The beneficial role mindfulness practices can play in the professional and personal lives of legal professionals is perhaps most fully realized when a firm offers ongoing mindfulness training to its members. This can take many forms from a mindfulness training at onboarding, to recurring mindfulness presentations and multi-session workshops to weekly guided mindfulness meditation sessions.

Because we can learn and be inspired by the paths others have cut — both lessons learned the hard way and realized through good ideas, patience and perseverance — this week we hear from Alexandra Echsner-Rasmussen who has meaningfully integrated mindfulness and various wellness offerings into her firm, Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis, and Overholtz, with the support of the firm’s leadership.

Cookie, as she is known to colleagues and friends, has been committed to this project for many years. Presently, along with serving on the Mental Health and Wellness Committee of The Florida Bar[1] she sits on the Executive Committee of the Mindfulness in Law Society.