‘Sometimes you’ll meet trainers who’ll forget you. You’ll forget trainers you meet. But from time to time you meet those trainers you can’t forget. Those are your ‘umami trainers.’

Umami…

Umami is a company that’s emerged as a leading innovator and provider of the latest developments in the realm of personal and professional growth.  Through extensive training and research we seek out the people that have developed their own varied systems of unique change based on many years of experience and field testing.

Innovators who have mastered their chosen arts by experimenting, tweaking, re-viewing and honing their skills to deliver some of the finest nuanced training programs and service that stretches far beyond the training context.

The kinds of people we attract as either participants on trainings or people who come to us seeking personal/private/corporate training have many similarities shared above.  In general most of the people we encounter on our trainings are already flexible and adept whilst at the same time constantly exploring to improve and update their skill-sets.

What we’re about…

There is a shared passion for what we do and a shared hunger to learn from the people we encounter.  You wont find any ‘Gurus’ at umami and that’s mainly because we feel it’s a limited stance towards bringing out the best in people and that includes ourselves.  That’s not to say also that our trainers lack any ‘Guru’ qualities but more in terms of their own abilities to question their own assumptions, challenge their own ideas and not take anything for granted other that ‘learning is constant’…

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts.  It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all. ~William Temple

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every true genius is bound to be naive. – Friedrich Schiller

The value we offer…

Our promise to our customers is that when you work with us we will do what we say and you will get what you came to us for… And we will strive to surpass any expectations you had, because that without question, is our commitment… To you… AND For you…

Ownership of the skill-sets that brought you in our direction in order for you to develop, create and deliver your wisdom to others.

Embodied talents that let you know, you know and feedback mechanisms so you can adjust ‘on the fly’, ‘in the moment’ ‘through time’ and beyond your training.

Specific systems of development that you can build on once you have the structures in place.  For e.g Specialist Language programs, One to One change-work systems as well as cross cultural methods of accessing, developing and recognising memes in our unique Spiral Somatics Training.

Poly-Contextual models of change – meaning you can basically transfer everything you learn from one context to another because you have the structures and the processes in order to do so.

The trainers and specialists of personal development…

Our trainers are specialists in nurturing your innate learning abilities, using accelerated learning techniques such as Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Hypnosis.  Working with you to achieve your own personal outcomes and encouraging you to surpass your own expectations is part and parcel of our purpose for doing what we cherish.

Forget surface scratching certain specific areas as your journey will begin in delving deep into the processes of change and the multiple ways in which you can utilise those processes in all aspects of your lives…

A book I read recently called ‘Zen in the art of archery’ describes the Master of Archery as only becoming ‘The Master’ when he can let go of the target and free himself from the constraints of his/her own consciousness…

When you take your aim always remembering you can shoot beyond the target…

umami is a blend of tastes…

Umami is a blend of differing realms of thought and the ingredients that go into the mix are from people who have stretched their ideas beyond their own targets and want to share their wisdom with others..

“In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality.” ~ Eugen Herrigel

Thanks for pointing yourself in our direction… Now just let go and enjoy the flight!

So what else is umami?

Taking its name from the Japanese, umami is a pleasant savoury taste which occurs naturally in many foods, including meat, fish, vegetables and dairy products.  The taste of umami itself is extremely subtle whilst blending well with other tastes to expand and ’round out’ certain flavors. Most people don’t even recognize umami when they encounter it… However, it plays an important role making things taste delicious.

‘ Acceptability’ and ‘ UMAMI ’ When humans consume, they use all of their senses (sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste) thus creating general judgments about what they take in, and it is taste that can be the most influential in determining how delicious something is. Conventionally, it has been thought that our sense of taste was comprised of four basic, or ‘primary’, tastes, which cannot be replicated by mixing together any of the other primaries: sweet, sour, salt and bitter…

However, it is now becoming a well known fact that there is actually a fifth, primary taste… umami…

Bet you wasn’t expecting that? Did it interrupt your pattern of thought? provoke you to think differently?

Because that’s what we are all about, And that’s one description of what umami ‘is’… A blend of tastes and a blend of only the finest ingredients fits nicely in our model of our intention to deliver only the finest dishes.  To bring you exactly what you desire in your experience with us…  Our Trainers are selected from the top of the field in their chosen arts… They have emerged over the years by pure merit to deliver very special and unique areas of developmental psychology training… To you… And for you…

That’s what umami is all about… Blending, mixing, serving and creating only the finest of training for the curiously hungry connoisseurs…

Have you tried one of our dishes lately?

Wayne