Our Origin ​

​Tina Gattermann is the creator of the 2BElemental Environment, rooted in the ancient Five Elements wisdom, adapted to the launching of new collaborative initiatives, or transformation and improvement of established organizations. The genesis of this was her experience as a successful entrepreneur and business leader in the textile and fashion industries; and her immersion in the Himalayan tradition of Yoga , healing, and spiritual teachings of Swami Nityamuktananda Saraswati.
Doug Breitbart crossed paths with Tina in 2020, and found in Tina's Five Elements work a critical missing piece to his work, focused on organizational transformation, and the fundamental ingredients comprising human collaborative generativity and co-creation. The result was their co-founding of 2BElemental LLC, a consultancy, and co-development of the 2BElemental Framework, which is  rooted in these four foundational principles:

• That the new collaboration be rooted, grown and made manifest through a living, dynamic, and integrative process, informed and enriched by incorporation of the ancient five elements wisdom and concept of balance;
• The process of co-creation by the principals of the collaboration, its offerings, its decision-making, its expressions, and its actions is related to as a dynamic, living, experiential engagement, rooted in emergence in the present moment, and specifically recognizing and honoring all individual contributions and generative potential, on a whole being and collective basis.
• The center of gravity and guiding star for the collaboration is its purpose, which is to contribute value to its clients, their people, and the world they seek to serve; and, to do so in a way that is aligned with the shared values of the principals of the collaborative, the collaboration as entity, as a projection of those values, and in alignment with the values to which its clients aspire.
• To honor and integrate the human being collaboratively engaged in “doing,” with care and attention to allow feeling, sensing, reacting, and energizing to be welcomed, cherished, valued and integrated into the co-creative process of serving and manifesting in and in service to the world.

2BElemental represents a whole cloth refashioning of what being in business means: from “work” to “co-creation,” “organization” to “organism,” “leadership” to “individual empowerment aligned with collective purpose,” and “management” to “individual and collective responsibility.” All contextualized through both human experiential and elemental lenses.