The Bates Method - for Natural Eyesight Improvement and Vision Education

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Bates Teacher Training Course

Better Eyesight without Glasses for Everyone

Improve your eyesight & learn to help others do the same on this
Nine Weekend Course

with

Bates Vision Teachers
Ajay Sehgal and Patrick Mahony

This course is a continuation of Dr Bates' own work. It demonstrates the truth and the unparalleled effectiveness of his core discovery that vision takes place in the mind

The world is full of people whose eyesight is getting worse. It is good to know you don't have to be one of them. People who have improved their own eyesight don't keep it a secret. They want lots of other people to know about it. They want as many people as possible to share in their good fortune.

The Bates Teacher Course is your chance to make this possible.

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We see very largely with the mind and only partly with the eyes. The phenomena of vision depends upon the mind¹s interpretation of the impression on the retina. What we see is not that impression, but our interpretation of it.

Better Eyesight without Glasses
1919 Dr. W.H. Bates

Even if you haven't improved your eyesight yet, but have a strong inner conviction that we cannot all really be victims of an evolutionary prank that condemns us to blurry sight after a certain age, this course may very well be for you.

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Right from the outset the course involves the students in the practical side of improving their eyesight and the eyesight of their clients at the student clinic. These clients recognise that we need more teachers and are there to support the clinic where very real improvements in eyesight take place.

To make sure that the students have a thorough grasp and understanding of the action that takes place when eyesight changes for the better, the tutorials and homework assignments cover the work of Dr. W.H. Bates 1860-1931. Dr. Bates' work is the core of the Bates Teacher Course and the source of the whole field of vision improvement.

Dr. Bates' findings were far ahead of his contemporaries and out of sympathy with orthodox scientific thinking on eyesight, both then and now. It has only been with the advent of cognitive neuropsychology that a context has been established for his discoveries. Coming as he did from a background of practical innovation in dealing with eyesight problems, he was able to make those mental connections and leaps of insight that are only possible for a mind that has seen through the insecure scientific models.

The common fallacy is to assume that there is an image inside your eyeball exciting the photoreceptors on your retina and then that image is transmitted faithfully along a cable called the optic nerve and displayed on a screen called the visual cortex............ so the first thing you have to do to understand perception is to get rid of the idea of ³images² in the brain and think instead of ³transforms² or symbolic representations of objects and events in the external world.

Just as little squiggles of ink, print or writing or dashes or dots in morse code can symbolise or represent something even though they do not physically resemble what they are representing, similarly, actions of nerve cells in the brain, the patterns of firing, represent objects and events in the external world even though they don¹t resemble what¹s out there in the world

Reith lecture
2003 V. Ramachandran.

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Note: All students need to have a good working knowledge of English

In selecting students for the Bates Teacher course we are not concerned about paper qualifications. We are looking for other qualities. Put simply we are looking for people who are able to improve their own sight and the sight of others.

With our policy of carefully selecting our students and keeping a very high tutor to student ratio we can only offer a limited number of places on the course each year.

If you are seriously considering joining the course, but have not already had any lessons with either of the tutors, then telephone Patrick or Ajay and book an introductory lesson.

When you are quite sure, after working with a tutor, that the course is right for you and both tutors agree that you will be a credit to the course, your place will be registered on payment of a non-refundable deposit of £400.

To be fully prepared for the student clinic you need to start assessing the eyesight of people you already know such as your family and your friends, two months before the start of the course. To make this possible, one of the tutors will give you instruction in the standard functional eye checks at this time. The balance of the £2,000 tuition fee, due at this time, includes the cost of this instruction.

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What is going on inside our brain is much more important than what is going on around us. As I see it, vision is not about simply soaking up the outside world. Instead, it is an active process that invents, ignores and distorts what is entering through the eye. What counts is what goes on inside our heads. And what goes on there is completly personal. It is not so much our visual system resolves the outside world, but rather we create from scratch our own reality.

Brain Story, the Mind¹s Eye
2000 Susan Greenfield

Due to the small number of students accepted on the course, we cannot afford to refund any fees and still run the course.

Written examinations are not an appropriate or reliable way of charting the students' progress through this course. Reciprocal feedback is a far more effective way of doing things. This means that the tutors constantly keep the students up to date on their development and make sure that the right help is always there when the students can most benefit from it.

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The course is held in Ealing Broadway, London W5 at the Friends Meeting House. This attractive single storey building with its large garden and ample parking space has ramp access to the front door, level access to the rear and a toilet for people with special mobility needs.

The tutors recommend that all students, on qualification, apply for membership of the Bates Association.

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• Appropriate use of functional checks.

• Normal sight as an automatic function.

• How the conscious effort to see produces distortion.

• The illusion of blurred vision.

• Recognising improvement in our sight for ourselves.

• Seeing with a psychological profile.

• How implicit visual images become explicit and clearly seen.

• The importance of memories and their recall.

• How linguistic recall and the naming process can help
make visual images clear.

• The effect of unconscious memories on the eyesight.

• The role of movement in eyesight.

• The nature of light.

• The nature of black.

• Is sensation dependent on the experiencer.

• The psychosomatic and placebo effects.

• Physiology of the eye.

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Saturday

This will involve a short presentation by each student of the assignment set the previous month, followed by a discussion of the topic. The tutors will then demonstrate ways in which the practical application of the topic will help people to see better. Afternoon Student Clinic. The students will help the clients improve their eyesight. Each client session will last an hour. The tutors will be there to provide support and guidance.

Sunday

Vision away from the clinic. There will be a tutor guided tour of a visually stimulating location such as Kew Gardens, Tate Modern etc. This will develop the students¹ appreciation of 3D, Spatial Awareness, Colour, Depth of Field etc., in natural surroundings. Afternoon Professional development. The students will discuss with the tutors and the other students the work they have done with their own clients away from the course.

Assignments: The tutors will introduce the next assignment.

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Cost: £2000

Venue: The course is held in Ealing, London W,5 at the Friends Meeting House

Dates: We have finalised the dates for next year's course and are registering students who have completed the selection process.

LONDON	HEREFORD
April 24/25 clinic only
May 22/23 clinic only
July 10/11 clinic only
	August 14/15 workshop
Sept 11/12
Oct 9/10
Nov 6/7
Dec 4/5
Jan 29/30 2005 Feb 26/27 April 9/10 May 21/22 July 2/3 August 27 Workshop

Note: - there are no June weekends

Prospective students can work with the tutors at this year's remaining student clinics on Nov 8, Dec 6 and Jan 17 as well as at the tutors' private practises. The tutors also run workshops with various groups where places are sometimes available.

For up to date information on further training opportunities - email Ajay2012@gmail.com or phone +44 (0)208 560 1844

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Both Ajay and Patrick have considerable experience in improving the eyesight of their clients.

Ajay has been training teachers for many years.

For up to the minute details of venues and this year's dates please contact:

Ajay Sehgal +44 (0)208 560 1844

Email: Ajay2012@gmail.com

For up to date information on other training opportunities - email above

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