A RETREAT TO DESIGNING A MORE CREATIVE LIFE

Life-Design Retreat

Co-hosted by Out of Office x Shapers

Living creatively means taking an active approach to how we engage in our life – how we allow space for exploration and experimentation – and shape our days around what brings us joy and sparks our creative energy.

Finding time to slow down and rekindle creativity and wonder is essential for us to thrive. As this year comes to a close, we want to look ahead at how to make these qualities an integral part of our working lives - not merely a leisure activity.

 

“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

In a community-oriented learning experience, we’ll apply creativity as a lens to see ourselves and our lives. We will create space to reflect, experiment, build new friendships, and take a proactive approach to bring more ease into your daily life so you can re-engage with work more sustainably.

🐌 The intention of this program is to offer a framework, with collective touchpoints along your journey.

🍄 Five 90min live sessions via Zoom to dive into an interactive exploration of our key questions (sessions will be recorded)

🐝 Dedicated time between the live sessions to marinade and integrate learning and have time for small groups to meet.

🎨 Each week will begin or close with an asynchronous invitation for introspection, reflection, and planning.

🐛 1:1 and group coaching sessions with the creators of this program: Alice Katter, Founder of Out of Office and Culture and Community Consultant + Jonas Altman, Author of Shapers and transformational coach.

🔮 Two months of free community access and group support after the program.

  • 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.

    Introspection

    Arrive, settle in, and reconnect with yourself. We spend time assessing and building our personal hierarchy of needs and Life-Mission Statement as a way to engage our true selves and our hearts in the process of decision-making.

  • Exploration & Rediscovering Play

    Exploration is the creative engine that fuels creativity, growth, empowerment, and well-being. We’ll explore what we need to replenish ourselves, and dive deeper into what brings us joy and what makes us come alive. Then we’ll define how to cultivate all of this in a daily practice.

  • Work & Play Integration

    We bring our dreams into action and explore how we might make work more sustainable. We use tools to design our day and create prototypes and commitments for what our new work-life might look like.

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, then this experience is for you. In a community-oriented learning experience, we’ll apply creativity as a lens to see ourselves and our lives. As part of the collective, we’ll experiment with different ways to set yourself up so you can find more joy in your daily life.

  • Expect to spend a total of 2 hours per week. That works out to just 1 ½ business days that can completely repattern how you see and do things.

    In the spirit of slowing down - we make time for introspection - listening to and applying what we learned. “The ultimate test of growth is closing the gap between awareness and action,” as Adam Grant says.

  • Pease get in touch at outofoffice@alicekatter.com

  • For our second cohort, we team up with the wonderful Jonas Altman, a founder, and coach who creates transformational learning 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.