Enhance your professional development during AIJA’s Half-Year November Conference in Paris

1) Abdallah Hassani, Toastmaster and speech athlete About Abdallah

Abdallah Hassani, a dedicated Toastmaster and speech athlete, has spent the past 6 years relentlessly pursuing excellence in public speaking. While not yet a World Public Speaking Champion, Abdallah has secured 31 first-place victories, steadily progressing toward this pinnacle achievement and striving for excellence - a tenacious contender who never yields until victory is achieved.  He has showcased his eloquence and impact as a speaker through prestigious engagements, including TEDxPULV "Les Sens du Travail," reflecting his prowess in the realm of public speaking. His impressive track record comprises a collection of 30 Gold Medals, 2 Silver Medals, and 2 Bronze Medals across Toastmasters International speech contests from 2017 to 2023. Abdallah's persistent efforts include participating in a total of 36 contests, reflecting his determination and consistency in honing his speaking skills. Abdallah is also the founder of "Feed my Speech," a venture aimed at empowering students, young professionals, and decision-makers to articulate their messages with utmost precision. At the core of this initiative lies the P.R.A.T.I.Q.U.E © method, a coaching program designed to transform individuals into collaborators who engage their teams and foster customer loyalty during each meeting or presentation. Currently, Abdallah holds a personal goal close to his heart — to win the Public Speaking World Championship. His ultimate objective is to continue advocating for the profound benefits that effective public speaking can bring to individuals and organizations, firmly believing in the power of a memorable speech to breathe life into numbers, KPIs, and management methodologies within the business landscape.

Public Speaking Crash Course

Elevate your public speaking skills and conquer the challenges that can leave you feeling apprehensive, uncertain - and in the wort case speechless. As legal professionals, you're well acquainted with the demanding nature of speaking engagements.

AIJA’s SCILL (Skills, Career, Innovation, Leadership & Learning) Commission presents the Public Speaking Crash Course for all speakers, panelists and moderators which is tailored to empower you with tools to bolster your stage confidence, engage your audience effectively, and navigate the unpredictable during speaking engagements smoothly.

The workshop will be led by Abdallah Hassani, a Toastmaster, award-winning international speaker, and founder/trainer at Feed my Speech. In this workshop, Abdallah will distill key lessons from his extensive journey, sharing insights into comprehensive physical and mental preparation methods for delivering impactful speeches. As AIJA members, you possess valuable insights worth refining and presenting impeccably.

Join us on 29 November, from 15:00 to 17:00, and let's sculpt your expertise to captivate your audience!

Agenda:

Step #1: Understand public speaking confidence and craft the tools to build it.

Step #2: Understand the mechanics of audience attention and tools to make the difference.

Step #3: Navigate public speaking chaos and cultivate resilience.

Step #4: Time to practice.

 

2) Pascal Jossi, Soul.com  About Pascal

Pascal Jossi is a  corporate culture consultant with expertise in education and labor sciences. He has made significant strides in the field of corporate consulting, utilizing his extensive experience in project management and long-term capacity development for community building projects. As a member of the Soul.com team, Pascal conducts trainings and workshops, guiding professionals on transforming their organizations into thriving communities. Driven by the conviction that the 21st century calls for a new way of working and collaborating, he believes that purposeful work is the key to success in this rapidly changing landscape. In addition to his work as a corporate consultant, Pascal serves as the Head of Global Publishing at BossBooks, where he combines his deep understanding of corporate culture with the publishing world. He leads the expansion of the Bossbooks services to English, German, and French-speaking markets, with a focus on supporting professionals and business owners in sharing their insights and expertise. Tasked with growing the business and establishing strategic partnerships, Pascal manages a senior publishing team committed to helping clients create and publish their books seamlessly. Together, Pascal's dual roles as a corporate consultant and head of global publishing allow him to leverage his insights into corporate culture to better understand and support the needs of professionals and business owners.

