External forces often form the shapes we create, take on, and inherit. We are not created in a vacuum, nor can we grow without understanding how our patterns and perspectives are influenced. We are all shaped by societal systems beyond our control and behaviours learned from and transmitted through our distinctive family dynamics and culture. When we embrace complex relational dynamics, it opens us up to profound transformation, healing, and consciousness-raising as a society. How we respond to our energetic wholeness, fragmentation, and over or undercompensation individually and collectively shapes the consciousness of our cumulative organism, influencing the existence and behaviours of our social fabric and spiritual ecology.

APPROACH

Messwork takes an intersectional approach to somatic transformation through embodied systems design, embracing our inherent intricacies across culture, language, race, gender, sex, identity, economy, class, ability, environment, politics, religion, and spirituality. Articulating awareness and embracing complexity between the individual and system creates an opening for collective activism and movement, leveraging justice-oriented approaches for somatic reparation, bridging, and metamorphosis.

All bold terms are highlighted in the glossary to support inquiry and exploration of the somatic process.