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IN-PERSON EVENT, hosted by Metropolitan Branch

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Please note the new venue - Hallam Conference Centre - and there is limited availability for this event, so book early to avoid disappointment!

What to expect

The lecture will focus on helping delegates understand some of the fundamentals of human psychology and experience as it relates to a career in healthcare. Particular focus will be on the healthcare providers mental wellbeing and psychology and the felt experience of the patient as they meet and engage with their dentist. We will explore how this pertains to the pressures, adversity along with the benefits and advantages of a life as a dentist. We will understand how patients unconscious is making all of their seemingly rational decisions on treatment choices.

Timings

18:00 Registration and refreshments 

18:45 Lecture - Richard Porter

20:15 End of lecture and networking

20:45 Close

Learning objectives

  • Understand the foundational pillars of human psychology to understand how adversity, resilience play out in our lives
  • Explain the balance between positive and negative emotion and how the human brain makes felt experience based on future predictions of these
  • Review resources to understand ourselves better, to develop our own emotional intelligence and how to flourish in the longer term as a person and as a dentist.

Development outcome

A

Meet the speaker

Richard Porter Specialist Restorative Dentist, Prosthodontist, Endodontist, Periodontist, and Implantologist

Richard became a Restorative Consultant in 2007 and continued in this role for 17 years. He is a GDC registered specialist in Prosthodontics, Endodontics, Periodontology and Restorative Dentistry.

He was care group lead for a large London trauma, oncology and deformity focussed Restorative care group for eight years whilst maintaining a solo private specialist referral practice. He is a postgraduate student in Psychology and Behavioural Sciences and plans to remain so for the foreseeable future.

He left the NHS in August 2024 and is building a private healthcare centre in central London to open in 2025 with a focus on preventive medicine, wellness, advanced specialist dentistry and post graduate education.

He is also Co-Founder of the Aspire Dental Academy and has trained several consultants along with over 2000 postgraduate GDPs.

More information

Please email [email protected] with any dietary requirements.

The Metropolitan Branch has a number of events planned for 2025-2026.

Add the dates to your diary and further details will be available shortly.

Thursday 6 November 2025

Thursday 20 November 2025

 

Hallam Conference Centre, 44 Hallam Street, London W1W 6JJ

Regent Suite, Ground Floor

 

By bus
There are many buses stopping within a few minutes walk of Hallam Street, including numbers: 3, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 25, 88, 94, 137, 159, 189, 453 and C2.

By rail
Marylebone, Euston and Kings Cross St Pancras Stations are all within 10 minutes taxi rides or alternatively 15 minutes by Underground. Paddington Station (which has a direct link to Heathrow every 15 minutes) is 20 minutes walk or 10 minutes in a taxi.

By underground

The nearest stations are Great Portland Street and Oxford Circus

Great Portland Street
Circle, Hammersmith and City, Metropolitan – 5 minutes walk

Leave the station, walk South down Great Portland Street. At the traffic lights, cross over the street and continue down the road. Turn right into Devonshire Street and immediately left into Hallam Street at The Masons Arms. Continue down the road, cross Weymouth Street and walk down the road, you will then shortly arrive at 44 Hallam Street.

Oxford Circus
Bakerloo, Central, Victoria – 5 minutes walk

Leave the Tube using Exit 4, which will bring you out on the North side of Oxford Street by Ikea. Walk North away from Oxford Circus with Ikea on your left. The road starts to curve round to the left as Regent St becomes Langham Place. Cross the street at the zebra crossing and walk towards the BBC’s main entrance. Just before the entrance turn right and then left up to 44 Hallam Street.

By car
To plan your journey by car visit The AA’s Route Planner and enter the venue's postcode: W1W 6JJ. Please note that this events venue is within the Congestion Charge Zone and Ultra Low Emission Zone.

There is on-street parking nearby, see: Parking in Westminster for more information. The nearest NCP car park is at 6-7 Weymouth Mews.

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A fantastic evening, it was lovely to see people and do some networking

A great evening. Many thanks!

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