About Francellis
I created The Conscious Liberation Institute because I realized something deeper than burnout was happening to leaders — especially women, educators, advocates, entrepreneurs, and people carrying communities on their backs. We are living, leading, and making decisions inside systems that have shaped how we think, move, perform, love, rest, and even see ourselves. Most people never get the chance to pause long enough to examine that conditioning.
For the past 25 years, I worked as an educator, facilitator, strategist, and consultant helping organizations navigate systems, leadership, equity, conflict, and transformation. That work taught me how institutions function. But my own healing journey taught me something equally important: transformation is not just intellectual. It is personal, emotional, physical, spiritual, and behavioral.
CLI was born at the intersection of those two truths.
It is the integration of my professional expertise and my personal becoming. The methodology did not come from a textbook alone. It came from lived experience, deep reflection, historical analysis, healing-centered practice, leadership development, and years of helping people move from survival into alignment.
At CLI, I help leaders understand the connection between identity, systems, consciousness, and behavior so they can lead differently — with clarity, integrity, self-awareness, and sustainability. This is not surface-level professional development. It is full integration: identity, systems clarity, and behavioral change in leadership. That’s not simply training. That’s organizational and human transformation.
Through leadership cohorts, retreats, consulting, public history experiences, reflective practices, and healing-centered facilitation, CLI creates spaces where people can slow down intentionally, reconnect to themselves, and re-emerge with greater purpose and power.
Because the truth is: many of us were taught how to perform leadership. Very few of us were taught how to remain whole while living it.
CLI exists to change that.
You were made on purpose for a purpose.
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Board Trainings and Retreats
Board Development, Retreats & Organizational Strategy
At The Conscious Liberation Institute, we help organizations move beyond surface-level leadership conversations and into meaningful alignment, clarity, and sustainable growth. Our work combines systems thinking, leadership development, equity-centered facilitation, strategic planning, and reflective practice to help boards and leadership teams strengthen how they lead, make decisions, and work together.
Through facilitated retreats, board trainings, and ongoing advisory support, we help organizations examine not only what they want to accomplish — but how they are operating internally to achieve it. We believe strong organizations are built when mission, people, structure, culture, and strategy are aligned.
Our Areas of Focus
Alignment, Mission & Vision Development
Organizations often outgrow the stories, structures, or strategies they were built on. We guide leadership teams and boards through reflective and strategic processes that clarify identity, values, mission, vision, and organizational direction. Together, we identify where alignment exists, where disconnects are occurring, and how to move forward with greater purpose and cohesion.
Using a systems-lens approach, we help organizations understand how history, culture, power, communication patterns, and organizational habits shape outcomes — and how intentional leadership can shift those outcomes toward sustainability and impact.
Board Development & Building Strong Boards
Healthy boards do not happen by accident. We support boards in strengthening governance practices, communication, leadership culture, conflict navigation, role clarity, strategic thinking, and community accountability.
Our facilitation style creates space for honest dialogue, relationship-building, and deeper understanding between board members and leadership teams. We help boards become more engaged, collaborative, mission-centered, and prepared to lead organizations through growth and change.
Strategic Planning & Organizational Growth
Strategic planning should be more than a document that sits on a shelf. We facilitate dynamic planning experiences that help organizations identify priorities, define goals, create actionable strategies, and build systems for accountability and long-term growth.
Our process integrates reflection, stakeholder voice, systems analysis, and practical planning tools so organizations leave not only with a plan — but with shared ownership and clarity around implementation.
Whether your organization is navigating transition, growth, internal tension, restructuring, or renewed visioning, we help leaders slow down, think critically, reconnect to purpose, and move forward intentionally.
Investment Schedule
Half-Day Facilitation — $3,500
Ideal for focused board trainings, leadership workshops, strategic discussions, or alignment sessions.
Full-Day Retreat — $6,500
A deeper facilitation experience designed for strategic planning, board development, team alignment, and organizational reflection.
Two-Day Retreat — $12,000
Comprehensive retreat experience for organizations seeking transformational planning, leadership development, systems analysis, and long-term strategic direction.
Monthly Advisory Retainer — $2,500/month
Ongoing strategic partnership and advisory support for leadership teams and boards, including consultation, facilitation support, systems analysis, and organizational guidance.
Customized proposals are available based on organizational size, goals, and scope of work.
Conscious Liberation Institute Cohorts:
The The Conscious Liberation Institute Cohorts are immersive leadership and personal transformation experiences designed for women who are ready to reconnect to themselves, examine the systems that shaped them, and lead with greater clarity, intention, and wholeness.
This is conscious leadership development.
Each cohort brings together a small community of women leaders, educators, entrepreneurs, advocates, and changemakers for a guided journey through identity, healing, systems awareness, reflective practice, and intentional transformation. Together, participants explore how systems such as patriarchy, capitalism, white supremacy, burnout culture, and generational conditioning influence the way we think, lead, produce, relate, and exist in the world.
