Black Feminist Film School presents
The
Chrysalis
Experience
Life purpose roadmap ✦ May 28–30, 2027
A community-rooted journey into purpose, possibility and the life you are here to create. Begin with us in Durham, then continue the work together online.
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An invitation to live on purpose ✦ In community ✦ With intention
Welcome to the Chrysalis Experience
What if life could feel more like yours?
What if sustainability begins with tapping into desire? Our relationship with work, home, money and collaboration can be built from a place of purpose, not simply obligation.
The Chrysalis Experience: Life Purpose Roadmap invites us to practise a different relationship with ourselves, our communities and the culture around us.
“We want to relate from deep purpose to create the world anew.”
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The heart of the experience
Discover. Connect. Become.
Through reflection, conversation and community support, we create room to hear what matters most—and practise living from it.
Discover
Explore purpose, legacy and the impact you want to create.
Connect
Build real relationships grounded in shared purpose and mutual support.
Become
Translate clarity into everyday choices, habits and collaboration.
A life purpose roadmap
Your purpose is worth making space for.
We believe our communities want to support us in living and flourishing on purpose. This is a place to begin that journey together.
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What awaits you
A journey with space to unfold
The experience begins in person and continues online with guided conversations, reflective homework and monthly check-ins.
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Begin together
Arrive & Reflect
Come together for an in-person kick-off retreat in Durham. Make space to explore the experiences, values and relationships shaping your purpose.
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Go deeper
Listen & Discover
Move through 10 guided conversations and 10 homework practices to explore purpose, legacy, impact and evidence of living on purpose.
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Continue in community
Practise & Grow
Carry your insights into everyday life through an online community and monthly check-ins, supported by shared reflection and connection.
Mark your calendar
Three days to begin something meaningful.
The next Chrysalis Experience cohort kicks off in Durham, with 16 spaces described in the original programme materials.
After the retreat: online asynchronous work and monthly check-ins.
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Your experience
What you’ll take with you
During the programme
- In-person kick-off retreat in Durham
- 10 guided conversations and homework practices
- Online Chrysalis Portal and community
- Live monthly check-ins
- A culture of mutual support
Tangible tools
- Meditation beads
- Black feminist Breathing Collages
- Black feminist Breathing Oracle Deck
- Purpose-centred reflection and practice
- Connection with other participants
A closer look
A story best shared.
See a glimpse of the meaning and community behind the Chrysalis Experience.
legacy
Rooted in purpose. Passed forward in love.
The Chrysalis Experience grew from the Life Purpose Roadmap developed by Clyde Eliot Gumbs. His daughter Alexis experienced his coaching first-hand and has continued to share this work with community.
It's an invitation to explore what we came here to do—and how our lives and partnerships might more fully reflect it.
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Questions, answered.
These details reflect the original Chrysalis materials. Confirm final terms and prices directly on the live checkout.
When is the next retreat?
Is this only an in-person event?
What does the programme include?
How do I register?
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Your invitation starts here
Ready to live on purpose?
Join a community-centred experience of reflection, clarity and meaningful connection. Your next chapter begins with one decision.
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This cohort (cohort 3) starts in person and continues online asynchronously with monthly check-ins. We fully intend to be real people relating based on our real purpose(s) and real identities. If that doesn't feel like the right fit for you, we totally understand AND we hope to connect with you and contribute to you through one of our other many offerings to the world and community.
However, in this particular Chrysalis experience we are asking for your full contact information. This will be used for the Chrysalis Experience related work only.
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Conversations & Prompts
Over the course of 10 conversations, each with homework, Alexis guides us from ancestral presence to living inside of the Life Purpose Roadmap we create for ourselves. Live check-ins throughout the month
We will:
- Gather clarity about purpose, legacy and impact
- Learn how to see the evidence of living on purpose and one’s impact
- Practice allowing the evidence to be fuel for the journey
- Develop mechanisms to live on purpose everyday IN community
