Your Organization Already Knows What It Needs

You just can't feel it anymore.

Somewhere between the quarterly reviews and strategic frameworks, between the meetings about meetings and the metrics that measure everything except what matters, your organization forgot something essential: it's made of humans.

I help you remember.

Not through another model or methodology, but by creating space where you can feel what's actually happening. Where the patterns your body already knows can finally be seen and named.

I'm a field witness. I help organizations recognize what they already sense but can't quite articulate yet.

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

Six transmissions on organizational consciousness—from accessible frameworks to ceremonial mythology to revolutionary practice.

Start here if: You're seeking understanding, frameworks, or theoretical depth.

Explore the Six Transmissions

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.

Read Field Notes | Browse Koans | Get The Field  Manual

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.

Learn About Strategic Witnessing

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:

  • Six 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.

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Organizations I've Collaborated With

Logo for Tailored Design + Build with a hexagon emblem featuring a hammer and nail, established in 2020, and the tagline 'Your construction tailored to you.'
Logo for Rosati Leadership Academy with the tagline 'Life Skills Through Soccer'.
Morrisville State logo featuring a horse's head and a green diamond shape with the name 'Morrisville State' below.
A logo with the text 'OCWA' in green and blue colors.
Palmer Food Services logo with a decorative symbol and text in a maroon color.
Onondaga Community College logo featuring a shield with a flame and laurel branches.
A logo with the text 'NYid' in bright green and black, over a stylized shield design.
Red letter D with a crown on top and a black and white outline, possibly a sports team or brand logo.
G&C Foods logo with red and blue oval outline and gray background.
OCM BOCES logo with text 'Committed to Your Success'
Seneca Savings logo with blue and gray design elements and text
Logo for Syracuse University Roofer's Association featuring a knight in armor with crossed arms, encircled by the text 'ROOFERS 1951 SYRACUSE NY' and 'U.I. Roofers of Syracuse & Allentown'.
Logo with a green flame inside a circle above the bold black text 'PHAT BURN'.
A stylized letter 'S' with a red and black outline, featuring a red dragon intertwined with the letter.
Logo of Avalon featuring a stylized purple and gold Pegasus head and the word 'AVALON' in purple capital letters.
Helio Health logo featuring an abstract H in grey and orange with the slogan 'Where hope meets healing' underneath.
Logo of the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, featuring green circular border, E S F in large letters, maple leaf, and the year 1911.