Alice Chen

I believe that the modern world is messy & complex and that the pressure to always be busy & productive often disconnects us from our inner wisdom & instincts and shackles us to lives of efforting & achievement rather than meaning & connection. I think this keeps us small & stingy with ourselves and with others and contributes to many of the social ills we see today – racism, sexism, brutality, and the destruction of our environment to name a few.

I also believe that there is another way to live – one that is more generous, generative, and joyful. And I know from personal experience that the path to this life requires each of us pause, look inward, listen, reconnect with our inner wisdom, and live from there. It requires us to learn how to discern the timbre of truth from the phonetics of fear and the distractions of social pressure.

It’s not an easy path to walk. It’s one that requires us to turn towards the things that scare us & learn how to work with & through them…over time, through hard work & consistency rather than through silver bullets. It’s a path that requires courage & conviction.

I’ve spent my life walking this path and learning how to wayfind – how tap into my own inner wisdom and use it as a guide to navigate the ups & downs of my workplaces & homespaces.  Accessing my courage in moments of fear, listening, observing, experimenting, & iterating consistently over time is how I come to clear action & discover what’s right for me. It’s how I learn my way forward, make decisions, navigate through challenges, get things done, show up for others, and exercise my creativity to go beyond the status quo.

It’s also my purpose – I want each of us to liberate ourselves from the self-imposed limitations we place on ourselves and the socially imposed limitations that we place on others in the service of changing the systems & structures that oppress us from generation to generation. I aspire to a more conscious, creative, and connected world, and I believe that that requires us to nurture more wayfinders – individuals and organizations who value inner & outer wisdom, who turn towards & walk into fear and who see listening, observing, and experimenting as critical to personal and societal liberation.