MBC Community Area

Trustee meeting 10am-12pm

How the Mindful Business Charter can serve as a blueprint for a more mentally healthy workplace. With panellists from RBS, Lloyds Banking Group and Burness Paull. Zoom registration link below.

An evening to reflect and welcome new signatories 13 May 2021 from 5.30 to 6.45 pm Via Zoom We are pleased to invite you to our Mindful Business Charter event on 13 May 2021, to mark Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK. We will welcome a host of new signatories, have an update on broader developments with the MBC and hear from two speakers: DR EMMA JONES is a senior lecturer in law at the University of Sheffield with a particular interest in emotions and wellbeing within the profession. Emma is part of the International Bar Association’s global task force on mental health and wellbeing (of which Richard Martin is also part) and she will summarise both the findings of the recent global survey conducted by the IBA as well as the commentary on those findings from a team of academics that she led. She will particularly focus on those aspects that relate to the culture and environment in which we operate and which, of course, is what the MBC is all about. Although legal profession focussed, the insight is global and, like the Charter, of far broader sector relevance. DR MARK BERELOWITZ is a Consultant Child Psychiatrist at the Royal Free Hospital in London. Along with his Thai colleague Dr Tee, Mark studied the Thai boys football team who were trapped in a cave in the summer of 2018, and identified key themes to their resilience and survival. More recently Mark has been involved in supporting frontline clinical NHS staff during the COVID pandemic, and is helping the hospital plan for the post pandemic recovery. Mark will draw on these and other learnings to offer insight into organisational resilience and what our organisations can be doing to enable each of us to make a difference, for ourselves and for each other. There will be time for Q & A and the event will close around 6.45pm. Please register using the link below to let us know that you will be attending.

We are taking part in a panel event to promote the Charter to a US audience. It is part of a week of focus on activity organisations can adopt to follow on from the annual week of focus on individual actions to promote lawyer wellbeing. It is a great opportunity to introduce and promote the Charter to a US audience. If you have US colleagues or offices, or US clients or contacts, please take a moment to think about whether you want to send them the link and encourage them to join the event. The registration link is below.

Our bi-monthly call to share updates. 20 May 11am-12pm

Trustee meeting 10am-12pm

Our bi-monthly call to share updates. 15 July 2-3pm. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82418499455?pwd=QVUrYXZzSmI2Qm56QmxBeStPbTY0UT09 Meeting ID: 824 1849 9455 Passcode: 430861

You can’t really think about MBC without thinking about digital technology and how we interact with it. It is a great enabler but at the same time digital tools are reported by employees to be one of their greatest sources of workplace stress and disruptors to work life balance - when asked 83% say their digital causes them stress and overwhelm and 90% say distractions from technology impairs their performance at work. Shine Offline (please see www.shineoffline.com for more information about them and their work) have been working with organisations for many years to help them think about digital wellbeing and our relationship with our technology. Over the last couple of years they have been working with some MBC signatories to expressly build this thinking into the organisations’ MBC strategy. We wanted to share that thinking more broadly with the signatory group. We have invited Shine Offline Co-founder and digital wellbeing and management expert Laura Willis to run an exclusive MBC focussed 90 minute webinar to help us to explore our current digital habits and the impact they are having on ourselves and colleagues. Effective email management, meaningful meetings, good use of workplace digital technologies to maximise collaboration and minimise overload, and successful out of hours work tech management will all be addressed. Laura will share insights from the worlds of neuroscience and psychology as well as learnings from a host of businesses Shine Offline have worked with over the past 5 years.

Trustee meeting 11am-1pm

The changes businesses required of their people to adapt to lockdown changed the dynamic of the employer/employee relationship. Remote working lowered the barriers to the workplace and fostered inclusion as a result. As businesses around the world start to reopen their offices in earnest, we take a mindful look at some of these dynamics and what employers should keep in mind as the next wave of change is presented to their people. This event will feature Philip Aiken from Barclays and a panel of other MBC trustees offering a range of different perspectives.

