Recurse Center is trying out mini-batches (just one week): https://www.recurse.com/blog/121-come-to-rc-for-a-one-week-retreat , first one open to non-alums is in NYC January 8-12 2018!

Recurse Center is "a writer's retreat for programmers" with social rules intended to curb the stupid status nonsense that gets in the way of learning and having fun. Questions, experimentation, and confusion are all highly encouraged :)

Scholarships for underrepresented folks are available for the longer (6- and 12-week) batches.

I did a 12-week batch at Recurse Center in early 2014 and wrote some reflections on it at https://somerandomidiot.com/blog/2015/07/20/retrospective/ a year and change later. I'm still walking the path I started on there :)