January 2025 Mission Peak Wellness Hike and Discussion

When:  Jan 26, 2025 from 08:00 AM to 02:00 PM (PT)
Sunday, January 26, 2025

8:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Earn up to 1.0 Hour Wellness  Competence


Please meet at:
Ohlone College - Student Parking Lot K
Pine Street
Fremont, CA 94539


Registration Fee

$0.00 for CLA Members and Non-Members. 

Law practice can be grueling. The work can be intense, and the hours, long. Stress is inevitable, but with a systematic and comprehensive wellness program, with regular hiking as the foundation, manageable.

This will be a demanding 12-mile loop, starting/ending at Ohlone College - Student Parking Lot K. From Ohlone College, we will hike to the Peak, then along the ridge, down to the Stanford Avenue Staging Area, back up to the Peak, and then down to Ohlone College.

The Mission Peak map is available here: https://www.ebparks.org/sites/default/files/mission_peak_map.pdf

We will discuss practical strategies for managing mental health, stress, and overall well-being that are tailored to the legal profession, focusing on physical and professional health. Hiking and other structured social exercise activities, engaged in regularly and with intention, can form the foundation for a positive work-life balance, increase self-awareness and self-regulation, protect against attorney stress, and stimulate creativity and initiative both inside and outside a law practice. Program materials will be distributed to participants.

John Pavolotsky has hiked San Francisco Bay Area trails for the past 30 years and is passionate about attorney wellness. He is also the immediate past chair of the IP Section of the California Lawyers Association. In June 2021 John founded the Peninsula Hiking Club (https://calawyers.org/intellectual-property-law/covid-born-cla-hiking-group-marches-on-for-wellness/) and has been leading groups on monthly hikes, including Mission Peak, since then.


Essential Information

Please bring water (at least 40 fluid ounces), light lunch/snacks, trail shoes, hiking sticks, hat, and sunblock. Hiking can be a rigorous activity, with injury possible. By signing up, you understand and acknowledge the foregoing.


Questions

For program and registration information, please email ProgramRegistrations@calawyers.org or call 916-516-1757.

If there are questions about this program, including carpooling, please contact John Pavolotsky at john.pavolotsky@stoel.com. 

Location

Pine St
Fremont, CA 94539

TO REGISTER for this event and other CLA events, visit the calendar on our main site at https://calawyers.org/events/list/