24 Oct 2016
The Woods & Aitken Build Your Character Program on Identity is scheduled for Wednesday, November 2nd. Jon Krop, the founder of Mindfulness for Lawyers, will present two workshops encouraging the practice of mindfulness. A introductory workshop will be held from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. in the Auditorium, with an advanced mindfulness workshop being held from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Krop graduated from Harvard Law School, cum laude, and Brown University, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. After law school, he clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Krop is an associate at a public-interest law firm in New York City.
Krop has taught mindfulness to partners and associates at Chadbourne & Parke, Dentons, DLA Piper, Foley Hoag, Foley & Lardner, Kirkland & Ellis, Nixon Peabody, Sidley Austin, Sullivan & Cromwell, and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He teaches a mindfulness workshop every semester at Harvard Law School. He has also taught at Brooklyn Law School, NYU, and General Electric.
Krop has practiced mindfulness for over a decade and has studied with teachers from around the world, including the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan master Tsoknyi Rinpoche, and western teachers Gerardo Abboud, Elisha Goldstein, PhD, Trudy Goodman, PhD, and John Yates, PhD. Krop has sat numerous meditation retreats, including a seven-month silent retreat with meditation master and neuroscientist John Yates.