RETREATS & LABS

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PUGLIA

A small, quiet gathering for women who create

A beautiful week for women who create so your work can breathe, your body can exhale and your spark can return.

Eight to twelve of us. A private home among olive trees.
A week to step out of the current and back into your own rhythm.

Mornings with your hands in materials (loom, clay, natural colour). Slow afternoons in sunlit studios and gardens.
Evenings at a long table where stories travel easily.
We’ll meet women artisans of the territory and leave with more than inspiration: new relationships, trusted suppliers, and a steadier inner compass for the work that’s calling you next.

WHO IS IT FOR
Women artisans • interior stylists & designers • photographers & writers • founders & independent creatives who want deeper connection, renewed vision and a gentler pace that still moves the work forward.

WHAT TO EXPECT
Hands in real materials. Meals that restore. Conversations that become friendships and collaborations. A beautiful place that helps you remember why you make.

What You Might Be Looking For

  • Learn by doing

    We make side-by-side with women who keep these crafts alive. No slides, no panels, just wool under your fingers, clay that answers back, colour that stains your palms. From “I love this” to “I can do this”.

  • Honest company

    Small circle, no networking mask. Conversations become friendships; sometimes they become work.

  • Direction & Inspiration

    You come to breathe and leave knowing what wants to happen next..one clear decision, a project to start, a kinder way to work..

  • Opportunities to Expand

    Meet makers and suppliers you can actually call later, see processes you can bring to clients, and notice yourself taking up more room, in your business and in your life.

WHY

THIS

RETREAT

EXISTS

Hi love,
I’ve run a studio. I’ve had a team. I’ve been fully self-employed. And one day the spark went quiet. Work and life tangled and I burned out. If I’d made space to listen, to my body, to what truly fuels me, I might have avoided it. I never took time just for pleasure, new connections or
learning for the sake of joy.

This is the space I wish I’d given myself.

I’m opening a small circle (8–12 women who create: artisans, interior stylists, designers, writers, founders) for a late-summer / early-autumn 2026 week in Puglia. Not talks, not hustle but a light, hands-on lab in a private home with room to breathe. We’ll be with materials, meet women makers, share easy evenings, and let our work find its next honest direction — quietly, together. time you deliberately claim. To be cared for. To create without pressure. To meet pals who get it. To learn from women makers in a land rich with heritage.
To nourish body, mind and spirit and let your work find its next honest direction naturally..

If that sounds like you, add your name to the interest list (no commitment; you’ll hear first when I open dates + spots): [insert link].

With love,

Alice - Made By Her

Creative curator at Made by Her, formerly (and forever) an event designer

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