Te Tī provides private consulting and game-based workshops that deliver immediate skills and development programmes for incorporating Te Ao Māori in corporate life and project management. Whether you want to start with one of our targeted workshops or take a more comprehensive approach, we will deliver a programme to strengthen and future-proof your team. Starting with your organisation's strengths and characteristics, we build identity, cohesion and trust through integration of Tikanga, Te Ao and broader cultural competence in the daily life of your organisation.
It’s the tea, the real deal, the downlow on the Māori future of Aotearoa. And it’s sweet - a fresh, practical, game-based approach that adds value to your organisation. The old attitude is te ta - the salt - decades of engagement with Māori from a defensive, “if we really have to” position.
The pīwakawaka shares the gossip: that Te Ao Māori adds value - to people, to processes, to organisations.
And what’s the most important thing in your organisation? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata!
To unlock Te Ao Māori in the daily organisational culture of Aotearoa by providing fun, accessible learning opportunities that deliver immediately useful tools and practices to create meaningful transformation.
By providing fun, first-hand experiences to learn the fundamentals of Tikanga, Te Reo, and Te Tiriti, we deliver skills and insights that help participants engage respectfully and effectively in Māori spaces, and with Māori clients and stakeholders. By supporting the organisation's own whakapapa journey, and through our tikanga-based Agile Scrum methodology, we enhance staff skills, cohesion, wellbeing and retention, adding value to the organisation.
Sets your organisation up to gain and grow fundamental Te Reo insights and skills in one session.
You don’t need to master Te Reo Maori to gain some of the insights it provides into Te Ao Māori. In one session, we will focus on some of the fundamentals of Te Reo that reveal profound insights embedded in Te Ao. With a series of fun exercises and games, you will also gain skills that develop the most important aspects of Te Reo Maori needed to build the confidence and mana of your staff and organisation.
Next level skills
Different mihi for different circumstances -
Understanding of tikanga around hui
What all the process mean
Hui, kaua, tikanga, order of entry, seating, speaking order.
Make it meaningful = you don’t have to learn it
Pepeha
Karakia
Waiata
Powhiri Process
Marae protocols
Practical - practice
This is the big T: what you need to know about the legislative framework of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the 2040 programme. From The Treaty of Waitangi Act, to the era of Matike Mai and the He Puapua Report, Terri and Sara deliver the downlow on how your organisation can flourish in the world of Te Tiriti. With sights set on the lofty heights of te maunga teitei, and their feet firmly planted in te whenua tino tōtika, Terri and Sara shed light on the essential steps of your organisation's journey ki Te Tiriti.
Using insights from Te Ao Māori, we focus on the elements of Agile philosophy and particularly Scrum methodology that we have found are often neglected to the detriment of game development. Terri and Sara will consider how some of the guiding values of Te Ao Māori, such as Whakapapa, Whanaungatanga, Mana and Tapu, apply and add value to Agile-Scrum processes. Using these insights from mātauranga and tikanga Māori, we will present a Scrum-based model that emphasises and embeds the critical features often missing in game dev projects.
Agile and Scrum are frequently considered the go-to project management methodologies in game development, and many other business contexts outside software development. Unfortunately the fundamentals of Agile-Scrum are, more often than not, seriously misunderstood with research showing that approximately 80% of Game Dev studios that claim to use Agile-Scrum do not implement all the essential components of the system. With the vast majority of game dev projects experiencing periods of severe crunch, missed deadlines, blown-out budgets, massive feature creep etc, the term Fragile - Fractured or Failed Agile - has been coined by some analysts.
Moumoukai te maunga tū mai ra. Te whakaruruhau, te whare kōrero, e kore e kore e kore e riro. Ko Nuhaka te awa. Ko Takitimu te waka. Ko Te Rehu te marae. Ko Ngāti Rakaipaaka te iwi. Ko Terri Pomana ahau.
Terri is passionate about Te Ao Marama and Te Reo Māori. She is focussed on growing tikanga Māori as a foundational lens in corporate a
Moumoukai te maunga tū mai ra. Te whakaruruhau, te whare kōrero, e kore e kore e kore e riro. Ko Nuhaka te awa. Ko Takitimu te waka. Ko Te Rehu te marae. Ko Ngāti Rakaipaaka te iwi. Ko Terri Pomana ahau.
Terri is passionate about Te Ao Marama and Te Reo Māori. She is focussed on growing tikanga Māori as a foundational lens in corporate and educational environments by sharing skills that provide immediate, practical benefits to the organisations and individuals she works with.
Terri has worked in industrial technology production for decades. She has extensive experience in product delivery and project management.
Terri and Sara are the founders of Te Tī, which provides private consulting, and a game-based workshop programme that delivers practical skills and approaches for incorporating Te Ao Māori in corporate life and project management.
Te Tī supplies digital learning materials and linguistic support for Te Reo Māori in a variety of settings i
Terri and Sara are the founders of Te Tī, which provides private consulting, and a game-based workshop programme that delivers practical skills and approaches for incorporating Te Ao Māori in corporate life and project management.
Te Tī supplies digital learning materials and linguistic support for Te Reo Māori in a variety of settings including a small NZ educational games company, and Te Wānanga O Aotearoa.
Terri is passionate about Te Ao Marama and Te Reo Māori. She is focussed on growing tikanga Māori as a foundational lens in corporate and educational environments by sharing skills that provide immediate, practical benefits to the organisations and individuals she works with.
Sara is deeply committed to Te Tiriti O Waitangi as the founding document of the country and has focused much of her career on educating herself and others about its meaning and application.
Ka mihi ahau ki ngā hapū o te motu. Kia tū tonu te tino rangatiratanga. Ko Te Tiriti o Waitangi tōku waka. Ko Te Whanganui-a-Tara te kainga noho o ōku matua tūpuna katoa. Ko George Parkyn tōku matua tupuna. Ko David Kirkpatrick tōku hoa rangatira. Ko Sara Noble ahau.
Most recently, Sara has been a producer, project manager, Scrum Master,
Ka mihi ahau ki ngā hapū o te motu. Kia tū tonu te tino rangatiratanga. Ko Te Tiriti o Waitangi tōku waka. Ko Te Whanganui-a-Tara te kainga noho o ōku matua tūpuna katoa. Ko George Parkyn tōku matua tupuna. Ko David Kirkpatrick tōku hoa rangatira. Ko Sara Noble ahau.
Most recently, Sara has been a producer, project manager, Scrum Master, and language consultant in the NZ game industry.
She has taught at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, the University of Auckland, Loyola Marymount University and The Beijing Languages Institute, and was the Associate Dean of Research and Postgraduate Studies at Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design. She has extensive experience in curriculum development, delivery, and educational QA.
Sara has worked in China, Singapore and New Zealand, is an author, and has studied Mandarin, NZSL and Te Reo Māori (and high-level English).
Let's kōrero - we'd love to hear from you.
Terri Pomana 027 6206160 Sara Noble 021 817675
