Self-Compassion, Happiness, and Well-Being for Lawyers: Multi-Sensory Healing Experience
Ischia, Italy
October 26 - 30, 2025
Welcome to an empowering, immersive journey to help lawyers optimize their skills to leverage success, grow their happiness and well-being, and become stronger leaders.
The Self-Compassion, Happiness, and Well-Being for Lawyers: Multi-Sensory Healing Experience is an exclusive, invite-only event for lawyers that offers engaging training sessions and practical workshops or long-term results and lasting success. There is also time for cultural experiences and networking with others lawyers to develop personal and professional relationships. Former lawyers and retired lawyers are also invited!
It is an immersive and transformative experience, developmental from both a networking and a skills-based perspective. The event will include world-class professional development and management training. In all, we estimate that approximately 75% of the event cost will be put towards professional development trainings, and the rest is towards lodging, meals, and networking activities.
It will lead to memorable time in nature, contacts to enhance your career, and the opportunity to build genuine friendships in the field.
Get ready to enhance your leadership abilities, reap the benefits of an authentic Italian experience, and learn to drive positive change in the legal profession through compassion.
Participate in leadership training, learn to work through professional challenges, and leave with lasting tools.
CLE credits may be available in your jurisdiction.
You'll experience transformative leadership training and gain connections to enhance your career for decades to come.
WHAT
This unique 5-day Self-Compassion, Happiness, and Well-Being for Lawyers: Multi-Sensory
Healing Experience gives legal professionals the opportunity to build genuine friendships and partnerships with other attorneys, as well as learn how to overcome challenges – both personal and professional.
As you train to become a better leader, you will also get sustainable tools for long-term well-being.
WHERE
Ischia is amazing because it combines a deep history– Homer included it as part of Odysseus’ journey in The Odyssey, W. H. Auden composed poetry about it, and it's the first place where the Ancient Greeks landed when they moved to Italy– lovely small towns, beautiful vegetation and nature, the sparkling Mediterranean sea, friendly people, and natural thermal hot springs that relax the body and mind.
Unique well-being, leadership, and networking experience.
Chi trova un amico, trova un tesoro – Whoever finds a friend finds a treasure (Italian Proverb)
EXPERIENCE CURATED BY:
ELIZABETH PYJOV, JD MTS
Quinlan School of Business Loyola University Chicago Faculty
B.A. Harvard College, Romance Languages and Literatures
Certification Stanford Medical School, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Pedagogy of Compassion
J.D. Harvard Law School
MTS Harvard Divinity School, Theology Degree
New York City Bar Committee Member
Experience working with the teams at Baker McKenzie, Carlyle Group, Columbia Medical School, Deutsche Bank, Library of Congress, the New York State Supreme Court, Novartis, Ropes & Gray LLP, & Warby Parker
“We envision a place and time where very high achieving lawyers can relax, enjoy, connect, and learn.”
Elizabeth is a lawyer, thought leader, speaker, and CEO who holds 3 Harvard degrees, speaks 5 languages, has lived in 7 countries, and studied neuroscience at Stanford Medical School.
Her professional experience spans being a funds attorney at Sidley Austin, policy work at the United Nations, conducting legal investigations for the New York Attorney General's Office, marketing for Italy's top television stations RAI in Rome, and working as a literary translator for Italian Nobel prize-winning author Dario Fo.
Elizabeth combines what she learned about ritual and meaning at Harvard Divinity School, her literature degree from Harvard College, the rigor of Harvard Law School, and her time studying with the Dalai Lama to think outside the box and address modern challenges in the legal world.
She currently runs 3 organizations: Lead with Compassion, Happiness Sangha, and Self-Compassion for Lawyers.
Elizabeth Pyjov's clients include Columbia Law School, The Carlyle Group, Bessemer Ventures, the Library of Congress, Ropes & Gray, Weil Gotshal, Perkins Coie, the New York State Bar Association, and the New York State Supreme Court.
Local Experience
The owner of the villa where we will be staying owns an organic fruit and vegetable farm, and the food we'll be eating is sourced from there.
LOCATION
Guests will receive a private room and bathroom in a hotel with daily maid service.
Trainings will take place at one of the two beautiful Italian villas where we will be staying.
You can lounge on one of two rooftop terraces while building the future of what the legal profession becomes.
Excursions around the island on days 2, 3, and 4 are included.
