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This is a preliminary programme dated 6 April 2026 for a June virtual symposium. It maps several uses of reflection without proving the delivery or outcomes of each planned session.
Connect reflective practice with teaching and professional regulation
This is a preliminary programme dated 6 April 2026 for a June virtual symposium. It maps several uses of reflection without proving the delivery or outcomes of each planned session.
- The heading dates the virtual symposium to 22–24 June 2026 and the preliminary programme to 6 April.Source page 1
- The first day distinguishes a session on transformative impact from a roundtable on legal regulators and law societies.Source page 1
- The following page lists a session on reflective practice and well-being, separate from regulatory competency discussions.Source page 2
- 01Teaching
- 02Regulation
- 03Well-being
These are new discussion questions inspired by the session structure. They are not advice for an individual client or evidence of a programme’s effectiveness.
Connect reflective practice with teaching and professional regulation
- Record the programme’s preliminary status and version date.
- Choose one institutional setting: classroom, professional regulator or well-being discussion.
- Write a reflective question tailored to that setting rather than claiming reflection produces a measured outcome.
Connect reflective practice with teaching and professional regulation
| Teaching | How does a learner examine a decision after an exercise? |
|---|---|
| Regulation | How is reflection described in competency assessment?Source page 1, 2 |
| Well-being | What assumptions about reflection and well-being require evidence?Source page 2 |
These are new discussion questions inspired by the session structure. They are not advice for an individual client or evidence of a programme’s effectiveness.
6 pages of text
Source-language text, including both languages where the original is bilingual. Page numbering follows the obtained document.
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Queen’s Law Virtual Symposium: Reflective Practice for Legal Professionals (June 22 – 24, 2026) Preliminary Program as at 06 April 2026 Day I, Monday, June 22, 2026 2:00– Welcome, Acknowledgement of Territory & Opening Remarks 2:55 pm S. Aiken, Welcome and Acknowledgement of Territory C. M. Flood, Dean, Queen’s University Faculty of Law M. Leering Setting the Stage and Seeding the Ground: Reflective Practice in Law in all its Complexity and as a Catalyst for Change 2:55 BREAK – 5 minutes 3:00– Expanding our Understanding of the Transformative Impact of Reflective 4:30 Practice (Session 1) pm J. Webb (Melbourne) Building Ethics & Wellbeing Through (Moral) Organisational Resilience: An Extended Role for Reflective Practice in the Legal Ecosystem T. Casey (UCLA) Refined Reflection: A Second Look at Models of Reflection E. Capulong (Hawaii) Reflection as Resistance: The Personal-Professional Identity Dialectic and Political Agency G. Smyth (Windsor) Reflective Practice: Pathways through Uncertainty D. Gumpinger (Sherbrooke) Reflective Practice, Moral Imagination and the Rule of Law 4:30 BREAK 5:00– Reflective Practice: Legal Regulators & Law Societies Roundtable (Session 2) 6:30 pm B. Bailey (Law Society of Alberta) & C. Hurley (Law Society of Newfoundland & Labrador) Across the Lawyer Lifecycle: From Bar Admission to CPD C. Walsh (Law Society England & Wales) Helping our Members get ‘Shopfloor’ Ready: How Embedding Reflective Practice Aims to Improve Professional Competency 1
