Yoshimi & Jon Brett
Yoshimi and Jon have been on their TetraMap journey since 1980. From teaching young children in the USA, Micronesia and Australia, to running workshops for suited corporates around the globe, they found that the younger often learned faster and had more fun in the process.
The two have a passion for learning. They explored what turns people on and off to learning and how successful individuals, groups and organisations create sustainable cultures. As corporate facilitators focussed on personal and organisational development, they learned first hand, about the role of emotions in learning. The principles and methodologies that underpin Accelerated Learning, NLP, experiential learning and emotional intelligence, created their signature style of facilitation, and what has recently been coined "The Tetra Approach" to development.
Authors of TetraMap: develop people & business the way nature intended in 2007, the Bretts carry on their work by leveraging their knowledge to those who serve as change agents in communities, education and corporations. By learning and applying TetraMap, their hope is that leaders and followers alike choose paths that value diversity and demonstrate inter-dependent, sustainable ways of working together and with the planet.
Yoshimi Brett, Facilitator
Yoshimi is living proof that a right-brained, easily distracted individual can in fact, focus and achieve in a number of seemingly unrelated fields. In 1992, Yoshimi began her career in corporate training, combining her 8 years of teaching (US, Australia & Japan) with 15 years experience in management and leadership positions in health, fitness and the environment.
Her constant concern for people and the planet set the perfect platform for her leap into corporate facilitation…a career path she never envisaged while sailing the Pacific with Jon in 1978. However looking back, the melding of her interests and experiences to the point of co-creating TetraMap makes perfect sense. Developing a model, based on nature’s principles, for application in organisational development has born fruit beyond her expectations.
Yoshimi often sums up by saying, "By focussing my actions on the sustainability of people and the planet, I have energy to offer TetraMap as a concept I know can make a difference to individuals, communities and the world."
A favourite ancient proverb: First enlightenment, then the laundry. Yoshimi helps people with both enlightenment and the laundry.
Jon Brett, Technical Director
Jon is involved in the design and content of most TetraMap publications and workshops. A 'Subliminal Facilitator', Jon's DJ skills help manage the emotional state of workshop sessions. His background is in video production, writing software manuals, teaching English as a second language and designing activities for corporate training. These all contribute to his expertise in creating powerful learning environments where both the context and content are sensitively learner focused.
Jon Brett has a BSc (Auckland) in Biochemistry and Cell Biology and a Secondary Teachers Training College Diploma (Christchurch) majoring in Inter-Disciplinary Studies.
International Conference Presentations
Since 1993, Yoshimi and Jon have presented at numerous conferences around the world. The most current is with the Keynote Opening Address at the University of Guanajuato Annual "Encuentro Internacional Sobre Equipos de Trabajo" (International Conference on Teamwork), July 2010, Mexico. mORe