Professor Scott Rogers is a columnist with the Florida Bar News, authoring "The Mindful Lawyer" column each month since 2017.
Columns* offer mindfulness insights, practices, and interviews with mindfulness experts along with lawyers and judges who have integrated mindfulness into their lives.
Columns* offer mindfulness insights, practices, and interviews with mindfulness experts along with lawyers and judges who have integrated mindfulness into their lives.
2023 Columns
- Mindfulness, Emotions and the Likelihood of Confusion
- Stimulation Hunger and the Practice of Mindfulness
- Radiate Positivity
- Carl Yastrzemski, Stress, and the Physiological Sigh
- Mindfulness, Compassion Fatigue, and the Un-intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
- Mindfulness and the Rule Against Perpetuities
- Mindfulness and Burt Bacharach
- Mindfulness and Summary Judgments
2022 Columns
- Sleigh Bells Ring, Are You Listening?
- Perry Mason and the Present Moment
- How Mindfulness Helped Me Win a Jury Trial
- The Elements of a Mindfulness Practice
- A License to Breathe
- Mindfulness in a War Zone
- Waking Up This Summer
- Being Present For Your Experience
- Mindfulness and Gratitude: Then and Now
- Searching for Mindfulness
- Transform Everyday Moments of Walking into a Beneficial Mindfulness Practice
2021 Columns
- Mindfulness and Holiday Hurricanes
- The Relevance of Mindfulness to the Work of Legal Professionals
- Gather Your Monkeys and Squirrels and Let them Loose in the Garden of Your Imagination
- Balancing on the Breath
- The Role of Self-Compassion in the Law
- Resistance is Fertile
- Mindfulness without Meditation
- Becoming Self-Aware of your Inner Critic can Go a Long Way to Being Free from its Painful Messaging
- Brushing Up on Mindfulness
- Working with Fear and Anxiety
- Heart-Opening Practices
- Zooming Out in 2021
2020 Columns
- We Were Made For These Times
- Mindfulness, Metaphors, and More
- Four Mindfulness Practices For These Times
- Breathing Into Clarity and Calm
- Practicing Together Online
- Furthering the Cause of Justice (with Luke Arrington)
- Insights From a Three-and-a-Half-Year Meditation Retreat (with Tony Recio)
- Mindfulness Practice: Observe the Moment as it "Just Is"
- Mindfully Washing Hands
- Don't be Afraid to Out Yourself as a Meditator (with Amanda Leipold)
- Relaxing a Tension and Attention
2019 Columns
- Mindfulness, Solitude, and the New Year
- A Mindful Transition to Greater Peace
- We Are All In This Together
- Resilience and Absorbing Loss
- Mindfulness and the Law: The Renewal of an Old Friendship
- Mindfulness and the Mediation Within
- The Heart of Mindfulness
- A Core Component to Effective Communication is Listening
- Consider Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation (with Christine Duignan)
- Mindfulness, Fidgety Skepticism, and Happiness
- Maintaining Perspective
- Mindfulness and the Decision-Making Process (with Judge Alan Gold)
- Leaving Work at Work
2018 Columns
- The Practice of Law and of Living a Good Life is not Easy
- Mindfulness and Motions for Clarification and Relief
- Feeling Less Busy. . . When Busy
- The Science of Mindfulness (with Amishi Jha)
- Mindfulness and Feeling Overwhelmed
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (with Larry Turner)
- You Can't Change the Waves But You Can Learn to Surf
- Mindfulness Isn't a Bump-Free Ride
- Mindfulness and Dealing with the Unexpected
- Finding Time to Practice (with Sharon Salzberg)
- What Exactly is Mindful Listening?
*Please send requests to reprint to Professor Rogers or to the Florida Bar News. Most request will be freely granted.