 

One-on-One Coaching Session

Dynamics @Work

In this one-on-one coaching session, you'll have the opportunity to explore workplace-related human dynamics questions. In a rapidly changing world, it's essential to read the reality of situations clearly. This 45-minute session will help you untangle complex dynamics within your law firm and collaboratively chart a course for a more resilient future through practical actions. (The session can also be used to delve into the world of book writing.)

Duration: 45min

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Workshops

Trust Workshop

Trust is the bedrock of high-performing teams. In sports trust in teammates' abilities and intentions is paramount for high performance. This workshop will equip you with practical exercises and strategies to become a trust promoter within your team or your Law firm. Together with other participants you’ll explore the dynamics of trust and how to create a vision for a “better future”  . Trust fosters resilience, strengthening your team for the challenges ahead. 

Duration: 75min

Max participants: 15

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Book-Writing Session - Sharing Knowledge, Building Brands

Are you interested in sharing your professional knowledge and contributing to a better future?  You can help others become more resilient by sharing your expertise through a non-fiction professional book. This session provides practical guidance for starting your book journey, whether as an individual or as a law firm. Writing a book not only allows you to share your wisdom but it enhances your professional brand and can in turn attract more clients.
This session will lead you from a vague or non-existent idea for a book to a concrete outline and strategic plan. If you already have an idea this session will help you go more into depth. 

Duration: 75min

Max participants: 15

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3) Agata Perepezcko, Business Psychologist  About Agata

Agata Perepeczko is a business psychologist with a clinical psychology background as well as a coach. Her approach to client work incorporates knowledge and experience from both, which allows her to explore clients’ challenges from many different perspectives. She started her career as a psychologist in the UK in 2010 - supporting international clients with their psychological well-being.  Her passion has always been around resilience and stress management. Working with individuals who were deployed to war zones and emergency states sparked Agata’s interest in resilience, leadership, and crisis management. She has been working with clients on assessing, creating, implementing, and maintaining resilience-building factors. Her experience comes from being exposed to a variety of industries (including but not limited to: BIG 4, financial sector, healthcare, media, UK Government, and Humanitarian agencies). During COVID 19 crisis, Agata has been focused on supporting clients with building a resilient workforce. Her offering is based on the Resilient Workforce Framework, a framework she has created based on her experience and academic research. In addition, she offers individual and group coaching, organizational interventions as well as bespoke learning initiatives. Agata is currently undertaking a Professional Doctorate in Occupational Psychology at Birkbeck University in London, UK.

One-on-One Coaching Session

Coaching for resilience - finding your inner strengths to deal with adversity and stress

Are you feeling overwhelmed, stressed, or finding it difficult to motivate yourself? 

Research suggests that legal professionals generally experience higher levels of depression, anxiety, stress and lower levels of mental wellbeing than members of the general population.92% of lawyers have experienced stress or burnout due to their job, with 25% experiencing it daily! 

In this one to one session you will have a chance to speak to a psychologist and a coach, who has been working with the concept of resilience and stress for the last 16years. You will have a chance to create your own resilience building (and maintaining) plan. 

During coaching sessions you can speak in confidence about anything which affects your resilience and stress levels. Agata will support you to start working through those challenges while building your resilience. 

Duration: 45min

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Workshop

Building resilient Teams - 7 resilience building factors

The legal profession continues to face a work environment which is agile, fast paced and unpredictable at times. Busy lawyers continue pushing their mental and physical strengths to the limits. But what happens when those limits are reached? 

Resilience is a paramount quality for thriving in the dynamic and demanding corporate landscape, especially in professions like the legal sector.

During this insightful 75-minute workshop, we will focus on 7 key resilience-building factors specifically curated for the corporate world. We will delve into essential strategies for fostering resilience within teams and individuals, discuss how to infuse resilience within your team and aiding them in navigating challenges effectively while maintaining their well-being.

