Summer 2027 | Halkidiki, Greece
Jewellery Making Retreat in Greece
Reset. Design. Create.
A jewellery training experience like no other.
With undivided focus on craft and learning.
Space for fresh perspectives and inspirations.
Take your craft somewhere new.
And give your creativity the time and attention it deserves.
A different setting.
A fresh perspective.
The retreat programme brings together two equally important parts of the experience: dedicated jewellery training and time to enjoy and explore Greece.
With a maximum of four students, training draws from the wider Jewellery Academia curriculum and is shaped around your starting point and what you want to develop. You might be taking your first steps in jewellery making, learning new techniques, developing existing skills, exploring new design directions or dedicating focused time to your own work or collection.
The programme takes place in my second jewellery studio in Neochori, Halkidikis — my home village, where I grew up. Creating the programme here was a deliberate choice: to bring students to the place I come from, share a side of Greece beyond the usual tourist destinations, and experience some of the places that shaped me.
Work hard at the bench, then step outside the studio and experience Greece. Explore the landscape, archaeology, museums, local culture, food and beaches, with time to slow down, exchange ideas and return to your work with a different perspective.
June & July 2027
Sunday arrivals & departures
1–3 weeks
Choose your length of stay
Maximum 4 students
Individual guidance
Reset
Step away from your daily routine and give yourself dedicated time in Greece, where the pace slows down, leaving space to experience the place, focus on your jewellery practice and explore where your creative journey might take you next.
Design
Explore new directions, refine your designs and give your ideas the time and attention they need to develop. Through individual guidance, take them further — whether you are developing a single piece of jewellery or working towards a wider collection
Create
Bring your ideas to the bench and develop them through dedicated studio practice. Build and refine your jewellery-making skills through practical work, individual guidance, repetition and problem-solving, while developing the control and technical understanding needed to take your work further.
Your training schedule is individually planned around you, based on the skills you already have, what you want to learn or develop, and how long you choose to join the programme.
Your individual training can include:
What will you make?
Learn the foundations of wax carving or develop existing skills through sculptural carving, forming, tool making and stone setting in wax.
Wax Carving
Goldsmithing & Silver Jewellery Making
Learn or develop fundamental bench skills and jewellery construction through working directly in metal, including sawing, filing, forming, soldering and finishing.
Stone Setting
Learn or develop stone-setting skills through wax and direct metalwork, with techniques selected according to the skills you already have and what you want to achieve.
EXPLORE STONE SETTING →
Jewellery Specialisms
Experiment with new techniques and explore specialist areas of jewellery making, such as Mitsuro Hikime, mother-of-pearl work and tool making. Learn each technique as a medium in its own right, or explore how to integrate it into the skills and jewellery-making practice you already have.
TAKE YOUR WORK FURTHER
Develop Your Own Work or Collection
Bring your own ideas, new designs, work in progress or existing collections and use your time in Greece, together with Stelios’s individual guidance and technical knowledge, to finalise them or take them to the next level. With dedicated bench time, explore new directions, work through design and technical challenges, experiment with techniques and refine your making.
IN & BEYOND THE STUDIO
Your Time in Greece
Focused jewellery training. Dedicated bench time. Greece beyond the studio.
Work. Explore. Be inspired.
Let landscape, archaeology, museums, village life and the coast feed your ideas.
Share conversations between sessions, then return to your work with a different perspective.
WORK HARD
Focused jewellery training and dedicated bench time.
Step outside the studio and explore the landscape, archaeology, museums, villages and local culture — opening space for new ideas and directions.
BE INSPIRED
FOCUS MORE
Return to the bench to continue, practise and develop your work.
Exchange ideas, connect through shared experience and build friendships beyond the studio.
BUILD BONDS
Beaches, food and everyday life beyond the studio.
RESET & RELAX
Choose one, two or three weeks in June or July.
Each stay runs Sunday to Sunday, subject to availability.
Programme Dates & Fees
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June & July 2027 · Sunday to Sunday
MONDAY TO SATURDAY PROGRAMME
SUNDAYS FOR AIRPORT ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES
Jewellery training and programme activities take place throughout the week.
Choose one, two or three consecutive weeks during June or July, with each week running from Sunday to Sunday.
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If you stay for two or three weeks, the full studio time and programme activities included in each week can be arranged more flexibly across your stay.
When planned in advance, this can leave space for remote work, your own plans or additional free time.
With a maximum of four students per week, places are subject to availability.
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Your final programme fee is calculated based on the number of weeks you choose and your choice of single or shared accommodation.
Payment by instalments is available.
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Your programme fee includes:
Jewellery training
Training materials including waxes, copper and CZ gemstones
Accommodation
Airport pick-up and drop-off
Local transport connected to the programme
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The programme fee does not include:
Flights to and from Greece
Food and drinks
Museum and attraction entrance tickets
Precious metals, gemstones other than the CZ gemstones provided for training
Casting costs
Personal expenses
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Neochori, Halkidiki, Greece.
The nearest airport is Thessaloniki (SKG).
Airport pick-up, drop-off and programme-related local transportation are included.
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Yes. Your training is planned around your starting point and the skills you want to develop.
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Yes. Your training can focus on refining existing skills, exploring specialist techniques or developing your own designs and collection.
Bring your ideas or work in progress, and we’ll shape your programme around your experience and what you want to achieve.
Let's plan your
time in Greece
TO START YOUR ENQUIRY
Complete the form and tell us a little about your plans:
When you would like to join
How long you would like to stay
What you would like to learn or develop
AFTER YOUR ENQUIRY
You will receive the full Greece Programme Information Pack, with detailed information about:
Accommodation
Transport
Payments for securing your place
Practical arrangements for your stay
Then we will arrange a call to discuss your training needs and answer any questions.
Have a question about the programme?
Location:
nearest airport (SKG) Thessaloniki
Neochori, Halkidikis
P.C. 63074
