I recently watched an interview of eight time Olympic Gold Medalist, Usain Bolt. Widely considered the greatest sprinter of all time, Bolt’s average speed while in a full sprint was in excess of 27 miles per hour. To put that in perspective, I once got a speeding ticket for driving 27mph in a school zone on a Sunday afternoon, and was told I was going ‘way too fast for the conditions’...on a Sunday…in July...when school was out. Go figure.
For Usain Bolt, as with many athletes, the mental and visual side of their training is just as key as the physical, which has produced some pretty incredible results. Usain Bolt, for instance, reported that he would visualize each race, on a daily basis, before he even got out of bed, always looking for the perfect race.
This coming Monday, my friend and colleague, Erin Jubas, is hosting the latest Mastering VT workshop, “Mind’s Eye Mastery” Advanced Visualization Tools for Vision Therapists. Her course promises to “dive into visualization; the key component of visual processing. You will get her approach to introducing visualization to patients and discuss how this relates to quality of life and increased performance of visual processing skills. We will define visualization, visual memory, and visual sequencing as well as introduce procedures to enhance these skills. We will use a card game called Blink as a high level fast perceptual task that uses all of the visual perceptual skills. We will learn unloading and loading for all patient demographics.”
Usain Bolt once famously said “I have trained 4 years to run 9 seconds, and people give up when they don’t see results in two months.” I am visualizing your attendance. I am visualizing your success. I am visualizing all of us learning new and exciting skills from Erin that will help us continue to improve and grow so we all may shine when it’s our turn to ‘run 9 seconds’!
As a scheduling reminder, our Mastering VT Educational Online Workshops (created by Vision Therapists FOR Vision Therapists) will run monthly and can be viewed after the fact on video. We are currently in the process of constructing our 2025 schedule so be sure to check back often! As a reminder, a portion of each event will be a presentation on a concept or vision therapy activity and then it will be opened up for questions and discussion.
Hope to see you all soon!
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