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L. Fraser & A. Duggan (Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner) Cultivating Reflective Practice in the Victorian Legal Profession N. Horrox (Law Society of Ontario) D. Wolfe (Federation of Law Societies Canada) Modernizing Canada's Assessment Policies and Assessment Tools for Internationally Educated Lawyers and Law Graduates B. Pawlowska, C. Barber & M. Marshall (College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants) Reflective Practice and Public Protection: Professional Identity Formation in Immigration Practice 6:30 BREAK 7:00– Reflective Practice and Fostering Well-being (Session 3) 8:30 pm R. Field (Bond) & E. Jones (Sheffield) Reflective Practice as a Critical Element of a Proposed New Legal Wellbeing Pedagogy A. Copeland (Murdoch) Reflection Will Be the Thing That Saves You: Linking Reflective Practice to Wellbeing & Happiness T. Lat (Alteneo Law School) Transforming Law Students into Become Happier, Healthier, and More Ethical Versions of Themselves: A Philippine Response to Patrick Schiltz 25 Years Hence A. R. Dallas (US National Non-profit) In Right Relationship: Practicing and Teaching Trauma-Responsive Restorative Advocacy V. Fortin (Sherbrooke) and C. Bérubé (Integrating Reflective Practice and Professional Identity in Week 3 of L1: Too Soon? R. Lalini Dahya (Humber Polytechnic) Bias, Burnout, and Blind spots: Why Reflection Matters in Trauma-Informed Law & ADR Day II, Tuesday, June 23, 2026 9:00– Fostering Professionalism & Developing Competency Across the Lifecycle 10:30 and Professional Paths (Session 4) am J. Ching (Nottingham-Trent) Professional Adolescence: Towards a Terminology for Liminality in Legal Education C. Duperouzel (Curtin) Self-Reflection and Self-Care for Emerging Legal Professionals: A Practical Legal Training (PLT) Perspective 2
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P. O. Achancho (Catholic University of Central Africa) Reflective Practice Amid Institutional Disorientation: Ethical Capacity Building for Legal Professionals in the Cameroon Judicial System J. Davidson (Melbourne) Reflective Practice in Action – the Value of Reflective Practice in Integrated Services of Managers and Staff M. Silcoff (TMU) I will survive: Building a Sustainable Access to Justice Practice S. Aiken, C. Bracci, and A. Speltz (Queen’s) Reflective Practice in the Graduate Diploma in Immigration and Refugee Law 10:30 BREAK 11:00 Advancing Reflective Practices & Methods: Part I (Session 5) am – 12:30 J. K. Wright, K. Perry (Quinnipiac), and S. van der Meer (Consultant) pm Reflective Practice Playbook: Multimodal Experiential Activities to Guide Integrative Reflective Development in Legal Education and Law Practice D. Burand (New York) Walking in Circles to New Insights: Conducting Reflective Meditations One Step at a Time D. A. Pope (Georgia State) Purple Reign: How the Artistry of Prince Helps Law Students - and the Professors that Teach Them - Explore Professional Identity. R. Gupta (National Forensic Sciences University) Pro Bono and Legal Aid Clinic as Stimulants: Cultivate Professional Identity and Ethical Resilience Through Reflective Legal Aid Practice A. M. Maddali (Northwestern) Insights from Divinity School that May Offer Tools for Teaching Law Students Self-reflective Practices to Engage in Ethical and Moral Inquiry B. McDonald (Coach & Trainer) Borrowed Models, Blunt tools: Rethinking Reflective Practice in Legal Education 12:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS (30 minutes with Q & A) followed by LUNCH BREAK am – 1:30 Dr. D. Stockley (Queens) Strengthening the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning pm in Law Through Reflective Practice 1:30 What Law Can Learn From Health and Other Disciplines (Session 6) - 3:00 pm E. A. Kinsella (McGill) & N. Soilis (McGill) Professional Knowledge & the Epistemology of Reflective Practice: Engaging a Continuum of Reflection S. Ng (Toronto/CACHE) & M. Mylopolous (Toronto/Dalla Lana School of Public Health) Advancing Critically Reflective Practice & Adaptive Expertise in Health 3
