Overwhelm
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CRATE is a neuroscience-based system that helps you integrate your thoughts, emotions, and behavior so you can navigate complexity with courage, meaning, and resilience.
OUR FRAMEWORK
Learn Who You Are.
Choose Who You Become.
Every day, we face choices that impact our work, relationships, and sense of self. CRATE helps you discover the ways in which work and life, practice and purpose, self and other can all meld into a way of being that is more fluid and less conflicted.
Develop deeper self-knowledge through the three core aspects of our framework:
Embedded Story is how you make sense of your world. Embodied Stance is how you enact your choices. Extended Self is how you engage with others and your environment.
Each becomes a path into the five dimensions of CRATE:
▸ Clarity to recognize where you are and meet both constraints and convergences with curiosity.
▸ Regulation to attain balance by connecting with your body and releasing tension.
▸ Agency to direct your attention toward affordances, adapting to what is possible.
▸ Trust in your relationship with yourself, others, and your environment.
▸ Energy to draw momentum from engagement while navigating demands with creativity.
OUR PLATFORM& PRACTICE
Start Something.
Change Everything.
CRATE's technology platform gives you practical tools for transformation:
▸ A mobile app that tracks your states and patterns
▸ Assessment tools that reveal your unique trajectory
▸ An integrated dashboard that measures meaningful progress
Beyond technology, CRATE offers an integrative practice through:
▸ One-on-one coaching that builds lasting change
▸ Group cohorts that provide support and accountability
▸ Continuous learning that deepens understanding
Together, our framework, platform, and practice ensure that timely insights translate into lasting change.
Cognitive &
Emotional
Resilience
COGNITIVE APPROACH
4E
Cognitive Science
The CRATE framework is grounded in the latest findings from cognitive science, particularly the 4E approach, which emphasizes the embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended nature of cognition. Drawing on insights from predictive processing and active inference, we understand the mind as a dynamic, generative system that actively shapes our perception and engagement with the world. Our cognitive models, or "stories," guide our attention, interpretation, and behavior in powerful ways. By becoming aware of these patterns and intentionally updating them, we can dramatically expand our clarity, agency, and resilience.
For the scientifically minded, CRATE’s cognitive models illuminate how our brains predict and shape experience.
EMBODIED APPROACH
84%+
Improved Emotional Awareness
Emotion is not just a byproduct of cognition but a fundamental driver of our experience and behavior. The CRATE framework integrates cutting-edge research on affective neuroscience with insights from Depth Psychology to help individuals harness the wisdom of their emotional lives. We explore how early experiences shape our "feeling-based narratives" and attachment patterns and how these influence our relationships, decision-making, and well-being. Through embodied practices and creative expression, we can regulate our affect, heal old wounds, and cultivate more nourishing emotional states.
High performers can leverage embodied practices to regulate stress and optimize decision-making under pressure.
RELATIONAL APPROACH
360°
Interpersonal Dynamics
No person is an island. We are fundamentally relational beings, shaped by and shaping our social worlds. The CRATE framework illuminates how our sense of self develops through key relationships and cultural contexts and how we can foster greater trust, empathy, and collaboration. Drawing on attachment theory and interpersonal neurobiology, we explore how early bonds influence our relational templates and how we can rewire these patterns for greater security and connection. We also investigate how power dynamics and systemic factors impact our relationships and how we can create more inclusive and generative social fields.
Busy professionals and parents can find renewed connection and empathy, reducing relational overwhelm.
“Don't Just Breathe Through the Tangles. Untangle Them!”
Dessy Levinson is an executive coach, author, and creator of the CRATE framework, dedicated to helping individuals and organizations shift from states of overwhelm to continuous flow. With a diverse background spanning psychology, advertising, and early-stage venture investing, Dessy brings a no-nonsense perspective and deep curiosity to the practice of human thriving.
WHAT WE MEASURE
Your Quantified Self
3
Aspects
5
Dimensions
124
Traits
264
Emotions
How Will You Grow?
WAYS TO ENGAGE
C
CLARITY
Uncover the narratives shaping your perception, then learn to untangle them through curiosity.
R
REGULATION
Learn your emotional landscape, using your body's wisdom as a guide for well-being.
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TRUST
See through self-limiting beliefs, unveiling deeper truths and fostering personal transformation.
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ENERGY
Unleash your creative potential, tapping into life's generative forces and finding renewal in moments of overwhelm.
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AGENCY
Focus on what truly matters, finding and leveraging opportunities for action in every situation.
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