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This podcast will serve as your educational resource on trauma-informed lawyering. Through inspiring interviews and thoughtful commentary, Myrna will shine a light on a critical competency you did not get any instruction on in law school. Trauma-informed lawyering is a do-no-further-harm, relational approach to the practice of law which benefits you, your clients, your colleagues and the legal profession generally. Lawyers, this is the education about trauma, vicarious trauma and trauma-info ...
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Indigenous Women and Girls Continue to Call for Justice: A Conversation with Chief Commissioner Marion Buller
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The episode discusses Canada's genocide against Indigenous people, sexual assault cases and culture as healing tool for Indigenous people.By Marion Buller
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The Duty to Do Better: The Law School Version
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This episode discusses racism, sterotyping and the harm legal educators and legal institutions can sometimes cause racialized, Black and Indigenous law students - as well as those experiencing mental health challenges.By Brittany Scott, Saul Brown, Will O'Hanley, Lauren Mar, Vyas Saran, Dustin Fox, Jessica Mayhew, Sofia Sherrin, Alexia Manchon, Nicole Freeman, Marjorie Florestal, Romi Laskin
Myrna invites listeners/lawyers to reflect on what they offer and what they don't when engaging with clients, the courts and each other.By Myrna McCallum
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Trauma and Transformation In the Judiciary: A Conversation with Judge Kael McKenzie
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This episode covers topics including transgender issues, vicarious trauma, trauma education for judges, resilience strategies and positive transformation in the judiciary and legal profession.By Judge Kael McKenzie
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Residential Schools, Reconciliation & The Indigenous Voice: A Conversation with Elder Garnet Angeconeb
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This episode discusses generally the abuses Indigenous children experienced at residential schools, trauma, healing and reconciliation from the Anishinabe perspective.By Garnet Angeconeb
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Trauma-Informed Law: A Primer for Lawyers in Practice
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CW: our discussion briefly mentions suicide and murderBy J. Kim Wright, Marjorie Florestal, Helgi Maki
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Practicing Smart Justice in Scotland: My Conversation with Iain Smith
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CW: Some discussion of child abuse is had with no details provided. The focus of this episode is on trauma awareness and how judges and lawyers can positively improve and redirect the lives of offenders by simply being kind and compassionate with them, and by recognizing how a history of childhood trauma may be influencing their criminal behaviour.…
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Evolving Police Services Through Trauma Informed Practice: A Conversation with Inspector Dan Jones
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This episode touches on sensitive subject matter including sexual assault, suicide, PTSD, mental health and murder.By Myrna McCallum
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Courageous Conversations & The Stories We Tell Ourselves
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It is time to courageously reflect on how you show up, how you impact others, how others impact you and why we all need to make space for psychological safety and boundaries in our workplaces.By Myrna McCallum
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Re-envisioning the Lawyer's Role: A Conversation with UCLA Law's Claudia Pena and Alicia Virani
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This episode discusses vulnerability, vicarious trauma, restorative justice, harm, healing, debriefing, personal trauma and the missing link between current legal education and the practice of law.By Claudia Pena, Alicia Virani
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One is the Loneliest Number: Justice Harry LaForme's Advice for Indigenous Judges and Those Who Appoint Them
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This episode discusses racism, colonization and intentional Indigenous exclusion from the Canadian judiciary.By Justice Harry LaForme
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Practising Cultural Humility in Human Rights Advocacy: A Debrief Session with Amber Prince
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This episode explores what advocacy looks like from the perspective of lawyers who understand and practice cultural humility from a trauma-informed lensBy Amber Prince, Myrna McCallum
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Making Space for Trauma and Diversity in Family Law: A Conversation with Zara Suleman
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In this episode, we discuss relational client engagement, racism, trauma, and the value of bringing a racially diverse lived experience to the counsel table and the courtroom.By Zara Suleman, Myrna McCallum
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Aligning With Your Values: A Conversation with Doron Gold
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This episode addresses vicarious trauma in the legal profession and the personal traumas that can sometimes interfere with our ability to connect with each other and live in alignment with our core values.By Doron Gold, Myrna McCallum
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The Harm We Allow: A Call to Action from the Court to Become Trauma-Informed
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This episode delivers a call to action from the courts to find a better way forward, to become trauma informed for the benefit of judges, counsel, court clerks, court officers and victim support staff.By Myrna McCallum
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The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada: an interview with Harold R. Johnson
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TW: There is some discussion about exposure to graphic evidence and prosecuting crimes involving sexual violence.By Harold B. Johnson
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Vulnerability and Vicarious Trauma: a Personal Story
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This episode discusses the psychological harm lawyers may experience as a result of doing what they love to do: advocacy. This episode references working with abuse survivors, suicide, mental health, vicarious trauma and vicarious resilience.By Myrna McCallum
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Trauma Shock and Wellness in Law Students, Lawyers & Judges: An Interview with Professor Sarah Katz
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This episode discusses trauma shock and wellness in judges, lawyers and law students as well as the benefits of developing a trauma-informed legal practice particularly in the context of Family Law.By Sarah Katz
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Adversity is not Destiny: The Case for Trauma-Informed Policing (an interview with Christopher Howarth)
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Christopher Howarth is a retired Cheshire Police Officer. In the last 2 years of his service he moved into the training department and had responsibility for the interview training in relation to vulnerable and intimidated witnesses which sparked his interest in ACES, trauma and adopting a trauma informed approach to investigations. Our conversatio…
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Indigenous Intergenerational Trauma: What You Need To Know about Advocating, Adjudicating and Policing in Indigenous Communities
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This episode provides guidance and advice for working with Indigenous people whether as a lawyer, judge or police officer. It also introduces you to the concept of cultural humility with the hope that you will practice humility as you commit to the hard work of transforming our justice system from one of "deliberate destruction" to one of fairness,…
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Trauma-Informed Law and Creating a Sustainable Legal Practice
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Helgi Maki discusses mental health, sustainability and how the legal profession creates a double life and in doing so, demands that lawyers also maintain impossible appearances which may cost them their mental well-being.By Myrna McCallum, Helgi Maki
This episode provides you with relationship building strategies and explores why you need to look within before you endeavour to help others.By Myrna McCallum
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Trauma & Compassion: My Interview with Gabor Maté
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Gabor offers lawyers and judges an education in trauma and explains how his approach, compassionate inquiry, could be applied in the courtroom.By Myrna McCallum, Gabor Mate
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What I Wish I Would Have Learned in Law School
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This episode introduces lawyers to the education they didn't know they needed to become effective, compassionate and relational advocates.By Myrna McCallum
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