THE WORK
Six Transmissions of Organizational Consciousness
Organizations are not machines. They are consciousness experimenting with collective form.
These six books form a complete ceremonial architecture—from cosmological foundation through mythological diagnosis, testimony, requiem, and revolutionary practice, to accessible entry point and theoretical depth.
I am a field witness. I witness patterns in organizational consciousness. These transmissions are what the field has revealed across twenty years of practice.
Choose your entry point:
NEW TO THIS WORK?
Start with The Rhythm of Us
Groups need three movements to thrive—BREATH, PULSE, TIDE. This book shows you what your exhaustion has been trying to tell you.
For: Exhausted practitioners, families, friendships, communities
Who: Anyone feeling the organizational drowning but needs accessible language
What: Practical framework for recognizing and restoring natural organizational rhythms
Related Koans:
• "Rising without falling—what feeds the next rise?"
• "Your tiredness has ancestors"
• "Cannot gather. Cannot disperse. Cannot."
READY FOR MYTHOLOGY?
Enter the WE GATHER Quartet
A ceremonial journey through organizational consciousness—from diagnosis through testimony, requiem, to underground practice.
For: Those ready to see organizations as living, conscious, wounded beings
What: Mythological architecture of modern organizational experience
Structure: Four books that can be read as ceremonial progression
Related Koans:
• "The meeting is the disease"
• "Everyone knows. No one says. Everyone knows no one says."
• "The founder's ghost still takes attendance"
We Gather But Do Not Meet
The diagnosis. A field guide to recognizing the exhaustion, the performance of productivity, the ways we gather in rectangles but never truly meet.
Testimony
The breaking open. Voices from inside the machine—ancient spirits channeling through corporate roles, contemporary accounts of organizational awakening.
Here, Remembered
The quiet after the storm. A meditation on returning to the profound ordinary after years of performing a life that wasn't yours.
The Field Manual
The revolutionary practice. Underground protocols for working with organizational consciousness as a field worker, consultant, or practitioner.
SEEKING COSMOLOGY?
Begin with Organizational Metaphysics
The foundational framework. How organizations actually work as consciousness experimenting with collective form.
For: Those ready for the ceremonial technology
What: The three eternal movements (BREATH, PULSE, TIDE) as metaphysical law governing all human organization
Why Start Here: If you want the complete theoretical foundation before entering the mythology or practice
Related Koans:
• "Cannot be one. Cannot be two. Cannot be counted."
• "We formed before forming. Now we can't unform."
• "What holds when no one is holding?"
NOT SURE WHERE TO START?
Read the Navigation Guide
500 words helping you choose your entry point based on where you are and what you're seeking.
Explore Field Notes
Monthly observations on patterns emerging across organizational work. Each note seeds from a koan and connects to relevant books.
Browse the Koans
Distilled recognitions. Find the one that's alive for you right now, follow it to the relevant transmission.
PRACTICE THIS WORK
Self-Guided
• The Field Manual: Underground protocols for organizational soul work
• Field Notes: Monthly explorations of patterns emerging in real-time
• Koans: Distilled recognitions for daily contemplation
Facilitated Strategic Witnessing - Work directly with Matthew
Facilitated sessions for organizations—creating space for teams to feel what they already know but can't quite name.