PERMA CIRCLE
CYCLE I 2026-2027
THE CLOSING RETREAT
About This Event
After months of meeting online, the circle comes together in person. Five days, four nights, on an island that moves at its own pace.
The conversations continue, with more room. Guided sessions, mornings of quiet movement, long meals shared together, and time left deliberately open.
SOME OF THE EXPERIENCES
Chosen not as excursions, but as other ways into the same questions.
Hands in clay
A pottery lesson. The conversation slows down while the hands stay busy. Nothing needs to turn out well. Something usually takes shape.
On the water
Four hours along the coast by boat. Distance, sea, no schedule. A different kind of thinking happens from a boat.
A long table
A visit to a local winery. A slow afternoon, good wine, and the kind of conversation that only happens around a table.
THE DAYS
Activities follow the weather and the sea. The order of days may change.
– Arrival after 3 pm.
– The circle opens in person.
– Dinner together.
– Morning movement
– Brunch
– Cycle Session
– Free time
– Visit to a local winery
– Dinner
– Morning movement
– Brunch
– Cycle Session
– Free time
– Boat tour
– Dinner
– Morning movement
– Brunch
– Cycle session
– Pottery lesson
– Closing session
– Dinner
– Morning movement
– Breakfast
– Check-out by 11:00
Included
Four nights at Perma Serifos, brunch and dinner daily, all activities, transport for activities, and Serifos port transfers on arrival and departure. Flights and ferry tickets are not included. Travel details are sent after your place is confirmed.
MICHALIS MANASSAKIS
Founder of Perma Serifos & EMCC Senior Practitioner
Michalis spent twenty years in international shipping, leading teams and offices across highly competitive environments in London and Greece. His professional life involved high-stakes decisions, international teams, demanding schedules and constant uncertainty.
Alongside his career, he developed an interest in the relationship between performance, leadership and wellbeing. With a background in mechanical engineering, an MBA and an MSC in Positive Psychology of Coaching, he combines practical leadership experience with academic study in coaching and positive psychology.
He is an EMCC-accredited Senior Practitioner. He later founded Perma Serifos, bringing his interest in architecture, wellbeing and human connection into a physical space. Perma Circle brings together these different parts of his experience.
His role is to guide the conversations, introduce different perspectives and create an environment in which people can speak openly, listen carefully and learn from one another.
