mental Attitude The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 33
E-FORCE: RESILIENCE Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties • Rituals and routines for success promote toughness and tenacity • Review - daily and weekly • Realign and reposition • Reflective – journal • Relationships - strong network of friends and advocates • Respectful towards self and others • Relax (stress/performance scale) • Resourceful The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 34
E-FORCE: COMMITMENT • Character • Concentration • Conviction The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 35
E-FORCE: CHARACTER • Ambassador for Character Development • Integrity • “Golden Mean” adapted from Aristotle The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 36
E-FORCE: CONCENTRATION • Focused on the process with intended successful outcomes (ISO) The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 37
E-FORCE: CONVICTION The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 38
E-FORCE: EXTRAORDINARY RESULTS • Evolve - never stop learning and enhancing personal development • End in mind • Eat that frog • Enthusiasm – motivation • Extraordinary outcomes The E-FORCE: Enhancing Resilience and Performance | 2013 | 39
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