Facilitated peer support groups for the legal profession
Balint Legal introduces an innovative and powerful resource for the legal profession aimed at improving practitioner performance and enhancing the client experience.
We provide expert facilitated peer support groups (Balint groups), adapted for the legal sector from a model used successfully by doctors for over 60 years. We are the only specialist organisation in the UK providing Balint groups for lawyers at all levels of seniority.
We create a safe and supportive environment for lawyers to discuss with their peers, in a confidential and anonymised way, the day to day complexities of practice, to share challenging experiences, and to better understand their clients.
These reflective practice groups provide a unique forum for practitioners to focus on the relationships at the core of professional services work, and to enhance the resilience required for a long and satisfying career in the law.
In short, to be better and happier lawyers.
Benefits of Balint groups include:
Improving personal and professional resilience
Working more productively by setting aside emotional ‘churn’
Reducing stress, isolation and the risk of burnout
Developing emotional and relational intelligence, leading to better client service
Gaining insight into professional relationships and client needs
Increasing capacity to reflect about self and work and better understand interpersonal dynamics
Stronger lawyers make for stronger organisations
Latest News
Our thoughts (published on Balint Legal’s LinkedIn) on the value of facilitated peer support groups in helping manage the inevitable pressures of legal practice.
March 2024
Our thoughts (published on Balint Legal’s LinkedIn) on remote working, social isolation and the need for allyship and collegiality.
January 2024
Balint Legal speaks at the 5th Annual Wellbeing for Lawyers Conference, on what the legal profession can learn from the use of Balint groups by doctors.
October 2023
Read our latest article on mental wellbeing in the legal profession and the value of facilitated peer support groups, published by LawCare.
August 2023
August 2023
