Working with distressing material can take a toll. This practical session helps legal support staff and professionals recognise vicarious trauma early, reduce its impact, and build everyday strategies to protect wellbeing, resilience and long‑term sustainability at work. Walk away with practical tools you can apply immediately—for yourself and your team.
Tuesday, 26 May 2026
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
2.00pm to 3.00pm Vicarious Trauma: Risks, Impacts and Practical Strategies
- Understand the “what and why” of vicarious trauma and its relevance to legal practice
- Recognise vicarious trauma, including key risk and protective factors
- Learn practical strategies to minimise and address the impacts of vicarious trauma
- Develop skills for prevention and recovery, including building vicarious resilience
Presented by Jubilee Sloane, Consultant Psychologist, Centre for Corporate Health
Learning Objective:
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Understand how to recognise and manage vicarious trauma in legal work using practical, preventative strategies to support wellbeing and resilience.
Chair:
Nick Murfett, Director, New Paradigm Coaching
Presenters
Jubilee Sloane, Consultant Psychologist, Centre for Corporate Health
Jubilee is a registered Psychologist with a background in Organisational Psychology. She prides herself on being dedicated to enhancing workplace wellbeing and helping individuals bring their best selves to work. While undertaking a Master of Organisational Psychology, Jubilee completed several professional placements focused on employee engagement, organisational development, and human-centred design. Jubilee is accredited in psychometric assessments including Hogan and Saville Wave, which provide insight into leadership potential, workplace behaviours, and organisational culture. Before qualifying as a Psychologist, Jubilee spent over 10 years in high-pressure customer-facing roles. During these experiences she developed a strong appreciation for the importance of employee wellbeing. Jubilee has experience delivering mental health and wellbeing training, as well as conducting psychosocial hazard reviews within workplace settings. She aims to promote mental health by partnering with organisations to reduce psychosocial hazards and create healthier, more sustainable workplaces using strategies to support both individual and organisational change.
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Nick Murfett, Director, New Paradigm Coaching
Nick practiced law actively for approximately 25 years from 1985 to 2010. His experience was at large firms and from 1990 to 2010 at his own firm “Murfett Legal”. The firm’s main practice areas were insolvency, commercial litigation and general commercial. Since retiring from active practice in 2010 Nick has pursued his interest in professional and executive coaching and is accredited as a Senior Practitioner coach with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and as an ADHD coach the ADD Coach Academy. Nick is also engaged in diverse business and non profit interests and maintains his legal practice certificate.
This seminar is part of a series
Legal Support and Executive Series
Join our four‑part virtual training series designed for legal executives, support staff, and lawyers, focusing on essential skills in wellbeing, communication, AI capability, and resilience. Led by industry experts, these practical sessions offer clear, actionable strategies to strengthen professional effectiveness, support mental health, and enhance overall workplace performance.
Description
Attend the full series and earn 4 CPD hours
If you register for the full series as a live online product after the date of an individual session, you will be sent the recording for the sessions that have passed. Alternatively, you can register for individual sessions by following the links below.
*This webinar series is also suitable for Junior Lawyers
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