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Become a Certified Vision Educator!
Our next institute starts September 2011, in Eliot, Maine, USA.
To sign up contact Rosemary rosemary@visioneducators.com or 207-439-9821.
Click Here to Download the Application
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What is Vision Education?
Vision education, or holistic vision improvement, is a growing field in the area of complementary healthcare. Vision educators help their students take charge of their own vision. They teach important information and effective techniques which develop healthy vision habits.
Vision students learn how to lessen their dependence on prescription lenses, reduce eyestrain, improve their eyesight, and prevent degenerative eye diseases. Many who practice holistic vision improvement discover a deeper connection to themselves, to others, and to nature. Natural vision improvement often requires and nurtures a greater sense of awareness in the moment, and can lead to personal growth, and improved overall health. It is a journey of exploration and discovery.
Vision educators teach an educational process; they do not diagnose or prescribe; they work with medical professionals who provide those services.
Becoming a Vision
Education teacher
offers you: 
- Improvement for your own vision
- The opportunity to provide an enjoyable, fulfilling, and muchneeded service
- The possibility of changing the current paradigm of vision care
- A way of encouraging others to soften, relax, expand and connect more fully with themselves and the world around them
- The freedom of self-employment and of setting your own schedule
- Enhancement and diversification for your existing holistic health practice
Vision Educator Training curriculum includes:
- Overview of the field of vision education
- Exploration of the mental and physical aspects of vision
- The Bates Method
- Tools from Vision Therapy
- Techniques to relieve nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism and “middle-age sight”
- Self-help and support for people with eye diseases
- How to work with children
- Ways to set up your practice
- The art of teaching holistically
- Integrating vision improvement with other holistic health practices
And more …
At the Vision Educator Training Institute you learn to design holistic vision programs for individuals as well as group classes. You discover how to work with people who have:
- difficulty seeing clearly;
- eyestrain, whether from reading, driving or computer use;
- sun sensitivity
- problems with eye co-ordination.
At the conclusion of this Teacher Certification, graduates have the opportunity to join the Association of Vision Educators, where you can list your business and get further support and education.(www.VisionEducators.org)
NEXT TRAINING DATES AND
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Eliot, Maine, USA(about an hour north of Boston, MA)
15—18 September 2011
10—13 November 2011
12—15 January 2012
15—18 March 2012
17—20 May 2012
19—22 July 2012
TUITION: $5,350.00 USD
Additional expenses: travel, food, lodging, and books.
TO APPLY: Click Here to Download the Application. Or, call or email to receive an application package. Then please pay your $1000 deposit by check or, if you wish to pay by credit card ($1030), click the Pay Now button below:
Rosemary Gaddum Gordon, D.B.O., M.A.
Lightwater
43 Mast Cove Road
Eliot, ME 03903 USA
(207) 439-9821
rosemary@visioneducators.com
Elizabeth Abraham
339 Bloor St. West #215
Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 1W7
(416) 599-9202
elizabeth@visioneducators.com
VISION EDUCATOR TRAINING INSTITUTE
Teacher Training Program
Certification Overview
Purpose: To prepare students to work with a wide variety of vision conditions, using the techniques and philosophy central to the Bates-Corbett Method and to Vision Therapy.
Students learn to teach individuals as well as classes for small groups, and to work with the following conditions: • nearsightedness • farsightedness • presbyopia • astigmatism • eye teaming problems • eye diseases • eye strain
The training is designed to provide a solid base of information and experience for students to begin teaching in their communities. Emphasis is on core skills and building a strong foundation. Vision is a complex and wide field, and students are expected to expand upon this basic training as they develop their careers.
Organization: The training is organized into six 4-day weekends, approximately 192 hours of class time. The class time emphasizes hands-on activities and practice teaching. Between weekends, students are expected to complete reading assignments and do small research projects to supplement classroom learning. Students are also expected to work with friends, family, and/or acquaintances as practice students, in order to gain experience in teaching the skills learned in class.
During the training, time is allocated to learning how to start and build a practice, including marketing techniques and strategies.
The next training dates are: September 15th – 18th, 2011, November 10th – 13th, 2011, January 12th – 15th, 2012, March 15th – 18th, 2012, May 17th – 20th, 2012 July 19th – 22nd, 2012.
Location: The Barn at Lightwater, 43 Mast Cove Road, Eliot, Maine 03903
Tuition: $5,350.00 USD
Additional expenses: transportation, lodging, food and books.
Tuition includes training manual and teaching materials, access to books, tapes and videos from our "vision library," classroom materials, support and mentoring between classes. Upon successful completion of the program there will be resources lists, useful web sites, and web site listing as a practitioner on our web site www.visioneducators.com
To apply: Please answer the questions on the application form and send it with your $1,000 deposit payable to Rosemary Gaddum Gordon. The balance is due in full on the first day of training or incrementally, in a series of checks for $725.00 USD dated for each of the first day of the six weekends. Your $1,000 deposit is refundable minus $35 until 30 June 2011. After that time it is nonrefundable. There is a $1,000 dropout fee once the course has started.
CURRICULUM
Overview of the field of Vision Education
Understanding vision: The Bates-Corbett Method
Vision Therapy
Vision: the physical aspects
Eye anatomy
Role of the brain
Nutrition
Disease prevention
Refractive errors: myopia, presbyopia, astigmatism, hyperopia
What they are and how to work with each situation
Eye teaming: Working with strabismus and amblyopia
Stress and vision
Relaxation, movement and centralization techniques
Vision and its relationship to the whole body
The basics for everyone: promoting vision health and preventing deterioration
Teaching group workshops: putting together an introductory workshop for all vision conditions
Teaching individuals: assessment, and guidelines for working with people with presbyopia, hyperopia, myopia, astigmatism or eye teaming difficulties
Working with students with diagnosed eye diseases
Therapeutic use of lenses
Working with children
Working with other eye-care professionals
Tools for working with emotions and vision
The Art of Teaching
Practice Building: getting started, marketing your business, and creating systems
VISION EDUCATOR TRAINING INSTITUTE
Teacher Training Application
**Please type or print clearly **
Name_________________________________________________________________________
Address_____________________________________________City______________________
Province/State_________ Country___________________ Postal/Zip Code______________
Phone: Home__________________Work__________________Cell______________________
Email________________________________________________________________________
Please discuss the following on a separate sheet of paper. Please type or print/write very clearly! Thanks.
1. Why do you want to take the teacher training?
2. What are your personal goals and intentions for the training?
3. Please describe your educational background (formal and informal), and special skills you bring to this field. Describe also any teaching background you have, and experience in the realm of holistic health.
4. What is your vision-related background? Please let us know about workshops you've taken, books you've read, experiences with your own vision, etc.
5. Is there anything else you would like us to know about you?
Please submit a $1000 deposit with your application. The check should be made payable to
Rosemary Gaddum Gordon and sent to:
Lightwater, 43 Mast Cove Road, Eliot, ME 03903-1744 USA. Or, if you wish to pay by credit card ($1030), click the Pay Now button below:
