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A Dynamic Retreat

Hosting Focused Retreats and Strategic Gatherings at Villa Koukouvayia

“A place should go beyond shelter. It should excite you, calm you, make you think.”

— Anonymous

Combining intimate indoor facilities with outdoor spaces that overlook the Mediterranean Sea, Tyflos Valley, Crete’s southern mountains, and a green embrace of agricultural groves, the campus can platform inspired breakout discussions, multi-media presentations, artistic practice, and social activities that reinforce collaboration, experience and results. WiFi access points serve the entire campus at highest available speeds and bandwidths, allowing modern connectivity to join the estate’s traditional architecture and ambience. Most importantly, the campus accomplishes all this while lodging your group onsite amid informal luxury.

Areas for social activities, small group breakouts, and large-group work include:

Constructed Outdoor Spaces:

Over 90m2 of shaded verandas for presentations, yoga & health practice, entertaining, and communal dining.

Over 100m2 of open terraces & patios for yoga & health practices, entertaining, performances and social events.
A dedicated 77m2 platform for performances, presentations & yoga or health practices set among adjacent olive groves.
Two large-scale elevated terraces of 54m2 and 35m2 for performances, entertaining, presentations, health practice, and larger-scale communal dining.
Over 55m2 of smaller elevated balcony and roof garden areas for small-group discussions, including a 27m2 roof garden with bar facilities for entertaining.

Natural Outdoor Areas:

90m2 & 325m2 areas with natural presentation slopes, suitable for performances, presentations, fitness and/or celebration activities. (Audience capacities 25 & 90 respectively.)

85m2 & 49m2 areas with level lawns (one with elevated stage) also suitable for performances, presentations, fitness and/or celebration activities. (Audience capacities of 20 & 25. Respectively.)

And throughout your program, the villa has the equipment and opportunities to integrate activities that foster camaraderie and build strategic relationships:

Pool & Patio for relaxing among smaller groups, and exercise.

A 36m2 multi-purpose game room for personal exercise or social gathering.
Equipment for croquet, badminton and other lawn games; interior board games, bicycles, snorkeling, beach & picnic gear, kayaks and even a small racing dinghy for experienced sailors.
Additionally, Villa Koukouvayia’s gates open onto a network of safe walking-trails that traverse the olive groves and surrounding hills, and offer opportunities for individuals or small groups to retreat, reflect, and return to the program’s focus recharged.