Tea Party Planning and Hosting Masterclass
TEA PARTY PLANNING & HOSTING MASTERCLASSTurn Your Love of Tea Into Beautiful Gatherings Ever attended a beautiful tea party and thought, "I wish I could do this"? You can. And I'm going to show you how. In one transformative afternoon, you'll learn everything I know about hosting tea parties—from intimate gatherings of 6 to elegant celebrations of 60. Whether you're doing it for joy, for connection, or for income, this masterclass gives you the complete roadmap. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ WHAT YOU'LL MASTER MODULE 1: THE ART OF TEA PARTY PLANNING (Hour 1) Foundation & Vision:• Types of tea parties: wellness-focused, elegant afternoon tea, celebration gatherings, corporate events, therapeutic circles• Understanding your audience and designing experiences for them• Creating meaningful themes that resonate• Timeline mastery: 6 weeks to 1 day before (nothing forgotten)• Budget planning (elegant on any budget)• Space assessment and setup (small apartments to grand venues) Guest Experience Design:• Creating flow: arrival to departure, every moment intentional• Balancing structure and spontaneity• Timing activities so nothing drags or rushes• Anticipating needs before guests ask• Making everyone feel welcome, seen, and included MODULE 2: TABLE SETTING & TEA SERVICE (Hour 1) The Visual Foundation:• Proper table setting for tea (formal and casual options)• Linens, china, glassware, flatware placement• Creating ambiance: lighting, florals, music, scent• Styling on any budget (thrifted elegance to fine china)• Photography-worthy presentation (Instagram-ready tables) Tea Service Excellence:• Brewing multiple teas efficiently and beautifully• Proper pouring and serving techniques• Tea etiquette and social graces (teach your guests gently)• Managing timing (hot tea stays hot, guests aren't waiting)• Troubleshooting common service challenges MODULE 3: ENGAGEMENT & FACILITATION (Hour 1) Becoming the Confident Host:• Welcoming guests with warmth and ease• Guiding tea tastings (what to say, what to ask, creating aha moments)• Teaching about tea without lecturing (conversational education)• Facilitating conversation (keeping it flowing, handling awkward silences)• Leading hands-on activities (blending, brewing demonstrations)• Reading the room and adapting in real-time Creating Connection:• Using tea to build bridges (even among strangers)• Conversation prompts that go deeper• Handling difficult guests or dynamics with grace• Creating space for both extroverts and introverts• The sacred pause: when to talk, when to simply be MODULE 4: THE BUSINESS OF TEA PARTIES (Hour 1) If You Want to Earn Income: Pricing & Positioning:• How much to charge ($25-60 per guest depending on market and experience)• Pricing psychology: worth-based pricing vs. cost-based• Creating package tiers (basic, deluxe, premium)• When to charge, when to offer free (strategy for both) Booking & Marketing:• Where to find hosts (Facebook groups, local networks, word of mouth)• What to say when asking (scripts that work)• Creating irresistible party invitations• Social media strategies that book parties consistently• Leveraging Instagram, Facebook, local connections• Building a waiting list of hosts Sales Without Being Salesy:• Selling tea products naturally at parties (they WANT to buy)• Converting guests into monthly subscribers• Booking the next party before you leave current one• Follow-up that builds relationship, not just revenue• Creating raving fans who refer you constantly Scaling Your Business:• From 1 party/month to 4+ parties/month• Building systems (planning, prep, execution, follow-up)• When to hire help• Expanding to corporate, weddings, larger events• Creating passive income through product sales ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 YOUR COMPLETE TEA PARTY HOSTING KIT COMPREHENSIVE GUIDEBOOK (60+ pages):• Complete Tea Party Planning & Hosting Manual• Step-by-step instructions for every phase• Party planning templates and checklists (printable)• Timeline worksheets (6 weeks to day-of)• Budget calculators• Guest list and seating planners TEA EDUCATION RESOURCES:• 15+ afternoon tea recipes with complete brewing guides• Tea and food pairing guide• Conversation cards (50+ thoughtful prompts)• Tea tasting guide (how to lead tastings)• Health benefits overview (what to share with guests) HOSTING ESSENTIALS:• Table setting diagrams (visual step-by-step)• Etiquette guide (guest and host)• Service flow scripts (what to say when)• Menu planning templates• Shopping lists for various party sizes BUSINESS TOOLS (Entrepreneur Track Only):• Pricing calculator and strategy guide• Party booking scripts and templates• Marketing graphics (Canva templates - customize with your info)• Social media content calendar (30 days of posts)• Email templates (invitations, confirmations, follow-ups, thank yous)• Sales tracking spreadsheet• Contract templates (if hosting for pay) PRACTICE SUPPLIES:• Sample tea for your first practice party (2 oz of 3 blends)• Professional tea measuring tools• Tasting cups (set of 6)• Beautiful presentation supplies ONGOING SUPPORT:• Lifetime access to masterclass recording• Private online community (Tea Party Hosts group)• Monthly live Q&A calls (first 3 months)• Email support (30-day Personal / 90-day Entrepreneur / 60-120 day Private) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📅 DATES & FORMATS ONLINE GROUP SESSIONS: LIVE VIRTUAL 🗓️ Saturday, June 14, 2026⏰ 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST💻 Live via Zoom (fully interactive!)📦 Complete Tea Party Hosting Kit ships to you before class👥 Limited to 20 participants✨ Learn alongside other aspiring hosts, share ideas, build community 🗓️ Saturday, July 19, 2026⏰ 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST💻 Live via Zoom📦 Kit ships before class👥 Limited to 20 participants✨ Summer session, perfect timing for practicing outdoor tea parties Each online session is 4 hours of immersive, practical education with live demonstrations, breakout practice, and Q&A. PRIVATE ONE-ON-ONE TRAINING: CUSTOMIZED FOR YOU 📅 Schedule on YOUR preferred date (weekday or weekend)⏰ Flexible timing (4 hours standard, can extend for in-person)💻 Virtual (Zoom) OR In-Person (Nashville - at The Tea Maven's Tea Room)👥 Just you and the Tea Maven (completely private and personalized) Private training includes:✨ Completely customized to YOUR goals, audience, and vision✨ Undivided personal attention from Dr. Walsh✨ Flexible scheduling (work around your calendar)✨ Deeper dive into your specific questions and challenges✨ Personalized business plan (if Entrepreneur Track)✨ Extended mentorship (60-120 days vs 30-90 days group)✨ VIP experience with luxury attention Perfect for:• Those wanting intensive, personalized training• Busy professionals needing flexible scheduling• Anyone preferring one-on-one learning environment• Those with specific niche or audience (corporate, therapeutic, cultural)• Event planners adding premium tea services• High-level entrepreneurs wanting custom business strategy ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💰 INVESTMENT & OPTIONS ONLINE GROUP SESSION - PERSONAL TRACKLearn to host tea parties for pleasure and connection Investment: $247 Includes:✓ 4-hour live virtual masterclass✓ Complete Tea Party Hosting Manual (60+ pages)✓ All templates, checklists, planning tools✓ Tea Party Hosting Kit (ships to you)✓ Sample teas for practice✓ Lifetime recording access✓ 30-day email support✓ Private online community ONLINE GROUP SESSION - ENTREPRENEUR TRACKFor earning income through tea party hosting Investment: $497 Everything in Personal Track PLUS:✓ Extended business development module✓ Marketing and booking strategies✓ 30% wholesale discount on Tea Tea & Company products✓ Sales training and scripts✓ Business planning toolkit✓ 90-day mentorship✓ Monthly coaching calls (first 3 months)✓ Path to Tea Consultant program (50% tuition credit) PRIVATE VIRTUAL TRAINING - PERSONAL TRACKOne-on-one customized training via Zoom Investment: $697 Everything in Online Group Personal Track PLUS:✓ Schedule on YOUR preferred date and time✓ Completely customized to your needs✓ Undivided personal attention (4 hours with Dr. Walsh)✓ Personalized party plan for YOUR specific vision✓ 60-day email/text support (vs 30-day)✓ Follow-up consultation call (30 min, 30 days after training)✓ VIP experience PRIVATE VIRTUAL TRAINING - ENTREPRENEUR TRACKIntensive one-on-one business training Investment: $997 Everything in Private Virtual Personal Track PLUS:✓ Custom business plan developed during session✓ Personalized marketing strategy for your market✓ Revenue projections and goal setting✓ Niche positioning (find your unique angle)✓ 90-day intensive mentorship (weekly check-ins)✓ Two follow-up calls (30 days and 60 days post-training)✓ Direct