Out of Office is a research & design lab and community of practice reimagining how we live and work in a modern world. We seek to initiate a shift from work-centered to life-centered existence, offering tools and infrastructures to help people cultivate engaged, authentic, and vibrant modes of living 🌳🎨 If you’d like to support this mission + get additional perks, you can become a paid subscriber 👇 As the natural world awakens from hibernation and we notice the blossoming plants and singing birds during our neighborhood walks, we can’t help but wonder, just a bit mystified: When did it become April?! We love spring as much as the next person, but we can’t be the only ones craving a small pause — a moment to look around at the year so far, celebrate what we’ve accomplished, acknowledge where we’re falling short, and set fresh intentions. As always, our energy is precious (and, despite our coffee habit’s aspirations, finite!), so we revel in the chance to slow down, take stock, and recommit to the ways we’re showing up and spending our days. For us, the start of 2024 has been a time of sowing seeds. We’ve been planning, co-creating, and dreaming up something exciting and new. And now, we’re ready to invite you all to our little garden.
Out of Office Residencies: 2024 SeasonHere’s the big news! Yahoo! We’re hosting 2 creative residencies this year to help you imagine, co-create, and step into more creative, gratifying, and regenerative ways of working and living. For those who have read our book “Reimagining The Nature of Work“ and have been following our column “Creative Ways of Living“ — this is a dedicated space and community to implement the strategies and ideas from the book into your life, and do so in community with other OOOers. To help ensure accessibility for our global community, we have designed the residencies in two sessions: Online beginning April 30, and IRL, in Italy, in September. Here’s some more info about each of them: URL: Worldwide—April 30-May 28, 2024 In 5 weeks, with weekly meetings, OOO hours, and async exercises and prompts — Dana, myself, and some amazing guest speakers will guide you through this journey. You’ll leave inspired, refueled, with new powerful connections — and your personal Work/Life Manifesto for how you want to live in this modern world 🦚 Sign up now for early bird pricing. IRL: Italy—September 9-15, 2024 We’ll be taking up residence at Casa Carlotta (an incredible nonprofit residency program and arts nonprofit we feel so honored to partner with) in the mountain town of Borgo Valsugana, Italy for a glorious week of communal living. Designed to help you imagine, co-create, and step into more creative, gratifying, and regenerative ways of working and living, we’re excited to offer workshops, actionable tools, and rituals, collective imagining session, Field Trips to our most cherished local attractions – even Forest Therapy to help us ground into our bodies, connect with our natural environment. There will be beautiful, nourishing food prepared daily by our wonderful chef-in-residence. We are now accepting applications (nothing major – don’t stress!).
The Out of Office residencies have been designed as creative sanctuaries and incubators for you to dream and imagine, connect with kindred spirits, spark creativity and imagination, learn and grow with and from peers, and cultivate more joyful, fulfilling, and regenerative ways of working and living. If you’re a creative, founder, researcher, freelancer — or someone who is curious about how we work and live in our ever-more-complicated modern world — we made this for you. And, if we’re being honest, we also made this for us. The time is now to build this movement, and we’re buzzing with possibility. We also want to take this time as an opportunity to reflect on where we are coming from, where we are going, and give you an outlook on what we’re working on, as we continue to build in public. Out of Office started as a monthly newsletter more than 4 years ago to give people ideas and resources to inspire their day jobs with the things they do in their downtime, the space evolved into a philosophy about different ways of working and living, shaped by many books and people I spoke to. Our mission became clearer and clearer… to initiate a shift from work-centered to life-centered existence. Over the years, it’s helped shape our own — and our collective — vocabulary, and, from what you’ve told us, has helped you put a language onto something you have been feeling but maybe hadn’t been able to express. Out of Office has always been (and will continue to be) about imagination. We’re reimagining how we work and live in a modern world, and we believe imagination is key. New narratives and stories are essential because they shape our perception of the world. They expand what we think is possible. Some of our efforts include sharing inspiring stories of people approaching work/life with a sense of possibility, helping people see new paths, and a collective publication (Reimagining the Nature of Work 2023). Over the past years, we found the lived experience still felt quite disconnected from the world we envision for many. Those who are marching new paths are finding it hard, as there are still no infrastructures and systems in place for them. To pave the way to make new ways of working and living a reality, we need to move into collective action and co-design. With this spirit in mind, we’re keen on creating these new experiences, tools (such as our Out of Office Uniform) and products that drive conversation and local action around more regenerative behaviors. We’re excited for what's to come and can’t wait to see where this is gonna bring us! If you have any questions about the residencies – or anything at all – please reach out. Your Out of Office Residency hosts, Alice & Dana About us
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