Through facilitated conversations, historical and systems analysis, guided reflection, embodiment practices, community dialogue, journaling, and practical leadership integration, women begin to shift not only what they know — but how they live and lead.
The CLI Cohorts are designed to help participants:
- Reconnect to their authentic identity and voice
- Understand the impact of systems and conditioning on leadership and self-worth
- Develop healthier and more sustainable ways of leading
- Build confidence, clarity, and alignment
- Move from survival and performance into intentional living
- Create new narratives for themselves, their work, and their future
Participants leave with deeper self-awareness, stronger community, practical leadership tools, reflective practices, and a renewed sense of purpose and possibility.
At CLI, we believe transformation happens when people are finally given permission to slow down, tell the truth, reflect deeply, and become conscious of what has shaped them — so they can consciously choose what comes next.
Cohort Schedule
CLI Cohorts take place three times each year:
- February Cohort
- July Cohort
- October Cohort
Each cohort experience is intentionally designed to create meaningful connection, reflection, accountability, and transformation within a supportive community environment.
Investment
Founding Cohort Investment
One-Time Founding Rate: $250 per person
This special founding investment is available exclusively for the inaugural cohort experience as we build the first community of women leaders inside CLI.
Beginning October 2026
Standard Investment: $597 per person
Investment includes facilitated sessions, cohort materials, guided reflection experiences, leadership development tools, and access to the CLI community experience.
Limited cohort spaces are intentionally maintained to preserve intimacy, depth, and meaningful connection.
Creative Expression-Reflection-Community
Conscious Canvas
Art as a shared language for healing and liberation (120 minutes)
Healing & Liberation Painting Experiences create intentional space for people to slow down, express what words cannot, and connect with themselves and others through creativity.
Facilitated by an experienced educator and leadership practitioner, these gatherings are designed to be accessible, welcoming, and non-judgmental. Participants are guided through reflection, intention-setting, and painting as a form of expression—not instruction.
Painting is used as a learning and reflective practice, supporting:
Emotional expression and release
Presence and mindfulness
Self-reflection and insight
Relationship-building and community care
No prior art experience is required. The focus is on process, not product.
What Makes These Experiences Different
These are not paint-and-sip events and not art classes.
Facilitated by a teacher with deep experience holding group learning spaces
Grounded in reflection, intention, and shared meaning
Centered on expression rather than technique
Designed to build supportive, affirming community
Participants often describe these experiences as grounding, freeing, and deeply connecting.
Special features
Best Quality
We guarantee your full satisfaction
Family business
A professional, personalized experience
24/7 Support
Our phone support is always available to you
Level I: Awaken and Understand
Purpose:
Understanding history is not enough. We must also heal the ways it lives in our bodies, relationships, and leadership.
Conscious Liberation Labs are facilitated healing and practice-based spaces designed to help participants process harm, unlearn internalized oppression, and build the emotional and relational capacity needed for sustainable change.
These labs integrate trauma-aware (not trauma-driven) practices, somatic awareness, reflective dialogue, and collective care.
What This Looks Like:
Healing-centered circles (not therapy, not training)
Somatic grounding and nervous system regulation
Identity reflection and internalized oppression work
Relational repair and courageous dialogue
Practices for holding complexity without harm
Coming soon: online modules and public workshops
Outcome:
Participants develop emotional resilience, self-trust, and the capacity to stay present and accountable in challenging equity conversations.
Level II: Heal and Practice
Purpose:
Understanding history is not enough. We must also heal the ways it lives in our bodies, relationships, and leadership.
Conscious Liberation Labs are facilitated healing and practice-based spaces designed to help participants process harm, unlearn internalized oppression, and build the emotional and relational capacity needed for sustainable change.
These labs integrate trauma-aware (not trauma-driven) practices, somatic awareness, reflective dialogue, and collective care.
What This Looks Like:
Healing-centered circles (not therapy, not training)
Somatic grounding and nervous system regulation
Identity reflection and internalized oppression work
Relational repair and courageous dialogue
Practices for holding complexity without harm
In the context of leadership cohorts, retreats, and premium facilitation
Outcome:
Participants develop emotional resilience, self-trust, and the capacity to stay present and accountable in challenging equity conversations.
Level III: Embody and Transform
Purpose:
Healing and awareness must eventually shape how power is used.
Liberation in Practice supports individuals and institutions in applying historical understanding and healing work to leadership, policy, supervision, and systems change. This work helps participants embody equity not as ideology, but as daily practice.
What This Looks Like:
Power and systems analysis grounded in historical context
Equity-informed leadership and supervision practices
Conflict transformation rooted in repair, not punishment
Organizational practices aligned with liberation values
Collective accountability frameworks
Institutional partnerships and systems work
Outcome:
Participants and institutions shift how decisions are made, how harm is addressed, and how power is exercised.