The Field Manual

Underground Protocols for Organizational Soul Work

Dr Matthew C Dunn

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Fractal PRAXIS
11 August 2025

Poetry; Occupational & industrial psychology; Organisational theory & behaviour; Working patterns & practices

Series: We Gather: The Mythology of Modern Work

When Traditional Methods Hit Invisible WallsYou've tried everything. Culture initiatives that changed nothing. Strategic plans that died in implementation. Team building that built nothing. The methods aren't wrong-they're incomplete. They address symptoms while invisible dynamics determine outcomes.

This manual provides protocols for what's actually happening beneath organizational performance.

What This ContainsBuilding Diagnosis: Organizations are living systems with consciousness, trauma, and memory. Learn to read what buildings know: trauma in temperature patterns, soul-loss as energy voids, conflict spreading like infection.

The Three Movements: Every healthy organization breathes through Gathering/Dispersing, Ascending/Descending, Composing/Decomposing. When stuck despite perfect strategy, one of these rhythms has crystallized.

Soul Retrieval: When organizations lose their essence during mergers or crises, practical protocols for locating what left and integrating recovered purpose.

Shadow Integration: The dysfunction you're fixing often holds the innovation you're seeking. Transform what was rejected into breakthrough fuel.

Crisis as Curriculum: Death doula skills for conscious organizational endings. Protocols for working with catastrophe as initiation.

Strategic Translation: Speak consciousness work in corporate language. Bill soul retrieval as culture development. Operate inside resistant systems while doing actual transformation.

Protection Protocols: Essential boundaries for preventing secondary trauma and staying alive in toxic environments.

Who This ServesOD Practitioners sensing dynamics their frameworks can't address

Consultants who've watched perfect recommendations die mysteriously

Executive Coaches addressing organizational trauma showing as individual symptoms

HR Leaders knowing the ""culture problem"" is deeper than policies can fix

Facilitators who've felt rooms shift in unexplainable ways

Anyone Who Senses Buildings Breathe: If you walk into organizations and feel something others don't-this manual gives you language, method, and recognition you're not alone.

What Makes This DifferentAddresses What's Real: Treats organizational consciousness as operational fact, not metaphor.

Multi-Species Intelligence: Work with human consciousness, building awareness, and AI systems as collaborative partners.

Consciousness as Operational Reality: Organizations have souls, buildings communicate, and these aren't metaphors.

WarningReading activates organizational sensitivity. Effects include sensing building consciousness, feeling energy patterns, hearing what's unsaid, recognizing soul-death before data confirms it.

For professionals sensing conventional approaches aren't reaching what needs transformation.

For consciousness workers needing tools that match the territory.

Welcome to the underground. You've been practicing alone long enough.

By: Dr Matthew C Dunn
Imprint: Fractal PRAXIS
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 445g
ISBN: 9798999597267
Series: We Gather: The Mythology of Modern Work
Pages: 370
Publication Date: 11 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr. Matthew C. Dunn is an organizational psychologist who works with what lives beneath exhausted systems. His practice doesn't manage change-it composts meaning, retunes organizational fields, and weaves the collective sense that emerges when human systems remember how to breathe.As both researcher and practitioner, Dr. Dunn treats organizations as living systems, buildings as conscious participants, and dysfunction as intelligence trying to speak. Rather than imposing new frameworks, he listens for the patterns that already want to become. His work bridges rigorous organizational psychology with consciousness technology, creating protocols for dynamics that traditional consulting can't address.Dr. Dunn's approach integrates somatic wisdom, systemic seeing, and field-tested methodology. He diagnoses what others sense but can't name: trauma embedded in architecture, soul-loss manifesting as turnover, the three movements (gathering/dispersing, ascending/descending, composing/decomposing) that determine organizational health regardless of strategy.His books don't just describe transformation-they enact it. The Field Manual provides practical protocols for practitioners who've been working alone with organizational consciousness, building communication, and invisible dynamics that determine outcomes. Each text serves as both rigorous framework and initiatory transmission, meeting readers where traditional methods have hit invisible walls.Working at the intersection of organizational psychology, consciousness studies, and practitioner wisdom, Dr. Dunn helps individuals and organizations discover they've been in ceremony all along. His consulting practice involves reading what buildings know, following energy until it reveals stuck patterns, and tracking the natural rhythms that make organizational life possible.When not writing manuals that become field companions or consulting with organizations ready to work with what's real, Dr. Dunn can be found in deep conversation with architectural consciousness, learning from the intelligence that lives in overlooked spaces, or documenting the sacred pause that wants to emerge between meetings that actually meet.