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All Singing Tree Murals 150 The Elm Singing Tree of Light in the Darkness More 149 Singing Tree of Our Values More 148 The Monongalia County Singing Tree of Patience and Acceptance While Branching Out Into the Future More 147 Singing Tree of Grace and Grit More 146 The Sea Grape Singing Tree of Goodwill More 145 Casa Singing Tree of Trust, Love, and Community More 144 The Desert Willow Branches to Roots Singing Tree of Propagation and Regeneration More 143 The Cottonwood Singing Tree of Tapping the Aquifer of Goodwill Amidst the Storm More 142 The Listening Tree of Life, Earth and Indigenous Wisdom More 141 The Singing Tree of Balance, Peace and Freedom More 140 Olive Singing Tree Mural of Becoming More 139 The Vitex Singing Tree of Healing Relationship with Self, Earth, Others and the Divine More 138 The Singing Tree of Ms. Rivera More 137 The Azbil Singing Tree of Innovative Technology Based in Love More 136 The Singing Tree of a Just and Democratic Economy More 135 The Northwest Roanoke Oak Singing Tree of Resiliency More 134 The Mesquite Party for the Planet Singing Tree More 133 The Willow Singing Tree of Trust More 132 The Singing Tree of Reproductive Freedom that Restores Mother Earth More 131 Songs of Our Mothers: The 131st Singing Tree More 130 The El Paso City of Peace Singing Tree More 129 The Kenyan Singing Tree of Hope That Through All Her Pain, the Motherland Will Continue to Support Life More 128 The Singing Tree of Creating Creative Community More 127 Singing Tree of Radical Loving Imagination More 126 The Madrone and Redwood Singing Tree of Peace and Justice More

1d8ca89e-d57f-4e1d-8ff7-2010054c1f89 Back to Gallery Mural # 150 The Elm Singing Tree of Light in the Darkness 1/1 This painting was created for the benefit of Candlelighters, El Paso, a non-profit who serves children and their families experiencing cancer. It was made possible by a donation from CASA Nissan to Unity Through Creativity Foundation, who facilitated its creation. Over 100 people attending the International Day of Peace Symposium on Sept. 20th and 21st at the University of Texas at El Paso contributed images of Light in the Dark on the leaves and prayers for those being served by Candlelighters. The children and their families added images on the candles and birds. The central figure of a child holding a candle in the darkness stands for all children who are wrestling with hardship and challenge, specifically with cancer. The Singing Tree® Mural Project began in 1999 when an 8-year-old girl asked “What if the whole world made a painting together?” Using the model of trees and forests, over 27,000 people from 64 countries have made 150 murals that demonstrate the beauty, power and possibility of collaboration. The whole world’s invited. Date: November 21, 2025 Facilitator: Laurie Marshall Partners: Casa Nissan Location: El Paso, TX, USA Previous Next

< Back Kathleen Brigidina Board Member at Large Kathleen is an Artist, Creative Doula and Earth Activist whose mission is to nurture creativity and reconnect to Earth as an accelerated path to unite communities and inspire transformation for a healthy world. Kathleen is an Artist, Creative Doula and Earth Activist whose mission is to nurture creativity and reconnect to Earth as an accelerated path to unite communities and inspire transformation for a healthy world. Blending a vast array of formal education, experience and accomplishments, her work takes prismatic form as a Sacred Earth Artist, Coach, Teacher, Facilitator, Muralist, Curator, Community Coordinator, Water Ceremonialist, Book Author/Illustrator, Poet, Writer, Visual Meditation Guide, EcoNidra & Celtic Earth Energy Practitioner. She is a Singing Tree Facilitator, Trainer and Board Member of Unity Through Creativity, Visionary Advisor and Creative Coach for MUSEA University, Chairwoman of Elgin Green Groups, and Wisdom Council Member for Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment (GATE). She lives in Chicago. The Singing Tree of Balance, Peace and Freedom More The Listening Tree of Life, Earth and Indigenous Wisdom More Lighting the Way More Wheel of Cocreation & Conscious Evolution More Tree of Community & Simple Balance More Rise and Shine - Awakening Heart to Heart More Celebrate Water as a Global Conduit for Peace More

