Summer Recovery Camp ‘26
Wednesday
6:30 pm - Dinner with our Lodge Groups (circle at 6:20 in the Great Room)
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 Journey with Wyatt - Great Room
Begin the weekend by arriving fully in your body, opening your heart, and settling into the shared energy of community. This playful and uplifting sound journey will weave together gongs, singing bowls, voice, harmonium, didgeridoo, and flutes to create a rich landscape of vibration, rhythm, and rest. You are invited to release the noise of travel and daily life, reconnect with yourself, and open to the people gathered around you. No experience is needed. Simply lie back, breathe, listen, and let the sound welcome you into a weekend of recovery, joy, belonging, and connection.9:45 pm - Sauna, Games, etc.
Thursday
7:30 am - Yoga with Tim Cooley - Great Room
OR - Meditation with Dean - Temple
OR - Take a Hike
8:30 am - Breakfast
10:00-11:00 am - Lodge Groups
11:30 am - Opening Ice Breaker and Workshop with Noel - Great Room
1:00 - 2:00 pm - Lunch
2:00 - 4:00 pm: Free Time
This is a time when we will offer outdoor fun in the sun or pop up workshops and activities.4:30 - 6:00 pm: Coming Out Twice: Reclaiming Your Identity as a Gay Sober Man with Alex - Temple
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 - Great Room
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 (circle at 6:20)
8:00 pm - A Personal Journey: A Recovery Odyssey- Great Room
9:30 pm - Cuddle Puddle with Anthony - Great Room
9:45 pm - Sauna, Games, Playspace, etc.
Friday
7:30 am - Yoga with Tim Cooley - Great Room
OR - Meditation with Dean - Temple
OR - Take a Hike
8:30 am - Breakfast
10:00-11:00 am - Lodge Groups
8:30 am - Breakfast
10:00-11:00 am - Lodge Groups
11:30 am - 1:00 pm: Step 10 &11 with Jim - Temple
How to do the maintenance steps. Introduction to meditation.OR: Queer Men’s Nervous Systems: Mental Health, Recovery & Healthy Relating - with Noel - Great Room
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: Free Time
This is a time when we will offer outdoor fun in the sun or pop up workshops and activities.4:00 - 6:00 pm: Forest Discovery With Sound with Wyatt - Meet in Great Room
Step into a guided forest bathing experience designed to reconnect you with nature, your senses, and a deeper sense of presence. This journey blends traditional forest bathing practices with sound, movement, and simple ritual.OR - The 3-Minute Game: Consent, Touch & Embodied Choice with Scott - Temple
Based on the original game created by Harry Faddis. What does it feel like to ask clearly for what you want—and to discover that yes, no, maybe, and I changed my mind are all equally valid answers? Through the playful and powerful 3-Minute Game, participants will explore consent, boundaries, desire, communication, and embodied choice through conversation and simple, fully clothed touch. In a supportive, trauma-informed environment, we’ll practice listening to our bodies, making clear requests, receiving boundaries with grace, and discovering how slowing down can create more authentic connection. Come curious. Touch is always optional, and witnessing, passing, and changing your mind are all part of the practice.
6:30 pm - Dinner (circle at 6:20)
8:00 pm - A Personal Journey: A Recovery Odyssey- Great Room
9:00 pm -Talent Salon with Scott - Great Room
9:45 pm - Sauna, Games, Playspace, etc.
Saturday
7:30 am - Yoga with Tim Cooley - Great Room
OR - Meditation with Dean - Temple
OR - Take a Hike
8:30 am - Breakfast
10:00-11:00 am - Lodge Groups
11:30 am - 1 pm - Rewiring Your Identity with Alex - Great Room
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.OR: Ask a Doctor. All things recovery from a doctor in recovery! - with Adam - Temple
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:
Moss’s Famous Slippy Slide
OR: Other Outdoor activities.
4:00 - 6:00 pm –
Massage a Trois with Scott - Great Room
This guided erotic massage experience invites you to explore the power of asking for what you want, offering generous touch beyond attraction, and co-creating moments of sensual connection. Working in trios, each person will take a turn as the "star" while the other two offer touch in a structured, consensual, and playfully erotic setting. Advance sign-up is required. This workshop includes nudity and erotic touch with randomly assigned partners, with an emphasis on consent, communication, and honoring personal boundaries.OR - Rising Chorus: Men healing together through song with Jonathon - Temple
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 (circle at 6:20)
8:00 pm - A Personal Journey: A Recovery Odyssey - Great Room
9:30 pm - Sing Around the Campfire with Darren - Yard
OR: Dancing in the Great Room
Sunday
7:30 am - Yoga with Tim Cooley - Great Room
OR - Meditation with Dean - Temple
OR - Take a 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 every nights. We have a full closet of games in the Great Room that folks can play together.