Joyful conversations with extraordinary people in beautiful places.
WELCOMEHi, I'm Didi Aurelia — founder of Aurelia Collective, a growing platform for curated gatherings, conscious conversations, and shared experiences designed for people who care about ideas, beauty, and living well.
"There are too many rooms built for numbers, visibility, and transactions. Not enough built for depth, beauty, and the rare joy of meeting someone and thinking: finally, a person who thinks like this."
— THE BELIEF BEHIND AURELIA COLLECTIVETHE ROOMSChoose your door
Future of Learning
How do we prepare young people for a future we cannot predict? A curated gathering of educators, founders, parents, technologists and young people. London was June 2026. New York · 10 November 2026.
Explore Future of LearningWhy Not Me?
A speaking and live experience exploring courage, conscious decision-making, and identity in moments of transition — and turning dreams into reality.
At its heart, it is for people who are done waiting for the right moment and ready to act from what they already know.
Learn MoreReturn to Wonder
The most beautiful room of all: the Kenyan savannah. An intimate journey for people ready to remember what astonishment feels like. February 2027, a handful of seats.
Discover Kenya
ABOUT DIDIMy path here has not been linear
I began with a degree in psychology, built a career in finance across Europe, founded a Montessori school in London, wrote a book, and kept returning to one thing: creating spaces where people can show up more honestly and leave feeling freer.
Along the way I spent years exploring conscious parenting and early childhood education — work that continues at mymontessorischool.london.
We are more alive, more joyful, and more capable than the stories we inherited and keep telling about ourselves. That belief is the thread through everything.
Aurelia Collective is the current expression of that work — an evolving platform shaped by education, conversation, beauty, and the belief that the spaces we create can change the way we live, learn, grow, and enjoy.
THE BOOK100 Days to a More Aware You
A beautifully designed book of 100 reflections and intimate images, created to help you pause, notice more, and reconnect with yourself.
Part journal companion, part visual meditation, it invites you into a slower, more reflective relationship with your own life, one day, one thought, one page at a time.
Aurelia NotesWords worth
sitting with.
Reflections on building with integrity, living with more joy, and the ideas that keep returning — written openly and shared with those who want to think alongside me.