Newsletter August 2026
A new chapter for TetraMap in Vietnam and Across Asia
In August, we welcomed a delegation from Vietnam and Singapore to New Zealand for a programme of shared learning, cultural exchange and relationship building.
The visit brought together TetraMap International, Tetra Excellence Singapore, TetraConnect Vietnam and members of our New Zealand TetraMap community. It gave us time to learn from one another, explore our shared understanding of TetraMap and shape a vision for its growth in Vietnam and across Southeast Asia
Learning together at TetraHui
We began with a TetraHui at Nathan Homestead in Auckland, where our local TetraMap community gathered with our visitors from Asia for a day of learning and connection.
Andrew Melville shared his Master TetraMap Facilitator project, Facilitating Space. His work opened a valuable conversation about the space a facilitator creates and how that space influences people’s ability to participate, contribute and learn.
TetraMap founders Jon and Yoshimi Brett shared TetraMap Evolution, reflecting on the thinking that shaped TetraMap and how it has continued to develop over the years. They also introduced TetraMapping Your Facilitation, helping us consider how the Elements can inform the way we design and facilitate learning.
We ended the day with TetraThoughts, creating space for members of the community to share their perspectives and for all of us to reflect on what we had heard.
It was a day filled with generous contributions, thoughtful conversations and the warmth that comes when people from different parts of the TetraMap world have the opportunity to spend time together.
Shaping a shared vision at Tanglewood
We then gathered at Tanglelwood to explore regenerative growth and what it could mean for TetraMap in Asia.
We spent time examining some important questions. What is at the heart of TetraMap? What do we mean by the Tetra approach? How can we grow while protecting the integrity of the framework and allowing it to take root in different cultures and communities?
These conversations helped us develop a shared vision for the future: to reach 1,000 families in Vietnam over the next ten years and to grow TetraMap at pace across the rest of Southeast Asia under the leadership of Raymond Yap and his team.
The aspiration to reach families gives this vision a deeply human centre. It connects our work in leadership, education, organisations and communities with the relationships people experience every day. It also reflects a desire to build something that creates value over time and across generations.
By the end of our time at Tanglewood, we had developed a much clearer understanding of where we want to go and how we want to work together.
TetraExcellence’s commitment to TetraMap in Asia
Our third major gathering was held at the Sustainable Business Network in Auckland.
Rachel Brown, CEO, and James Griffin, General Manager, shared the history of SBN, the lessons learned through its work and its vision for the future. Their reflections on sustainability, systems change and relationships provided a fitting beginning to a day focused on the future of TetraMap in Asia.
The signing began with a particularly significant moment: the formal recognition of Yap Pik Hwee, known to many in our community as Raymond, as a Founding Growth Partner in Asia.
This year marks Raymond’s twentieth year with TetraMap.
Over those two decades, he has played a pioneering role in introducing TetraMap across Asia and building the relationships from which its community has grown.
He has continued to believe in its value, open new doors and share its purpose with people from many different countries and sectors.
His contribution cannot be captured simply by the number of programmes delivered or markets reached. It can also be seen in the people he has encouraged, the connections he has created and the trust he has built over many years.
The Founding Growth Partner agreement recognises the vision, commitment and leadership Raymond has brought to TetraMap’s journey in Asia, as well as the important part he will continue to play in its future.
We were especially pleased that TetraMap founder Jon Brett and Kataraina Pipi could be present for this recognition. Kataraina is a Master TetraMap Facilitator, leads our Indigenous Advisory Board and has herself contributed to TetraMap’s growth for more than 20 years. Their presence connected a long shared history with the new chapter now beginning.
Establishing TetraConnect as our Primary Regional Growth Partner
The second agreement formally established TetraConnect as TetraMap International’s Primary Regional Growth Partner in Vietnam.
This partnership creates a foundation for developing TetraMap in Vietnam with quality, local relevance and a long-term commitment to the people and communities it will serve.
Education and business will be among the initial areas of focus. The work ahead will also include developing Vietnamese-language resources, strengthening local facilitator capability and building a community in which people can continue learning from and supporting one another.
Under the leadership of Brahmi and the TetraConnect team, TetraMap will be able to grow in ways that respond to Vietnam’s language, culture and needs while remaining connected to the wider international community.
Welcoming Kenny Nguyen as a Strategic Global Advisor
The third agreement welcomed Kenny Nguyen as a Strategic Global Advisor to TetraMap International.
Kenny brings extensive international experience, strong relationships and a generous willingness to share what he has learned through his own work across markets and cultures.
In this role, he will help introduce TetraMap to new organisations and strategic contacts, open conversations and contribute his perspective as we consider opportunities for TetraMap internationally.
We are delighted to welcome Kenny into this relationship and look forward to the insight, connections and experience he will bring to TetraMap’s continuing development.
A Shared Strategic Intent
The final signing brought TetraMap International, Tetra Excellence Singapore and TetraConnect Vietnam together around a Shared Strategic Intent.
This document captures the direction developed through our conversations in New Zealand and the principles that will guide the work ahead. It reflects our commitment to building TetraMap in Vietnam through strong relationships, local capability, cultural relevance and shared responsibility.
It also recognises that successful international growth depends on learning in both directions. TetraMap brings a framework and a body of experience developed over 25 years. Vietnam and Singapore bring their own cultures, knowledge, relationships and ways of seeing the world. All of these will shape what comes next.
Where the journey now leads
These four agreements give structure to the relationships, conversations and shared vision that developed during the visit.
Across our time together, we learned, asked questions and listened to perspectives shaped by different cultures and experiences. We left with stronger relationships and a greater understanding of the contribution that Vietnam and Singapore can make to the wider TetraMap community.
TetraMap is built on a simple belief: strength lies in valuing differences. During this visit, we had the opportunity to live that belief. Different people brought their experience and ideas into relationship and created a direction that none of us could have shaped alone.
Thank you to everyone who travelled to New Zealand and to all those who welcomed, hosted, presented and participated. You brought generosity, wisdom, energy and heart to our time together.
Twenty years of commitment have helped bring us to this point. The agreements have now been signed, a shared direction has been established, and a new chapter for TetraMap in Vietnam and Southeast Asia has begun.