Steps to Unlearning
Unlearn What Disconnects Us.
Rebuild What Sustains Us.
Let go of harmful patterns and rediscover your capacity for care, connection, and clarity—together.
Join a growing community reimagining how we live, work, and lead.
The Steps to Unlearning is more than a framework. It’s a practice, a community, and a movement rooted in emotional intelligence, collective healing, and systems change.
It’s designed to help you:
Recognize inherited patterns that shape your relationships, leadership, and work
Reflect with others in facilitated small-group Circles
Rebuild from the inside out with emotional tools, story-sharing, and deep self-inquiry
Reconnect with what matters—your integrity, your values, your community
This isn’t self-help. It’s shared work.
And you don’t have to do it alone.
How it Works
Step 1 — Get Oriented
Download the Starter Kit + Newcomer Guide to explore the basics and see if this work resonates.
Step 2 — Join a Circle
Continue the journey with monthly reflection cards, story circles, community sessions, and tools to deepen your practice.
Take part in a facilitated small group experience with others doing the work of unlearning. We meet over 6 sessions in 3 months in a confidential, supportive space.
Step 3 — Keep Unlearning
Who This Is For?
If you’ve ever felt like you’re…
Performing more than you’re connecting
Burned out and exhausted but unsure how to rest
Longing for more honest conversations in your workplace or community
Caught in old habits that no longer serve you
…then this is for you.
We welcome:
Curious Individuals navigating transition or seeking more intentional living
Facilitators & Practitioners supporting others through change
Organizational Leaders building cultures of belonging, emotional safety, and trust
What You Can Do Now
Explore and engage at your own pace
Download the Starter Kit
Start your journey with tools to reflect and orient.
Register for a Fall Circle
Join a small group for a guided unlearning experience.
Spots are limited — registration is now open!
Try the Reflection Cards
Prompt meaningful conversations with yourself or others.
Use them solo, in your Circle, or with your team.
Story Library (Coming Soon)
Real stories of unlearning, healing, and personal transformation from our community.
Why I Keep Unlearning
“I came in burned out and full of self-doubt. I left with clarity, language, and a sense of being held.”
— Session Participant
“This experience unraveled things I didn’t even know I was carrying. I feel more connected to myself—and others.”
— Educator
“This work didn’t just help me professionally. It changed how I show up in my family, too.”
— Parent + Organizer
“We say we want authentic workplaces. This is what it looks like to build that from the inside out.”
— Organizational Culture Lead, Private Sector
A Letter from Amy
This project began after a season of deep grief and disconnection.
What I found was this: we can’t build new systems until we release the ones we’ve internalized.
Steps to Unlearning was born from 12-step recovery, Buddhist psychology, and systems change work—woven together with community care. It’s for anyone ready to stop performing and start practicing something more honest.
I hope you’ll join us.
— Amy J. Wilson, Founder
👋 Invite Amy to Speak | 💬 Learn More About Our Story
Ready to Begin?
Join a movement of people and organizations evolving toward a more emotionally intelligent, care-centered, and connected way of being.
Every Wednesday:
Ask Me Anything
Curious about the Steps to Unlearning? Have questions about how it works, who it’s for, or how to get involved? Each week, we host a live Ask Me Anything (AMA) session where you can:
Get an inside look at the Steps to Unlearning process
Learn how the Circles work and what to expect
Ask questions about the framework, materials, or facilitation model
Explore how to participate or bring this work into your own community
Whether you’re new to the project or already signed up, you’re welcome to join. These are casual, open sessions designed to build trust, transparency, and shared learning as we co-create this experience together.
🗓 Held Weekly | 📍 Live on Zoom | 🎟️ Free + Open to All
Why Unlearning?
Why Now?
We’ve been taught to strive, prove, perfect, and perform.
To measure worth by productivity.
To silence discomfort.
To fear rest, emotion, slowness, and failure.
These patterns helped us survive, but they’re not helping us thrive.
Meanwhile, the world is shifting. Burnout, disillusionment, and a sense that “business as usual” is broken are everywhere. The systems we’ve inherited — built on extraction, urgency, and fear — are failing.
Unlearning is how we let go of what no longer serves us and create space for something better: cultures of care, belonging, and resilience.
The Steps to Unlearning offers a roadmap for this transformation — not through quick fixes, but through courageous reflection, community, and practice.
Be Part of the Journey
We’re co-creating this work with care, intention, and openness.
Want to follow along, join a circle, or collaborate on stories?
Sign up to receive updates, invites, and early access
Unlearning Circles Begin this Fall
Small, guided sessions for deep reflection and collective care.
Evidence-informed frameworks
Our approach draws on research in emotional intelligence, trauma recovery, systems thinking, and mindfulness to guide meaningful change.
Accessible pricing
We offer sliding-scale options to make participation possible for people at different financial levels, because unlearning should be available to everyone.
Safe, nonjudgmental space
Every Circle is designed for honesty, reflection, and belonging—where you can show up as your whole self without fear of judgment.
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The Steps to Unlearning is a project of the Culture Shift Studio, designed to help people and organizations let go of inherited conditioning and rebuild from a place of emotional intelligence, community care, and systems awareness. Through Circles, storytelling, and shared inquiry, we offer a new path for a changing world.
Unlearning Circles registration is live!