I attended the King County Bar Association’s Volunteer Appreciation Reception this evening.  Seeing so many legal volunteers working collaboratively to ameliorate societal problems is inspirational.

I attended a Continuing Legal Education workshop for the King County Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Section this evening regarding using mindfulness and willfulness to cultivate civility in relation to “other”-that which is different from our own experience or frame of reference.  The workshop focused on developing and using this skill in the mediation context.