Wellness & Personal Growth: camps for adults

Camps that pair ropes courses and color war with workshops on reinvention, grief, and meaning. You came for the personal work, but the ropes course does half of it. We track 3 camps here, 1 of them running. The 2 that aren't stay listed with a label, because half the internet still recommends them.

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Active camps

  • Soul Camp

    Founded in 2014 by Michelle Goldblum (Garside) and Alison Leipzig, Soul Camp ran bicoastal 'sleepaway camp for the soul' weeks packed with yoga, sound baths, workshops, and color wars.

    New York Week-long $500 to $999

On hiatus, unverified, or no longer running

  • Camp GLP (Good Life Project)

    Podcaster Jonathan Fields took over a Catskills-area kids' sleepaway camp each August for five years, hosting 425 listeners of his Good Life Project podcast for keynotes, campfires, color wars, and workshops on meaningful work and wellbeing.

    New York Weekend Creator-run No longer running

  • Camp Mighty

    OG mommy-blog-era creator Maggie Mason (Mighty Girl) ran Camp Mighty as a camp-flavored Palm Springs weekend where readers worked on their 'life lists' between pool parties, talent shows, and crafts at the Ace Hotel.

    California Weekend Creator-run No longer running

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