Wellness Summit
2.0
Friday, February 27, 2026
1:00pm to 4:30pm
The London Club
This program contains 3.5 hours of Professionalism content and is eligible for up to 0.5 hours of Substantive content.
Committee co-chairs Jacob Damstra of Lerners LLP and Erin Rankin Nash of Ferguson Patterson PC Lawyers invite you to attend the second annual Wellness Summit building on the success of last year's program. (An optional light buffet lunch will be provided from 12:30-1:00pm and the program will follow).
This year's program offers more practical, implementable solutions to wellness for busy legal professionals to enhance physical, emotional and mental wellness, as well as cognitive performance, productivity, resilience, and overall well-being for your life in law.
We all recognize the importance of wellness. However, it can be a struggle to fit wellness into our every day lives given the stress and pressures of working in law along with family & other obligations.
Through demonstrations, presentations, and expert speakers including a registered dietitian, psychiatrist, occupational therapist and director of wellness, the following topics will be explored:
- Optimize your environment, optimize your wellness
- Performance Nutrition: How we can fuel best to handle a busy work / life day
- Incorporating physical wellness into your personal & professional life
- Mental & emotional well being
- Being Well: A round table discussion
- And more!
Draft agenda:
1:00pm: Opening Remarks & Land Acknowledgement
Jacob Damstra, Lerners LLP & Erin Rankin Nash, Ferguson Patterson PC Lawyers
1:10pm: Incorporating physical wellness into your life:
Kent Utman, Wellness Director, Medpoint Health Care Centre
1:40pm: Performance Nutrition, Nutrition for Longevity, Nutrition & Lifestyle Tips
Lisa Spriet MSc, Registered Dietician
2:15pm: Optimize your environment, optimize your wellness
Jennifer Ferreira, Occupational Therapist, Spencer Rehabilitation Experts
3:10pm: Mental Wellness Strategies
Dr. Arlene MacDougall
3:40pm: Being Well: Lawyers share their wellness strategies
Panelists: Michel Castillo of Castillo Law Chambers, Karen Hulan of Beckett Personal Injury Lawyers and Danielle Ramsay of Legate Injury Lawyers
Moderated by: Jacob Damstra, Lerners LLP
4:25pm: Closing remarks
Thank you to our generous sponsors:
Leading sponsors:
Supporting sponsors:
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If you are interested in being a sponsor of this program, or if you have a question about this program, please contact Paula Puddy, Interim CPD Director of the Middlesex Law Association at paula@middlaw.on.ca.
This organization is an accredited provider of professionalism content by the Law Society of Ontario.
