YOUR ORGANIZATION IS ALIVE
And your exhaustion is telling you it can't breathe
Your body already knows what's wrong.
That chest tightness in chronic meetings? Detecting gathering without dispersal. That bone-deep fatigue rest doesn't fix? Detecting forced rising without falling. That sense projects never actually end? Detecting creation without completion.
Bodies know first.
Before experts diagnose, before frameworks explain, before consultants recommend—your body detects pattern violations with geometric precision.
I'm a field witness studying Living Groups: the emerging discipline examining what makes human collectives regenerative versus extractive.
Not organizational health. Not workplace wellness. Something more fundamental: Can this group breathe? Can it pulse? Can it complete what it starts?
When these patterns are honored, groups sustain life. When they're violated, bodies detect it as exhaustion, conflict, impossible demands.
My work: Creating space where your organization can feel its own patterns. Where what bodies already know can be seen, named, and trusted.
Twenty years watching groups. The patterns are consistent. The violations are predictable. The detection is accurate.
Your exhaustion is data. Let's listen to it.
WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE
You know something's off. The symptoms are everywhere:
The 70% burnout rate. Teams taking vacations and coming back just as exhausted.
The recurring conflicts. Same issues, different people, never actually resolved.
The talent exodus. Especially the ones who seemed to see things others couldn't.
The failed initiatives. No matter how hard you push, how much you restructure, how many consultants you hire.
Traditional consulting would diagnose these as problems to fix. I help you see them differently: as intelligence trying to speak.
Your organizational body is telling you something. Through the exhaustion. Through the conflicts. Through what keeps failing. The question is whether you're ready to listen.
HOW IT WORKS
I don't arrive with solutions. I create space where your team can:
Feel what's actually happening. Not what should be happening according to the strategic plan, but what your bodies already know about the system you're in.
Name what everyone senses. The patterns that keep repeating. The unspoken truths. The thing everyone knows but no one says.
Recognize what wants to shift. Not through another framework to implement, but through simple, embodied experiences that reveal what's already trying to emerge.
This isn't training. Nothing is taught. Instead, patterns reveal themselves when there's finally space to feel them.
WHY THIS MATTERS
When organizations remember they're human, everything shifts.
Not because of a framework, but because humans who can breathe, rest, and release naturally create what no amount of strategic planning can force into being.
Groups need three movements to stay alive:
BREATH: Gathering together
PULSE: Holding stable
TIDE: Releasing and dispersing
Most organizations have lost the third movement entirely. They only know gathering and maintaining. Never releasing. Never letting anything die.
The result? Chronic exhaustion that rest doesn't fix. Not because people are weak, but because they're living inside unsustainable rhythms.
When organizations remember all three movements, they stop suffocating. Work starts meaning something again. People stop pretending everything's fine.
CHOOSE YOUR PATH
Discover the Work
Eight transmissions on organizational consciousness—from accessible frameworks to ceremonial mythology to revolutionary practice.
Start here if: You're seeking understanding, frameworks, or theoretical depth.
Practice the Work
Monthly Field Notes exploring patterns as they emerge. Koans as recognition. The Field Manual for self-guided protocols.
Start here if: You want to work with these frameworks yourself.
Work With Me
Facilitated sessions where your organization feels what it already knows but can't quite name.
Start here if: You need organizational support, facilitation, or witness.
RECENT FIELD NOTES
ABOUT THIS WORK
I'm Matthew Dunn. I've been doing this work for twenty years—first as a collegiate soccer coach trying to optimize performance, then as a consultant helping organizations "rise," then as someone who had to watch his own practice dissolve to understand what organizations actually need.
They don't need another framework. They need someone who can witness what's actually happening and help them feel it too. They need human-level work—not more tools for optimizing machines, but presence for remembering they're made of people.
That witnessing has become:
Eight books exploring organizational consciousness
Monthly Field Notes on patterns as they emerge
Facilitated sessions where teams feel what they already know
Koans—100+ distilled recognitions
The theory and practice are inseparable. The books emerge from the field work. The field work is grounded in the books. Start wherever the work finds you.