By reflecting on these principles and engaging in interactive exercises, you will craft a personalized resilience-building plan, gain a deeper understanding of how to cultivate resilience, enabling a more balanced work-life harmony for everyone. This session aims to empower you with renewed purpose and a clarified vision of your professional and personal journey as a leader. The insights gained from this workshop will be unique for each participant, aligning with their individual aspirations and professional goals.

Duration 75min

Max participants: 20

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4) Tom Goldstein, Professional Coach About Tom

Tom is a certified personal and professional coach (PCC) and has been coaching for the past 7 years. Before becoming a coach, he spent 15 years in working in telecoms, in start-ups and multi-nationals. He excelled in multiple roles: from engineering, algorithm design, customer support and technical sales, to management and leadership. He brings what he considers to be the best aspects and many different tools, styles and methods to his coaching. He works with clients from many backgrounds, with many different reasons for coming to coaching. As a coach, he creates partnerships with his clients on their journeys of discovery and growth. By working collaboratively in this way, he finds his clients experience the most supportive and powerful coaching experience possible, based on their needs and goals. He asks that his clients show up openly and honestly, and see every moment as a chance to develop. Tom loves an adventure and being out in nature. As well as coaching, he works as a hiking guide, and enjoys mountain biking and sleeping out under the stars in his spare time. He also has a meditation, QiGong, and nature connection practice which helps him to stay balanced, centred, and joyful in his life and work!

One-on-One Coaching Session

These coaching sessions are a chance for you to explore any topic which is currently on your mind! The reality is that work affects our private life and our private life affects our work. There may be something that you are struggling with, or an aspiration about where you want to go with your work and your life. Come and explore these topics in a confidential, non-judgemental space where Tom will support and challenge you to overcome obstacles, and to ask yourself "what if I dreamed even bigger?".

 Duration: 45 min

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Workshop

The essential pillars of personal resilience As lawyers you are asked to perform at the highest level, often under a lot of stress, without making mistakes. This level of pressure requires a great deal of resilience in order to stay healthy (physically, emotionally, and mentally), to keep enjoying showing up for your work, and to keep performing over the long term.This workshop will focus on personal resilience and how you can leverage it better to be more successful and have greater wellbeing in your life and in your work. Together we will explore: what resilience really is; what aspects of resilience are most important to you; how resilient you are today. You will take away a more complete understanding of what resilience means, as well as a plan of what you can do to develop even more resilience in your work and life. You will also receive a workbook based on the different pillars of resilience that will help you to continue your journey of discovery and growth around personal resilience.

Duration: 75min

Max participants: 15

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Wellbeing Desk 

Wellbeing of lawyers First Aid deskVisit our first ever “Wellbeing of lawyers First Aid desk“. Whether you wish to:- Discuss stigmatised issues in the legal profession- Acquire information about wellbeing of lawyers and mental health issues- Have a confidential talk with a Mental Health First Aider- Share your own experience, views or personal concerns- Receive practical information and tips on how to increase your wellbeing- Learn about “Yogalo-yoga for lawyers“ (yoga and relaxation exercises behind the desk)- Support the “Wellinlo-wellbeing of lawyers“ movementYou are very welcome to stop at the Wellbeing desk from Wednesday to Friday!Let´s open up the debate and raise awareness regarding mental health and wellbeing of lawyers! YOUR wellbeing starts here!The Wellbeing desk has been initiated and will be operated by Eva Indruchova, founder of “Wellinlo-wellbeing of lawyers“, certified yoga teacher and Mental Health First Aider.

 

5) Eva Indruchová, Founder of Wellinlo-wellbeing of lawyers About Eva

Eva Indruchová, LL.M. is a lawyer, working as International Relations Consultant for the Czech Bar Association. She is also a certified yoga teacher, certified mental health first aider and founder of “Wellinlo-wellbeing of lawyers“. Eva is actively raising awareness regarding mental health and wellbeing in the legal profession across Europe through her various initiatives, including “Yogalo-yoga for lawyers“, a set of exercises and techniques practicable behind an office desk. Eva also acts as an international speaker and consultant and is a member of AIJA’s Executive Committee.