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.
When life becomes uncertain, something deeper may be trying to move
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 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.
It’s time to experience what real connection in a group feels like
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. Mutuality and cooperation become new norms that support well-being at work.
The hidden relational patterns that shape attraction, communication, rupture, repair, creativity, and belonging
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, 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’ for better collaboration, innovation, and belonging
- Builds psychological safety and deeper human connection
- Integrates neuroscience, somatic awareness, and systems thinking
These threshold moments can feel uncertain. They can also be deeply fertile.
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.
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.
Held by an experienced team
Mukara Meredith
Mukara is the founder of MatrixWorks™ and a certified Hakomi Trainer and Therapist, with decades of experience teaching, consulting, and working in the healing arts. She teaches MatrixWorks at Naropa University and brings the model into organizations to engender a more connected and creative world.
A practicing Buddhist, she is devoted to the practical application of world wisdom traditions and believes that ‘the value and purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.’
Gwen Hill-Pollara
Gwen is a Certified Hakomi Practitioner, ICF ACC Coach, and MatrixWorks co-facilitator. A practicing Buddhist for over 20 years, she weaves mindfulness, compassion, and her background in ecology into her work as coach, group facilitator and artist — viewing groups and communities as living ecosystems where every member contributes to the whole.
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-site art studio, or writing in her favorite chair.
Join us in Crestone
MatrixWorks will host The Full Outer, Inner & Secret Levels of Chaos in Crestone, CO
2149 Byron Street
Berkeley, CA 94702
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