Tetramap Facilitation
Understanding The Elements Within Us All
TetraMap is a learning model that uses the four classical elements of nature - Earth, Air, Water and Fire. It is a simple but powerful visualisation strategy that helps you to understand yourself, colleagues, your workplace and environment in a way which will lead to improved performance in all aspects of life, both in business and in personal settings.
It uses these four elements as a metaphor, which teaches you how to understand yourself and others better and to aid in communication, leading to easier collaborations within teams and to really make the most of diverse teams and groups.
Everyone is hardwired with all four elements, and unlike traditional tests and methodologies that may try to label a person as one thing or another, TetraMap understands that each person harnesses all four elements as a default and the idea is to learn that we just have different preferences or 'volumes' of each element depending on the situation you find yourself in.
What Are The Four Elements?
Earth
Goals, control, achievement and winning are important to Earth Elements. Quick, possibly risky decisions come easily.
Air
Excelling in finding logical solutions and making sense of situations, Air Elements listen and plan to ensure accuracy and quality.
Water
Caring, patient and consistent, Water Elements are important in holding families and teams together.
Fire
Looking at the positive side of life, Fire Elements love to explore possibilities and inspire others to see bright futures.
What Are The Benefits of TetraMap?
Once you start to learn how the four elements work within yourself and others, it's easy to understand how you can apply them to day-to-day life. One of the main benefits of TetraMap is not to just understand a personality type, but it is to teach sustainability and how to create healthy ecosystems.
TetraMap is an investment in personal and organisational health and agility. It future proofs teams by using diversity as a strength. Learning how each individual reacts to certain environments and communication can massively impact the outcome of a conversation or task. It helps you to really understand how a person thinks and what their intentions are by the way they communicate with you.
Once you understand this, you can adapt your communication style and approach to match that of the people around you, making them feel more comfortable and allowing them to answer you openly and honestly, leading to faster results and more trust and openness between individuals.
Tetramap vs Other Models
The beauty of TetraMap is that unlike other behavioural models, it's simple and we are all born with the ability to understand it, we just need to realise this so that we can apply it to our lives. We all know the basics of how Earth, Air, Water and Fire work so using this as a metaphor is natural and once you learn this it sticks, therefore it is remembered.
The foundations of TetraMap are based around the Tetrahedron, a 3D pyramid shape where every side touches every other side. This is the fundamental basis of TetraMap and it is why we use the four elements as our metaphorical framework as they all interact with each other, and no one element can be used alone.
Other models generally use single basis approach and try to get you to hone in on one particular area or way of thinking. Although things like this can work for extreme cases or very fine tuning, TetraMap overall offers a much more robust way of thinking and communicating and is much easier to adopt and absorb for the majority of people.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Not exactly. TetraMap is used to understand which of the four elements you most likely lean towards but the idea is to focus on how you interact with the environment and others around you. It's not necessarily about who you are but it is more about how you behave and how you can adapt to be more effective in different situations.
Absolutely! This is by far one of the most important uses for TetraMap. Many conflicts only happen because people misinterpret what someone is really trying to say or do. If you don't understand the other persons element, It is hard for you to understand what they really mean. TetraMap teaches you to decode these situations so you can absorb information more effectively and respond in a way which encourages healthy communication and avoids conflict.
Yes of course. We all have the four elements within us, it's just a matter of figuring out what our most dominant ones and learning how to strengthen the others. Some people are very heavily one element, some are a strong mix of two or three and using a TetraMap facilitator like HellaCoach can help you unlock the ability to work with all four effectively, no matter the situation you find yourself in.
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