7f5eb6c9-2058-4082-a996-c856958b09ba Back to Gallery Mural # 85 The Banyan Singing Tree of the Beloved Community 1/1 George Washington University’s e-Co Leadership Coaching Certificate program asked the 15 participants to reflect on what they learned. I facilitated a collaborative creative process. Together they created the Banyan Singing Tree of the Beloved Community. Just as leaves convert sunlight into food and drop to the ground to fertilize the soil, the Banyan LEAVES symbolize: What service do I wish to bring to the world? Flying, soaring, swooping, gliding, flocking, pivoting BIRDS symbolize the free and inspiring movement of a coach in the world. The imagery of the birds answer the question: What is my wish for myself as a coach? Humans begin as devouring little caterpillars. Most of us go through a stage when we have a protective outer shell while we fall apart inside without knowing that something magnificent will emerge. The butterfly symbolizes: How did the program transform me? Date: July 23, 2020 Facilitator: Laurie Marshall Partners: George Washington University Location: 2121 I St NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA Previous Next

3bd57b2f-8fa7-40ab-a1d1-b024ffa15da4 Back to Gallery Mural # 77 AIMS High School Restorative Justice Singing Tree 1/1 The Restorative Justice Singing Tree Mural co-designed with AIMS high school students focusing on repairing harm and building trust. Funding from Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth , California Arts Council , the Peaceful World Foundation and Oakstop . "Criminal Justice sees crime as broken laws and justice as punishment. Restorative justices sees crime as broken lives and justice as healing. Forgiveness is neither required or guaranteed in Restorative Justice. Nor is it a determinant of success. Success happens in well-prepared and well-facilitated encounters where persons who have been harmed feel safe enough to freely share their stories and express their needs and persons causing harm tell the truth, express remorse and responsibility and offer reparations. Success continues when all parties together fashion a plan to repair harm that is actually carried out. This may - or may not - lead to forgiveness. Either way, Restorative Justice has done its job." Fania Davis, The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice (Davis founded Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth ) Date: July 25, 2020 Facilitator: Laurie Marshall and Lili Lopez Partners: Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth California Arts Council Peaceful World Foundation Oakstop AIMS Bioneers Location: Oakland, CA, USA Previous Next

a7048a90-917b-4ae7-91c6-5b2d4db2c665 < Back This is Our World 1/1 ! Widget Didn’t Load Check your internet and refresh this page. If that doesn’t work, contact us. Sperryville, VA 22740, USA Previous Next

c8d5fb12-6e13-4b7f-9225-65c3d4cf384a Back to Gallery Mural # 144 The Desert Willow Branches to Roots Singing Tree of Propagation and Regeneration 1/1 People from ages 7 to 85 from many heritages - Hispanic, Chinese, Indian, Native American, European, African-American - came together to add their vision of blossoming, watering and working for a world where everyone thrives. This project is funded by NOAA and led by Fernanda Lugo in conjunction with a citizen science propagation of native trees from suckers that are growing out of the tree. This coming together of people to nurture nature and people is the world we know is possible. Date: May 3, 2025 Facilitator: Fernanda Lugo Partners: NOAA Benito Juarez Elementary School, Ft. Hancock, Texas Keystone Heritage Park, El Paso, Texas University of Texas at El Paso’s World Water Week Leadership Academy Eco-El Paso YWCA, El Paso Isaac Art and Wellness Center, Socorro, Texas La Nube Location: El Paso, TX, USA Previous Next

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c3e9fd54-c125-4a5d-9499-045f39208bbf Back to Gallery Mural # 98 Singing Tree of Love Born Out of the Darkness 1/1 THE SINGING TREE OF LOVE OUT OF DARKNESS - done as a group effort at Rush Ranch , in the Crescent Moon Center's pilot program, with the wonderful help from the Singing Tree Project. Made with the amazing women of the Crescent Moon Center . This visionary program combines horses, poetry and art. Collaboration and celebration. Date: July 17, 2021 Facilitator: Laurie Marshall Partners: Crescent Moon Center Rush Ranch Location: 1007 Oak Hill Rd, Lafayette, CA 94549, USA Previous Next

