Fortune Telling Plants
1. Orientation
To begin with, tellers welcome their visitors, saying "Welcome to the Fortune Telling Plants World." The tellers explain how they will lead the visitors to the experience and brief background information. (Ancient belief from Asia) Then they tell what kind of information the visitors will be informed.
Script
Welcome to the fortune telling plant experience. Today, we will try to connect you with the ancient plant intelligence. The plant will help us to open up your deep characteristics, and also what you might want to change in the future. It comes from an ancient traditional belief from Asia.
2. Crisis
In the stage, the tellers start to link the visitor's spirit to the plants. To do this, they ask to write down the visitor's name on a name tag. After this process, the tellers analyze the visitor's name while explaining how it matches with the five elements below.
- Fire：A、M、N、V、X
- Water：B、Q、S、U、W
- Metal：O、C、D、G、J、R、P
- Soil：E、F、T、Z
- Wood：I、H、K、L、Y
Script
Please write down your name on this tag. It can analyze how much energy do you have of five elements: Wood, Fire, Soil, Metal, and Water. Each english alphabet can represent one kind of elements based on the appearance of it. For example，"J" is Metal, because J looks like hook, which is made of metal. Your name can tell what kind of characteristics you are having or what issue you are experiencing right now.
3. Escalation
In the Escalation, the tellers let visitor chose one of five cards that she/he is attracted. Each card has a photo of different plant. Then they compare the picked card with the paper with an analysis of the name.
Script
Please choose one plant card that you feel is speaking to you right now. Based on their growing environment and condition, as well as their appearance, we decide each plants have their own attribution towards the five elements.
Cards
4. Discovery
The tellers let the visitor put the name tag into a prepared pot that is filled with soil. Then they explain her/his personality based on the result of the analysis and the connections between them and the plant. Below is the list of the personalities and materials that are represented by each element.
- Soil / Earth - determination, strong mind, kind, generous, stone, dust, sand, gravity, ash, smoke
- Wood - peace, positive, high confidence, creativity, self-motivated, stubborn, envy, sound, mountain, paper
- Water - smart, concern, honest, pureness, transparent, sea, rain, time, shadow, snow, ice
- Fire - passion, bad-temper, hot blood, brave, friendship, light, soap, fruit, flower
- Metal - follow the rules, strict, pride, good at business, adaptability, talkative, adhere to the principle, (a little bit offensive), electricity, magnet, mirror, iron, thunder
Script
Then you need to put your name tag and the plant card into the soil together, in order to build a connection to your soul. Then, depending on the diagram of you and the plant you choose, it shows a lot of information about yourself. We'll help the plant to explain each revealing parts for you.
5. Change
In the end, the tellers give the visitor the diagram(analysis of the name) and the plant.
Script
In the end, you can get your own diagram and also your own plant, which can help to remind you what kind of person you wanted to be.
Feedback
1. Change the color of the cards. Some of them have similar colors and it can influence the visitor's decision.2. Explain how the tellers analyze the visitor's name based on the five elements.
3. Make a clear closure. Think about how to end this experience to make it more memorable.
4. Point out the similarity or difference between the plants and the visitors.
