🌿 A Creative Retreat to Slow Down, Reconnect, Feel Alive & Play
3 - 7 September 2025
A retreat in rural Italy for leaders, creatives, and curious humans ready to slow down, reconnect, and expand their vision
Designed and curated by Out of Office x Gather & Grow
✨ 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.
What You’ll Walk Away With
A quieter mind and calmer body — a nervous system reset
Renewed clarity about your creative direction and life vision
A sense of joy in process, free from outcomes or performance
Deeper connection — to yourself, your ideas, and the people around you
“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.
🌞 Slow mornings with optional movement, breath or journaling
🪵 Nature-rich spaces for exploration and grounded reflection
🎨 Daily creative prompts, gentle workshops, and playful experimentation
🥗 Long shared meals, meaningful conversations, lingering sunsets
🌙 Evenings designed for rest, stillness, or stargazing
Who’s this for?
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.
For leaders, founders, makers, and anyone longing to move differently. This is for you if:
You are craving space away from the screen and calendar to think, breathe, and feel again
You want to rediscover creativity without productivity strings attached
You’re ready for nature, new connections, and the gift of slowing down
Ready to reconnect? Book your spot now
What’s Included?
4 nights of thoughtfully curated accommodation at a modern rustic retreat center, just an hour outside Rome. Each room is designed for quiet luxury, complete with soft daily refreshes to keep your space a calm haven.
Round-trip transportation from Rome airport to our retreat location, so you can begin unwinding the moment you arrive.
Freshly prepared Italian meals, made from locally sourced ingredients and served family-style. Includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, plus teas and coffee throughout the day.
Daily workshops and guided sessions with Alice & Anique on creative living, values, vision setting, and playful expression—woven with spacious moments of rest and reflection.
Personal guidance to support your creative goals and unique journey, with time to ask questions, share ideas, and be deeply witnessed.
Creative prompts, workshop materials, and a welcome goodie bag—complete with Out of Office treats and a special book to make your experience even more meaningful.
A small welcome gift waiting on your bed—a quiet delight to ease you into retreat life.
✈️ Flights and personal travel insurance are not included.
The Place
A nature-based haven tucked in the rolling hills outside Rome, OLEA is surrounded by olive groves, fragrant herbs, and golden Italian light.
Modern rustic rooms open to the landscape with floor-to-ceiling windows and soft natural linens.
Shared meals unfold under vine-draped pergolas or at long wooden tables, where conversation lingers as the sun sets.
It’s a place that feels worlds away from your inbox—yet designed to bring you closer to yourself, your creativity, and the slow rhythms that sustain you.
Your Guides
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Alice Katter
As the founder of Out of Office, Alice 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.
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Anique Coffee
As the founder of Gather and Grow, Anique brings a nature-led approach to creativity, presence, and sustainable growth. Her work is rooted in intuition, rhythm, and the courage to look beyond urgency, inviting others to reconnect with what truly matters so they can lead, create, and live from a deeper, more intentional place.
Join us for an unforgettable experience
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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