
Loving-Kindness Meditation: Transform Your Mindset
Discover how loving-kindness meditation builds resilience, connection, and mindfulness with insights from Sharon Salzberg. Learn practical techniques.
Discover how meditation transformed a judge's approach to law, activism, and justice. Learn the power of mindfulness in legal practice.
In 1994, Gretchen Rohr—now a mindfulness teacher and former magistrate judge—worked with activists in Oakland, California, including former Black Panther Party leader Ericka Huggins. What stood out? Their lack of bitterness despite facing oppression. All of them meditated.
Today, Rohr teaches mindfulness at Georgetown University Law Center and through Justice in Balance, a program exploring meditation and nonviolence. Her story reveals how mindfulness can reshape legal practice and social justice work.
Courtroom Presence
Ethical Alignment
Bias Reduction
Sustainable Advocacy
❌ Myth 1: Meditation means checking out from reality
✅ Truth: It's about deeper engagement through self-awareness
❌ Myth 2: Only about relaxation
✅ Truth: Prepares mind for wise action (MLK's "justice is love correcting what stands against love")
❌ Myth 3: Conflicts with legal objectivity
✅ Truth: Enhances it by reducing reactive decision-making
As Rohr proves, mindfulness isn't antithetical to justice work—it's essential for sustaining it. Her journey from skeptical activist to mindful judge offers a blueprint for integrating wisdom and action in law.
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