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Dec 12th-14th, 2025
at Pine Lake Camp, Waupaca
Glean Retreat is a warm, community-centered weekend for adults where we gather the best of what each person brings. Participants share their skills, approaches, perspectives, and everyday know-how, small things with big usefulness. Like the ancient practice of gleaning, we collect what’s good, what’s left behind, and what others gladly offer.
You’ll leave with new practices, fresh ideas, meaningful connections, and the kind of insight that sticks. No experts required, just people willing to share what they know and learn from one another.
Please contact Robyn Koehler (robyn@crosswayscamps.org) with questions.
Glean is built on shared gifts and shared participation, so we’re offering a flexible tiered pricing structure for this retreat. The standard weekend rate is $125. If you choose to lead a workshop or contribute to community life, through housekeeping, food prep, dishes, or other helpful tasks, you’re invited to select a reduced tier.
As always, scholarships are available to ensure every person has access to our programs. Everyone is welcome at Glean, regardless of finances.
Workshops at Glean are shaped entirely by the community. In a round-robin style, participants share the things they’ve learned, tried, made, or discovered everyday skills, handy tricks, creative ideas, useful methods. If NPR’s Life Kit and a TED Talk had a hands-on folk-school twist, this would be it. You don’t need to be an expert. Bring something you enjoy or something that’s helped you along the way, and offer it to the group.