Wish we could come! (My husband would watch our daughter and go fishing while I attend sessions! *smile*) We have been to a retreat at Lakeview, and it will be a great place for you all. Unfortunately, we won't be back in the US until November 2016. Is the AO conference an annual event? If so, is it around the same time of year? I'd love to attend when we're on furlough next year.
But I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to him…..I did doubt whether [he] would not have profited by someone studying him a little, instead of his studying them quite so much. (Dickens, Bleak House)