International Center for Vision Coaching

Ainhoa de Federico is the Director of the International Center for Vision Coaching, the largest research and training center for Vision Coaches in the world and the only one with regulated studies leading to a University Diploma with Official Recognition of Validity of Studies (RVOE), endorsed by the Ministry of Public Education of Mexico.

Ainhoa de Federico holds a double PhD in Sociology (Public University of Navarra, Spain, and Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France), First Extraordinary Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Human and Social Sciences (UPNA) and National Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis from the Illustrious College of Sociologists and Political Scientists. She has been a Marie Curie Researcher and a Visiting Research Professor at prestigious academic institutions (Oxford, Complutense University of Madrid, UAB, UNAM, FLACSO, San Pablo, Sinica, Miyazaki, etc.).

She has served on the Editorial Board of several prestigious scientific journals: International Sociology, Socio-Logos, The Bulletin of Sociological Methodology. She has also reviewed articles for many other journals: Social Networks, Network Science, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Revue Française de Socio-Économie, Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, Transnational Social Review – A Social Work Journal.

She has been a member of the ANEP, which evaluates the award of the Ramón y Cajal and Juan de la Cierva research grants of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. She has given more than 100 papers at national scientific conferences and has advised 11 international doctoral theses.

Specialized in Clinical Integrative Experiential Sociology, she is the creator of the ClearSight Method, the basis of the Vision Coach Diploma, with which she teaches people to improve their eyesight without glasses, treatments or surgery, in a 100% natural and scientifically validated way. She has taught her Method at the University of Toulouse, as part of the University of Leisure Time and the Agâpés Master’s in Health Education and Social Development, and she is currently the Director of the Vision Coach Diploma and the Vision Coach Pro Diploma at the International University for Human Development & Leadership.

Since 2016 she has been teaching her Method online, enabling more than 6 million people in 192 countries to discover Natural Vision Improvement and take part in her introductory classes, and tens of thousands of students to join her advanced programs in 106 countries, in English, French and Spanish.

The ClearSight Method was named “Best Natural Vision Improvement Program - Spain” at the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Awards, organized by Global Health & Pharma in 2022, and “Most Innovative Vision Improvement Initiative - Europe” at the European Enterprise Awards, organized by EU Business News in 2023.

In 2023 Dr. Ainhoa de Federico was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for her contribution to humanity in the field of Natural Vision Improvement, and in 2025 she was named Doctor of Doctors Honoris Causa. In 2024 she co-authored and co-edited the international bestseller A New World of Seeing: Practice and Perspectives of Natural Vision Improvement, translated into Spanish in 2025 as Un nuevo mundo para la visión: Práctica y perspectivas de la mejora natural de la vista, also #1 in multiple Amazon categories, including Ophthalmology and Eye Problems.

Alejandro González Heras holds a degree in Sociology from Rey Juan Carlos University (2010–2014), a Master’s Degree in Social Research Methods: Innovations and Applications from the Complutense University of Madrid (2014–2017), and a PhD in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he defended his dissertation “The Mobilisation of Social Capital in Unstable Employment Trajectories” under the supervision of Joan Miquel Verd Pericàs (2020–2024).

For two years he worked as a freelance researcher on research projects, mainly in program evaluation, collaborating in small teams (2015–2017). He then spent almost three years at a multinational market research firm (2017–2020).

In the academic field, he carried out his doctoral research as a predoctoral FI (AGAUR) researcher at the Sociological Research Centre on Everyday Life and Work (QUIT) at the UAB. He specialized in youth, the labor market, social capital and longitudinal research. He complemented his training with international research stays at several European universities (University of Lausanne, University of Picardy Jules Verne and University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès).

He currently works mainly on several natural vision projects for the International Center for Vision Coaching, focusing on the processes of visual recovery and the link between vision, cultural habits and lifestyle. He also carries out research and teaching activities in collaboration with various academic and research institutions.