The ACBA has added a new Wellness Circle: “Improv Games and Exercises.”
Ben Bratman, ACBA Member and Professor of Legal Writing at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Law, launched in 2023 - Applied Improv for Lawyers, a unique course aimed at building law students’ confidence and communication skills. Rather than teaching legal doctrine or precedent, the course imparts on students the core tenets of improvisational performance — like agreement, supporting your partner and saying “yes, and” — and gives them opportunities to put the principles into practice through assorted improv exercises. These concepts will now be incorporated into an ACBA Wellness Circle. No experience needed to join this Wellness Circle.
Currently there are nine Wellness Circles, which are listed below. Members are welcome to suggest ideas for additional Wellness Circles. For more details, FAQs and other information, click here.
- Attorneys who Run
- Cancer Survivors
- Hiking
- Improv Games and Exercises (No experience needed)
- Parenting Children with Disabilities
- Pickleball
- Sandwich Generation
- Support for Attorneys Battling Mental Health Issues/Addiction
- Support for Attorneys with Loved Ones Battling Mental Health Issues/Addiction
