Stress and well-being of healthcare professionals can be improved with mindfulness-based interventions, which address areas such as stress management, mental and emotional regulation, and the implementation of mindfulness practices in daily clinical practice. The Mindfulness in Dentistry course is based on the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program created by Jon Kabat Zinn, fully adapted to Dentistry, in which stress reduction tools and human skills and emotional intelligence are taught through Mindfulness and neuroscience practices.

The course presents Mindfulness techniques and how we can specifically apply these techniques in clinical practice. There are also practical exercises and meditations. There is also space for exchanging experiences and dialogue. The course will provide tools to reduce stress and work more calmly, allowing dentists to change their relationship with the day-to-day demands of their clinical practice so that the price of their profession is not their health.

Dentists, Dental Medicine Students

• Provide practical tools for stress reduction and management.
• Develop emotional intelligence skills: develop self-awareness, the ability to choose how we respond to challenging situations.
• Develop interpersonal skills that will allow the professional to relate better with patients and staff at work.
• Gain new insights about yourself: explore your own preferences, values, motivations and personal purposes and discover how to improve your ability to manage stress and make decisions.
• Gain new practical tools: learn and practice a wide range of mindfulness-based techniques to develop and integrate emotional intelligence into daily clinical practice.
• Learn the main Mindfulness meditation techniques and how to establish a consistent meditation practice.

• Learn what mindfulness and meditation are, and how they can be applied in Dentistry;
• Learn to identify autopilot mode, to be aware of the experience in the present moment and cultivate self-awareness (recognize the connection with anxiety and burnout);
• Begin to develop self-awareness and learn the connection between thoughts - emotions - body.
• Recognize how thoughts and emotions affect the performance of the Dentist;
• Understand the physiology of stress and identify the stressors unique to each professional;
• Learn and consolidate stress control and management mechanisms;
• Identify and change habitual patterns of reactivity;
• Learn the connection between Emotional Intelligence and Dentistry;
• Understand the difference between empathy and compassion in Dentistry, and how to develop compassion;
• Learn emotional self-regulation tools; and thus be able to manage responses more effectively in challenging situations;
• Learn Mindfulness meditation techniques and how to establish a consistent meditation practice;
• Develop practical and simple Mindfulness tools to apply in daily clinical practice (formal and informal Mindfulness practices).
• Understand the spiral of exhaustion and develop practical physical and emotional self-care tools to help professionals thrive, perform better and build resilience.

New Edition of the Mindfulness in Dentistry course

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