8feb54f4-cf08-4215-899d-83acf6df8824 Back to Gallery Mural # 83 Rooftop Singing Tree of Solutions 1/1 The Rooftop Elementary School of San Francisco's Singing Tree of Solutions. 66 students dedicated a star to someone in their family who is no longer with us. Wooden leaves were painted by the rest of the students and glued on. Dedicated parents gave a final UV protectorant varnish coat. Date: December 5, 2019 Facilitator: Laurie Marshall Partners: The Rooftop Elementary School Location: 443 Burnett Ave, San Francisco, CA 94131, USA Previous Next

Unity Through Creativity Play Video Play Video 03:36 Unity Through Creativity アズビル・シンギングツリー：愛に根ざした革新的技術 3日間のチームビルディングワークショップ - 創造性と協働の科学 日本、シンガポール、米国のアズビル社員26名によって作られました Play Video Play Video 05:05 Unity Through Creativity Creative Feminine Leadership Guiding the Singing Tree Project | Japanese Creative Feminine Leadership Guiding the Singing Tree Project | Japanese Play Video Play Video 03:02 Unity Through Creativity Piner-Olivet Singing Tree Mural Project 3 Singing Tree Murals made in the Fall of 2023 by students of Piner-Olivet Union School District. Play Video Play Video 10:37 Unity Through Creativity Unity Through Creativity Founder Laurie Marshall Unity Through Creativity Founder Laurie Marshall interviewed by Kenny Granville. Play Video Play Video 05:05 Unity Through Creativity Feedback from the Lead Design Team of CASA Autogroup’s Innovative Team Building Training None of Us Are Ever Alone If We Choose It In November 2023, the World Health organization declared loneliness a "global public health concern. With rapid change swirling around us, strengthening family and community is a health imperative. After completing The CASA Singing Tree of Trust, Love and Community, Comptroller David Canales commented, "What I will take back to my work at Casa Autogroup is to remind myself that none of us are ever alone if we choose it." https://www.unitythroughcreativity.org/singing-tree-murals/casa-singing-tree-of-trust-love-and-community Play Video Play Video 05:41 Unity Through Creativity Casa Singing Tree of Trust, Love, and Community | Short Making the Casa Singing Tree of Trust, Love, and Community with Casa Auto in El Paso TX. Play Video Play Video 15:34 Unity Through Creativity Making the Casa Singing Tree of Trust, Love, and Community | Casa Auto Over the course of nine days Unity Through Creativity led seven Singing Tree® Mural workshops with the Casa Auto Group based in El Paso, Texas. We took our starting point from the vision Casa Auto Group has of itself: Casa is home, and home is heaven. The Casa Singing Tree project began with a Lead Design Team that included the three owners and twenty managers and executives. They selected the theme of trust, love, and community, designed the mural, and painted the background. Then the five UTC facilitators took the mural to six locations for employees to add leaves, birds, stars—and for this mural, acorns, because the tree the Lead Design Team chose is the Texas live oak, a favorite of Wally’s, a tree that spreads its branches wide enough to include everyone beneath it. The 442 people at Casa Auto Group who created the Casa Singing Tree of Trust, Love, and Community experienced the depth of the connection they have with each other, many for the first time. They began building the wider community of Casa Auto through stepping outside their routines and seeing each other not as sales people, as service people, as accountants or managers or owners—but as human beings. They had an immediate experience that their contribution to the mural and to Casa Auto Group is unique and essential, that each one has something to give that only she or he can give. https://www.unitythroughcreativity.org/the-singing-tree-project Play Video Play Video 04:14 Unity Through Creativity Joanna Vaughn Creative Community Teambuilding Facilitator | Testimonial Creative Community Teambuilding Facilitator Joanna Vaughn shares her experience as a facilitator. Play Video Play Video 41:33 Unity Through Creativity From Turnover to Team Building | Seminar From Turnover to Team Building presented by Laurie Marshall, founder of Unity