Summer Recovery Camp ‘26

When 2 things are listed at the same time, you can choose which one to go to!

Wednesday

  • 6:30 pm - Dinner (circle at 6:20)

  • 8:00 pm - Opening Circle - Great Room
    Welcome to Summer Recovery 2026! Gather to hear about all the exciting things in store, introduce ourselves and set our intentions for the retreat!

  • 9:30 pm – Sound Bath with Wyatt - Great Room
    Join us for a transformative sound bath experience, where the harmonious vibrations of gongs, therapy-grade Himalayan singing bowls, voice, and other instruments guide you into a state of deep meditation and relaxation. Feel the sound waves gently flow through your body, creating a serene space for rest, reflection, and renewal. Whether you drift into a peaceful sleep or feel inspired by a rush of creative energy, this session offers a unique journey tailored to your inner needs.

  • 10:15 pm -  Free Time/Sauna/Games

Thursday

  • 7:30 am - Yoga with Tim Cooley (Great Room), Meditation or Hike

  • 8:30 am - Breakfast

  • 10:00-11:00 am - Lodge Groups

  • 11:30 am - Opening Ice Breaker and Workshop

    • Queer Men’s Nervous Systems: Mental Health, Recovery & Healthy Relating - with Noel

      This workshop explores how queer men’s nervous systems are shaped by shame, anxiety, desire, rejection, hookup culture, trauma, and the search for belonging. Drawing from trauma-informed care, recovery work, ACT, relational psychotherapy, and the presenter’s work as a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT), participants will examine how social anxiety, compulsive behaviors, chemsex, app culture, cruising, overworking, pornography, and avoidance can become coping strategies for loneliness, fear, and dysregulation.

      Participants will learn practical skills for managing social anxiety, understanding compulsive repetition, improving nervous-system regulation, and building more authentic forms of connection. The workshop will conclude with structured authentic relating exercises designed to help participants practice vulnerability, grounded communication, emotional presence, and healthier social engagement in real time.

  • 1:00 - 2:00 pm - Lunch

  • 2:00 - 4:00 pm -

    • Water Balloon Battle

    • OR – Pop Up or Movie (weather dependent)

  • 4:30 - 6:00 pm –

    • Coming Out Twice: Reclaiming Your Identity as a Gay Sober Man with Alex

      Getting sober as a gay man is a second coming out. It carries the same fear, the same grief, the same liberation, and almost no one talks about it that way. This 60-minute workshop uses neuroscience and lived experience to help gay sober men hold both identities with pride. Participants leave with a clear understanding of how their brain built each identity, and a concrete framework for integrating them into one whole, unapologetic self.

    • OR - Sing Your Story: Brotherhood, music, and sobriety with Jonathon

      For many men in recovery, the weight of untold stories can be one of the greatest barriers to healing. Shame, silence, and isolation keep those stories locked inside. Sing Your Story creates a brave and supported space where your experience becomes the music — where your pain, your turning point, and your triumph are transformed into something powerful and beautiful.This is not about being a musician. It is about finding words you have never been able to say and setting them to music and sharing them with brothers who truly understand.

  • 6:30 pm - Dinner 

  • 8:00 pm - A Personal Journey; A Recovery Odyssey

  • 9:30 pm - Cuddle Puddle with Anthony

Friday

  • 7:30 am - Yoga with Tim Cooley (Great Room), Meditation or Hike

  • 8:30 am - Breakfast

  • 10:00-11:00 am - Lodge Groups

  • 11:30 am - Workshops

    • Step 10 &11 with Jim

      How to do the maintenance steps. Introduction to meditation.

    • Queer Men’s Nervous Systems: Mental Health, Recovery & Healthy Relating - with Noel

      This workshop explores how queer men’s nervous systems are shaped by shame, anxiety, desire, rejection, hookup culture, trauma, and the search for belonging. Drawing from trauma-informed care, recovery work, ACT, relational psychotherapy, and the presenter’s work as a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT), participants will examine how social anxiety, compulsive behaviors, chemsex, app culture, cruising, overworking, pornography, and avoidance can become coping strategies for loneliness, fear, and dysregulation.

