Sunday, November 1 - Tuesday, November 3
Time: 3:00pm Sunday, Nov. 1 - 12pm Tuesday. Nov. 3
Cost: This retreat experience is fully funded for eligible participants! A $180 fully refundable deposit is required to demonstrate your commitment. Travel expenses to/from the retreat are not covered.
Location: OSRUI at 600 Lac La Belle Dr, Oconomowoc, WI 53066
Join us at Adamah for ReTreat Yourself! OSRUI Edition from November 1-3, 2026. This R&R retreat is fully subsidized and will feature Scholars in Residence Rabbi Adina Allen and Yael Shy of Sefira Wellness. Together, we'll connect over delicious meals, engage with Torah through meaningful art, enjoy nature, rest, move our bodies, meditate, and more.
Step into a palace in time with other Jewish communal professionals from your region. Celebrate a spiritual, meaningful, relaxing experience full of creativity rest, and movement and singing in an idyllic setting.
Participants will emerge with a broader network of friends and allies in the field, new Jewish wisdom sources for inspiration, and renewed motivation, passion, and commitment to their work. We will talk, sing, pray, move our bodies indoors and outside, eat delicious food, rest, laugh, and reflect.
Please note: Eligibility for these retreats require participants to have been working full time in Jewish communal service for 2+ years, and in their current role for 6+ months.
For more information, please reach out to Eliezah Hoffman, the Immersive Retreats Project Manager, at eliezah.hoffman@adamah.org or 410.843.7548.
More about the guest educators:
Rabbi Adina Allen(Founding Rabbi & President at Jewish Studio Project), a spiritual leader, writer and educator who believes in the power of creativity to revitalize our lives and transform Jewish tradition. Integrating a lifetime of experience in the expressive arts with her rabbinic training, Adina has taught clergy, educators and lay leaders in hundreds of Jewish communal institutions across the country. Adina’s writing is widely published and her original research on using creative process to generate contemporary midrash was published in the CCAR Journal in 2013. She is a recipient of the Covenant Foundation’s 2018 Pomegranate Prize for emerging Jewish Educators and is a fellow of the Open Door Project for spiritual Jewish entrepreneurs. Adina was ordained in Hebrew College’s pluralistic training program in Boston in 2014 where she was a Wexner Graduate Fellow. You can reach her at adina@jewishstudioproject.org.
In 2024 Adina published her first book, “The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom,” which pairs spiritual wisdom with art therapy, liberation theology, and creativity research.
Yael Shy is the Founder and CEO of Sefira Wellness, where she supports individuals and collectives through well-being practices that uncover their inherent worth and capacity for deep joy. Current and former clients include New York University, Columbia School of Law, Procter and Gamble, UJA Federation, Hillel International, Etsy, and many more. She is the author of the award-winning book, What Now? Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond (Parallax, 2017), and the founder of Mindful NYU, the largest campus-based mindfulness initiative in the country. Yael is faculty at the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University and the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. She has been featured on Good Morning America, Fox 5 News, and CBS and in Time Magazine and the Harvard Business Review. She can be found online at http://www.yaelshy.com and @yaelshy1 on Instagram.