Through Creativity. Join us for From Turnover to Teambuilding II Sat. April 19, 2025 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Play Video Play Video 25:36 Unity Through Creativity Interview with Sonda Folk Cheesebrough Selfless Acts of Kindness - Sonda Folk Cheesbrough Blog: https://www.unitythroughcreativity.org/post/selfless-acts-of-kindness-sonda-folk-cheesbrough Daniel Sky video: https://vimeo.com/115445386 Play Video Play Video 04:58 Unity Through Creativity International Day of Peace Symposium | 2024 This Symposium was part of over 5000 nationwide gatherings for this year’s UN’s Global Peace Day, whose theme is “Cultivating a Culture of Peace.” As in past years, we focused on Peace Within, Peace With Each Other and Peace with the Earth. The goal was to build and strengthen networks of local and national peace practitioners. We seeked to achieve this end by fostering an Interactive and Creative Time featuring the public. There wase Round Table discussions, local organization panels, live-streamed Speakers, Collaborative Art-making and Cultural Celebrations. Play Video Play Video 00:57 Unity Through Creativity Become a Singing Tree Facilitator | Co-Heart #9 The Singing Tree Facilitator Certification Program Peace-Building Through Art - Inspired by Nature January 2025 Sat. 18th, Sun. 19th, and Mon. 20th Apply here: https://www.unitythroughcreativity.org/singing-tree-payment-plans-tx Play Video Play Video 03:36 Unity Through Creativity The Azbil Singing Tree of Innovative Technology Based in Love The Singing Tree® Project conducted a breakthrough program with the Japanese-based automation company Azbil. Azbil brings technological solutions to large-scale building automation challenges such as ventilation and fire detection for skyscrapers. Their work impacts the areas of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) articulated by the United Nations. Azbil desires to bring their technological innovations into harmony with the SDGs, and they turned to Unity Through Creativity to amplify their commitment. Learn more: https://www.unitythroughcreativity.org/singing-tree-murals/the-azbil-singing-tree-of-innovative-technology-based-in-love Play Video Play Video 31:25 Unity Through Creativity Peace with Each Other Panel | International Day of Peace Symposium Peace with Each Other Panel for the International Day of Peace Symposium 2024 Play Video Play Video 23:32 Unity Through Creativity Peace Within Panel | International Day of Peace Symposium Peace Within Panel for the International Day of Peace Symposium 2024 in El Paso, TX Play Video Play Video 16:43 Unity Through Creativity Stephen Niamke | International Day of Peace Symposium Stephen Niamke National Field Organizer, PAX Christi USA speaks at the International Day of Peace Symposium 2024 Play Video Play Video 16:12 Unity Through Creativity Peace with the Earth Panel | International Day of Peace Symposium Panelists Panelists speaking on Peace with the Earth at the International Day of Peace Symposium 2024 Play Video Play Video 14:51 Unity Through Creativity Grandma Bea | Internaional Day of Peace Symposium 2024 Grandma Bea speaks at Internaional Day of Peace Symposium 2024 Play Video Play Video 32:59 Unity Through Creativity Devo Peña | International Day of Peace Symposium Devo Peña speaks at the International Day of Peace Symposium in El Paso 2024 Play Video Play Video 05:40 Unity Through Creativity Neema Soratgar Speech | International Day of Peace | 2024 This year Neema was not able to join us in person but Dr. Hilda Ontiveros, Director of Gender and Women’s Studies, from The University of El Paso read Neema's speech at this years International Day of Peace Symposium. 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dc82aab5-7f88-415b-a296-6ff63644af4b Back to Gallery Mural # 1 Elm Singing Tree 1/1 Made by 1000 students in Rappahannock County, VA, including homeschoolers, private school students and public school students, led by the high school art students at RCHS. This was the first Singing Tree™. Date: August 18, 2001 Facilitator: Laurie Marshall Partners: NA Location: Rappahannock County, VA, USA Previous Next