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Patterns of Relationships: A Weekend Workshop with MATRIWORKS™

Posted by Cara Cruickshank on February 6, 2012 at 1:27pm

PATTERNS OF RELATIONSHIPS with MATRIWORKS™
A Weekend Workshop on Living a Life of Deep Relatedness and Contentment with Mukara Meredith, MSW.

31040778455?profile=originalThe Patterns of Relationship workshop offered by MATRIXWORKS™ is for all types of relationships - couples, mother-daughter, father-son, siblings, families, business and even community groups who wish to discover new levels of creativity, collaboration and connection. Explore the Living Systems principles of Matrixworks™ as they apply to your close relationships. Discover new levels of creativity, collaboration and connection. Workshop will be held in Boulder, Colorado from Friday, March 23 through Sunday, March 25.

MATRIXWORKS™ is a revolutionary process that utilizes principles of New Science, Whole Systems Thinking, Spirituality and Contemporary Psychology to understand and support the growth and development of healthy functioning groups.

Explore the 3 essential stages relationships go through to become a living system, experience the multi-levels of interconnectedness and how to successfully cultivate them, embody the fulfilling capacities of high functioning relationships. Using Hakomi and MATRIXWORKS™ to cultivate and strengthen the resources available to these types of systems, this dynamic workshop will renew, restore and revitalize your ability to create relationship as sanctuary for each other, your family and community. Register in advance. Suggested donation $350.00 to $550.00 (does not including housing and food). Some financial assistance is available.

Mukara Meredith, MSW, certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer with 30 yrs experience working with Groups, Teams and Organizations such as Mattel, Procter and Gamble, Hershey, GE, GAP, Old Navy and Banana Republic. A practicing Buddhist, she is devoted to the practical application of World Wisdom Traditions in everyday life.

Visit our website: http://www.matrixworkslivingsystems.com/

“Simply put, this MATRIXWORKS™ training has changed my life and how I do my work. Colleagues ask me what I have been doing.”
—Liz Stuart, Teacher for Guild for Structural Integration

“MATRIXWORKS™ is the best training I have ever taken! It uniquely and pointedly strengthens the basic goodness of each participant, so that leadership skills rest in trustworthy relational ground. From this place of trust, amazing work seems normal and natural.”
—K.P., Clinical Supervisor, Boulder, Co. March 2010

For more information, contact: 303-819-5289

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White Paper from Gravity Investments Challenges the Efficient Frontier

Posted by Crystal Thomas on October 1, 2009 at 11:25pm
Firm’s Research Concludes That Optimizing for Diversification Outperforms Traditional Risk ApproachGravity Investments (Gravity), a premier financial engineering firm responsible for the Gsphere visual asset allocation platform, today issued a paper on portfolio optimization and the comparative value of optimizing specifically for diversification.The paper, entitled How True Diversification™ Preserves Capital, concluded that optimizing portfolios for diversification provides a positive impact to bear market returns at entirely no cost to bull market returns, resulting in dramatically better performance across a full market cycle. Diversification, not risk, is thus warranted according to Gravity as the focus of portfolio optimization for asset allocation.“We’ve known for some time that True Diversification is a primary enabler of achieving higher returns,” said James Damschroder, Founder of Gravity Investments and the firm’s chief financial engineer. “Now we know precisely why. With True Diversification, there really is such a thing as a free lunch.”Gravity conducted research on 95 actual Registered Investment Advisor portfolios in place between the years 2002 and 2009. The firm examined the portfolios across three time periods--bull market, bear market, and the full cycle, grading each portfolio--using Gravity’s proprietary diversification measurement.IPC, Gravity’s patented measurement of diversification, produces the weighted average of all unique correlations in a portfolio and provides a measurement of diversification specifically tuned to systematic risk. Gravity calls this advancement in the science of diversification measurement and optimization “True Diversification”.The results of Gravity’s research indicated that every extra percent of IPC was responsible for protecting 98 basis points of capital in a down market. By comparison, similar changes in standard deviation showed a much weaker relationship to returns in both bull and bear markets.“Based on these results, it’s reasonable to infer that the traditional practice of using a Markowitz efficient frontier as a menu of portfolios may be of dubious merit,” says Damschroder. “It’s hard to argue the logic of True Diversification when it protects capital in down markets without sacrificing gains in up markets.”Gravity’s innovative approach to portfolio construction will benefit virtually every sponsor of investment product, including broker/dealers, RIAs, insurance companies, mutual fund companies, hedge funds, pension plans, bank trust groups, 401(k) providers, fund consultants, family offices, foundations, and endowments.
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