The Unlearning Community School (UCS) is a community-based capacity-building organization, offering a third space for learning and integrating cultural and political education to cultivate relational awareness and collective responsibility.

We offer cultural strategy & consulting, training programs & workshops, and community collaborative events which address community-identified needs through cultivating community building skills which focus on:

• Intergenerational and peer support

• Experiential and place-based learning

• Community engagement through collaboration

• Healing-centered engagement practices

Maio Buenafe (she/they/siya) is the visionary and founder of the Unlearning Community School. Together with student mentees, aligned educators, and local changemakers, they create third spaces for learning which integrate cultural and political education and holistic learning in personal transformation and community building.  These skills are rarely integrated in the curriculum of conventional schooling. Many educators, youth workers, organizers, activists, parents, and guardians yearn for a space where we see ourselves in what we are learning, are safe to deeply explore who we are, and learn from the journeys of one another. To truly build community, we need this foundational knowledge to cultivate relational awareness and activate collective responsibility. Since we did not experience this type of learning in educational institutions, we decided to build a 3rd space community school which would.