Co-hosted by Out of Office and Gather + Grow

🌿 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

Set in the hills just outside Rome, this 5-day creative experience 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.

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

🍄 Daily creative prompts to reconnect you to your environment and inner voice

🎨 Creative practices to ground yourself in your creativity and craft

🌱 Honest conversations and shared meals with other curious, creative humans

🐝 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

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

Interested in
our next cohort?

  • 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.

Our Principles

Life-design first

Figure out the life you want to live, and then see how work fits in.

Walking the walk

You have this thing that sparks joy, how can you design your life in a way that allows you to step into that?

Community powered

We believe that reinventing yourself happens so much more powerfully together.

Autonomy + flexibility

We celebrate a high degree of autonomy and experiment with out to make the best use of this freedom.

Diversification

We believe in the importance of getting perspectives from people with different backgrounds as well as situations and walks of life.