TRANSFORMATION OVER TEA

One man shared that he lacked courage to lean into the insights from recent 360 feedback. While physically playing with a tea canister during a facilitated session, he made a connection between old paper layers inside the tin and the layers of courage he had inside him to act.

Participant in the Tea as Metaphor Salon

In the Tea as Metaphor Salon, we pay deliberate attention to one of the most fundamental building blocks of human experience to reframe challenges and perspectives - delivering both personal and group insight.

Using the ancient practice of gongfu tea as the sensorimotor substrate, this unique development experience translates research from Professors George Lakoff and Mark Johnson on how metaphors change what we see.

The Tea as Metaphor Salon is a collaboration combining two practices:

• 1. an ancient tea drinking practice, its rich narrative history and metaphor-laden sensory experience

• 2. sensorimotor action as a vehicle to translate contemporary research into meaningful leadership practice

Participants learn about the gongfu practice of ‘making tea with skill’, combined with a facilitated exploration of metaphor. This experience infuses the group with creative intelligence and translates to a sharpening of each person’s practice of ‘making leadership with skill’. 

This experience is a collaboration between create sense and Tea Angle.