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Signature Series^*

	Tuesday, March 7 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

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Reducing the Stress of Leadership

Dr. Ben Bernstein

Presenter: Dr. Ben Bernstein

Principal Coordinator: Dr. N. Karl Haden

Presented in Collaboration with the 2006 Class of the ADEA Leadership Institute

CE CREDITS: 6

Leaders in academic dentistry are constantly challenged by stressors coming simultaneously from numerous sources: university demands; inter- and intradepartmental priorities and politics; multiple roles relating to students (being teachers, role models, and mentors); funding for and attention to personal research and clinical practice; and balancing all of this with the needs of home and family.

Understanding the relationship between stress and performance—one of the most researched phenomena in the field of psychology—is vital for leaders in dental education, not only because they are dealing personally with all of the stressors cited above on a daily basis, but because they are preparing students to enter a field characterized by high stress/high performance work. Dentistry requires sustaining an extraordinary level of presence, but the stresses of training and practice take their toll on body, mind, and spirit.

This Signature Series program will examine the multiple stressors facing leaders in academic dentistry and will provide a proactive model for enhancing leadership performance by reducing stress. Through an interactive format, participants will explore stress-related vignettes drawn from real-life situations in dental education, while learning an effective system of stress reduction.

Specific objectives for the program are for participants to:

• understand the relationship between stress and performance,
  
• explore a new definition of stress,
  
• complete and analyze a self-diagnostic stress/performance inventory, and
  
• learn and apply the nine core tools for reducing stress and enhancing performance.
  

Dr. Ben Bernstein, a performance psychologist, consultant to the University of California, San Francisco School of Dentistry, and speaker in the ADA Seminar Series, will lead the program. Dr. Bernstein’s wide-ranging experience as an educator and as a personal coach to high-level performers in the arts, health care, sports, and business will bring to this program a lively mix of the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of stress and performance. He will begin the day by coaching a professional opera singer, master-class style, in front of program participants.

This event requires preregistration and payment of a fee of $200 for members and $325 for nonmembers. Attendance is limited and is on a first-come, first-served basis.

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