2013 Retreat Schedule

Thursday, March 21

Morning Session What do You Have in Your Toolbox?

Five practicing astrologers will show how they prepare a chart for a consultation and how they start a session. We will take an in-depth look at five different styles of how to frame a chart before you start talking to the client.

Monica Dimino, Robert Corre, Bob Mulligan, Sandra-Leigh Serio, Michael Lutin

Afternoon Group Practice Sessions

Evening Intro to Your Specialty Track

Friday, March 22

Morning Sessions

Victoria Peltz Beyond Words Open your mind and use your powers of empirical observation. See that using examples like "bad old Saturn" or "lovely jolly Jupiter" is too simplistic and narrow.

Susan Falk will demonstrate how she integrates techniques of gestalt therapy into an astrological counseling session using OPA member Arlan Wise as a model client.

Late Morning & Afternoon Specialty Track Immersion

Saturday, March 23

Morning Sessions

Richard Smoot Antisica Points When 10 planets are just not enough.

Hal Bahr Human Design Learn how to combine Human Design with astrology!

Late Morning & Afternoon Specialty Track Immersion

Saturday Evening Banquet to celebrate International Astrology Day. Banquet will be held at Ocean Creek Resort ($30 pp - not included in conference registration fee).

Sunday, March 24

Morning Sessions

Twink McKenney The Fusion of Yoga & Astrology Using the chart as a blueprint for yoga/meditation sessions crafted for the individual.

Barbara Hamilton, M.A., C.A.P. Consultations as Healing & Transformation for Client & Astrologer All of life contains opportunity for greater awareness and ongoing awakening. In this time of shifting paradigms and quickening consciousness, the old model of authoritarian soothsayer no longer applies. For, it is our energetic resonance and our presence that can effect a dynamic process of transformation for our clients and ourselves.

Late Morning & Afternoon Specialty Track Immersion

Closing Ceremony

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Articles and Testimonies

OPA Retreats: A Human Dimension to the Study of Astrology

by Maurice Fernandez
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Thoughts on the Retreat

by Katrina Peters
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