Hello wonderful human,
Welcome to The Unlearning Studio. I'm Alice Chen - coach, creative, founder, and facilitator of aliveness. I’m so glad you found your way here.
We’re a sanctuary and playground for unwinding what no longer serves and exploring new possibilities together - glitter, glue, and grace included.
What if personal growth IS cultural growth?
We're living in a time of profound disconnection. From ourselves. From each other. From what makes us feel alive.
Many of the beliefs and patterns we've inherited aren’t just limiting us; they're limiting what's possible for our world.
But here’s what we know…
When you reconnect with your inner knowing, you reshape your daily choices, and you give others permission to trust theirs.
When you make space for creativity,
you access wisdom thinking can't reach, and you show others what's possible.
When you practice nourishment,
you model sustainable change in your own life, and you create ripples that touch the systems around you.
When you unlearn what you've inherited,
you make room for what wants to emerge in yourself, and you help loosen those same patterns for others.
Every personal shift is also a cultural one.
When you change how you show up, you transform more than your own life; you become living proof that different ways of being are possible. You offer others a model. A permission slip. An invitation.
Here at The Unlearning Studio, we believe that personal growth has never been preparation for the work to come. It’s always been part of the work itself right now.
We hold spaces where your and our transformation happens through:
Making things with our hands because sometimes you need glue sticks and construction paper to access what your brain alone can't reach.
Having conversations that actually matter - the kind where we talk about what we truly care about, not just what's safe or easy.
Asking different questions - the ones that open doors instead of closing them.
Getting clear about what we stand FOR and are building not just what we're against and tearing down.
Practicing in community because becoming happens together, not in isolation.
Honoring what's hard while also making space for joy, play, and a little glitter.
Everything we do is about meeting what’s alive inside and around us with curiosity and compassion and giving ourselves permission to try new things.
How Unlearning Happens
Choose Your Path
We are designed like an art gallery with permanent collections and seasonal exhibitions. Some offerings are always here, and some rotate in and out with the seasons based on what’s stirring in us and in the world. Like you, we are always discovering and evolving, so check back regularly to see what we’re creating.
Deep
Work
One-on-one coaching and organizational consulting for navigating inflection points and designing what comes next.
Creative
Gatherings
Monthly art-making, style exploration, workshops where we practice unlearning through creating. Light, joyful and full of fun.
Immersive
Experiences
Multi-day retreats combining reflection, making, and place.
(Launching in Fall 2026)
Come Unwind and Explore With Us
Join us for creative and joyful experiences that tend the spirit, invite perspective shifts, and new possibilities.
Our Ethos:
In a world that constantly asks us to rush, harden, numb and conform, we’re choosing a different path.
Slowness. Softness. Sensitivity. Sparkle.
And we’re practicing something different too:
Creativity as an essential life-force available to all of us.
Courage as the soft, fierce choice to stay present when things are hard.
Connection as the willingness to step into discomfort, to know and be known.
Care as showing up with devotion for what truly matters.
Come as you are.
We’ll meet you with glitter, glue, and a whole lot of grace.
"We can feel it in our bodies - the need to change systems as we are still discovering how to change ourselves, the urgency to live differently now while knowing transformation takes time. This is where we want to meet and walk with people - in that beautiful, terrifying, and messy space between who we've each been and who we're all becoming."
— Alice Chen
Founder
Meet Our Founder andTeam
We’re an alchemical circle of guides and hosts - a growing group of creatives, facilitators, cultural reweavers, and deep feelers holding space for healing and imagination.
We don’t follow a single path. We make the map as we go, through curiosity, creativity, and collective care.
We’re the ones sitting with you, stoking the fire, passing the glue sticks, asking the big questions and appreciating your and our becoming.
Upcoming Events
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Flags of Hope
Sunday, March 29, 2026
2:00–3:30pm EST / 11:00am–12:30pm PST
Cut, stitch, and string colorful flags from whatever you have on hand while talking about the difference between standing for something and standing against it — and what it looks like to practice hope out loud.Cost: $20
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Flowers From Everything
Sunday, April 19, 2026
2:00–3:30pm EST / 11:00am–12:30pm PST
Twist, fold, and layer tissue paper, coffee filters, fabric scraps, and foil into gorgeous blooms while exploring what it means to find abundance in what you already have.
Cost: $20 -
What Deserves the Wall
Sunday, May 17, 2026
2:00–3:30pm EST / 11:00am–12:30pm PST
Choose, mat, and frame the overlooked objects of your everyday life — the scribble, the recipe card, the ticket stub — while exploring what changes when you decide that the ordinary is already extraordinary.Cost: $20