Virginia Robin

Virginia Robin is a lawyer turned legal futurist, mediator, TEDx speaker, author and artist. She spent 25 years in law, ending in a partnership, and left in 2022. She says she had not fallen out of love with law. She had found an untapped resource for resolving conflict in ways that are both empowering and deeply fulfilling.

Her work rests on the belief that conflict often arises from self-imposed limitations. She draws on many years of practice and on personal experience, including what her Insight Timer page calls a turbulent life journey. She guides lawyers, mediators and individuals facing high-stakes conflict through methods that use emotional states to bring about clear, transformative solutions. In her courses she teaches a three-step approach that looks at problems through an energetic lens, and she presents it as life-changing and also fun.

Virginia applies her training in Futures and Foresight thinking to legal practice. She focuses on relatedness, the capacity to build trust, connection and mutual understanding with clients. Her workshops and retreats explore emotional intelligence and the part a person's state of being plays in negotiation, decision-making and client outcomes.

She has written books, including the children's book The Many Meeeees of Miniki, about emotional intelligence, Not Guilty: Finding peace in three simple steps, and Let's Kiss All The Lawyers…Said No One Ever!: How Conflict Can Benefit You. She also makes artwork. Her YouTube channel describes her as a reformed lawyer sharing dignified ways to solve problems. She lives on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, which she says inspires both her thinking and her art.