access to Dr. Walsh via text✓ Immediate Tea Consultant program enrollment option (if desired) PRIVATE IN-PERSON TRAINING - PERSONAL TRACKUltimate hands-on experience in Nashville Investment: $897 Everything in Private Virtual Personal PLUS:✓ Train in The Tea Maven's actual tea room✓ Experience the space where 2,000+ parties have been hosted✓ Hands-on practice with real tea service✓ See Dr. Walsh's setup, systems, and flow in action✓ Immersive, tactile learning✓ Lunch included (we'll share tea and a meal together!) PRIVATE IN-PERSON TRAINING - ENTREPRENEUR TRACKPremium intensive with Dr. Walsh in her tea room Investment: $1,297 Everything in Private In-Person Personal PLUS:✓ Full-day intensive (9 AM - 5 PM, includes breaks and lunch)✓ Business strategy session customized to your goals✓ Supplier introductions and vendor connections (Nashville-based)✓ Behind-the-scenes of Dr. Walsh's business operations✓ Marketing photo shoot in the tea room (use for your marketing!)✓ 120-day VIP mentorship (4 months of support)✓ Quarterly check-in calls (ongoing throughout first year)✓ Priority access to all future trainings and events EARLY BIRD SPECIAL (Group Sessions Only)Register 2+ weeks before class and save $50!Use code: EARLYBIRD50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💵 INCOME POTENTIAL (ENTREPRENEUR TRACK) REALISTIC EARNINGS: PART-TIME (2-3 parties per month): Party hosting fees:• 10 guests × $30 per guest = $300 per party• 2-3 parties = $600-900/month Product sales commission (30% wholesale discount = 30% profit):• Average party sales: $200-400• Your earnings: $60-120 per party• 2-3 parties = $120-360/month Subscription enrollments:• Convert 2-3 guests per party to monthly subscribers• Earn $10-15 per subscriber monthly (recurring)• 4-9 subscribers = $40-135/month (grows each month) TOTAL PART-TIME: $760-1,395/month COMMITTED (4-6 parties per month): Party fees: $1,200-1,800/monthProduct sales: $240-720/monthSubscriptions: $80-180/month (recurring, compounding) TOTAL COMMITTED: $1,520-2,700/month FULL-TIME (8-12 parties per month): Party fees: $2,400-3,600/monthProduct sales: $480-1,440/monthSubscriptions: $160-360/monthCorporate events (1-2/month): $500-2,000/month TOTAL FULL-TIME: $3,540-7,400/month ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 YOUR FIRST 30 DAYS AFTER THE MASTERCLASS We don't just teach you—we walk you through hosting your first parties. WEEK 1: Practice & Confidence Building✓ Review all materials and recordings✓ Practice tea service at home (get comfortable with the flow)✓ Invite 6-8 close friends for your FIRST party (low pressure!)✓ Use templates provided, follow the plan✓ Celebrate: You hosted your first party! WEEK 2: Gather Feedback & Refine✓ Follow up with first party guests✓ Adjust your approach based on feedback✓ Book your SECOND party (ask first guests for referrals) WEEK 3: Go Public✓ Announce on social media: "I'm hosting tea parties!"✓ Share photos from your first parties✓ Reach out to 10-20 people directly✓ Book 2-3 parties for next month WEEK 4: Build Momentum✓ Host 1-2 more parties✓ Start selling products naturally✓ Enroll first monthly subscribers✓ You're officially a tea party host! We support you with check-ins, community access, and coaching throughout. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍵 WHAT YOU'LL ACTUALLY DO AT PARTIES THE TEA PARTY EXPERIENCE (You'll Learn to Lead): WELCOME & ARRIVAL (15 minutes)• Greet guests with warmth, create immediate comfort and beauty TEA TASTING & EDUCATION (45 minutes)• Guide tasting of 3-4 tea varieties, share stories and benefits HANDS-ON TEA BLENDING ACTIVITY (30 minutes)• Each guest creates custom tea blend, you facilitate and guide TEA SERVICE & NOURISHMENT (30 minutes)• Serve tea with food pairings, demonstrate etiquette PRODUCT SHOWCASE & CLOSING (15-20 minutes)• Natural product introduction, take orders, book next parties Total: 2-2.5 hours of engagement, connection, and transformation ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❤️ WHY LEARN FROM DR. JANET WALSH? Over 2,000 tea parties hosted across 20 years:• Intimate gatherings of 6 to grand celebrations of 600• Homes, tea rooms, schools, universities, churches, corporations• Bridal showers, birthdays, memorial services, conflict resolution circles• Wellness events, corporate team building, community gatherings Trained in:• Therapeutic tea blending and herbal medicine• Hospitality and etiquette