What We Offer
Here at Chrysalis you will find a personalized arts-based learning and development experience bursting with life, light, beauty, creativity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and unconditional love.
We primarily serve students ages 8-18, so far mostly from the greater Silicon Valley area.
We offer a dynamic range of activities including classes, camps, outreach experiences, theatre productions, and online learning resources.
Our unique approach combines personalized creative arts learning and development activities with small "family" groups and a healthy culture, to create nurturing personal development experiences that help students to blossom and thrive.
Our unique approach combines personalized creative arts learning and development activities with small "family" groups and a healthy culture, to create nurturing personal development experiences that help students to blossom and thrive.
Our program is Creative, Nurturing, Affirming, Inclusive, and Community-Building.
Our Approach
"CHRYSALIS" ENVIRONMENT - We strive to build and maintain a "chrysalis" environment and culture that provides a loving, nurturing experience to help people blossom and thrive, similar to how a physical chrysalis provides the right environment to help a caterpillar blossom into a butterfly. Our chrysalis environment enables people to engage fully and freely in the process of learning, developing, and creating, without being held back by fear or self-consciousness.
MIXED AGE GROUPS - We value finding ways for people of differing ages and experience levels to learn together. We find that mixing age groups provides unique learning opportunities that are beneficial for everyone. Sometimes we even allow parents and local adult performers to perform in our shows along with our students.
SMALLER GROUPS, BIGGER IMPACT - We strive to include all students who wish to participate, but we sort them into small groups so that every student has plenty of opportunities to learn, grow, and shine, and so that each group can develop a special sort of family bond.
CUSTOMIZED FOR ACCOMMODATION - Every Chrysalis experience is customized around each small group of participants, so we are able to accommodate a wide range of needs and provide a successful experience for a wide range of people. Our staff are constantly seeking to learn and grow and diversify their skillsets, and our leaders are always looking for ways to add new staff members who are uniquely qualified to serve particular groups of students.
INCLUSIVE PROGRAMMING - Our programming is specifically designed to be accessible and beneficial to young people of all races, abilities, experience levels, and incomes, and those of all different backgrounds and beliefs that can be safely accommodated without endangering our participants, our program, and our partner organizations and facilities. If at any point there are students we are unable to serve, we will strongly consider adding that to our priority list of ways we will seek to improve our services.
UNIFIED AS A "FAMILY" - We strive to provide the kind of experience that heals and bridges divides, melts down the "walls" around and between people, and unites people of all different beliefs and backgrounds for a common purpose built around shared values. Through our experiences, people of all different types grow closer together, including students building healthy friendships, staff members working together in unity, and family members all growing closer together.
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Our Faith
As a Christian ministry, our programs are modeled after the greatest artist and creator of all, the one who created the stars and the flowers and every living thing. We believe that God designed each and every person Himself, creating each of them them special in their own unique ways.
However, our programming is not centered around traditional religious practices like studying religious texts or singing religious songs.
Our staff members lead our program through the guidance of God and through the use of their God-given gifts and callings, and we may offer optional prayer/worship times before some activities for those who wish to participate.
However, our main ministry goal is for our participants to experience a touch of God's Kingdom through...
- The way we treat people and help them on their own life journeys
- The kind of community we build
- The kind of stories/messages we produce
- The way we conduct our business and run our programs
- Our fundamental values
- Our policies and procedures
- Biblical principles brought to life (i.e. creation, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, etc).
JOIN OUR TEAM!
We are prayerfully seeking leaders, teachers, and churches that feel called to partner with us on this great adventure! The vision God has given for this program is one that is much bigger than any one person, one church, one community.
This is a vision that calls for people of all different ages and backgrounds and beliefs and skill-sets to come together as one, as a family, as a team unified by the vision of Chrysalis.
If you are interested in developing your teaching/leadership skills, please ask us about our Leadership Incubator.
This is a vision that calls for people of all different ages and backgrounds and beliefs and skill-sets to come together as one, as a family, as a team unified by the vision of Chrysalis.
If you are interested in developing your teaching/leadership skills, please ask us about our Leadership Incubator.