ITINERARY
DAY 1
Arrive on the island of Ischia on a one-hour boat ride from Naples
Welcome lunch
Italian poetry series
Mindfulness Meditation Practice
Introduction to Leadership of Self
Dinner
DAY 2
Morning yoga practice
Buffet breakfast
Morning mindfulness practice
Science of the Mind training
Lunch out in town
Ancient Greek myths introduction
Dinner
Evening self-compassion meditation practice
DAY 3
Morning yoga practice
Buffet breakfast
Morning meditation practice
Lunch
Freedom from the Inner Critic Master Class
Discussion of how lawyers can be self-compassionate and achieve excellence
Evening self-compassion practice
Dinner
After dinner option to explore a local town
DAY 4
Morning yoga practice
Buffet breakfast
Morning meditation practice
Centering practice with joy meditation
Practical tools to increase happiness and well-being year-round, even upon returning home.
Local lunch
How Compassion Reduces Stress Workshop
Dinner
DAY 5
Morning yoga practice
Buffet breakfast
How to Integrate These Benefits into Your Life Long-Term
Closing session: Achievements and Future Endeavors
Transfer to airport or train station in Naples
INCLUDED
All trainings of 5-day summit
Farm-to-table meals and traditional multi-course dinners
4 nights with a private room and a private bathroom
Pick up from the airport and drop off at the airport
Boat from Naples to Ischia two ways
Transportation during your stay
Everything is planned for you and everything is included
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WHAT’S UNIQUE
Curated attendee list of lawyers
Limited registration numbers
An opportunity to pause, reflect, connect to yourself, and integrate all the parts of you to achieve higher success.
At the crossroads of leadership, psychology, religion, neuroscience, contemplative practice, and the legal world.
TRAININGS
You'll have the opportunity to participate in daily leadership trainings
Trainings will span the topics of Leadership of Self, Leadership of Others, as well as Compassion and Self-Compassion
OPPORTUNITY TO NETWORK
As you enjoy your time on the island you will meet accomplished lawyers who are leaders and changemakers in the field
Curriculum
The curriculum will have 4 parts to it:
1) Self-compassion, awareness and joy practice.
2) Compassionate connection to others.
3) Science of the mind to reduce stress and burnout.
4) Italian poetry and Ancient Greek mythology as it supports happiness.
YOUR CONTRIBUTION
Private Room and Bathroom - $3,700
Two Registrations for Two People Sharing A Room (option to bring your significant other) - $6,900 for both
For each option above, everything is included from the time we pick you up at the airport to the time you leave Ischia. There will be the opportunity to meet the best lawyers and leaders in the industry.
If you want to bring a significant other, family member, or friend, contact Elizabeth Pyjov at (650) 922-4262 or elizabeth@leadwithcompassion.com.
DETAILS
Dates: October 26 - 30, 2025
Place: Ischia in Italy, one of the most beautiful, radiant places you'll ever visit
Directions: Fly into the airport in Naples, Italy. There is a direct flight New York - Naples, for example. You can also fly to Rome and take a one hour train to Naples.
Why: A richer network of lawyers, new leadership skills, more happiness personally, more energy, more joy, and greater resilience professionally
Facilitator: Elizabeth Pyjov, JD MTS
The event fee is $3,700. Usually, $2,500 is covered by a lawyer’s law firm or organization.
If you want to bring along a significant other or friend, the event fee is $2,900 for them if you share a room.
HOW TO REGISTER
“Successful lawyers, like successful people in all walks of life, are lifelong learners who never stop growing.”
HOW TO REGISTER
If you received a personalized invitation or your application was approved, you can register here.
If there is a plus one who wants to join you and share a room, the registration is here.
The registration deadline is May 31, 2025.
Registrations include a 3% platform processing fee.
This payment can be split up into monthly payments over 6 - 12 months, interest-free, if you select Affirm or Klarna at checkout at the link below. If you have questions about that, call Elizabeth Pyjov at 650-922-4262.
Register for the Self-Compassion, Happiness, and Well-Being for Lawyers: Multi-Sensory Healing Experience in Italy
How to Join:
Please use the link below to register for the event.
We look forward to having you.
Feel free to call or text the event curator Elizabeth Pyjov at (650) 922-4262 or email her at elizabeth@leadwithcompassion.com if you have questions about the summit.