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Rough Creek Lodge · Glen Rose, Texas · October 22–25, 2026
You built the thing. Now come outside.
A curated weekend for 50 guests who have forgotten what it feels like to play.
What is Récréo
Not a conference. Not a retreat. A recess.
You’ve built something real. The career, the team, the calendar that never ends. And somewhere between the promotion, the IPO, the next big thing, you stopped playing.
Not because you didn’t want to. Because no one gave you permission. Because high performers don’t play — they perform. They network. They optimise. They attend things that look like opportunities.
Récréo is none of those things.
It is 72 hours at one of Texas’s most extraordinary properties — Rough Creek Lodge in the Hill Country — with 50 carefully selected guests who share one quiet, unspoken thing: they miss who they were before the work consumed them.
No panels. No pitch decks. No keynotes. No agenda you’ll receive in advance. Just play — the kind you haven’t done since you were nine years old and completely free.
The philosophy
Play is not the opposite of work.
It is the source of it.
Stuart Brown, the world’s leading researcher on play, found that play deprivation in adults produces the same neurological damage as sleep deprivation. The most creative, most innovative, most humanly alive people are not the ones who work hardest. They are the ones who never stopped playing.
Récréo exists because the world is full of conferences that promise connection and deliver business cards. We are building something different: a weekend so human, so carefully designed, and so unlike anything you’ve attended, that you will leave with something no boardroom, no accelerator, no masterclass has ever given you.
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The weekend
We won't tell you what happens.
That's the point.
The activities are deliberately kept private. What we can tell you is that every moment of Récréo is designed around one question: what would you do if no one was watching, nothing needed to produce a result, and you were completely, permission-lessly free?
Expect the unexpected. Expect to feel things you haven’t felt in years. Expect to go home and quietly rearrange some priorities.
Thursday evening
Arrive. Exhale. Let the week go.
The unlocking begins here.
Friday & Saturday
The body remembers first.
Curated surprises. All day.
Sunday
The return. Changed.
You won’t want to leave.
The Setting
Rough Creek Lodge. Texas Hill Country.
LOCATION Glen Rose, Texas — 90 minutes from Dallas · 2.5 hours from Austin
GROUNDS 9,000 acres of Texas Hill Country
ROOMS 51 lodge rooms and suites — one per guest
DINING Full board — breakfast, lunch, and dinner on property
ACTIVITIES Horseback riding, zip line, campfires, fishing, off-road vehicles, and more
CAPACITY 50 guests — no exceptions
Testimonials
What Clients Say About Us
Founding Edition Attendee
"I've been to Davos, Sun Valley, and TED. None of them gave me back what a single weekend here did."
The Editions
Two weekends. One per season.
Date: November 13–16, 2026
Founding Edition
Venue: Rough Creek Lodge · Glen Rose, Texas
Warm Texas days. Open fires at night. The Hill Country at its most alive. The founding edition arrives just before Thanksgiving — the perfect moment to exhale before the year-end sprint and remember what actually matters.
Date: Summer 2027
Second Edition
Venue: Rough Creek Lodge · Glen Rose, Texas
Long evenings. Open sky. 9,000 acres of Texas in full colour. The summer edition is expansive and bright — play in its most ancient, outdoor, uncontained form. Exact dates announced to founding community first.
A curated, invitation-only experience for guests who have forgotten what it feels like to play. Held twice yearly at Rough Creek Lodge, Texas Hill Country.
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Designed for those who forgot how to play.