instruction• Conflict resolution and peacemaking through tea• Educational facilitation (educator and librarian background)• Cultural tea traditions (traveled internationally studying tea) Founder of:• Tea Tea and Company• National Tea Institute• National Afternoon Tea Month Teaching philosophy:"I've seen broken relationships restored over tea. I've witnessed families reconnect. I've watched strangers become friends. Tea creates the conditions for healing—and I want to teach YOU to create those conditions for others. No gatekeeping. Just everything I've learned, given generously, so you can host with confidence and heart." This isn't just party planning. It's learning to create sacred space for connection, healing, and joy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌟 WHO IS THIS FOR? ✅ Anyone who's attended a tea party and thought "I want to host these!"✅ Those wanting flexible, joy-filled income✅ Stay-at-home parents seeking meaningful work✅ Wellness coaches wanting to add tea parties to offerings✅ Event planners expanding services✅ Teachers or nurses wanting side income✅ Tea lovers ready to share their passion✅ Future Tea Consultants (this is your foundation training!)✅ Anyone wanting to bring people together around wellness✅ Those healing from loss (tea as grief support tool)✅ Community builders and peacemakers Complete beginners welcome. No tea expertise required—I'll teach you everything. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💻 ONLINE GROUP CLASS: HOW IT WORKS "Can I really learn to host tea parties virtually?" Absolutely! Here's how: 1. REGISTER for June 14 or July 19 online session2. YOUR HOSTING KIT SHIPS a week before class.3. UNBOX and explore all materials before class (arrives 1 week before)4. JOIN US LIVE via Zoom on class day at 1 PM CST5. LEARN alongside 20 other aspiring hosts6. PRACTICE in breakout rooms and role-plays7. PARTICIPATE in live simulations8. LIFETIME REPLAY ACCESS for ongoing reference Your kit includes:• Sample teas for practice• Tea service tools• All printed materials and templates• Practice supplies for blending activities• Everything needed to host your first party This isn't passive learning. You're engaged, practicing, role-playing, and preparing to host immediately. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💎 PRIVATE TRAINING: THE VIP EXPERIENCE Want personalized, intensive training tailored exactly to your vision? Private training gives you:✓ Dr. Walsh's undivided attention for 4-8 hours✓ Completely customized curriculum for YOUR goals✓ YOUR preferred date and time (flexible scheduling)✓ Deeper support (60-120 days vs 30-90 days group)✓ Niche-specific strategy (corporate, therapeutic, cultural, luxury, etc.)✓ Accelerated results (learn faster with personal attention) PRIVATE VIRTUAL (Zoom):• Personal Track: $697• Entrepreneur Track: $997• Schedule within 2-4 weeks of booking PRIVATE IN-PERSON (Nashville):• Personal Track: $897• Entrepreneur Track: $1,297• Train in The Tea Maven's actual tea room• See 20 years of systems in action• Hands-on with real setup• Includes lunch and extended time TO BOOK PRIVATE TRAINING:Purchase your preferred option below, then we'll email you within 24 hours to schedule your custom training date. Questions first? Email [email protected] or call 615-873-0455 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 WHAT STUDENTS SAY "I hosted my first paid tea party 2 weeks after the masterclass and earned $420 in one afternoon. Now I'm booking 3-4 parties a month. This training changed my life."— Michelle R., Online Student "I thought hosting was complicated. Dr. Walsh broke it down into simple, doable steps. I've hosted 8 parties and every one has been beautiful and meaningful."— Sarah K., Group Session "The private training was worth every penny. Having Dr. Walsh's full attention, customizing everything for my corporate niche—I recouped my investment in my first two events."— Jennifer M., Private Virtual Student "As an introvert, I was nervous. But Dr. Walsh showed me tea parties have natural structure—you're facilitating, not performing. I can do this!"