Becoming Unfamiliar: Designing the YOU in 2026

Date: 15th January 2026

Time: 7 – 8 pm SGT

Venue: Zoom (Link sent upon registration)

Complimentary for Prime Midlife members

You know that feeling?

The one that whispers: I don’t quite recognise myself anymore. And I’m not sure if that’s a crisis… or an invitation.

You’re not imagining it. Somewhere after 40 (what we call midlife!) this unsettling awareness often arrives. The identity you built so carefully in your 20s and 30s: the roles, the routines, the version of you that “worked”, you may start to feel a little too tight, too familiar, too… not quite the same.

If you’ve felt this, you’re not alone.

This masterclass is for anyone who senses there’s more to explore, not because there’s something wrong with who you’ve been, but because you’re curious about who else you might become. Maybe someone unfamiliar. Maybe someone waiting to be discovered.

What We’ll Explore Together

In this interactive session, we’ll dive into:

• Why staying “familiar” is keeping you stuck and why midlife discomfort is actually your identity asking to evolve
• The three Identity Prisons that keep us playing old roles long past their expiration date
• The four permissions you need to become unfamiliar without guilt, fear, or apology
• A hands-on Identity Design Canvas to help you prototype the You of 2026 , not through goals, but through experiments

This isn’t theory. It’s reflection, conversation, and a practical framework you can start using immediately.

What You’ll Walk Away With

• Greater clarity on who you’re ready to stop being and who you want to try becoming
• A values recalibration exercise to realign your life with what actually matters to you now
• Permission to disappoint people, to not have it figured out, and to want more (or different) at this stage
• Three Identity Experiments you can try to test new versions of yourself
• A downloadable Identity Design Canvas to guide your transformation

Who This Is For

• Anyone feeling like they’ve outgrown their own identity
• Anyone who is navigating career shifts, empty nests, relationship changes, or simply… restlessness
• Those tired of “self-improvement” who are ready for self-reinvention
• Anyone who wants 2026 to be the year they become someone unfamiliar and exciting!
• People ready to design their next chapter instead of waiting for it to happen

About Your Guest Speaker

Alice Au is the Founder & CEO of Prime Midlife, Asia-Pacific’s first integrated platform for midlife transformation. An EMCC-accredited life coach, Alice specialises in helping professionals aged 40-65 navigate identity transitions with evidence-based tools and authentic community support.

She’s walked this path herself. At 40, facing job losses and divorce papers, Alice experienced her own “becoming unfamiliar” moment, one that led her to completely redesign her life and ultimately create Prime Midlife to support others through the same journey.

Alice believes midlife isn’t a crisis to survive, but a creative threshold where we get to become who we were always meant to be.

A Personal Note from Alice

“I’ll be honest…at 40, becoming unfamiliar wasn’t a choice I made. It was thrust upon me.

But looking back now, that moment of complete disorientation was the most generous thing life could have given me. Because when everything familiar fell away, I finally had permission to ask: Who do I actually want to be?

Not who I “should” be. Not who I was trained to be. But who I’m excited to become.

This masterclass is born from that question: It’s time to become someone new.

If you’ve felt that nudge, this session is for you. Let’s design the YOU of 2026 together, someone unfamiliar, authentic, and entirely yours.”

How to Join