Out of Office is a creative haven for people who want to feel more inspired and connected, offering creative practices, artist-led experiences and programming to bring more creativity into your everyday life. To join our new creative container and unlock weekly prompts and community accountability for the next two months, you can upgrade to a paid subscription. Field Notes: Slow down and stumble across your next inspirationA creative practice for meeting new stories, people, and possibilities
Hello and welcome to February, year of the horse 🐎 (I feel the energy to be the ultimate power and abundance year!), and me finally finding my rhythm again. I’m currently experimenting with a new format here on my Substack. Each week, I’m sharing a new creative practice. To tune more into the world. Be more present. Slow down and treat everyday life as the “studio practice” that creates the art form of your life. You can read more here. In this month’s Field Notes (which I have neglected for a little while, as I was finding my new rhythm with bebe being part-time in day care now, settling into a new city post-holiday getaway, finding a work studio, and kicking of the current Creative Living Cohort — which is full of the most amazing women from across the globe, so grateful 🥹) I want to share what has inspired me over the past weeks, and give you a taste of our new Substack experiment.  Bebe living her best life in Barcelona + me kicking of Creative Living Jan Cohort ✨ The other day, I experienced a moment that made me feel so alive. I was walking home from a yoga class in my new neighborhood, Poblenou in Barcelona, and for no particular reason, I decided to take a small sunny passage instead of the usual street I walk down. As I walked through it, I noticed a beautiful, light-filled studio with its doors wide open. I passed it at first… but then my curiosity pulled me back. So I took a few steps back and looked inside more closely. Out front, there was a guy sitting with a baby and a dog. I thought the baby looked about the same age as my daughter, and so I said hi and told him his kid looked so similar in age to mine. We started chatting. It turns out he’s an artist who recently moved to Barcelona from LA with his wife, kid and dog. So there was a lot we right away had in common: new city, new chapter, babies the same age, both having lived in the US. We talked a bit more, and he invited me to come by the following week for a playdate and a longer chat about life and work in Barcelona.  Studio Visit + Concept Store Then something similar happened again last weekend. I had just come back from a Barre class when I noticed a new shop I hadn’t seen before. I walked in, browsed a little, and started talking to the shop owner. She told me her story: how she had been a graphic designer, then became an art therapist, and eventually opened this shop to bring together brands and people she loves. A place to build local community — through workshops, running clubs, and other gatherings. I wanted to share this because it perfectly captures the spirit of Out of Office. It’s about not moving through life on autopilot. Not rushing from A to B with our eyes down and our minds elsewhere. It’s about being in the world. Engaging with what’s around us. Noticing what catches our attention. Pausing. And following what makes us curious. So this week, I’d love to invite you to try this too.Let yourself wander a little. Stroll through a neighborhood. Notice the small things that spark your curiosity. And let yourself lean into them. Maybe strike up a conversation with someone who catches your attention — in a café, in a shop, or even someone whose sticker, t-shirt, or book they’re reading makes you curious. You never know what kind of story, connection, or small magic might be waiting just a few steps off your usual path. And new inspiration might happen, when we slow down enough to meet people who are living into other possibilities — and recognize that we can actually do the same. And if you read this and think, “but I am busy, I have a job and work to do, I can’t do that.” I want to encourage you to still try. Our minds don’t work in a linear way. The creative process is not linear. We need time to get inspired, incubate new ideas, and find new signals out there for new ideas. And you don’t need permission to work from a cafe instead of your desk, or take a break, and rely purely on your job for new insights, learnings and opportunities. Instead, you can try to take more initiative in shaping your working life on your own terms, and in a way that you feel alive and that fuels your needs, dreams, and conditions for flourishing. 🌀 How to practice 🫂 Share back: I hope you have fun with it, and I would love to hear your experience with it. You can share some things you noticed, either here on the chat or also always happy to see your shares on Instagram. 💛 If you want more of these weekly practices, you can sign up for my paid plan. See you next week! Alice Alice Katter is the Founder of out of office network. Originally from Austria, Alice is a global citizen, having worked and lived in Vienna, London, and NYC. In between, she has spent months investigating life in Mexico, California, Italy, Barcelona, to name a few. She has a background in psychology, brand, and marketing and over the past years has been focusing on workplace connection, community and culture design for creative networks and companies such as Dropbox, Adobe and kyu collective. She believes in the power of fostering a culture that is not only driven but also leaves room for exploration, play, and living life to its fullest. These beliefs led her to launch Out of Office Network in 2019, and publish her book “Reimagining our Nature of Work” in 2023. Upgrade to our paid plan to access our full community practice with:
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