Summer is here in full bloom—and with it comes a different kind of energy.
It’s a season of expansion. Of being outside, moving slower, and staying out later.
It’s also a time when we can pause—to gather energy, inspiration, and a sense of clarity for the rest of the year.
This moment of seasonal change is a powerful one to ask:
What do I want this next season to feel like? What do I want it to be for?
At the end of last year, I published a Season Planning Worksheet, a tool for reflection and planning the seasons ahead. This is now a wonderful time to revisit it, check in with where you are and if that still feels right — or take time to plan what this next season should look like for you if you haven’t yet (you can find the worksheet at the end of this email with your paid plan).
At Out of Office, we believe in the power of rest, exploration, and play.
These aren’t just nice-to-haves—they’re human nutrients.
When we make time for them, we create the conditions for:
✨ fresh ideas
🌱 self-discovery
🌿 awareness for what’s possible
🌸 new directions to emerge
But the way we live now often doesn’t leave much room for seasonality.
Work stays the same. We’re following the same routines and schedules, and the pressure to keep producing remains constant—no matter what’s happening around us.
But nature doesn’t work that way—and we don’t have to, either.
🌿 A Creative Summer Retreat
Sept 2-6, 2025, Rome, Italy
If you’re looking for a container to reflect and plan your next season, we’re hosting a special experience for you! A 5-day creative retreat in the hills outside Rome, co-hosted with my friend Anique Coffee from Gather & Grow. For leaders, founders, and curious humans who want to lead their life with more intention. Think slow mornings, long shared meals, playful creative workshops, swims and hangs at our private pool, thoughtful guidance to explore new rituals and rhythms of work and life, and reflect on what you want to grow this year—together. If you’re going through a transition and want to reimagine the way you want to work and live, or wabt to gain agency within your own life and do so in a community, let your mind wander, to dream up new versions of yourself, or to explore your next creative project, then this experience is for you.
Book your room here and get 10% off if you book before July 10th with the code RETREAT202510.
🌞 Summer practices
With all of this, I’m inviting you to think of this summer as a season of experimentation + expansion:
A time to slow down and shift pace.
To observe more than to produce.
To try a different rhythm.
To say yes to small adventures.
To notice what feels alive in you.
To experiment with how you want to live and work in the second half of the year.
Maybe that means more time outdoors.
Maybe it’s less structure—or more creative play.
Maybe it’s long walks without your phone, afternoons in the library, or finally signing up for that thing you’ve been circling for months.
There’s no need for big answers.
Just let yourself be led by curiosity and intentionality.
Wherever you are, and however your summer looks, I hope you find small, meaningful ways to gather the seeds that shape your next season.
With warmth,
Alice
Out of Office
🌞 Download our Season planning worksheet
Just as seasons shift, so do we. This worksheet is an invitation to embrace these natural rhythms, honor where you’ve been, explore where you are, and imagine what’s possible.