Progressive Asian American Christian (PAAC) National Gathering • Los Angeles

For PAAC’s 10th anniversary, Sacred Kitchen Collective designed a three-part immersive experience giving participants permission to re-member, adapt, and integrate spiritual practices in ways that honor both their cultural inheritance and present season of faith.

• Walking Pilgrimage through LA Chinatown and Little Tokyo, retracing Asian American Christian sites of displacement and resilience as sacred ground

• Sacred Reflection Room, a living archive of collective theology – walls anonymously colored with reflections rarely invited across racial or generational lines

• Holy Hotpot, a ritual creation playground to explore practices that nourish their relationship with the sacred

ABHMS Space for Grace & Spiritual Caregivers Conference • Cleveland, OH • April 2026

What stories of redemption are unfolding through your family? How might the Creator be at work in even the fragmented parts of your heritage? Through embodied pilgrimage, creative writing, and contemplative practice, we guided participants to explore ancestral storytelling as a sacred inheritance that liberates, connects, and transforms for generations to come.

Progressive Asian American Christian (PAAC) National Gathering “Have You Eaten Yet? A Rest from the Rage” • Seattle, WA • July 2025

I co-facilitated a community altar and two workshops with Ken Schoon supporting people deconstructing their faith to reconnect with the sacred and the land.

• Decolonizing Christianity: A Pilgrimage of Faith, Loss, and Reclamation — reclaim what’s been lost, compost what no longer serves, and root in practices of belonging

• Ancestral Healing: Coming Home Across Time — reclaim sources of sacred guidance and find rest in homecoming to your “great cloud of witnesses”

My China Roots • November 2023

It’s said that every generation has someone who’s cursed - or blessed - with the mantle of “The Family Historian.” In this talk for the “Leaving A Legacy” speaker series, I shared how to sustainably pass on your family history with a healthy mindset that nurtures your wellbeing in the process.

Watch the joint conversation I moderated with actor Ryan Alexander Holmes and rapper/filmmaker Laurence Brahm about crossing cultures on social media with confidence, humor, and honesty. We explore the joys and strengths of being multicultural and how to involve your loved ones in the creative process of telling your story.

In partnership with My China Roots and Global Asian Media Entertainment (GAME) to commemorate Chinese New Year and Black History Month (February 2022).

STORY Conference • September 2022

I presented “Who Is Home?: Rooting Curiosity in Community,” a virtual breakout guiding storytellers to trace the bonds of kinship and belonging that anchor their curiosity and conviction in the unknown.

I organized a 5-part AAPI Heritage Month event series on Discord featuring veteran genealogists, filmmakers, and healing practitioners to inspire and equip budding family historians with the role models, research skills, and holistic support to uncover their hidden ancestral stories.

I organized and moderated a live Q&A on Discord with the research team behind the award-winning documentary THE SIX, the untold story of the 6 Chinese survivors of the Titanic.

We explore what it means to tell a “full” story, reclaiming your heritage with pride, mysteries that didn’t make it into the film, navigating uncertainty in the research process, and the mindset you need to trace your family history.

I co-facilitated “Continuing Curiosity,” a virtual experience equipping students at the East-West Center with the practical skills to “live their questions” with courage.

Rooted in The Exchange event series theme “Transformative Care: Creating Intertwined Futures Beyond the Pandemic” (Sept 2021).

I presented “Family Stories: The Gift that Keeps on Giving,” a breakout talk inspiring creatives at the STORY Conference to navigate the messiness of their family stories with honesty, hope, and curiosity, in order to create home and belonging through their creative work.

“I invited Chrislyn to speak after watching her videos. She was refreshing and engaging… and what she produced did not disappoint. Her workshop about migration and multicultural identity was extremely thought-provoking, many of our delegates even choosing to continue the conversation on their own cultural influences after.” – DORCAS WONG, CONTENT DIRECTOR

The population that the United Nations labels as “international migrants” goes by many names: expats, foreigners, refugees, digital nomads, 海龟. Who are they? Where do they live? Why do they move? What does “home” mean for them? Living between cultures, what kind of culture do they create, and how do they impact their communities?

Listen to our full panel at the US Embassy in Beijing in honor of UN International Migrants Day (December 2018).