A Three Day Experiential Retreat in Berkeley, CA
Join us for a rare in-person opportunity to study with Mukara Meredith, MSW, Founder of MatrixWorks™, in an intimate retreat setting designed for deep practice, embodied learning, and relational discovery.
July 17–19, 2026
Optional Skill-Building Day: July 20
Berkeley, CA
Early-Bird: $750
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Chaos can feel disorienting, uncomfortable, or overwhelming.
It can also reveal hidden patterns, open new perception, and invite a more alive way of participating in life.
In this 3-day experiential retreat, Mukara Meredith invites participants into an embodied exploration of chaos, pattern, creativity, and change.
Through guided inquiry, body awareness, live group experience, and contemplative practice, participants will explore The Four Gifts of Chaos and the possibilities they open for insight, connection, and transformation.
This retreat is for people drawn to the living intelligence beneath experience — the patterns that shape how we sense, relate, create, and transform.
Taught Internationally by Mukara Meredith, MSW, Founder of MatrixWorks™
Mukara has 40 years experience in teaching, consulting, and working with the healing arts. A practicing Buddhist, she is a certified Hakomi Trainer and Therapist. Mukara integrates Living Systems principles into a new model of Leadership she developed called MatrixWorks™ .
The MatrixWorks model of Leadership rests on the foundation of the experiential Hakomi Method and is used in conjunction with an understanding of Groups and Organizations as Living Systems. In our approach, we can experience the emergence of ‘Group Genius’ that supports transformation of the individual and the group. The relationship of the individual and the group becomes collaborative rather than conflictual. Mutuality and cooperation become new norms that support well-being at work.
Through guided experiential work, embodiment practices, group process, enactments, and nervous system attunement, participants will explore how chaos, vulnerability, desire, and truth can become pathways toward deeper connection and vitality. Drawing from living systems thinking, relational intelligence, somatic awareness, and experiential inquiry, this workshop invites participants into a deeper exploration of the hidden patterns that shape intimacy, communication, conflict, creativity, and belonging. Together, we will examine how small shifts in awareness, presence, and relational behavior can create profound ripple effects within our relationships, communities, and inner lives.
Who This is for
- Conscious leaders and entrepreneurs
- Therapists exploring experiential group process
- Hakomi students and practitioners Therapists, coaches, and healing professionals
- Artists, educators, and facilitators
- People in periods of transition or creative emergence
- Anyone drawn to deeper inquiry into chaos, pattern, and aliveness
What You'll Explore
- The Four Gifts of Chaos
- Attachment dynamics and relational patterning
- Conflict as a pathway toward understanding
- Nervous system awareness and regulation
- Emotional truth, polarity, and desire
- Authentic communication and deep listening
- Butterfly effects within human relationships
- Fractals, emergence, and strange attractors
- Group field dynamics and collective resonance
- Somatic inquiry, enactments, and embodiment
Benefits
- Transforms chaos & conflict into creativity and connection
- Teaches practical, embodied relational skills (not just ideas)
Unlocks “group genius” → better collaboration, innovation, and belonging - Builds psychological safety + deeper human connection
- Integrates neuroscience, somatic awareness, and systems thinking
- Helps people move from:
- reactive → responsive
- conflict → collaboration
- disconnection → meaningful connection
Why Attend?
Many people sense that change is happening before they can name it. A familiar pattern loosens. A creative path begins to open. A relationship to self, others, or life starts to shift. An old way of organizing experience no longer feels alive. These threshold moments can feel uncertain. They can also be deeply fertile.
This retreat offers a place to explore these moments with guidance, presence, and care.
Participants are invited to experience a deeper relationship with uncertainty, a more embodied sense of awareness, and a renewed capacity to meet life as it unfolds.
Dominique Lando
MFT, CHT
Dominique is a psychotherapist, coach, facilitator and trainer with a passion for working with groups as living systems. She is the co-founder of Anam Cara Therapy Center in Berkeley, California , a community based holistic healing collective. She is in private practice and teaches with the Hakomi Institute. She does organizational work and has taught different courses for the California Institute of Integral Studies, JFK University, and other graduate programs in the Bay area. She is now living and practicing in British Columbia, where she works with individuals and groups.
Dominique is from France and was raised in many cultures abroad which informs her multi-cultural perspective. She holds a wide lens for the purpose of group facilitation, blending her background in systems theory, somatic psychotherapy, activism, permaculture, community development with a foundation in spiritual practice.
Gwen Hill-Pollara
Certified Hakomi Practitioner, ICF accredited Coach, Matrix Works co-facilitator and Buddhist Practitioner.
Gwen is a Certified Hakomi Practitioner, ICF ACC Coach, and Matrix Works Cofacilitator. A practicing Buddhist for over 20 years, she weaves mindfulness, compassion, and her background in ecology into her work of coach, group facilitator and artist — viewing groups/communities as living ecosystems where every member contributes to the whole. Through the richness of authentic connection she helps others rediscover their true selves through Hakomi Coaching, group facilitation, and the exploration of the contemplative arts. Her mission is to bring these elements to the forefront of her work, fostering an environment where creative movement—both internally and externally—facilitates the integration of exiled parts with our inherent goodness.She believes “Connection is Protection” and that “Humor is the Lubrication on the Path to Enlightenment,” bringing both depth and lightness to her facilitation.
When she’s not facilitating, you’ll find her tending her small farmette west of Denver, in her on-sight art studio, or writing in her favorite chair.
