Register today for the 2026 OASV Retreat to help ensure your room/roommate selection!
Our upcoming retreat will take place April 24-26, 2025. The theme for our 2026 retreat is “Living In the Real World in Ongoing Recovery.” This will be an in-person retreat – no online or hybrid options available at this time. To register, please click here!
To download a flyer about this retreat that can be shared with others, please click here.
To have any of your issues, concerns, or questions addressed regarding this annual retreat, please send email to: oaserenityretreat@gmail.com.
The Annual OA Serenity Retreat is held at the Villa Maria Del Mar Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, California. In 2026, we hope you’ll join us at the in-person retreat for a meaningful community experience at this beautiful retreat center nestled along the shore of the Pacific ocean. We look forward to this annual event and encourage you to become a part of this amazing recovery weekend that can either serve to help jumpstart your recovery, or provide a welcome recharge of your spiritual condition.
Never Been to an OASV Retreat? Check out a past retreat that was held virtually
As a consequence of the pandemic and shelter-in-place public health order, the 2021 retreat was offered online, rather than in-person. To listen to the full selection of audio recordings of the guest speaker, please click here. The 2021 topic was “The Big Book Comes Alive for OA” and it was a FANTASTIC overview of how to work the steps/become abstinent one day at a time!
According to the feedback provided by the post-retreat online survey, 87.5% of respondents assigned a rating of “Excellent” to the 2021 retreat. The remaining 12.5% assigned a rating of “Very Good.”
The annual OASV retreat is open to all OA members and promises to help you find a closer connection to your Higher Power and a deeper understanding of the Twelve Steps. At our in-person retreat, you may decide to attend every workshop, skip one or two, take a walk on the beach, sit and meditate, or even learn to hula hoop and boogie board. There is no right or wrong way to “do” YOUR retreat.
Rewarding Service Opportunity – Join the Retreat Team Today!
Are you looking for a rewarding service opportunity? We are always looking for abstinent people eager to work on the coming year’s OASV Serenity Retreat Planning Committee to assist with this annual event.
If you are interested and would like to review the open committee positions to gain an understanding of roles and responsibilities. The term of service for each of these positions is for 2 years.
Please send an email to: oaserenityretreat@gmail.com with your desired position to request more information
If you are available to be of love and service in another capacity, please check out the various other open OASV service positions by clicking here!