Our bi-monthly signatories call to share updates. 20 September 11am-12pm MBC bi-monthly signatories call – 20 September 11am Agenda 1. Update from Richard Martin on recent and upcoming MBC activity 2. Updates from signatories: • Matheson (including reference to Ireland’s Right to Disconnect code) • PGIM • Shoosmiths 3. AOB

Our six monthly Mindful Business Charter event to welcome new members, celebrate our progress and think about the next stages of the movement’s growth. As part of the event Richard Foley, senior partner of Pinsent Masons, will speak about the benefits of involving clients in MBC and how to go about doing so. Please save the date and register via the registration link below. Further details will follow in due course. If you think this event would be of interest to colleagues or to other organisations with which you work then please do forward this invitation on and ask them to register if they would like to attend

Trustee meeting 9-11am

Our bi-monthly call to share updates. 10 November 2-3pm

Trustee meeting 9.30-11.30am

Our Mindful Business Charter event on 7th October 2021. We welcomed 12 new signatories to the Charter. We were pleased to welcome all you to our six monthly Mindful Business Charter event to welcome new members, celebrate our progress and think about the next stages of the movement’s growth. As part of this event we had a Q&A facilitated by Richard Martin in conversation with Richard Foley, senior partner of Pinsent Masons, who spoke about the benefits of involving clients in MBC and how to go about doing so.

Our bi monthly signatory call. Thank you for Lorraine Roche @ Mathesons, Batoolah Dawreeawoo & Tanya Etheridge @ PGIM, Kate Hammerton @ Shoosmiths for sharing on this call. Find the minutes and briefing notes in the Signatory Resources

The changes businesses required of their people to adapt to lockdown changed the dynamic of the employer/employee relationship. Remote working lowered the barriers to the workplace and fostered inclusion as a result. As businesses around the world start to reopen their offices in earnest, we take a mindful look at some of these dynamics and what employers should keep in mind as the next wave of change is presented to their people. This event will feature Philip Aiken from Barclays and a panel of other MBC trustees offering a range of different perspectives.

Our bi-monthly signatories call. Thank you to Laura Tokell (Womble Bond Dickinson) and Rachel Holder (Lloyds Banking Group) for their updates

Our bi-monthly signatories call. Thank you to Lizzy Stewart (4 New Square), Lynda Clark (Morton Fraser) and Moira Slape (Travers Smith) for their updates.

An event hosted by the Law Society of Scotland with knowledge sharing and practical tips from Charter organisations. • Introduction - Olivia Moore – Law Society of Scotland • An introduction to the Mindful Business Charter – Richard Martin • Embedding MBC in a transactional team – Simon Rajgopaul - Lloyds Banking Group • A client relationship perspective - Ilona McGowan – RBS • Business incentives, getting partners involved and using MBC as an HR tool - Emma Smith and Alasdair Sutherland - Burness Paull

Our Mindful Business Charter event on 13 May 2021 marked Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK. We welcomed 15 new signatories and heard from two speakers: Dr Emma Jones - senior lecturer in law at the University of Sheffield and part of the International Bar Association’s global task force on mental health and wellbeing. Dr Mark Berelowitz - Consultant Child Psychiatrist at the Royal Free Hospital in London. Along with his Thai colleague Dr Tee, Mark studied the Thai boys football team who were trapped in a cave in the summer of 2018, and identified key themes to their resilience and survival. More recently Mark has been involved in supporting frontline clinical NHS staff during the COVID pandemic, and is helping the hospital plan for the post pandemic recovery.

During the session Richard Martin encouraged participants to be more aware of when they are feeling stressed and of what that is doing to them, gave insight and guidance as to how we can each individually better manage stress and stressful situations and reminded us of what MBC tells us about how we can help each other.

Insight from Kate Dodd and Matt Morgan of Pinsent Masons