Reflections from our URL OOO Residency + upcoming community gatherings

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	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more 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 👇 Upgrade to paid Notes from the Field 🌞 Reflections from our URL OOO Residency + upcoming community gatherings Alice Katter Jun 8   READ IN APP   Welcome to this month’s Notes from the Field! Notes from the Field is a new monthly series where we’ll share what’s inspiring us, favorite finds, as well as recommendations from the community. After a beautiful May (which is also my fav Gemini month ♊️) where we hosted local community gatherings in LA and NYC, and ran our Out of Office online residency, we’re stepping into a new month 🌞 Out Of Office Network is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Upgrade to paid Field Trip to LA :) Bottom photos 📸 by JasonLeCras June 🌞 As the days stretch out like wide arms into the expanse of their full expression, June offers us an opportunity to make the most of the long, light evenings and the abundance that surrounds us. A powerful vibrant feminine energy runs through the natural world, and so this month we are going to cultivate our vitality, allowing our own light to shine and honor the interwoven perfection of all of life. So our theme for this month is: vitality. Abstract from Your Spiritual Almanac, Joey Hulin As a research & design lab and community of practice, we bring people together to envision and build a new world based on a shared curiosity in how we work, live, and derive meaning – both on an individual and collective scale. Our work seeks to initiate a shift from work-centered to life-centered existence and help people cultivate more engaged, authentic, and vibrant lives.  We explore the conditions of what it takes for the modern worker to feel a sense of connection as well as hope for the future of our world… not to mention a more joyful present. The way we see it, transforming how we work and live requires nothing short of worldbuilding.  For the past 5 weeks, we hosted an online program to help a group of 11 wonderful life-centered leaders reimagine and cultivate their vitality, and more engaged, authentic, and vibrant lives. To build a new world. We reimagined what “success” looks like for us, designed principles & rituals, looked at rhythms and models of work, and collectively imaged what a more regenerative work/life might look like in the future. OOO Residency: collective collaging session about new metrics of success Here are some nuggets and prompts I want to share back with you all, let them sink in and let me know what resonates in the comments 🧡 We talked about the constant tension between living within the current system and building a new system. And came to the conclusion, that to build a new paradigm, we need to work together, and build a support system for each other to collectively compound our impact. Sarah referenced an interview with Judith Shulevitz on the cumulative experience Sabbath aims to create with rest and community that needs to be cumulatively/socially: “When I talk about the Sabbath, I say it's not just non-work or non-productivity. It's absolutely collective non-work and non-productivity because I simply cannot stress this enough, if it's not happening collectively, it's not going to happen." “Your world reflects what you’re holding”  “I’m not here to convince, I’m here to attract”  "We need to think about what are we FOR, not what are we AGAINST." A huge thank you to our brilliant residents: Lena Robinson, Sarah Jutras, Molly Simpson, Enid Brun, Helen Lee, Catherine Bianca Lima Wakim, Danielle Morris, Gilda Castro Rios, Alia Pialtos, and Meghna Mann. If you want to read more about the residency, Sarah shared her experience here, and Enid shared some reflections here. Local community gatherings ✨ Over the past months, we hosted several co-design sessions for our OOO Uniform (launching next week WOHOO, keep an eye out for it 👀) and to understand what new tools and infrastructures are needed in a post-office world. With this project, we learned that venturing beyond the confines of traditional workspaces and diversifying work routines has numerous benefits, including boosting creativity, sense of connection, and enriching personal experiences. Therefore, to bring more moments of connection and novelty into our lives, and engage in the world around us, we’re focusing on a ritual we call “Field Trips.” What makes them unique is that they are a ritual that allows us to break up our day-to-day, be intentional about how we spend our time, and make us feel connected to ourselves and the world around us. They can be big or small, from an afternoon expedition to a local museum, working from a local coffee shop, or to a month-long remote adventure, working and living in a new city. They can be done alone, in pairs or in a group. Photos by JasonLeCras After some beautiful Field Trips in Barcelona, LA and NYC so far, this month, our community is hosting 2 field trips in London and NYC: Field Trip London: Co-working meet-up Get out of your (lonely) home office, and join us for a Field Trip to The DeBeauvoir Block in Hackney. Make new connections with fellow OOO’ers, explore the post-office spaces for life and work — out of office, and celebrate the launch of our Out of Office Uniform, a new tool for connection for modern workers! 🌳 Meet up fellow OOO’er 🔎 Co-working time and chatty time Sign up here: https://lu.ma/2oel6hfn Field Trip NYC: New York Public Library Join us for this Creative Field Trip and curiosity walk to the New York Public Library followed by community conversations at Bryant Park. Get into the field and imagine your work/life from a different lens, connect with yourself and local OOO'ers 🌸🌿 🌳 Meet up at Bryant Park 🔎 Curiosity exploration at NYPL 👟 Awe walk around Bryant Park/NYPL 🎙 Community conversations sharing our findings  Sign up here: https://lu.ma/1l3oz374 If you want to host a Field Trip closer to where you live, sign up here! 📚 Reads for this month “Friends” as the ideal community  When they moved to New York, they didn’t want to get into another co-living situation, but they still wanted to live near friends so they invited them to rent in the same building. This time they had something more like the “Friends” ideal: Close community, but everyone could govern their own lives as they saw fit. “It takes away all of the overhead and all the negotiating of a commune while giving you all the good stuff, which is that you live near 40 friends, you have a shared social space,” Rose says. Creating The Future of Life & Work? Let Kids Teach The Way. Read OOO Resident Enid’s article on future generations: “During a recent session, our collective was tasked with envisioning the world or "garden" that represented our future. We identified the pressure that young generations face when we inherently pass on to them the responsibility of that “future”. How can we then shed this weight from them and start role-modelling regenerative practices in the present? As adults -and parents-, we know this can be a big challenge.” Creative Ways of Living with Azadi Amaan With our series “Creative Ways of Living” we’re widening your aperture around more creative (and gratifying!) ways of working and living. Join us as we journey through the life of Azadi Amaan, currently based in Washington State, whose days are filled with a harmonious blend of work, music, farming, and self-discovery. Out Of Office Network is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 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