A Meaningful Experience
If challenged to characterize Dr. Bob Sanet’s Seminar Series in a word or two, my initial offering might include powerful, insightful, and meaningful. Apparently, many within our profession agree, as many who have attended through the years seem to walk away in awe, having experienced immeasurable change in ourselves and in each other.
Mix in the universal love for our fellow humans floating all throughout the space, and you start to understand why people have been and continue to be so drawn to this experience.
Without hesitation or trepidation, Dr. Sanet wants – no, wait, he needs – patients all around the world to benefit from his successes, his failures, and even his ever evolving thoughts; thoughts he shares openly, honestly, vulnerably, and with grace, ostensibly with the hope of unveiling the very best version of those in his presence. He seems to truly love your successes, feels your failures, and cares deeply for those in this world who trust his judgment enough to ask his advice. Those of us who have the great fortune of sharing in Dr. Sanet’s wisdom over the years, will always, in our individual ways, carry on the legacy and lore of his teaching, the love of his craft, and the humanity interwoven through all of it. When Dr. Sanet announced that his 2024 seminar would be his last, the potential for a huge void was created, as the sharing of his wisdom would soon become second or third hand communication from those who have heard him lecture over the years.
Fortunately, Dr. Sanet had the forethought to have his five weekend seminar professionally recorded, by none other than Joe Lia, the producer for the hit series Survivor. How that all came together is a story for another day. Emergent now hosts these recordings on their online training platform, which I have had the opportunity to view in recent weeks. Having attended the seminar in person, I was concerned the emphasis and depth of each moment may be lost on film – I was wrong. The messages are meaningful, the moments are powerful, the opportunity for learning is incredible. As an added feature not available in person, you can even rewind and listen to his points again if perhaps something didn’t process fully in the moment. Even more, Dr. Leonard Press has put together an over 500 page commentary on the lecture that provides insights, additional content, and more in depth explanations to Dr. Sanet’s already amazing lectures. All of this together, makes the online version of the seminar an incredibly valuable asset!
So friends, if you missed out on the magic of Dr. Sanet’s teachings in person, find solace in the knowledge that his legacy is well intact, thanks in part to these wonderful recordings. I would encourage everyone, no matter how new or experienced you may be in the world of Vision Therapy, to consider adding this valuable resource to your collection of informative material. It’s an investment that will pay dividends both now and in the years to come.
For anyone interested in learning more about these wonderful videos, you can find more information HERE.
Cheers!
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This is life changing news! Thanks, Robert. 🙂
I am a product of Vision Therapy. My father was President of OEP, and when he put me through VT in the summer between 2nd and 3rd grade, my life was transformed. I went from being a C student to straight A’s ever since… In fact, I was the only student at the SUNY Optometry school to achieve straight A’s in the 10 courses presented in the first quarter, and then went on to get straight A’s the entire first year.
I chose to go into Optometry specifically because I knew I could help people through VT. Otherwise, if there had been an Integrative Medicine specialty at that time, I would have gone to Medical school. I had ruled out Naturopathy because there was no licensing in my home state of New York, though I later added that to my training.
So, why haven’t I been more active in VT? I did bring several systems of VT to Tokyo upon graduation… But, while I was serving as President of AOSA in my fourth year at SUNY, I was diagnosed with glaucoma. The Ophthalmology professor (shared with SUNY Downstate Medical School) recommended that I do my own research on the underlying causes of blindness and treat those. Otherwise, following the standard of care, I could expect to be blind in my 40s since drugs and surgery can only slow down vision loss at best. That prognosis and recommendation set the fundamental direction of my career. Today, I am helping other doctors and their patients recover vision lost to blinding eye diseases such as AMD and glaucoma. Essentially, I’ve expanded the field of rehabilitative vision care to include the reversal of aging-related and degenerative vision loss. This has been a relatively quiet process developing over the last 42 years, but has now reached a point where it is time to make it more widely known and available to the millions who can benefit from this expansion of the field of Vision Therapy and the profession of Optometry. I invite contact from other thought leaders in the field as we begin an increased focus on clinical research in preparation for commercial product launches. Our focus will be on case control studies so that any clinician can participate and publish with a single subject design.
Beautifully done, Robert! Thanks, Len PS – typo on header \”Meaningful\”
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