Gratitude, Appreciation, Self-Appreciation: Science and Practice

Tuesday, November 25, 2025
19:30 - 20:30 PM

Virtual event

Please join us for a workshop and meditation by Elizabeth Pyjov '20 on Gratitude.

Let's start Thanksgiving week with a gratitude practice for ourselves,

for each other, and for the wonderful things in our lives. As we move
into Thanksgiving, it's timely to explore the science of gratitude and
try gratitude practices together as a community. Scientific research
suggests that gratitude leads to increased happiness, better health, a
sense of connection, more energy, more self-confidence, and more
positive emotions, as well as less stress, anxiety, and depression.
Gratitude is also the glue that holds relationships together. In many
cultures throughout history, gratitude was considered the key to a
successful and meaningful life. After this workshop, you'll understand
how gratitude impacts the body and why we need gratitude for better
functioning brains. We will also try a gratitude meditation together.
We will discuss how to make gratitude a daily habit and develop a
grateful personality. The law is a client service business where
relationships play a primary role, so this workshop is also useful
professionally.

Elizabeth Pyjov '20

Elizabeth Pyjov is a lawyer, facilitator, law school faculty, and

compassionate culture expert who holds three Harvard degrees, speaks
five languages, has lived in seven countries, and studied neuroscience
at Stanford Medical School. Through her organization Lead with
Compassion, she has reached over 100,000 people to help them wake up
with more energy and joy every morning.

Elizabeth's past professional experience includes being an Investment
Funds Associate at Sidley Austin, human rights work at the United
Nations, legal investigations for the New York Attorney General's
Office, and managing Compassion Journal for the Stanford Center for
Compassion and Altruism Research and Education..

She 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 work and her time studying with the
Dalai Lama to think outside the box and address modern challenges in
the legal world.
Elizabeth builds individualized happiness programs for individualized
and works with the New York Appellate Court, the Library of Congress,
the New York State Bar Association, The Carlyle Group, the New York
Legal Assistance Group, Public Defenders offices, and law firms in the
US and abroad She is also Business School Faculty at Quinlan School of
Business Loyola University Chicago where she lectures on leadership of
self. Her goal is to help create a more compassionate legal profession which
leads to a more compassionate world. This work is the greatest
privilege of her life.