Co-hosted by Out of Office and Gather + Grow
Sept 3-7 2025

🌿 A Creative Retreat to Slow Down,
Feel Alive & Play

A 5-day creative experience set in the hills just outside Rome, which offers the space to reconnect—to your creativity, your senses, your body, and your sense of what matters most. It’s not a break from your life. It’s a way back into it.

✨ Our lives should make us feel alive—energized, inspired, and led by what truly fuels us.

But in a fast-paced world, that kind of alignment doesn’t happen by accident. It takes a conscious pause—a willingness to step outside the usual rhythm and ask: Is this how I want to live?

This retreat is your invitation to do just that.

“To make living itself an art, that is the goal.” Henry Miller

“To make living itself an art, that is the goal.” Henry Miller

What to expect

Surrounded by rolling hills and olive groves, this 5-day creative experience offers the space to reconnect to yourself and the world around you, in community.

🌿 Set at a remote location surrounded by hills and open skies, this retreat blends spaciousness with just enough structure to spark energy and insight.

🍄 Daily guided sessions to reconnect to your inner voice and spark your imagination and sense of possibility.

🎨 Creative practices to ground yourself in your creativity, craft and nature.

🌱 Shared meals with other curious, creative humans, freshly prepared and made from locally sourced ingredients.

🐝 Lots of in-between time, to marinade and integrate learning, have time to connect, or time for yourself to do nothing or work on your next creative project

What’s Included

4 NIGHT ACCOMMODATION at a beautiful Retreat Location 1h outside of Rome, Italy.

TRANSPORTATION from Rome (airport) to our retreat location.

FRESHLY PREPARED MEALS (breakfast, lunch, dinner) made from locally sourced ingredients showcasing Italian cuisine.

DAILY WORKSHOPS & GUIDED SESSIONS on creative living, values, vision setting, play and creativity with Alice & Anique.

PERSONAL GUIDANCE from Alice + Anique to support your own creative goals and personal journey.

A GOODIE BAG with Out of Office goodies and our book, to make your experience even more special.

Who’s behind it

  • We will start by assessing the different dimensions of your life. Where you are right now, where you see tensions, needs and misalignments. We’ll be exploring our values, needs, and what’s at stake for us.

    🎨 Alice Katter, founder of Out of Office, brings the spirit of a Creative Residency—a container designed to help people reimagine new ways of living and working and rekindle their playful side.

  • 🐎 Anique Coffee, founder of Gather + Grow, brings the soul of WILD—a nature-led approach to creativity, presence, and sustainable growth.

Sign up now

  • How Sign-Up Works
    We’re currently gathering a small group of curious, creative humans for this experience. To reserve your spot, we ask for a €500 deposit.

    • Your spot will be confirmed once we reach a minimum of 8 participants.

    • If we don’t reach the minimum, your deposit will be refunded in full by [July 15th].

    • If we do move forward, your deposit becomes non-refundable and will be applied to your total retreat fee.

    • The remaining balance will be due on July 30.

    You’ll hear from us with an update by July 10th at the latest.

  • Are you going through a transition and want to reimagine the way you want to work and live? Are you ready to gain agency within your own life and do so in a community?

    If you want space to let your mind wander, to dream up new versions of yourself, or to explore your next creative project, then this experience is for you. You will find guidance and community, but also have time for yourself to do your own thing throughout the day.

  • Your room, all meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), transport to the venue from the airport, and any offered activities and materials throughout the official program.

    Not included are optional massages.

  • For the second season of our Creative Retreats/Residencies, we team up with the wonderful Anique, a leadership coach who creates transformational nature-based experiences to elevate and grow leaders.

  • You’ll Leave With

    — A clearer mind and more grounded presence
    — Fresh creative energy, ready to move through you
    — A renewed sense of direction, from the inside out
    — Ideas, insights, and ways of being that continue to unfold long after you return