Agenda for the 2025 Wellness Workshop
FLA Wellness Workshop 2025
August 1-2, 2025
Friday Presentations
TITLE: What is Professionalism and How do Lawyers Clear the Bar?
SPEAKER: Neil A. Ambekar, Esquire
DURATION: 60 minutes, 1.0 CLE Credit requested (*incl. 1.0 Cr. of Ethics)
TITLE: Meditation, It’s Not What You Think! A Didactic and Participatory Module
SPEAKER: David Sacks, Esq., Qualified Instructor, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
DURATION: 60 minutes, 1.0 CLE Credit requested (*incl. 1.0 Cr. Mental Health and Wellness)
TITLE: The Landscape of the Successful Practice: Managing Your Efforts to Maximize Safety and Better Bottom Line Performance
SPEAKER: Dustin Cole, Master Legal Practice Consultant
DURATION: 60 minutes, 1.0 CLE Credit requested (*incl. 1.0 Cr. of Professionalism)
TITLE: Inside the Legal Mind and the Dynamics of Relationships: How the Enneagram Supports Attorney Wellness
SPEAKER: Dina Smith, LMHC, MCAP
DURATION: 50 minutes, 1.0 CLE Credit requested (*incl. 1.0 Cr. Mental Health & Wellness)
TITLE: Addiction, Recovery, and Lifelong Learning: A Family in Recovery and Mutual Support
SPEAKERS: Richard Baron, Esquire, and Natalie Baron
DURATION: 60 minutes, 1.0 CLE Credit requested (*incl. 1.0 Cr Substance Abuse)
Saturday Presentations
TITLE: A Participatory Experience – Yoga and Meditation: A Powerful Combination to Access the Benefits of the Mind/Body Connection
SPEAKERS: Brittany Graniero-Rothman, LMHC, CCTP, CYT 500 (Certified Yoga Instructor) and David Sacks, Esquire and Qualified MSBR Instructor (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction)
DURATION: 60 minutes, 1.0 CLE Credit requested (*incl. 1.0 Cr. Mental Health & Wellness)
TITLE: Breaking the Survival Cycle: Healing Trauma, Hacking Stress, and Building Resilience
SPEAKER: Ryan Soave MA, LMHC
DURATION: 110 minutes, 2.0 CLE Credit requested (*incl. 1.0 Cr. Mental Health and Wellness, and 1.0 Cr. Substance Abuse)
TITLE: The “How” and “Why” of FLA: Evidence-Based Miracles of Monitoring and Client Engagement
SPEAKER: FLA Staff (Carol Parks, Lauren Morris, and John Lesko) with a special guest FLA Participant-Attorney
DURATION: 110 minutes, 2.0 CLE Credit requested
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Brian Cuban, Esquire
Topic: A Lawyer Recovering
Brian Cuban, Esq., is an attorney, author, and steadfast advocate for mental health awareness and recovery. He is the author of the best-selling memoir, The Addicted Lawyer: Tales of The Bar, and Booze, Blow & Redemption. His new novel, The Body Brokers, will take on the fentanyl epidemic and is set for release in December 2024.
He has spoken at law firms, conferences, non-profit events, colleges and universities across the United States and in Canada. He also writes extensively on these subjects. His columns have appeared on CNN.com, Foxnews.com, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, and in online and print newspapers around the world.
Dr. Mary Deitch, Psy.D., Esquire
Topic: Sexual Wellness for Lawyers
Dr. Mary Deitch, licensed as both an attorney and a psychologist in the state of Pennsylvania, is well known for over two decades’ experience working with individuals exhibiting problematic sexual behaviors. Dr. Deitch is widely sought out for her expertise in addressing sexual conditions affecting attorneys and physicians, and the highly nuanced process of assessing sexual behaviors and disorders in these professionals’ populations. Dr. Deitch has treated over a thousand patients and conducted hundreds of assessments for sexual offending, disruptive behavior, boundary violations, and cognitive and personality functioning.
Ricky Polston, Esq., former Chief Justice of the FL Supreme Court
Topic: Florida Supreme Court Jurisdiction
Ricky Polston is a practicing attorney who served as a Florida Supreme Court Justice from 2008-2023, and as Chief Justice from 2012-2014. His experience at the Court includes various civil and criminal cases (including death penalty matters), statutory and constitutional validity issues, attorney admission cases from The Florida Board of Bar Examiners, judicial discipline cases from the Judicial
Qualification Commission, and attorney disciplinary cases from The Florida Bar.
Dustin Cole, Master Practice Advisor
Topic: Defusing the Time Bomb - Reduce "Legal" Stress to Increase Revenues
Dustin Cole is Master Practice Advisor and president of Attorneys Master Class. With more than 30 years of practical, in-the-trenches work with attorneys and firms across the country, he specializes in helping firms increase their efficiency and capacity, become more effective team managers, and create more effective marketing programs. Cole has trained more than 11,000 attorneys in more effective
marketing and operations.
Dustin Cole can be reached at 407-830-9088, or dustin@attorneysmasterclass.com
