Nina Hutchings is an experienced Bates Method Vision Education teacher trained at the School of Vision Education in London. She lives in the south of France and teaches there and internationally giving individual lessons and running workshops. She is presently training in Somatic Experiencing trauma healing therapy which is a profound tool for improving vision.
	Peter Mansfield founded the School of Vision Education and has trained many vision teachers now practising in the UK and Europe. He wrote the book "The Bates Method" and he has developed a number of novel insights into the application of Dr Bates' own techniques, particularly in relation to binocular vision. For more information see Peter's website.
	Richard Hobday is a leading authority on the history and practice of sunlight therapy. He is the author of "The Light Revolution: Health Architecture and the Sun" (2006) and the "Healing Sun: Sunlight and Health in the 21st Century" (1999). In his presentation Richard will explain how the Sun was used as a medicine and discuss some of the latest findings on the health benefits of sunlight.
	Aileen Whiteford is an experienced and active vision educator. She has worked in the fields of nursing and education, is a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist and has trained in bodywork with Meir Schneider. All these aspects to her working life inform her perspective on natural eyesight work. She is a co-director of the London based College of Vision Education (Bates Method).
	Elizabeth Abraham founded the Vision Education Centre in Toronto, Canada in 1991, and is co-founder of the Vision Educator Training Institute. She is also a Focusing trainer, and finds the insights of Eugene Gendlin an invaluable asset to her work as a Bates teacher. Elizabeth has a deep commitment to understanding the ways in which stress and strain can interfere with clarity, and to facilitating awareness and change in her students and in herself.
	Alice Bradshaw has had an interest in natural medicine from childhood. Her passion led her to study nutritional medicine at the British College of Nutritional Medicine (Plaskett), and qualify as a nutritional therapist in 1994. Alice managed a busy health food store in St Albans for one year, before joining Solgar Vitamin & herb in 1995 as education manager. Alice’s presentation will demonstrate how nutritional and herbal medicine can play a role in eye health.
	Anthony Attenborough trained as an artist specialising in stained glass and then practised and taught in a leading art school. He trained in the Bates Method and then in Kinesiology and has developed a Bates Kinesiology program. Anthony is always extending his practice and study to deepen his knowledge and experience for himself and to share with others.
	Nirmala Pankhania is an optometrist who finished her degree and hospital experience in 1980. In 1982 she met Mr Skewes who was advertising the sale of his practice in Earlscourt, London. She worked with him for 6 months and gradually took over the running of his practice. His method of prescribing was different to what she had been taught. He introdued her to Bates teachers like Miss Sage, Miss Scarlett, Mr Micheal Ronan and Mr Anthony Attenborough. She learnt the simple application of a formula for reducing the prescriptions for people who are into the natural sight improvement process. She has also met lots of interesting practitioners from various complementary backgrounds. She is based in North London where she sees all her Bates patients.
	Kevin Wooding is a teacher of the Bates Method and Alexander Technique.

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