What the MTF Course is about?

Master TetraMap Facilitator Programme

Deepen your understanding. Strengthen your practice. Help shape TetraMap’s future.

The Master TetraMap Facilitator Programme is an international learning journey for experienced Certified TetraMap Facilitators who are ready to deepen their practice.

Across the programme, you will explore the thinking behind TetraMap, strengthen your facilitation judgement, learn to adapt TetraMap thoughtfully across different contexts, and develop your ability to support other facilitators.

You will also contribute your experience, questions and ideas to conversations about the future of TetraMap.

As expected, it’s work, research, time and effort, but all relevant learning. A growth journey. 

What does becoming a Master Facilitator mean?

Mastery is more than knowing the content or delivering a workshop confidently. It involves understanding why TetraMap works, recognising what a situation needs, making thoughtful choices and being able to explain the thinking behind those choices.

By the end of the programme:

• I understand TetraMap.
• I can facilitate it.
• I can adapt it.
• I can apply it deeply.
• I can support others to grow.
• I can contribute to its future.

A shared international learning journey

The programme brings together experienced facilitators from different countries, cultures, sectors and areas of practice.

You will learn through masterclasses, research conversations, real client cases, facilitation laboratories, design challenges, coaching and mentoring practice, and conversations about culture and different worldviews.

Live sessions are designed for discussion, experimentation, feedback and shared sense-making. The experience and diversity within the cohort are an important part of the learning.

There are no traditional exams. You will be expected to participate, explore, practise, contribute and apply your learning in a real context.

How we will learn

Thinking with TetraMap

We will explore books, research, client challenges and different worldviews through Earth, Air, Water and Fire. You will become more fluent in using TetraMap to examine ideas, ask better questions and see situations from several perspectives.

Research and contemporary thinking

We will engage with selected research about teams, learning, psychological safety, diversity, systems, relational intelligence and the changing world of work.

Together, we will consider where the evidence strengthens TetraMap, where it challenges our thinking and what we can confidently say about the impact of our work.

Practice and experimentation

Live sessions will give you opportunities to work with real facilitation situations, test ideas, make decisions, receive feedback and learn from other experienced facilitators.

Learning from the cohort

Each person brings their own cultural background, professional experience and way of seeing the world. These differences will help us explore how TetraMap can be applied respectfully and effectively across different settings.

Your MTF Project

Throughout the programme, you will develop a meaningful project that applies, explores or extends TetraMap in a real context. Your project will grow alongside your learning, with opportunities for feedback, experimentation and refinement.

The learning journey

The core programme includes 13 live online sessions from 15 September to 1 December 2026.

1. Becoming a Master

We begin with the cohort: who we are, the experience we bring and why we have chosen this journey. We will explore what distinguishes a Master Facilitator from an experienced Certified Facilitator and identify where each of us would like to grow.

2. The TetraMap Deep Dive

We go behind the workshops and resources to explore the story, philosophy and thinking that shaped TetraMap. This includes Jon and Yoshimi Brett’s journey, nature, the tetrahedron, Buckminster Fuller, interdependence and the Four Elements.

We will also consider what is fundamental to TetraMap and where there is room to evolve.

3. TetraMap Under the Microscope

We will place TetraMap alongside contemporary thinking about people, teams, personality, difference, psychological safety and relational intelligence.

Where does research support what we do? Where does it invite us to think more carefully? What claims can we confidently make?

4. TetraMapping Big Ideas

We will take important ideas from books, articles, research and other sources and explore them through all four Elements.

The aim is to develop the habit of using TetraMap to examine, challenge and enrich significant ideas.

5. The Facilitation Laboratory

Using real facilitation situations, we will explore what masterful facilitators notice and how they decide what to do next.

We will look beyond activities and facilitator guides and focus on judgement, choice and responsiveness.

6. The Design Studio: Beyond the Workshop

Clients usually come to us because they want stronger teams, better conversations, less conflict, more effective leadership or help navigating change.

Starting with the real need, you will design and test TetraMap experiences and interventions. You will decide what to use, what to adapt and what may not be needed.

7. Culture, Power and Different Worldviews

We will explore culture, language, hierarchy, power, inclusion, and Western and Indigenous perspectives.

Our international cohort will help us recognise assumptions we may not see from within our own worldview and consider how to work respectfully across difference.

8. When Facilitation Gets Hard

What do you do when someone refuses to participate, conflict becomes visible, one voice takes over the room or the conversation moves somewhere you did not expect?

This advanced facilitation laboratory will help you develop the presence, confidence and judgement to respond to what is actually happening in the room.