      Participants will learn practical skills for managing social anxiety, understanding compulsive repetition, improving nervous-system regulation, and building more authentic forms of connection. The workshop will conclude with structured authentic relating exercises designed to help participants practice vulnerability, grounded communication, emotional presence, and healthier social engagement in real time.

  • 1:00 - 2:00 pm - Lunch

  • 2:00 - 4:00 pm -

    • Sprinkler/Volleyball

    • OR – Pop Up or Movie (weather dependent)

  • 4:30 - 6:00 pm –

    • Forest Bath with Wyatt

      Join us for a transformative sound bath experience, where the harmonious vibrations of gongs, therapy-grade Himalayan singing bowls, voice, and other instruments guide you into a state of deep meditation and relaxation. Feel the sound waves gently flow through your body, creating a serene space for rest, reflection, and renewal. Whether you drift into a peaceful sleep or feel inspired by a rush of creative energy, this session offers a unique journey tailored to your inner needs.

    • OR - Beyond the Search - Finding Higher Power in Witness, Presence & Perception with Scott

      At first glance, it sounds like noise, recovery woo-woo or just plain bullshit. But when we stop fighting it… soften our focus… and allow ourselves to see differently… something hidden begins to emerge.

      This experiential workshop explores recovery, spirituality, trust, perception, and the search for a Higher Power. Why do some people “get it” immediately while others struggle? What happens when we stop forcing insight and allow discovery to unfold naturally?Through guided exercises, reflection, laughter, conversation, and shared moments of revelation, participants will explore how recovery often asks us to release control, quiet the analytical mind, and develop new ways of perceiving ourselves, others, and the sacred.

      No artistic skill or spiritual certainty required — only curiosity. You may leave seeing more than you expected.

  • 6:30 pm - Dinner 

  • 8:00 pm - A Personal Journey; A Recovery Odyssey

  • 9:30 pm - Jeopardy/Karaoke? with Scott

Saturday

  • 7:30 am - Yoga with Tim Cooley (Great Room), Meditation or Hike

  • 8:30 am - Breakfast

  • 10:00-11:00 am - Lodge Groups

  • 11:30 am - Workshops

    • Rewiring Your Identity - with Alex

      This workshop guides gay sober men through the neuroscience of identity change. The brain does not just stop old behaviors. It needs a new story to replace them. This session uses evidence-based tools from neuroplasticity, behavioral psychology, and identity-based coaching to help participants move from "I'm trying to quit drinking" to "This is who I am now." It is grounded, practical, and built for men who are ready to lead their own lives.

    • Ask a Doctor. All things recovery from a doctor in recovery! - with Adam

      Most of us feel judged or nervous sharing our recovery journey with our medical providers. This workshop is an opportunity to ask questions and learn about the science of addiction medicine and recovery.

  • 1:00 - 2:00 pm - Lunch

  • 2:00 - 4:00 pm -

    • Slippy Slide

    • OR – Pop Up or Movie (weather dependent)

  • 4:30 - 6:00 pm –

    • Massage a Trois with Scott and Assistant

    • OR - Rising Chorus: Men healing together through song with Jonathon

      In a world that often tells men to suffer in silence, this workshop creates a sacred space where men are invited to open their hearts, lift their voices, and find strength in brotherhood and song. We will cover vocal technique and solo singing versus choral singing and the excitement and challenges with performing songs with multiple harmonies. The goal is to perform a three part men’s song in front of an audience.

  • 6:30 pm - Dinner 

  • 8:00 pm - A Personal Journey; A Recovery Odyssey

  • 9:30 pm - Sing Around the Campfire with Darren / Dance

Sunday

  • 7:30 am - Yoga with Tim Cooley (Great Room), Meditation or Hike

  • 8:30 am - Continental Breakfast

  • 10:00-11:00 am - Lodge Groups

  • 11:30 am - Closing Circle

  • 1:00 - 2:00 pm - Lunch

The wood fired Sauna will be available at  9:45 pm on Friday and Saturday nights. We have a full closet of games in the Great Room that folks can play together.