Sleep-Away Retreat Healthcare Protocol

Our healthcare harm-reduction protocol for Firefly sleep-away retreats in 2025.

While some of us may no longer be thinking of COVID-19 as a threat, for others it is still very present. Here’s how we’re inviting participants into care for each other and our healthcare system.

  • We require that participants take 2 rapid tests prior to retreats, the day before and the day of. If your tests come back positive, you will receive Firefly credit for the amount paid, good for one year.

    • The exception to this is that if participants have tested positive 10-60 days before the retreat, have no fever, and are mostly or fully recovered. In this case, we do not require these tests.

  • If someone in your household tests positive for COVID-19 within the 10 days before your retreat and you’re not able to isolate from them, you will have to sit out the retreat, and will receive Firefly credit for the amount paid, good for one year.

  • If you have symptoms of illness the day of the retreat, we’ll ask you to take a self-assessment and cancel your participation if it tells you to. You will receive Firefly credit for the amount paid, good for one year.

  • If you contract COVID-19, we require that you do not attend the retreat unless you’re asymptomatic and it's been at least 10 days since the onset of your symptoms or your first positive test.

  • While masks aren’t mandatory at this event (shared meals make this challenging), masks are welcome, and we are happy to talk through how to make this event as safe as possible for anyone with concerns about COVID-19 or other infectious diseases.

  • Along with these requirements, we’re inviting all participants to treat the 10 days before the retreat as a time of extra caution. In this time, please mask liberally, avoid crowded events, and limit exposure to people who may be infected to maximize your chance of making it to the retreat. We want you there!

Our facilitators will be following the same guidelines, and a backup facilitator will be ready to step in if either of them have a positive test or COVID-19 symptoms.