9. How People Really Learn and Change

To develop other facilitators, we need to understand how adults learn.

We will explore psychological safety, feedback, coaching, reflection and what helps people carry their learning into everyday behaviour.

10. The Mentor’s Chair: Developing Other Facilitators

We will practise observing, coaching and giving developmental feedback to Certified TetraMap Facilitators.

You will explore how to help another facilitator develop their own voice, distinguish personal preference from TetraMap quality, build confidence and uphold standards.

11. TetraMap 2030: AI, Relational Intelligence and the Future

What happens to human relationships as AI becomes part of everyday organisational life? Which human capabilities become more important? Where does relational intelligence fit?

We will explore the possibilities technology may create for TetraMap, what we need to protect and how TetraMap might develop in the years ahead.

12. Stewardship: What Does Being a Master Ask of Us?

Being recognised as an MTF brings responsibility for the integrity, quality and future of TetraMap.

We will explore ethics, intellectual property, mentoring, cultural responsibility, innovation, community and contribution. What should we protect, what should we question and what should we help evolve?

13. Project Sharing and Celebration

Participants will share their MTF Projects and the learning behind them.

You will reflect on what you explored or created, how your thinking changed through feedback and experimentation, what you discovered and how your practice has developed.

This final session is also an opportunity to recognise the contribution of the cohort and celebrate the journey together.

TetraMap Facilitator Certification experience

As part of your development, you will deepen your understanding of the Certified TetraMap Facilitator learning experience and consider what helps new facilitators build confidence, capability and sound facilitation judgement.

Your MTF Project

The MTF Project is a central part of the programme.

You will choose something meaningful to explore, create, test or develop using TetraMap. This could be:

• a real organisational challenge
• a new TetraMap application
• a piece of research
• a case study
• an organisational intervention
• a cultural application
• a new resource
• an experiment
• a piece of thought leadership
• another idea that matters to you and your work

You will have opportunities to test your thinking against research, explore your project through the Four Elements, receive feedback from the cohort and refine your work before sharing it in the final session.

Here is an example of an MTF project in which Anja Doil explored the use of TetraMap in one-to-one coaching.

Developing other facilitators

Every Master TetraMap Facilitator should be able to help other facilitators grow.

During the programme, you will strengthen your ability to observe facilitation, offer useful feedback, coach others and support their development.

Certifying new CTFs is a separate responsibility. It is available as an optional pathway after the core MTF programme for those who want to become CTF Certifiers.

Optional pathway: Becoming a CTF Certifier

The optional pathway includes two additional 90-minute sessions:

Becoming a CTF Certifier

Explore the standards and responsibilities involved in developing and certifying a new Certified TetraMap Facilitator.

CTF Certification Practicum

Practise observation, coaching, developmental feedback and assessing readiness, including situations in which someone may not yet be ready for certification.

Every MTF should be able to help other facilitators grow. Not every MTF needs to certify them.

What the programme asks of you

The MTF Programme requires curiosity, openness, contribution and a willingness to examine your own practice.

The 2026 programme runs from 15 September to 1 December. Sessions are held live online and range from 60 to 90 minutes.

Because the international cohort is an important part of the experience, participants are expected to attend at least 80% of the live sessions. Sessions will be recorded for review and for the occasional unavoidable absence.

Daylight saving changes in several countries during the programme. Your calendar invitations will show the correct local time for every session.

The intended outcome

By the end of the programme, you will understand TetraMap more deeply and use it with greater confidence and judgement.

You will be better equipped to:

• examine TetraMap thoughtfully and explain its foundations
• respond skilfully to complex facilitation situations
• design learning experiences around real needs
• adapt TetraMap without losing what makes it TetraMap
• work respectfully across cultures and different worldviews
• coach and develop other facilitators
• contribute something meaningful to the future of TetraMap

2026 programme dates

Core programme: 15 September–1 December 2026
Optional CTF Certifier pathway: 8–15 December 2026

Your investment

• United States – USD 2,900
• Singapore – SGD 3,900
• Europe – EUR 2,400
• United Kingdom – GBP 2,150
• New Zealand – NZD 4,800 excluding GST
• Australia – AUD 4,000
• Emerging markets – USD 1,400

Are you ready to begin your mastery journey?

Join an international cohort of experienced TetraMap facilitators who are ready to deepen their practice, learn from one another and contribute to the future of TetraMap.

“I was challenged along the way – both in terms of understanding new concepts and having my perceptions and views challenged and changed.  It requires a real commitment to do the learning, research, reading and work to truly understand and embed the concepts and principles into your life.”
Anna Bolton, Waikato District Council, New Zealand. Read More

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