— Lisa T., Online Student ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌸 PERFECT FOR THESE OCCASIONS Learn to host:• Bridal showers and bachelorette celebrations• Birthday parties and milestone gatherings• Mother-daughter teas• Girls' night and friendship celebrations• Baby showers• Book club meetings with elegant tea service• Corporate wellness events and team building• Grief support circles (therapeutic tea gatherings)• Seasonal celebrations (spring tea, holiday tea)• Fundraisers and community events• "Just because" gatherings with intention• Afternoon tea as your signature offering ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 WHICH OPTION IS RIGHT FOR YOU? CHOOSE ONLINE GROUP SESSION IF:✓ You want community and peer learning✓ You're comfortable in group settings✓ June 14 or July 19 dates work for you✓ You want most affordable option ($247-497)✓ You like learning with others (energy, ideas, support) CHOOSE PRIVATE VIRTUAL IF:✓ You need flexible scheduling (choose your own date)✓ You prefer one-on-one attention✓ You have specific niche or unique vision✓ You want customized business strategy✓ Group settings aren't your preference✓ You want intensive, focused attention CHOOSE PRIVATE IN-PERSON IF:✓ You can travel to Nashville✓ You want the ultimate immersive experience✓ You learn best by seeing and doing in real space✓ You want behind-the-scenes access to Dr. Walsh's tea room✓ You're serious about building premium tea party business✓ You want the VIP, luxury learning experience ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❓ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Q: I've never hosted a party before. Can I really do this?A: Yes! Most students are first-time hosts. We practice together in safe space. You'll be amazed at what you can do. Q: Do I need fancy china and equipment?A: No! We teach you to create elegance at any budget. Thrifted teacups can be more charming than matching sets. Q: How soon can I host my first paid party?A: Most entrepreneur track students host within 2-4 weeks. Some book their first during the class! Q: What if I just want to host for fun, not money?A: Perfect! Personal Track is designed exactly for that. No business pressure. Q: Will you provide tea products I sell at parties?A: Entrepreneur Track students get 30% wholesale access to Tea Tea & Company products. Order per party, sell at retail. Q: Is this part of an MLM?A: The masterclass is standalone education. Entrepreneur Track offers OPTIONAL path to Tea Consultant program, but no obligation. Q: Can I take both Tea Blending + Tea Party Hosting masterclasses?A: Yes! They complement perfectly. Bundle discount available. Q: What's included in the private training that's different?A: Completely customized curriculum, your preferred schedule, undivided attention, deeper support (60-120 days), and personalized business strategy. Q: How do I book private training?A: Purchase private option, we'll email within 24 hours to schedule your custom date. Q: Can I bring a friend to private training?A: Yes! Price covers 1-2 people. Add note at checkout if bringing someone. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 THE DEEPER MEANING This masterclass isn't just about hosting parties. It's about creating spaces where healing happens. Dr. Walsh has witnessed:• Broken relationships restored over tea• Families reconnecting after years of silence• Strangers becoming friends• Grief softening in the presence of warmth and ritual• Communities choosing connection over division Her mother, Shirley Walsh Young, took her final sip of tea just hours before passing in December 2024. That ceremonial moment—tea as love language, as sacred ritual—is why this work matters. When you learn to host tea parties, you're learning to:• Create pause in a rushed world• Facilitate connection across differences• Hold space for healing and joy• Honor traditions while creating new ones• Make the world a little softer, kinder, more connected One party at a time. One cup at a time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ READY TO BEGIN? Select your learning path:• Online group session (June or July) - Learn with community• Private training (your schedule) - Personalized intensive Walk in uncertain. Walk out ready to host your first party. Let's teach you to host tea parties that matter. 🍵 Questions? Email: [email protected] "After 2,000 tea parties, I know what works. And I'm going to teach you everything—so you can create your own magic, in your own way, for your own community." — Dr. Janet "Tea Maven" WalshFounder, National Afternoon Tea Month In honor of Shirley Walsh Young (1943-2024)Who said "yes" to her daughter's dreamWho shared tea until her final sipWho taught that tea is the language of love
