Grounding Inside/Out Professional Identity Formation by Developing Wholehearted Lawyers with Therapeutic Intent

Professional identity formation of law students ideally encompasses both development the necessary attributes lawyers as well a robust philosophy to inform character their engagement with justice system throughout career. Susan Brooks’ Wholehearted Lawyering teaching principles and practices provide sound basis for developing complex core personal, interpersonal, relational skills maximise constructive interactions within legal system. Vulnerability Theory Therapeutic Jurisprudence too, guide students’ lawyers’ purposeful system, particularly facilitate greater access through resilience-building therapeutic contributions impacts. This article proposes an Inside/Out pedagogy that develops awareness these personal interpersonal (the Inside) provides framework purposive grounded in improving Out). systematically embeds scholarship develop professional attributes, drawn from stimulate crystallise own purpose lawyers. The then examines application this Australian clinic established 2020 at Western Sydney University New South Wales, Australia.