New Zealand Law Society - Optimising Performance and Wellbeing
Our Optimising Performance and Wellbeing monthly webinars are available for the legal profession from June to November.
Designed in partnership with workplace wellbeing services provider Optimally, this series tackles the wellbeing crisis and empowers legal practitioners to thrive in their roles with greater confidence, balance, and psychological sustainability.
Optimising Performance and Wellbeing comprises five one-hour lunchtime sessions where attendees will learn about practical, evidence-based strategies for managing stress, addressing performance-related anxiety, coping with emotional fatigue, and fostering a supportive professional environment.
Each webinar includes a 45-minute presentation by topic experts, followed with 15 minutes of Q&A where participants are invited to engage more deeply with the content and relate the learning to their own legal practices.
Choose to attend the webinars that resonate most for you. Registrations are for each webinar, not the series.
Participants are eligible for 1 CPD for attending each webinar.
Members $40 | Non-members $65 | Group booking $800
Group bookings are based on group viewing at one organisation with a single point of contact for booking and distribution of CPD certificates.
Rajna Bogdanovic is a Clinical and Organisational Psychologist and founder and CEO of Optimally. With nearly two decades of experience across policing, emergency services, and corporate sectors, Rajna has deep expertise in supporting high-performing professionals in high-pressure environments.
Dr Seini O’Connor is Head of Clinical services at Optimally, providing expert guidance, training, and clinical consultations to individuals and executive groups across the legal sector and in a range of other professional service fields. She is a registered counselling psychologist with global experience across corporate, academic, multinational, and non-governmental organisations.
Thursday 12 June 2025, 1pm-2pm
Explore how psycho-neuro-immunology, a science-based approach to understanding the mind-body connection, can help legal professionals build resilience to workload stress and learn how to better manage pressure and sustain performance in a demanding profession.
Wednesday 30 July 2025, 1pm-2pm
Explore the common experience of performance anxiety and feelings of inadequacy, often referred to as “imposter syndrome,” among legal professionals at all stages of their careers. You’ll be guided through practical strategies for reframing these feelings and using anxiety as a tool to boost performance and foster professional growth.
Tuesday 26 August 2025, 1pm-2pm
Legal work often involves helping people through highly stressful, emotional, or traumatic experiences—which can take a toll on practitioners over time. This webinar addresses the emotional toll and secondary trauma that can arise from this work and offers practical strategies to navigate this under-appreciated aspect of legal work effectively.
Wednesday 8 October 2025, 1pm-2pm
Focus on how to support the wellbeing of those around you. Learn how to recognise signs of distress in colleagues, offer appropriate assistance–sometimes known as mental health “first-aid”, and foster a culture of care. We’ll discuss how building strong, connected workplaces contributes to long-term wellbeing throughout the course of a legal career.
Earn CPD - 1 hour for attending this webinar.
Tuesday 4 November 2025, 1pm-2pm
In this final session, Rajna and Seini will draw on top topic requests sent in by past participants and take a deep dive into how psychoneuroimmunology can be used to enhance resilience, focus, and performance under pressure. We'll explore how to turn insight into action using evidence based techniques for developing good habits that stick.
Earn CPD - 1 hour for attending this webinar.
Recording available to purchase until 19 November
Optimally is New Zealand’s first specialist mental health service dedicated exclusively to professional services. With a team of executive psychologists, functional medicine specialists, and coaches, we bring deep expertise in supporting high-performing, high-pressure professionals. Our proactive and relational approach is grounded in science and tailored to the realities of the workplace — making us uniquely placed to support the legal profession in building healthier, more resilient ways of working.
For more information, visit the Optimally website.