20th International Conference for Holistic Vision,
October 28 30th, 2005 Genova - Italy
workshops: 26, 27, 31 October
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20th International Conference for Holistic Vision,October 28 30th, 2005 Genova - Italyworkshops: 26, 27, 31 October |
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Pre- and post- Conference Workshops
| Wednesday October 26th | Thursday October 27th | Monday October 31st |
| 9:00 19:00 Tom Quackenbush Relearning to See: Right Brain/Left Brain Connections | 9:00 19:00 : Wolfgang Hätscher-Rosenbauer Beauty and Energy of Colours in Visionwork | 9:00 19:00 Ray Gottlieb & Sarah Cobb Strabismus training |
| 9:00 19:00 Sarah Cobb & Ray Gottlieb Mapping Your Client's Visual Fields | 9:00 12:30 Marianne Wiendl Better Vision with Systemic Eye Therapy | 9:00 12:30 David Webber Improving Vision through the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education |
| 13:30 19:00 Eva Lothar Plumbing the depths of the Bates Method, or how attention (our sixth sense) can improve our vision habits by helping us develop insight | 13:30 19:00 Carol Gallup & Dror Schneider Exploring Essential Visual Skills Through Color, Nature And Play |
Conference program
Friday October 28th 9:00 At the Foundation CARIGE:: Registration 10:00Welcome and Opening 11:00 Opening lecture by Sylvia L. Lakeland and dr Laercio Motoryn Low Vision how to work in this area with medical and NVI techniques 12:00 City Tour |
Saturday October 29th 9::00 Marie Schils Eye contact, emotions and vision 10:00Kunti Nagwekar Eyeyoga and Lazy eye 11:00 Pause 11:30 Carol Gallup Colored Glasses: Low-Tech Solutions to Problems in Eye Teaming and in Relaxing and Refreshing the Eyes 13:00 Lunch |
Sunday October 30th 9:00 Gisela Wesche Nielsen How can holistic vison training help vision handicaspped people? 10:00 dr Mario Cigada Recent discoveries in the anatomy of extra-ocular muscles 11:00 Pause 11:30 Marianne Wiendl Better Vision with Systemic Eye Therapy 13:00 Lunch |
15:00 Tom Quackenbush Relearning to See: Right Brain/Left Brain Connections 16:00 Liz Middleton The mind's eye clinic 17:00 Pause 17:30 Leonora Koller Eps Activate peripheral vision with Qigong and RI-TAI Free evening or entertainment
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14:00 Ray Gottlieb My nameis Ray and I am a recovering myope 15:30 Pause 16:00 Ghislaine de Laage Binocular vision and symbols/ 17:00 Dror Schneider Toys, gadgets and gizmos for eye exercises 20:00 Gala dinner and entertainment
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14:00 David Webber Improving Vision through the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education 15:00 Eva Lothar Plumbing the depths of the Bates Method, or how attention (our sixth sense) can improve our vision habits by helping us develop insight 16:000 Pause 16:30 Seeing deep, seeing far: Plenum about our future 18:00 End of conference Entertainment |
More surprises and entertainment are happening, also on Tuesday November 1st
Short description of lectures and workshops
For this year's conference, you told us you wanted something different. New research. New energies, insights and techniques in natural vision improvement, from Bates teachers, from related disciplines like orthoptics and optometry, and from other parts of the holistic world. You wanted new ways of seeing deeply into our roots in the Bates Method. We think you'll agree that, in this year's presentations, we found all this and more:
In his lecture, "My name is Ray, and I am a recovering myope", leading behavioral optometrist Ray Gottlieb (USA) will teach his own richly innovative version of the exercises of the Bates Method. Ray overcame his own myopia as a young optometry student; his deep understanding of the psychology of nearsightedness pervades his work. Ray's pioneering work in strabismus will be presented in his workshop (co-lead with Sarah Cobb).
