WATER IS LIFE
Women’s Watershed Retreat
October 23-25, 2026
Teal Lake, Hayward, Wisconsin
A restorative weekend for women working with water - to deepen relationship, expand knowledge, work through real watershed challenges, and build the connections needed to protect and restore our waters.
COME TO THE WATER
This is a gathering for women who care for water - in your work, your communities, your lands, and your lives.
Bring the watershed challenge you’re working through. Bring the idea that needs space. Bring the question you haven’t had time to sit with.
Over one restorative weekend, we’ll step away from the urgency of our everyday work and come together to listen, map, learn, strategize, and reconnect.
We’ll explore our personal and community water stories, deepen our understanding of our watersheds, work through real challenges together, and leave with practical tools, new allies, and renewed clarity for the work ahead.
You do not need to be a water professional to attend. You simply need a desire to deepen your relationship with water and contribute to healthier watersheds.
A WEEKEND OF WATER + CONNECTION
Know Your Water
Explore your watershed through story, observation, mapping, testing, history, ecology, and multiple ways of knowing.
Map What Matters
Use our Watershed Sovereignty Mapping process to identify the waters, relationships, assets, threats, challenges, and opportunities shaping your place.
Work Through Real Challenges
Bring something you are actively navigating. The group becomes a space for ideas, perspective, allies, and possibility.
Taste + Experience Water
Saturday Water Happy Hour invites us to slow down and actually taste, compare, notice, and experience different waters.
Be on the Water
Time is intentionally left open for canoeing, kayaking, walking, resting, conversation, and simply being beside Teal Lake.
Leave With Tools
Take home your Water Workbook, mapping practices, water assessment tools, and a clearer next step for your watershed.
A Weekend at Teal Lake
Nestled along Teal Lake near Hayward, Wisconsin, our home for the weekend offers the rare luxury of time and space - woods, water, comfortable lodging, nourishing meals, and room to simply be.
Canoes and kayaks will be available, with spacious time built into the weekend to explore the lake or find a quiet place along the shore.
Weekend Flow
FRIDAY — ARRIVE + CONNECT
2–5 PM Arrive, settle in + explore
5 PM Retreat begins
Opening circle • Water story • Dinner • Evening gathering
SATURDAY — IMMERSE + EXPLORE
Morning practice • Watershed relationship + knowing your water • Sovereignty Mapping • Chef-prepared meals • Free time on Teal Lake • Water Happy Hour • Dinner + evening connection
SUNDAY — INTEGRATE + RETURN
Morning gathering • From mapping to action • Personal/community water commitments • Closing circle wrapping up at 1PM
YOUR RETREAT INCLUDES
✓ Two nights lodging at Teal Lake
✓ All chef-prepared meals Friday evening through Sunday
✓ Full facilitated Water Retreat experience
✓ Watershed Sovereignty Mapping process
✓ Water Workbook + retreat materials
✓ Saturday Water Happy Hour ✓ Optional Morning Yoga
✓ Canoe + kayak access
✓ Spacious personal and lake time
✓ A small cohort of women committed to water
SHARED ROOM — $899
Two guests per room with individual beds.
8 spaces available
PRIVATE ROOM — $999
Your own private room with queen bed.
Only 5 available
Bathroom in each room.
WATER CONNECTS US.
THIS GATHERING IS FOR YOU IF…
You protect, restore, study, teach about, organize around, advocate for, or simply deeply care about water.
You might be a watershed professional, farmer, land steward, community organizer, Indigenous knowledge holder, educator, nonprofit leader, conservationist, parent, artist, healer, scientist - or someone beginning to ask deeper questions about the water where you live.
Come with expertise. Come with questions. Come with a problem you're working through. Come because water is calling you into deeper relationship.
The problems facing our waters are enormous.
We don't have to meet them alone.
Come spend a weekend beside the water - learning, listening, mapping, resting, and imagining what becomes possible when women working for water come together.
October 23–25, 2026
Teal Lake • Hayward, Wisconsin