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PRIVATE MENTORING

· Tailored to Your Specific Needs ·

LET'S WORK TOGETHER!

It didn't take me long to fall in love with reading tarot when I first started (even though I didn't know what I was doing). The surprise came when I fell in love with teaching just as hard, to a point in which it became a core part of my work that has allowed me to make the most incredible connections and even gave me the opportunity to become a published author (if that fourteen year old with a pack of cards just knew!) 

I learnt for the most part through trial and error, with the booklet that came with my deck and the fearless audacity that only a teenager can foster. For that, I know that learning on your own is perfectly possible, but also for that, I know that learning with support makes the journey easier.​​

SINGLE MENTORING SESSION

What can you achieve in an hour? A single mentoring session can make a tangible difference if you’re seeking concrete direction in your tarot journey, want to practice a concrete technique or if you want a second opinion that might change the game. 

 

Here are a few examples of what can be done in a single session, so that you have a tangible idea of whether it works for you. 

 

  • Understanding differences between the cards: I’ve worked with students that came with a fixed idea about what each suit pertained to and struggled to see how they could work in different contexts, or who had difficulties with concrete cards that they weren’t able to relate to, including the sixteen favourite cards of every reader: The Court Cards. 
     

  • Connecting the dots: In an hour, we can go through a few techniques that have helped students relate the cards to each other within a reading, after experiencing issues like contradicting cards in a reading, not quite understanding how to interpret a “positive card” in a negative position or vice-versa, or who found it difficult to thread the reading together. 
     

  • Simplifying: Sometimes, less is more, and I have had students who came with too much information about the cards to come to a clear conclusion about them, which resulted in very open ended readings that were rich in offering food for thought but not so much in helping them reach conclusions. In those cases, we have worked together to establish systems to simplify the approach and gain clarity. 
     

  • Tableau reading practice: Sometimes, some one on one practice can help you fully integrate the system of tableau reading if there are things you’re unclear about (with knighting being a contending technique to first “what are we even doing here”).
     

  • Not knowing where to begin: Students who are just getting started with tarot and are trying to learn the meanings and practice but don’t know how to structure their learning. 
     

  • Orientation when starting professionally:  For those who have decided to make tarot their career and need a bit of orientation on how to get themselves out there, what works and what doesn’t (realistically, I’m not one to tell you you’re going to be making six figures next months!)

Christiana Gaudet, Your Tarot Fairy Godmother

“Maria Alviz Hernando is one of the most exciting young voices in divination today. Her skills as a reader and teacher are impressive. That she can work in two languages and multiple divination systems is even more impressive."

MENTORING PACKAGES

If you are thinking about ongoing support with your learning over a period of time, you can consider a mentoring package of three, five or ten sessions. Working with a mentoring package offers you the opportunity to work with assignments between sessions that help you integrate what you’ve learnt into your practice. 

 

Sessions are spaced according to your needs, weekly, every other week or monthly, without necessarily spacing every session the same length of time if what’s learnt during a particular session would benefit from being practiced for a longer period before building on it. 

 

These are some of the situations in which other students have benefited from mentoring packages: 

 

  • Learning the ins and outs of tableau reading: We can work on a number of sessions in building your tableau reading skills from narrative lines into larger tableau spreads. 

 

  • Progress block: On occasion, I’ve worked with students who felt somewhat stuck in their learning, finding it difficult to go from knowing what the cards mean to threading cohesive readings. In this case, a three-session package has offered great results, beginning with working with the cards in different contexts to adapt their meanings to different situations, and then working on finding a system that allows the student to weave the cards together so that the reading doesn’t feel vague. 

 

  • Supported practice: The students that have worked with me for a greater length of time have mostly sought to have sessions that focus mostly on practice and solving doubts of questions that have arisen in the period between sessions, getting second opinions on spreads that they have found interesting or challenging, and revisiting former learning when a new situation comes up that proves to be an exception to the most frequently applied interpretation. 

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