March: 1, 2024, The Norris Center

4th Annual Lucy Hobbs Project

The Lucy Hobbs Project 2024
Time 9AM-4PM
Credits 5

For more information please contact events@austinoms.com or call (512) 498-0119.

Renovate Your Office Wellness

Celebrate Wellness Together With Your Entire Team.

Our 2024 event is perfect for the entire team. This years event will focus on how to renovate, revitatilize and rejuvenate the way your team does things. We’ll impart strategies for incorporating these wellness concepts to build a happier, more productive and engaged team.

Presentations:

 Keynote: I Don’t Belong Here, I Want to Go Home

Belonging. It’s an innate human desire for connection and acceptance and it is directly related to office wellness. When we feel we belong at work, we thrive. In fact, research shows that when belonging is high there is improved employee job performance, lower turnover risk, and fewer employee sick days. In general, belonging helps to create a happier workforce, and increased profitability. But the reality is that over half of American workers feel like they don’t belong at work, making belonging the top human capital issue organizations are facing today. So, how do you combat belonging issues in your office? 

Join Whitney Nelson & Brettne Shootman, the dynamic sister duo behind Brilliant People™ for an engaging and interactive discussion titled, “I Don’t Belong Here, I Want to Go Home.” This talk will delve into how people differences and conflict affect belonging at work and at home, and how understanding personality is the key to creating an inclusive work environment. Winner, winner chicken dinner!

Attendees will receive tips to improve belonging and a virtual swag bag filled with downloadable resources. 

  1. Introduce the concept of belonging
  2. Reveal how belonging at work affects wellness (individual and team)
  3. Examine personality type and its connection to belonging at work and at home

The Strong Mind Initiative: Our Sisterhood

Anne Rice, RDH

Society has made progress in equality, but women still experience gaps in income, power, and representation. There is also a more fundamental crisis: the gap in knowledge about their health. The Strong Mind Initiative will study the history of “bikini medicine,” then explore aspects needed to comprehend how the female brain operates and any trials, hazards, risks, and opportunities for optimization it poses. This session will look at critical diagnostic tools to maximize healthy brains and identify areas to prevent disease in women through diet, exercise, sleep, supplements, stress, and balance. We will empower women by teaching subtle approaches in lifestyle, behavioral, and medical modifications that can lead to a lifetime of cognitive health as well as supporting each other in our work environments.

Attendees will receive links for printouts to use in their office for breathing techniques, meditations, nutrition and diets

Objectives

  1. Apply knowledge to make choices that protect brains, bodies, and precious vitality
  2. Discuss the unique role estrogen has on female brains and impact of X chromosomes
  3. Recite the 8 steps to a well-nourished brain
  4. Demonstrate how Kirtan Kriya meditation can enhance cognition

Breaking Up With Dentistry: You Don’t Call Me Darlin, Darlin

Dental professionals are increasingly reporting high levels of burnout and dissatisfaction from demanding schedules and interpersonal interactions with coworkers, managers, and patients.  This brief course if packed with understanding why burnout happens, and a few practical applications to implement into your daily routine to reduce chronic stress.  Taught by a Licensed Professional Counselor, walk away with tools in your back pocket to begin a stress reduction protocol for work/life balance. 

  1. Define burnout and its causes
  2. Learn how chronic stress can lead to chronic illness
  3. Discuss 5 mental health strategies to reduce stress in a demanding work enviroment

Benefits That Matter- Panel Discussion

The work climate has changed dramatically over the last few years and so have what benefits are important to employees.  On this panel you will hear from a variety of dental team members in different places in their careers about what is important to them in their benefit packages.  This panel will include a practice manager that will offer an employer perspective.

