Learn. Connect. Grow.
Learn. Connect. Grow.
Dr. Kristin Yont, DMD, is a Calgary-based dentist, educator, and leader in mind-body medicine. She co-owns a downtown practice and has served as the dentist for the Calgary Flames NHL team for 28 years, where she is the lead dentist for the medical team. She also brings extensive experience in forensic dentistry and has contributed to professional regulation through her work on the Complaints Review Committee for the College of Dental Surgeons of Alberta.
Dr. Yont is accredited to teach the SMART Program through the Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. She shares her work through workshops, retreats, and wellness programs for dental professionals, universities, healthcare associations, and business leaders. Her training includes Compassion Cultivation Training from Stanford, Mindfulness Approaches to Addictions through the Cambridge Health Alliance, the Inner MBA in conscious leadership, and Harvard’s Science of Leadership: The Brain, Resilience, and Mindfulness program.
Burnout recovery is often framed as taking time away, slowing down, or making major life changes. But for today’s dental professionals facing acute staffing shortages, packed patient schedules, and rising financial pressures, stepping away is rarely an option. When the work cannot stop, how do we build shared capacity to move through it together?
This wellness session bypasses generic self-care advice to focus on real-time capacity building. Highlighting the unique physical and mental demands of the dental environment, participants will learn concrete strategies to stabilize during periods of depletion, audit and reduce unnecessary workplace load, and micro-restore boundaries between patients. We will explore how to build incremental recovery directly into a demanding workday, identify when “grit” becomes toxic, and establish clear metrics for when individual coping strategies must give way to broader systemic changes.
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