18 – 21 October 2002 - Paris, France

We have great pleasure in inviting you to the 17^th International Conference for Holistic Vision which will be held for the first time in Paris from October 18 – 21, 2002. The main objective is to exchange ideas, experiences and techniques in the field of Natural Vision Improvement.

Conference Themes:

. the relationship between posture and vision

. natural light and colour in vision

. osteopathy and vision improvement

. ophthalmology and vision improvement.

Conference | Workshops | Key Speakers | Back to Top

The Key Speakers

Peter Grunwald (New Zealand). Before his training in Sydney, Australia in 1984, Peter suffered from bad posture, stuttering and strong myopia with astigmatism. The Alexander Technique improved his posture and cured his stuttering. He then trained in the Bates Method with Dr. Janet Goodrich and rapidly improved his vision. Today he no longer wears glasses. Over the past 15 years he has been researching the connections between posture and vision. He developed a learning and teaching method based on the principles developed by F.M. Alexander, Dr. Bates and the Grunwald Eye-Body Response Pattern®. He gives workshops on his work in Europe, the United States of America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

Conference | Workshops | Back to Top | Grunwald

George Pennington (Germany) was born in the United States of America in 1947 and spent his childhood in Paris and Austria. He studied psychology and sociology in Heidelberg, and then spent 4 years in London to complete his studies. Since 1977 he has been living in Bavaria with his family. After 7 years working as a therapist and massage instructor, he began to do training and consultancy work in companies. He has written 4 books, three of which are about visual consciousness based on the meditation of the Tablets of Chartres. His presentation will deal with vision and visual consciousness which are two very different things. Good visual consciousness does not necessarily require good vision, and being able to see well does not necessarily mean one has good visual consciousness. So what is visual consciousness? George Pennington will talk about his discovery of the Tablets of Chartres and the level of awareness it helps one to obtain .

Conference | Workshops | Back to Top | Pennington

Rosemary Gaddum Gordon D.B.O., M.A. (GB /U.S.A.) began her career in vision as an orthoptist, assisting ophthalmologists to teach people how to use their eyes together. After studying Yoga and the Bates Method her nearsightedness was greatly reduced and she left the world of glasses. She loves to combine these disciplines with her training in Gestalt Psychotherapy, Edu-Kinesiology and Focusing with her practice of Vipassanna meditation to form a comprehensive approach to holistic vision improvement. She teaches Vision Improvement in the U.S. and Europe and is a member of the teaching staff at The Institute for Vision Educator Training.

Conference | Workshops | Back to Top | Gordon

Ray Gottlieb O.D., Ph.D., (U.S.A.) has been the Dean of the College of Syntonic Optometry since 1979. In 1970 he eliminated his myopia using the Bates Method and for 20 years has successfully held back presbyopia. He has taught workshops on vision improvement for three decades. His Ph.D. dissertation on the Bates System was later published as "The Psychoneurology of Myopia" (JOVD, 1982). His books include: Attention and Memory Training for Children and Fundamentals of Flow in Learning Music (with Rebecca Penneys). He has written chapters on "Vergence Training in Real Space," in Vision Therapy: Nonstrabismic Vergence Problems, OEP, 1997 and "Relieving Stress in Myopia," in Vision Therapy: Myopia Control, OEP, 1998. His recent article "Syntonic Phototherapy" (with L. Wallace) was published in 2001 (JBO:12/2). He practices behavioral optometry in Rochester, N.Y. and at The Chautauqua Institution where he uses vision and attention to help pianists improve their skills.

Conference | Workshops | Back to Top | Gottlieb