How Te Kaa ignites your Māori cultural competency
We deliver Te Kaa both in-person and online.
When delivering in person, we can deliver in-house where we come into your organisation, or you can join us in one of our Te Kaa Elect groups.
Click here to read our breakdown of our in-person and online programmes
Te Kaa In-House
For 8-12 people from your organisation, delivered at your premises. This is the best option for larger organisations who want to upskill entire teams and develop organisation-wide competency.
All cohorts are limited to 12 people to ensure participants are fully engaged to get the most out of Te Kaa.
Te Kaa Elect
For people from various organisations, delivered at our premises. This is a good alternative for individuals in business or smaller businesses with just a few staff; or for larger organisations who want to send a small group along – perhaps to ‘test the waters’ before arranging a full In-House programme, or to bring new staff up to speed with the competency of other staff who have already attended the programme.
All cohorts are limited to 15 people to ensure participants are fully engaged to get the most out of Te Kaa.
When we come to understand each other’s cultures, we don’t seek to destroy them.
Since 2016, Te Kaa has helped thousands of people from around the world to deepen their understanding of Te Ao Māori. Our mission is to help 100,000 people positively identify with Māori culture. Te Kaa helps people ignite their Māori Cultural Competency in a safe, fun and explorative way, making Māori culture accessible to anyone.
The genesis of Te Kaa
Conceived of and created by Precious Clark, Maurea’s CEO, Te Kaa emerged in response to an increasing need for organisations to understand Māori culture and tikanga practices. As a consultant, Precious found herself frequently asked to help businesses with an incredible range of issues. From advising about the appropriate cultural response (tikanga) for someone dying in a retail store, to helping a conference organiser from one of Aotearoa’s largest companies, who wanted an international expert to fall in love with Māori culture so they’d want to keep coming back to New Zealand.
While able to easily help with most issues raised, Precious noticed that the people she’d helped would soon be asking her for support again, often for almost exactly the same issue. It became clear, that while this transactional consulting relationship was able to help businesses to solve a specific problem, it wasn’t creating confidence or agency within a Māori paradigm. This realisation led Precious to seek a more empowering way to help people understand Te Ao Māori and engage in it. Te Kaa was born.