Objectives

  1. Learn what benefits team members of different season of life need
  2. Understand why the benefits that matter do
  3. Ascertain how work culture can be considered part of the benefit package

Agenda:

8:00-9:00
Optional Human Trafficking Course
9:00-11:00am
Shopping, Networking and Giveback
10:30-11:00am
Brunch buffet opens
11:00am
Introduction
11:15-12:15
The Strong Mind Initiative: Our Sisterhood- Anne Rice, RDH
12:15-12:45pm
Breaking Up With Dentistry; Don't Call Me Darlin, Darlin-Kandice Swarthout
12:45-1:05pm
Break
1:05-2:05pm
I Don't Belong Here, I Want to Go Home-Brilliant People, Whitney Nelson & Brettne Shootman
2:05-2:20pm
End Human Trafficking, Ignite Hope
2:20-2:40
Break
2:40-3:40
Benefits That Matter- Panel Discussion
3:45- 4:00
Raffle Winners Announced & Closing

Special Guest MC

Whitney Nelson, CEO of Brilliant People

Whitney Nelson

Whitney Nelson is the founder and CEO of Brilliant People. She’s a dynamic leader with a background in marketing, leading teams and leadership development. Her corporate experience combined with her mantra ‘say no to status quo’ has empowered her to create a better way to develop leadership in individuals. This became the catalyst for Brilliant People, whose mission is to empower managers to create and sustain high performance teams. When not inspiring organizations to transform workplace culture, you’ll find her mountain biking or running the trails in and around Austin, TX.

 

Panel Moderator

Kandice Swarthout, Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Registered Dental Hygienist (RDH)

Kandice Swarthout, RDH

Kandice Swarthout, RDH, LPC is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Registered Dental Hygienist. She is a full-time dental hygiene educator in Texas where she teaches community dentistry and research. Kandice is the owner of a CE company called Inspired Education & Wellness where she is a speaker, writer, private practice therapist, and co-owner of Muffins & Mimosas Dental Study Club. She combines her clinical dental and mental health experience to help other healthcare professionals recognize the effects of trauma and trafficking on patients.  Kandice is an approved provider under Texas Health and Human Services for human trafficking training for healthcare professionals.

Read her articles in Today’s RDH, Dentistry IQ, RDH Magazine and her blog on Facebook titled Fearless Compassion: Stories of Personal Triumph. Contact Kandice at www.kandiceswarthout.com or on social media @The Counselor Hygienist.

Speakers

Anne Rich, CEO of Oral Systemic Seminars

Anne Rice, RDH

Anne has been a clinical dental hygienist for over 30 years, is a speaker, writer and consultant. She created Oral Systemic Seminars in 2017 which she now devotes her time, focus and study primarily to dementia prevention. Anne received her preceptor for the Bale/Doneen method and is a Certified Dementia Practitioner. In 2020 Anne became certified as a Longevity Specialist with the Alzheimer’s Research and Dementia Foundation, is a Fellow with The American Academy of Oral Systemic Health and in 2021 published her manuscript Alzheimer’s Disease and Oral-Systemic Health. Her column for RDH magazine focuses on oral systemic health and is on the 2024 editorial advisory board she is also on the AAOSH advisory board. Anne has consulted with Weill Cornell Medical Center’s Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic, Florida Atlantic College Center for Brain Health, and the Atria Institute.

Whitney Nelson and Brettne Shootman of Brilliant People

Whitney Nelson & Brettne Shootman of Brilliant People

Whitney Nelson and Brettne Shootman are the dynamic sister duo behind Brilliant People™, a boutique leadership development consultancy based in the Austin, TX area. BP’s mission is to spark a culture (r)evolution in the workplace. For some businesses this might mean tweaking the culture (evolution), but for others a full on revolution is required. The Brilliant People™ approach to building high-performing teams begins with digging into personality because when individuals truly understand how and why they show up at work the way they do, they can better meet the needs of their coworkers. It’s symbiotic, really. One person’s strengths can help fill the gaps of another who struggles in those areas. This is the foundation for leading in the workplace and motivating others to positively embrace the idea of differences as a path to improved inclusivity and belonging. 

