BRINGING CREATIVE BELONGING TO EXPATS IN ASTURIAS
Embrace our warm, inspiring approach to building your new life abroad. It’s grounded, community-driven, and filled with purpose. Rooted in real-life experience and creative wellbeing practices, so you can skip the awkward isolation and surface-level meetups.
Because we believe you’d rather be making real connections and designing a life you love than feeling like a stranger in a new land.
Does This Sound Familiar?
You're unsure how to find your place or build genuine connections beyond other expats
You're navigating a new language and culture while trying to handle endless paperwork
You're feeling alone and disconnected, missing the familiarity of your old life
You're craving deep, meaningful friendships but don't know where to start
You need practical help with Spanish and bureaucracy but also want more than just survival skills
You're not alone. We've been there too, and we created Bloom Expats specifically to help people like you design a fulfilling life in Asturias—not just survive, but truly thrive.
OUR APPROACH: Community through creativity and wellbeing
At Bloom, we believe real community is built through meaningful shared experiences—not surface-level coffee meetups or generic networking events.
As expats ourselves, we understand what it feels like to be untethered. That's why we've designed a methodology where learning together, creating together, and growing together naturally builds the deep connections you're craving.
Our programs combine:
Creative explorations that helps you think differently and unlock new possibilities
Wellbeing practices that support you through the ups and downs of expat life
Community building that creates lasting friendships around shared passions
WHAT WE OFFER
Creative Workshops
Monthly hands-on sessions where you'll explore creative ways of thinking and doing while connecting with fellow expats. No experience needed—just curiosity.
Recent workshops include:
Review Your Year, Plan Your Next, in Asturias
Journaling for Expat Resilience
Creative Problem-Solving for Career and Life Transitions
Tiny Projects for Life Satisfaction
Wellbeing Coaching
One-to-one evidence-based coaching to help you navigate the emotional journey of expat life. Whether you're dealing with homesickness, identity questions, or wanting to make a career change, we provide personalized support.
What we work on:
Managing culture shock and building resilience
Redefining your identity and purpose abroad
Career transitions and passion projects
Work-life balance in your new context
75-minute sessions | In English or Spanish
Spanish Lessons and Integration Support
Practical Spanish classes designed specifically for expats living in Asturias. We focus on real-life situations: ordering at the market, talking to neighbours, handling banking, understanding your NIE paperwork and most importantly, we help you express who you are, which is crucial for feeling at home.
Options:
Small group classes (max 5 people) - Beginner to Advance
One-to-one sessions, in person or online
Spanish Theme Brunch - chat with others
Paperwork & bureaucracy navigation support
Classes held in Oviedo and online
Community Events
Carefully curated gatherings that go beyond small talk. These are intentional spaces where you'll have real conversations and build genuine friendships.
Upcoming events:
Expat Brunch Club (we welcome you in our home)
Spanish Theme Brunch
Creative Co-working Days
Monthly Welcoming Circle
Design Your Passion Project Program
6-week guided program to take your idea from concept to reality. Whether you want to start a side business, launch a creative project, or reinvent your career in Spain, we'll help you design and execute your plan.
What's included:
Weekly group sessions with other expat entrepreneurs
Individual coaching check-ins
Accountability and peer support
Practical creative tools and frameworks
Co-working sessions
WHY ASTURIAS?
You chose Asturias for good reason—stunning nature, affordable living, authentic Spanish culture, and a slower pace of life. But building a life here comes with unique challenges:
Language barriers (less English spoken than in big cities)
Bureaucracy (Spanish paperwork is... a journey)
Making local friends (Asturians are wonderful but can take time to warm up)
Finding your community (smaller expat population than Madrid or Barcelona)
That's exactly why we created Bloom Expats here. We know this region, two thirds of our team are expats and we're here to help you navigate it all while building the connections that will make Asturias feel like home.
Who We Are (and why we created this for expats like you)
We’re Celeste, Amy and Jorge — a small team of coaches, creatives, teachers and long-term expats who know exactly what it feels like to arrive in a beautiful new place… and still feel a little unrooted.
Between us, we’ve lived in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Canada, the UK, France, and Spain.
Each of us knows firsthand what it’s like to:
start from zero,
build friendships from scratch,
navigate bureaucracy in a new language,
lose parts of your identity (and find new ones),
and slowly, gently, create a sense of home again.
Amy is a Social Worker, Educator, Communicator and fellow expat.
She has navigated several international moves and understands the emotional ups and downs of making a new place home — especially the part no one talks about: the transition inside yourself.
Celeste has been an expat in different countries for two thirds of her life. She is a Wellbeing and Creativity Coach, Educator and Facilitator. She knows what it’s like to rebuild identity, purpose and community in a new country — and she brings that experience into every coaching and creative session she leads.
And then there’s Jorge, Spanish, but also an expat twice over. He understands Spain deeply, but also knows what it means to arrive as an outsider. He bridges the gap between cultures in a way that feels grounding, human and real.
Bloom Expats was born from our own stories — the messy, hopeful, sometimes lonely process of building a life abroad. We’ve lived the challenges you’re facing now, and we’ve learned that the antidote to isolation is creativity, community and wellbeing. Not networking. Not “quick fixes.” Just real connection and meaningful experiences shared with people who understand.
Most importantly, we believe this: You don’t have to do any of this alone.
Asturias can become a real home — and we’d love to walk that path with you.
