Mishara is an artist and designer. For 18 years, through a family-inherited gift of creativity, she has designed transformative experiences, wellness strategies, archives of global communal mental health care genius embodied through their practices of play, licensed adventure therapies, and somatic mental wellness coaching exercises across multiple industries and countries.

She enjoys blending paint, flavors, cloth, industries and ideas with ease to find patterns - while directly naming and crediting the originators first and foremost.

14 of her years have been spent as a licensed pleasure, play & recreation-based therapist, determined to do everything it seems except simply sit still in a chair and offer talk-based therapy. [hehe]

Her work reminds clients to listen to, trust and believe their bodies’ cravings to do unconventional things alongside great therapy. And to use strategy to design their own great, sovereign, pleasurable, sustainable lives.

Her clients tend to be gifted leaders, public figures and outwardly successful folks - who are brilliant, creative and feel alot. She helps them move all those feelings through full-body sensory experiences, not just intellectual conversations.

Background

Mishara is an adventurer since childhood, with a love of nature, architecture, classic vehicles and all forms of expressive design.

Her life experiences related to creating experiences that feel good initially were forged through :
1. A lifelong relationship of listening to, believing and trusting her own body.
2. A belief that her cultural community and other communities are already brilliant and can be reminded of such.
3. A commitment since college to whole community healing through self-awareness, self-accountability and self-compassion.

A graduate of The University of Chicago in 2012, she was hired by her internship program, which observed her passions merged 2 departments - fun body-based personal development activities and therapy.

Her style was body fun 1st, words later, words 2nd or words never learned from living the brilliance of her own culture full of movement, expression, doing and dance- even in times of historical harm. This approach was also affirmed by working with youth with no desire to talk while surviving the trauma and grief of the foster care system experience.

Whether struggling or thriving her clients seemed to love her “lets just have fun and not talk, try to force conversation” approach. The brain science backed the methods and the clients were gaining skills and getting better. Including the skill of trusting their bodies to say '“no.”

Her work created her organizations 1st experiential, somatic and adventure therapy program thanks to the mentorship and support she had during her determined and curious independent study.

Mishara started her business in 2016. That 1st year culminated in her initiating and hosting the Midwest’s largest Human Library experience.

Thanks to countless collaborators across industries, city residents checked out fellow residents like library books, creating an uncommon connection through a strategic, unexpected and body-based experience with the permission of the Denmark based insitution, reaching multiple news outlets.

By 2020, Mishara had produced 13 additional intimate one-of-a-kind experiences for mental wellness that individuals and loved ones could attend together, cross-collaborating with multiple other industries to ensure fun, joy, travel, entertainment and the unexpected were on the menu.

These experiences included spice blending, leather making, and more - opening the floor for intimate dialogue about sensitive topics in privacy with a licensed therapist and ones loved ones -without anyone needing to sign up for therapy.

Eventually, these experiences became sought after by private parties and designed for bespoke intimate groups - especially private coaching clients.

An ongoing them of this work is ticket holders, guests, and travelers simply enjoy the fun, without pressure to speak at all.

Mishara continues her work through curiosity, a willingness to receive love and continuously taking ownership of her role as the lead designer of leisure and playfulness in her own life.

She is consistent in her belief that boundaries are kept, and pleasurable action-based promises to self that are impossible for another person to cross. This belief and others support long-term sustainability

Intergenerational Pleasure :

Mishara believes bodies remember intergenerational pleasure and healing experiences as strongly as they remember intergenerational harm. She specializes in integrating pleasurable leisure recreation into mental wellness skills, care, training and socially adaptable luxury experiences.

Contribution:

Mishara uses her knowledge in global history, pattern recognition, and the neuroscience of play to help leaders and public figures plan, design, and execute interactions & experiences that are full of wonder, pleasure, sensory engagement, and ease. She dreams of us remembering and re-creating pleasurable ways of being to continue the sustainable mental wellness inheritance for the next generations.