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How it all started
Yoshimi and Jon Brett created their behavioural model to reduce communication
conflict in the workplace. As corporate faciltiators hired to enhance
performance, teamwork, leadership, planning, service, etc, they soon found that
communication was in fact the core issue. Strategies that understood and
embraced the diversity of human nature were highest priority if performance and
efficiency outcomes were to be achieved.
From their studies of Buckminster Fuller's work, they were convinced that the
tetrahedron was somehow the key to understanding the complexity of human nature.
I have found the tetrahedron to be the minimum structural system in the
Universe. (Buckminster Fuller, Cosmography page 41)
In 1997 they integrated the tetrahedron into their model of the four Elements of
behaviour. The realisation that their model could be used to map any natural
system (not just behaviour) led to the TetraMap® model, first published in 2000.
History
1995 The company Learnology was formed, focusing on corporate training. NZ clients up until present day include Telecom NZ, Te Papa National Museum, National Mutual NZ, Ministry of Education, Wellington City Council, Auckland University of Technology, UNITEC Institute of Technology. USA clients include, Enterprise Foundation, EPA Creative Leadership Group, NASA Creative Learning Group.
2000 Yoshimi & Jon Brett first published the TetraMap model in New Zealand and USA. It was based on understandings of the Elements of Nature learned in the early 1980s and then combined with the theories of Buckminster Fuller during the 1990s.
2003 The company name was changed from Learnology to TetraMap International and the focus turned more towards supplying TetraMap products, less towards training services.
2004 Licensed the UK company, LA direction to distribute TetraMap Resources and to deliver the TetraMap Facilitator Certification course.
2005 Yoshimi & Jon open the Emotional Intelligence World Summit at Egmond aan Zee in the Netherlands, preceding the Keynote Speaker Daniel Goleman. Over the following year, Yoshimi integrated further understanding of EI and TetraMap into a coaching programme and discovered TetraMap's value in simplifying EI applications.
2006 TetraMap re-branded and expanded the range of workbooks to demonstrate the long-term application of TetraMap as powerful tool and mental model. In 12 years, TetraMap grew from a simple model for understanding why we are the way we are... to a 'simple' model to help us find strategies for deeper issues of human capital and business development.
2007 Release of a revised edition of the TetraMap book, with new case studies and an emphasis on sustainability. TetraMap UK was launched and exhibited at the CIPD Annual HR Conference in Harrogate, UK. In Germany, EQ Dynamics ran the first TetraMap Facilitator certification course in German.