Workshop Proposal
How does Omega develop its workshops?
The majority of Omega's programs come from in-house research conducted by our program department and not from unsolicited proposals. Our research explores current trends in the publishing industry, performing arts community, and the fields of holistic medicine and psychotherapy. We stay up-to-date in the fields of bodywork, yoga, meditation, medicine, spirituality and religion, various forms of healing, parapsychology, comparative mythology, and other subjects. We carefully read our participant feedback, both for evaluations of current faculty and for interest in new topics and teachers.
What kind of faculty is Omega looking for?
Omega is the largest and most successful institution of its kind in North America. We always seek the original founder of any particular discipline (if he or she is still living), rather than his or her students. We are interested in published authors, scholars, artists, musicians and athletes with established careers and reputations, and experienced health professionals with solid links to legitimate institutions. Potential faculty should have experience in leading retreats, teaching courses, or performing before large audiences. We are especially interested in bona fide spiritual teachers and healers from ancient lineages or traditional cultures now in danger of extinction. And of course, we are always open to an original idea or new theme, or to a unique individual with a remarkable story.
Omega offers workshops at a variety of locations: our Rhinebeck, New York campus; at Sueño Azul in Costa Rica; at Maho Bay on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and at weekend conferences held several times a year in cities nationwide. If you are interested in offering a workshop at one of these locations, it is best to review a few of the catalogs or brochures to get an idea of the kinds of topics offered. In addition to workshops, Omega also offers hour-long classes in yoga, meditation, tai chi, and movement in the mornings and afternoons—before and after the normal workshop times—at most of our venues, and we are sometimes interested in finding local, experienced teachers to lead these classes.
I want to send a course proposal to Omega; what should I do?
Please send a ONE-PAGE or less course description that describes the workshop, its intended audience, what percentage of it is experiential or lecture, and what course materials (if any) will be needed. Briefly summarize your teaching credentials and experience. In developing a proposal, consider the following:
- Workshop title
- What will the participants learn (subject matter, particular methods, skills, etc.)?
- Participants bring home: New skills? Improved health? Great awareness? Deeper understanding?
- The workshop is appropriate for: Professionals? Lay people? Beginners? Experts? All levels?
- Participants learn through: Hands-on experience? Group discussion? Writing? Drawing? Lecture? Any combination thereof?
- Provide a history of experience of teaching a weekend or weeklong workshop in a retreat setting.
Please use succinct, uncomplicated language and make sure that your name, mailing address, daytime phone number and/or e-mail address are clearly visible. Please include review copies of your videos, CDs, or books if you have them. (All such books, documents, and tapes become the property of Omega and cannot be returned.) You will be sent a receipt for your proposal; if there is interest in your proposal, a representative of the Omega program department will contact you, possibly several months later. PLEASE DO NOT CALL Omega regarding the status of your proposal.
All course proposals should be sent to:
Omega Institute
Attn. Program Department
150 Lake Drive
Rhinebeck, New York, 12572.
Thank you.
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