Chrysalis for Women
Chrysalis
Events
Come along to one of our meetings or events and expand your business thinking
All monthly meetings include
- Inspirational speakers on business development, wellbeing and success
- Connection and networking opportunities
- A chance to showcase your business and promote to the group
- Fun, friendship, inspiration and learning
- Refreshments
Your first meeting free!
“Chrysalis provides a wealth of experience and knowledge for women and run by women. It’s a warm, welcoming and supportive environment where members generously share their wisdom for the benefit of everyone. Not only have I learned a lot, but I have enjoyed!!”
Judith Yeabsley, The Confident Eater
July 17th 📆
The Story Behind The Stories
The Womanhood Journal, its impact and where it’s heading
Anna Colville-Smith
In July, Chrysalis welcomes Anna Colville-Smith — the woman behind The Womanhood Journal — to share the story of how a conversation on a kitchen couch became one of Kāpiti’s most beloved community projects.
Five editions in, the Journal has showcased over 120 women in business from Kāpiti and Horowhenua, and raised more than $15,500 for Women’s Refuge and Kāpiti Women’s Centre.
It’s a project built on story, collaboration, and the belief that when women are heard, something shifts.
Anna will talk about the inception, the impact, and what’s happening next.
August 12th 📆
Virtual Cocoon Online Networking
Expand your Chrysalis network’s breadth and depth by joining our Online Networking sessions between our in-person meetings.
Access the ‘hive mind’ of other women in business and get fresh perspectives on your current plans and challenges.
Perfect for you to meet members you haven’t spoken to before, and for our Chrysalis Community who is unable to attend our in-person sessions.
Click the button below to register.
Annual Members can attend Virtual Cocoon sessions absolutely free, and non-members can attend for just $10 per session.
August 20th 9:00am – 11:30am 📆
Ethical Selling Secrets with Marc Hamilton
We sell every single day — we just don’t always call it that.
Asking your partner to handle the school run. Convincing your team to back a new idea. Getting your kids to actually eat their vegetables. It’s all selling. So why does “selling” feel like a dirty word the moment it shows up in our business?
This month, we’re joined by Marc Hamilton, personal insurance adviser and former pharmaceutical sales coach, who spent years training doctors and nurses, not to push products, but to help patients actually follow through on the treatments and protocols that could change their health. That’s a different kind of selling: one rooted in genuine care for the outcome, not the close.
Marc’s take? The “ick” most of us feel around selling isn’t because selling is inherently icky — it’s because we’ve been taught to separate “selling” from everything else we do, when really we’re persuading, influencing, and yes, selling all day long, everywhere in our lives.
September 18th 📆
The Power Of Collaboration with the Chrysalis Committee
The session is built around a simple but powerful idea: every woman in this room has an audience —
her clients, her followers, her referral network.
When she introduces that audience to someone complementary, she multiplies value without losing anything. This is the opposite of forced referral groups. Nobody is keeping score.
This session has no external speaker, although Kirsten Bell will be the lead facilitator. The content comes entirely from the women in the room.
Everyone benefits. Which is exactly the point.