But leadership can positively affect your home life too, which is why we created Brilliant People™! Brilliant Families™ is a podcast where we talk about the hard stuff that happens in families and how parents can lead through them. Things like divorce, addiction, and even adoption can create serious problems and parents are often hesitant to talk openly about them for fear of backlash, judgment, gossip, cancel culture, and more. The Brilliant Families™ podcast hopes to provide a space where parents feel heard and can receive resources to help them not just survive the hard stuff, but overcome it. There are no perfect families, but you can have a BRILLIANT one!

Brilliant People™ is an independent Authorized Partner of “Everything DiSC” and “The Five Behaviors” solution for individuals and teams.

Kandice Swarthout, Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Registered Dental Hygienist (RDH)

Kandice Swathout, RDH

Kandice Swarthout, RDH, LPC is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Registered Dental Hygienist. She is a full-time dental hygiene educator in Texas where she teaches community dentistry and research. Kandice is the owner of a CE company called Inspired Education & Wellness where she is a speaker, writer, private practice therapist, and co-owner of Muffins & Mimosas Dental Study Club. She combines her clinical dental and mental health experience to help other healthcare professionals recognize the effects of trauma and trafficking on patients.  Kandice is an approved provider under Texas Health and Human Services for human trafficking training for healthcare professionals.

Read her articles in Today’s RDH, Dentistry IQ, RDH Magazine and her blog on Facebook titled Fearless Compassion: Stories of Personal Triumph. Contact Kandice at www.kandiceswarthout.com or on social media @The Counselor Hygienist.

Sara Nellis- Unbound Now ATX

Sara Nellis is from Waco, TX and resides in the Austin area. Sara serves as the Director of Early Intervention for Unbound Now Austin. She has served the Waco community since 2006 in various roles and capacities. She has worked with families in the foster care system through the Department of Family Protective Services and has served as programs director for Christian Women’s Job Corps of McLennan County. She has served on the Steering Committee for the Heart of Texas Human Trafficking Coalition. Sara is passionate about helping others find hope in their healing journey from a life of trauma. She is a survivor of human trafficking and has overcome many of life’s challenges. Sara advocates for the vulnerable within her community by fighting human trafficking. Sara has earned her Masters in Social Work from Tarleton State University. She has been a recipient of The Andrew Marks Student Advocacy Award through the National Association of Social Workers and the Sybil Bentley Dove Award. Sara enjoys traveling with her husband and exploring new coffee shops with friends.

 

Networking Time

Women based businesses where you will have time to shop and network with other dental professionals.

Giveback Opportunities

The giveback portion of our event will be raising money and awareness about human trafficking and all proceeds will benefit Unbound ATX. We will have a raffle with a variety of items from local vendors. If you would like to pre-purchase raffle tickets for your team please contact events@austinnoms.com. Tickets will be $5 each or 5 for $20. Unbound ATX envisions a future where our community is free from human trafficking.

What we did at our 1st Annual Lucy Hobbs Project 2019

Our community has come together and donated over $5,000 in prizes to raffle off for the giveback portion of our event benefiting The Refuge DMST.

You shopped. You bought raffle tickets… 100’s of raffle tickets! You supported The Refuge for DMST and we raised a total of $7,625.00 from raffle tickets and vendor sponsorships.
It didn’t end there! We have a dentist that is planning to start a scholarship for any girl who has interest in the dental field! Gloria Chan (keynote speaker) has offered to teach wellness classes to the girls at the ranch! Her husband who is an Optometrist plans to provide eye exams! Dr. Briggs is providing orthodontics for any girl in need. Cecily Kertson with Straumann donated their horse Newton to the equine therapy center at The Refuge! The outpour has been just amazing! Thank you Thank You Thank You!

Why Lucy Hobbs? Austin Oral Surgery and Benco want to empower all women in dentistry in all areas of life, personally, professionally and we can’t forget to have some fun! We are so excited to plan this event for 2021 and will be posting details as we finalize plans so please check back to see what is new. The links below have pictures from our 1st Lucy Hobbs Project in Austin. Please reach out if you would like to learn more or have any questions.

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