Tom Quackenbush (Netherlands), who probably has trained more vision educators than any teacher now living, will bring his encyclopedic knowledge of the Bates Method to his lecture and two-day workshop, "Relearning to See: Right Brain/Left Brain Connections".
Holistic ophthalmologist Mario Cigada (Italy) will present intriguing new studies on the extra-ocular muscles and their fascia that have important implications for vision education, and shed a new light on Bates' theory of accommodation.
Moshe Feldenkrais knew Bates' work, and incorporated eye exercises into his method. David Webber (Canada) used it to overcome his blindness, caused by severe inflammation; he'll teach Feldenkrais exercises for better vision in his lecture and four-hour workshop.
Leonora Koller Eps (Switzerland) will demonstrate how to enhance peripheral vision with Qigong and RI-TAI.
Kunti Nagwekar (India) brought together yoga, acupressure, magnet therapy, Reiki and the Bates Method to overcome her child's myopia, and then incorporated them into her Eyeyoga classes. In her lecture, she'll demonstrate how she applies her techniques to amblyopia (lazy eye).
Orthoptist Ghislaine de Laage (France) will demonstrate how she addresses binocularity problems with trans-generational integrative work.
Ophthalmologist Laercio Motoryn and Self-Healing Vision Teacher Sylvia Lakeland (both from Brazil) will describe how they collaborate to bring the best of both worlds to low-vision patients.
Naturopath Marianne Wiendl (Germany) will demonstrate her Systemic Eye Therapy, which takes the dynamics of family constellation therapy into natural vision improvement.
Orthoptist Liz Middleton (UK) will discuss how she brought together psychotherapy and eye exercises for patients in The Mind's Eye Clinic.
Nationally honored Gestalt psychotherapist Wolfgang Hatscher-Rosenbauer (Germany) will demonstrate the power of color after-images in his workshop, Beauty and Energy of Colors in Vision Work.
Neo-Reichian therapist Marie Schils (Belgium) will discuss how the way we use our eyes in social inter-actions can limit the way we see. She'll demonstrate how we can identify the emotions held in and around our eyes and free ourselves from them.
Dror Schneider (USA) will describe how she uses toys and playful
eye exercises to relax and open up the visual system. Carol Gallup (USA)
will demonstrate how to use colored glasses and toys to improve binocularity.
They will introduce Jacob Liberman's new Exercise Your Eyes unit, and discuss
how its possible roles in a clinical practice. In this workshop, we'll experience
low-tech, playful methods to improve:Binocularity at very near, near and
the distance (one's eye teaming can vary at different distances), Tracking,
Eye movements, Speed and span of perception and Relief of eyestrain.We'll
explore the function and psychological world of the non-dominant eye through
color and nature. These methods are especially helpful with children. One
of the new Exercise Your Eye (EYE) units invented by Dr. Jacob Liberman
will be given away as the door prize (a lottery among workshop participants).
And, Carol and Dror are also preparing surprises for an evening's entertainment!
Eva Lothar (France) was a psychiatrist, meditator, and film-maker when she became a Bates teacher. Her lecture, "Plumbing the Depths of the Bates Method", describes how we can deeply experience each activity of the Bates Method through meditative awareness, and at the same time, awaken our eyes to the lush details of the visible world.
Social worker and Bates teacher Gisela Weshe Nielsen (Germany), who overcame her own severe visual handicaps, will discuss her methods of working on a physical and psychological level with visually disabled clients.
An eye chart tells you what's going on in 5% of your client's visual field. In her workshop "Mapping Your Client's Visual Fields," optometric vision therapist Sarah Cobb, (USA) assisted by Dr. Ray Gottlieb, will teach you how to evaluate the other 95% - the periphery, enlarged or extra blind spots, and areas of poor vision. You'll learn how to find hidden obstacles to improvement and assess how well your therapy is working.
For a more extended descriptionof lectures and workshops, go to Presentations
For biographical sketches of speakers and facilitators, go to Speakers
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