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October 1-4, 2026: Transform your mindset at Eco Resort Reserva Alecrim, Portugal. This intimate retreat blends personal development, peer connections, and innovative insights for emerging implant dentistry leaders – an exclusive experience designed for 60 forward-thinking young professionals.
Why join the Young ITI Retreat?
This intimate retreat gathers 60 young implant dentistry professionals for holistic growth beyond clinical skills – focusing on leadership, mindset, communication, and wellbeing. Step away into a serene glamping haven of domes, bungalows, and lake houses, where every detail supports reflection, connection, and transformation.
Growth stations crafted for real transformation
Discover immersive learning experiences designed to strengthen your mindset, skills, and leadership. These interactive sessions tackle real challenges faced by young implant dentists, offering practical tools through dialogue, reflection, and peer exchange – no lectures, just participatory workshops in unexpected places like lakeside spots or sunset lounges.
Struggling to speak with confidence?
Own the Stage immerses you in the art of clear, confident communication for presenting cases, leading teams, or teaching others. Explore powerful message structures, nerve-management techniques, and authentic speaking practices that make you concise, persuasive, and memorable. Gain insights into body language, audience connection, and storytelling – turning public speaking into a leadership superpower.
Feeling drained by daily demands?
The Energy Garden reveals patterns behind your physical and mental performance, focusing on recovery, nutrition, stress management, movement, and mindset. Combine science-based insights with simple practices to build a sustainable energy system that boosts focus, resilience, and long-term stability. Shift from feeling flat to cultivating a balanced, energized lifestyle tailored to demanding careers.
Challenged by constant shifts?
The Creative Agora sparks curiosity, creativity, and proactive thinking in an open space for evolving ideas. Learn to embrace uncertainty, experiment boldly, and apply innovative approaches to clinical and leadership decisions. Through exercises and discussions, discover how adaptability fuels success – unleashing creative thinking as your professional edge.
Want to stand out in a crowded market?
The Branding Lounge dives into shaping presence, credibility, and influence through values, tone, and authentic positioning. Reflect on how you show up in conversations and build trust via clarity and human connection. Emerge with a defined professional identity that communicates leadership genuinely and intentionally.
Feeling pulled in every direction?
The Balance Circle helps juggle roles like clinician, colleague, and leader without sacrificing wellbeing. Uncover root causes of imbalance, identify energy drains and restorers, and create boundaries with practical rituals. Leave with inner alignment, clear priorities, and resilience for what truly matters.
What makes a practice team truly thrive?
Practice Pulse uncovers elements of thriving teams: shared purpose, psychological safety, communication, and accountability. Learn daily habits that boost motivation, trust, and collaboration from high-performing examples. Build systems that inspire contribution and elevate everyone.
What kind of leader are you?
This session explores your unique leadership style, core beliefs, and adaptive behaviors – from coaching to empowering. Through examples and reflection, clarify strengths and growth areas. Ideal for stepping into roles with confidence, empathy, and situational agility.
Where is dentistry headed next?
This forward-looking session covers trends like technology, patient expectations, education shifts, ethics, and sustainability. Reflect on your role in a transforming profession and how to contribute purposefully. Reconnect with the bigger picture for influential growth.
All-inclusive for your growth
Everything supports your journey: three nights in nature-inspired glamping, nourishing meals and breaks, activities like yoga, hiking, horse riding, and stand-up paddling, round-trip Lisbon Airport shuttles, reflection tools including a Growth Passport and letter to your future self (delivered in two years), plus a curated community of peers.
Pricing (excl. 23% Portuguese VAT; tax invoice available, course fee tax deductible):
- ITI Member: EUR 1,900
- Standard: EUR 2,750
- Shared (ITI Members, 2 participants): EUR 2,700
- Shared (Standard, 2 participants): EUR 3,950
- Limited to 60 spots – your moment to grow starts now
The ITI (International Team for Implantology), Straumann’s scientific partner, is a global, member-led association that unites currently 25,000 professionals from the field of implant dentistry in 38 Sections and more than 100 countries all over the world. The ITI’s aim is to inspire global excellence in implant dentistry for the benefit of the patient. In the last 45+ years, the ITI has built a reputation for scientific rigor combined with concern for the welfare of patients. Its mission is to empower dental professionals globally through a collaborative network, cutting-edge education as well as innovative research, and to cultivate leaders committed to evidence-based practices. The ITI funds research as well as Scholarships for young clinicians and offers a wealth of educational activities, courses and events both on- and offline to ensure a life-long learning journey for every professional in implant dentistry. The organization also publishes reference books such as the ITI Treatment Guide series and runs more than 1,000 Study Clubs all over the world as well as the ITI Academy, a peer-reviewed, evidence-based e-learning platform www.iti.org.