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C. Shdaimah (Maryland/Baltimore) Modeling Reflective Practice: Pedagogical Opportunities in Natural Spaces of Encounter 3:00 BREAK 3:30- Reflective Practice and Indigenous Ways of Knowing & Pedagogies (Session 7) 5:00 pm L. Borrows (Queens) Rubrics for Reflection: Lessons Learned from a Case Study of an Indigenous Land-based Learning Course J. Holmes (Windsor) Integrating Traditional Indigenous Learning Styles in Legal Education: Creating Reflective Learning in Law F. Robert (Ottawa) Wapanakew as Pedagogy: Lessons for Reflective Practice in Legal Education P. Barkaskas (UBC) Intersection of Indigenous Pedagogy in Reflective Practice to Create Opportunities for Connection and Solidarity Through Value Clarification and Ethical Engagement L. Speak & C. Spade (Bora Laskin/Lakehead) Naanaagadawenindizowin: Reflecting on Legal Education and Gidinaadiziwininaanan Day III, Wednesday, June 24, 2026 9:00 – Reflective Practice: Empowering Justice & Encouraging Systemic Change 10:30 (Session 8) am A. Pivaty & Aurora Canova (Radboud) The Ethical Lawyer of the Future: Challenges and Opportunities for Fostering Reflection on a Broader Societal Context in a Law School A.A.S. Shah (World Bank Legal Vice-Presidency) From Attention to Action in an AI Era: MEVA Seva as Reflective Praxis for the Justice Facing Lawyer L. Curran (Nottingham Trent) Reflective Practice – Its Value in Creating Improvements in Service Delivery and Advancing People-centred Justice D. Venema and I. Wopereis (Open Universiteit) Repairing the Legal Dialogue by Reflective Practice: A Constructive Response to the Dutch Childcare Benefits Scandal V. Le Blanc (UVic) & J. Boulanger-Bonnelly (McGill) Access-to-justice Education in Canada: Challenges and Potential for Reflective Practice 10:30 BREAK 11:00 Encouraging Critically Reflective Practice in Law (Session 9) am – 12:30 4
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pm E. Bernheim (Ottawa) From Reflective Learning to Political Engagement: How Can We Get Students Interested in the Law of Marginalized People? S. Nussbaum (UNB) Legal Education as Responsibility Building: Integrating Critical Perspectives and Reflective Practice in Criminal Law G. Calder (UVic) Embodiment as Critical Reflection: Images and Art in the Law School Classroom A.A. Mirza (Shaikh Ahman Hassan Law School) Building a Framework to Develop Reflective Praxis Amongst Law Students A. Bahri (O. P. Jindal Global University) From Critique to Praxis: Building Reflective Practice in Legal Education J. F. Harrison (Charles Darwin) Epistemic Urbanism and the Law’s Reflective Governance 12:30 LUNCH BREAK 1:30 – Advancing Reflective Practices & Methods: Part II (Session 10) 3:00 pm M. Keet (Saskatchewan) Using Reflective Practice to Support the Growth of Interpersonal Communication & Negotiation Competencies M. Silver (Touro) Cultivating Professional Identity for a Sustainable Life in the Law B. Waugh (lawyer, mediator, author) Transforming Legal Practices: Restorative and Reflective Approaches A. Evangelidis (Law Institute of Victoria) The Mindful Lawyer of the Future R. Meredith (Toronto) and S. Sutherland (Mediate BC Society) Team-based Learning Activities as Encouragement of Reflective Practice S. Kalsi (UCL) and R. Knowles (UCL) Reflection on Reflection: Supervision, Assessment and Beyond O.A. Gbadamosi (Osun State University) Advancing a Reflective Approach to the Practice of Law 3:00 BREAK 3:30 - The Reflective Educator & Transforming Law Schools (Session 11) 5:00 pm O. Lagi (NULAI) From Implicit to Impactful: Advancing Reflective Practice in Legal Clinics 5
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A. McEwan and L.Price (Central Queensland University) Navigating the Complexity of Polycrisis as Legal Educators: Reflective Practice as a Transformative Process M. Atkinson (UniSA) Fostering Reflection in Contemporary Australian Clinical Legal Education O.C. Conway (Amn University Washington) and I. Laurent (Gongaza) Reflective Practices in Restorative Legal Pedagogy P. Motiyani (Gujaret University) Reflecting on Biopiracy: Legal Education and the Protection of Biodiversity and Transitional Knowledge A. Perret (Idaho) Beyond a Case plan: Applying the Structure of Reflective Supervision of Mental Health Practitioners to Clinical Legal Education 5:00 – Closing Remarks: Reflections & Where Do We Go From Here? 5:30 pm S. Aiken & M. Leering, Symposium Series Co-organizers 6