MESSWORK works with individuals, couples, and groups, offering Personal Transformation and Practice Building sessions. Individual and couples sessions are held online and last 50 minutes, with extended double sessions available.
30-minute Complimentary Consultations offer prospective clients an introduction to the MESSWORK process and the experience of working with Cri (pronounced Cree), creating space to explore readiness, resonance, commitment to the work, and mutual client–practitioner fit.
MESSWORK facilitates group work and workshops, including Embodied Making: Collage, Creativity and Parts-Work, held online and in person in NYC, with offerings ranging from 90 to 180 minutes. Additional movement practices, group processes, workshops, lectures, and intensives will be announced as they become available.
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Complimentary
consultations
Complimentary Consultations (Online)
30 minutes
Complimentary Consultation sessions for individuals and couples across Personal Transformation and Practice Building offerings provide an opportunity to explore client–practitioner fit, theoretical and methodological approaches, and psychosomatic frameworks, while prospective clients articulate their specific needs, intentions, challenges, and areas requiring support.
For individuals and couples considering Personal Transformation sessions, the exploration introduces MESSWORK's somatic, bottom-up, and relational approaches to mind–body integration, including how embodied awareness, psychological inquiry, and interpersonal dynamics can support trauma recovery, the processing of emotional experiences, and the exploration of chronically held stress and tension in the body.
For practitioners, creatives, and entrepreneurs in the alternative health sector looking to build, refine, or launch their private practices through Practice Building, this session introduces and explores strategies grounded in brand marketing and systems design to align work and values while developing a cohesive, thriving practice.
These sessions aim to clarify how MESSWORK can best support clients' transformation and ongoing creative processes, both personally and professionally.
Personal
Transformation
Sessions
Personal Transformation Sessions (Online)
50 minutes
Personal Transformation sessions employ a bottom-up, body-oriented, and relational approach to the psyche, utilizing somatic interventions and psychological inquiry to explore chronically held stress, trauma, and patterns of adaptation. Prioritizing mind–body integration and working with and through the body's wisdom, clients are supported in bringing awareness to fragmented aspects of experience, characterological patterns, and emotional defenses, fostering a more grounded, authentic, energized, and empowered existence while cultivating deepened self-awareness, resilience, and the capacity to hold complexity.
couples
Transformation
Sessions
Couples Transformation Sessions (Online)
50 minutes
Couples Transformation sessions employ a somatic, relational, and insight-oriented approach to exploring the dynamics that emerge within intimate partnerships. Integrating embodied awareness, psychological inquiry, and relational field dynamics, couples are supported in recognizing recurring patterns, emotional defenses, and unconscious processes that shape their experiences of contact, intimacy, communication, and conflict. Through a collaborative process that honors each partner's individuality and the complexity of their shared experience, the work cultivates mutual awareness, greater capacity for difference, more authentic expression, and opportunities for repair, connection, and relational transformation.
PRACTICE BUILDING
Sessions
Practice Building Sessions (Online)
50 minutes
Practice Building sessions for creatives, somatic practitioners, and alternative health professionals offer comprehensive guidance, strategy, and curricular resources grounded in brand marketing, narrative, identity, and systems design. These sessions assist practitioners in building, launching, refining, and expanding their evolving private practices. Integrating somatic principles with expertise in Communications Design, Cri collaborates with practitioners to define and articulate their core values, positioning, and offerings, translating these foundations across diverse mediums and platforms to cultivate cohesive, differentiated, and sustainable practices. Through an inquiry-based, co-creative process, practitioners are supported as they navigate the complexities of entrepreneurship, embrace the inherent messiness of growth, and align their professional development with their personal values and creative calling.
EMBODIED MAKING
WORKSHOP
Embodied Making Workshop: Collage, Creativity, and Parts-Work (Online & In Person)
90 - 180 minutes
Embodied Making offers a distinct fusion of somatic psychology practices and the intuitive art of collage-making, designed to cultivate creativity, self-awareness, and exploration of the whole and its parts through the body's wisdom. Participants engage in embodied practices, including mindful breathing, body scans, resourcing, and visualizationexercises, to deepen their connection to themselves, their environments, the materials at hand, and the artistic compositions that emerge. Through intuitive making and parts-work, participants are invited to explore different aspects of themselves, their internal dynamics, and opportunities for integration and creative expression. Whether an experienced artist or designer, or simply curious about the transformative potential of somatic practices and creativity, Embodied Making offers a holistic approach to creative exploration and psychological integration within a supportive and enriching environment.
