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Your body knows something is wrong. That tight chest during family dinners. The exhaustion no sleep can cure. The desperate need to escape from people you love. You're not broken. You're recognizing rhythm violations in every group you're part of. After twenty years observing human groups, organizational psychologist Dr. Matthew C. Dunn has documented a consistent truth: groups have forgotten they're human. We treat ourselves like machines that should run continuously. Always gathering, never dispersing. Always rising, never falling. Always creating, never completing. THE RHYTHM OF US reveals three fundamental movements every human group needs to thrive: BREATH-gathering and dispersing, like lungs filling and emptying PULSE-rising and falling, like waves building and breaking TIDE-creating and dissolving, like seasons turning Your exhaustion isn't personal failure. It's data. Accurate information about rhythm violations-violations that often begin in workplaces, then spread to every other gathering. This book provides language for what your body already knows, pattern recognition tools to diagnose stuck rhythms, five-minute practices that create cascading change, and honest examination of who has power to set rhythms-and who must follow them. This isn't another wellness framework telling you to optimize yourself. It's recognition of patterns already present in every human gathering. Some groups transform through recognition alone. Others reveal you lack power to change rhythms. The book addresses this honestly: not everyone has equal access to rhythm restoration. For readers of Burnout, Emergent Strategy, and My Grandmother's Hands, this book reveals the group-level patterns underneath individual exhaustion. Not perfect rhythm. Human rhythm. Recognition alone often restores rhythm.

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Dr. Matthew C. Dunn is an organizational psychologist who discovered the patterns in The Rhythm of Us through twenty years of observing how human groups move, break, and sometimes heal. After a U14 girls soccer team showed him what happens when groups naturally sync, he spent two decades understanding why some groups thrive while others suffocate-across families, workplaces, communities, and friendships. With a doctorate in Organizational Leadership Psychology from William James College, he brings academic rigor to embodied mystery. Through fieldwitness.org, he works with organizational leaders to recognize and restore natural rhythm, particularly in workplace contexts where violations are most systematic. He lives in Central New York, where he continues to coach, teach, and pay attention to how buildings breathe.

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