The Pelion Summer Lab Writing Retreat, which took place from Tuesday June 11 to Sunday June 16, 2024 in Kato Gatzea in Pelion, involved the participation of the PSL organizing team, former PSL faculty and alums, ECHN steering committee member Gwyn Isaac, and a colleague involved in experimental pedagogy in the social sciences who teaches at College Year in Athens. During the days of the retreat, We discussed Participant Feedback from past labs and especially from PSL 2023 in order to strategize ways to improve the lab. We were particularly helped by the work done by the Anthrobombing team, which had received funding the previous year from ECHN for a Collaborative Storytelling and Performance Workshop. Additionally, we scouted for new locations for PSL given the difficulty of holding the lab in Makrinitsa. The difficulties with holding the lab again in Makrinitsa, besides the flood damage include the difficult access (especially for people with mobility issues) and the lack of support from the local community due to overtourism. We visited two locations - Neochori and Agios Giorgos - where we had local connections and the possibility of using a public building as our base. We also held a series of brainstorming sessions to discuss the purpose of PSL (What is the PSL and who is it for? Who are we doing this for? Why? What else can it be?), the Future of PSL (So, what might the future of the PSL look like? Resolutions, Funding, Roles, Division of Labor, Collaborations, etc.), ideas for Publication, Funding options going forward (especially after the end of the OSUN grant), possible grants, collaborations with national and international groups. In addition to sitting around and talking, we engaged in experimental methods ourselves - visualization exercises, writing exercises, ‘rituals’ (embodiment activities), cooking, swimming and in general bonding. At the same time, we prepared collectively for our presentation day in which we had invited our guests - former PSL cohort, faculty and colleagues who work on experimental pedagogies - to present our ideas and get their feedback. On the final day of the retreat, we invited former faculty of PSL and some select participants from past PSLs to present our conclusions from our retreat and seek their feedback. We reached a number of conclusions at the retreat. For one, the team committed to “five more years.” Our analysis of the feedback confirmed our own sense that the PSL is a special institution that truly acts as a kind of academic, political and personal ‘refuge’ in the competitive academic climate, the intolerant political situation, the anti-intellectual, anti-humanities cultural atmosphere in which we operate.