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46e9f54f-316f-467e-83d5-3df0ba506f23 Back to Gallery Mural # 99 Oak and Linden Singing Trees of Wholeness and Belonging 1/1 Facilitated by Joanna Vaughn who worked with Escuelita Amiguitos, The Austin Quaker Meeting and Austin Tan Cera de La Forntera. Date: May 16, 2022 Facilitator: Joanna Vaughn Partners: Escuelita Amiguitos The Austin Quaker Meeting Austin Tan Cera de La Frontera (ACTF) Location: Austin, TX, USA Previous Next

< Back Elenna Goodman Board Member Elenna holds a BA in Political Science from Barnard College (NY), an MA in Anthropology and Social Change from CIIS (SF). Her work is devoted to gathering and nourishing community as creative spaces of healing and sanctuary to support communication and connection. Elenna has worked with individuals, organizations, communities and spontaneously arising groups at the threshold of change, navigating the sometimes chaotic, often grief laden and ultimately inspiring terrain between one iteration of life and another. As it best benefitted the situation, she’s been known as an Organizational Consultant, Program Founder/Director/Team Member/Designer, Community Organizer, Guide, Mentor, Coach, Counselor, Teacher, Writer, Dancer/Storyteller, Curator of Healing Spaces, Ritualist & Ceremonialist. And often, simply a Healing Presence. Her work is devoted to gathering and nourishing community as creative spaces of healing and sanctuary to support communication and connection where separation may have prevailed. Reciprocity, collaboration, deep listening, curiosity, rigorous hope, gratitude, compassion and commitment to the well-being of Mother Earth and all Life are values that guide her. Elenna holds a BA in Political Science from Barnard College (NY) and a MA in Anthropology and Social Change from CIIS (SF). She has been trained in Council Facilitation rooted in the Ojai Foundation lineage, and is a Practicing Rites of Passage Guide trained by School Of Lost Borders founders Steven Foster and Meredith Little. She has had the privilege of training with Joanna Macy in the Work that Reconnects, Deena Metzger - healer, community holder, medicine person and writer, Francis Weller in the sacred work of grief and renewal, and with Marti Spiegelman in her work of bringing the original technologies of consciousness into meaningful relationship with the modern world. She is deeply honored to have been mentored in a diversity of Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Practices.

This project came to Ukiah after UHS teacher Eveline Rodriguez attended a summer seminar where Marshall shared information about her project. < Back Ukiah High School collaborates with artists worldwide to spread message of kindness This project came to Ukiah after UHS teacher Eveline Rodriguez attended a summer seminar where Marshall shared information about her project. This project came to Ukiah after UHS teacher Eveline Rodriguez attended a summer seminar where Marshall shared information about her project. The project was inspired by award-winning children’s author Kate Seredy’s story of a World War I battle during which Hungarian soldiers crawled all night through total desolation. When they reached safety, there was one tree still standing, and hundreds of birds of varying species were singing together, birds that do not naturally do so, creating a unique and beautiful song. In 1999, that story inspired an 8-year-old girl to wonder what would happen if people from all over the world, from different backgrounds and traditions, came together to make something beautiful like the birds’ song. She asked, “What if the whole world made a painting together?” Today, a forest of “Singing Tree” paintings have been created by almost 12,000 people worldwide, according to Laurie Marshall, co-founder of the Singing Tree project. Each painting explores a theme and honors the essential role trees play in human life. This project came to Ukiah after UHS teacher Eveline Rodriguez attended a summer seminar where Marshall shared information about her project. With support from fellow MESA teacher Sezgin Ramirez and MESA director Matt Sweeney, Rodriguez enlisted their MESA students in an ambitious project to create the 49th singing tree mural. The name of the Ukiah High tree is the Manzanita Singing Tree of Kindness, and in it, students use art to explore questions such as, “What is a memorable act of kindness that you received or gave?” and “Is there someone you were unkind to whose trust you need to restore?” Marshall coordinated the project, coming to Ukiah on Dec. 5, 12 and 19. She asked students to draw their visions of kindness and she incorporated those visions into a final mural design. She then encouraged project participants to invite students outside the MESA class to decorate the manzanita tree by creating leaves where they shared their ideas about kindness. Rodriguez said, “Almost 50 MESA students were involved, and everyone had a role. We had committees responsible for preparing the leaves, for creating instructions so others could participate, for painting the mural, for figuring out where to display it once it’s done, and many others.” The project not only produced a beautiful work of art, it incorporated several academic subjects, as well as enhancing students’ social and emotional development. MESA students learned about the role of manzanita trees in local ecology. They used mathematics to create the grid to enlarge the master design, and they used engineering to design and build the free-standing mural with the help of the woodshop students. They also used communication skills as they collaborated with classmates and invited others to participate by adding to the mural or documenting the project for the yearbook. Students expanded their social and emotional learning as they explored kindness; and finally, they used creative expression as they produced unique images that reflected their personal understanding of kindness. Rodriguez said she was pleased so many colleagues chose to have their classes participate. “More than a dozen teachers from many different departments got involved, like English, psychology, PE, science, art, independent study, special education, and foreign language,” she said. Part of the project included more than contemplating kindness: students who shared memorable acts of kindness were encouraged to continue to practice those acts, and students who shared stories about needing to restore trust or apologize were encouraged to follow up and make amends. “For the students who participated, I think this project created awareness about kindness, and how important it is. I also think it gave them hope. It showed them they can make changes when they believe in themselves. We did this project in three weeks. We can do so much more when we work together.” To learn more about the Singing Tree project, visit www.unitythroughcreativity.net/programs/singing-tree-forest. Marshall and co-founder Lili Lopez also work with an international non-profit whose mission is peace-building through art (createpeaceproject.org). By Ukiah Daily Journal | udj@ukiahdj.com | PUBLISHED: January 23, 2018 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: August 23, 2018 at 12:00 am (used with permission) Previous Next

9312e1be-ec29-40c3-b717-02e43f42086a Back to Gallery Mural # 3 Apple Singing Tree of Appreciation 1/1 The Apple Singing Tree, whose creation was led by students from Peabody and Mt. Lebanon High School in Pittsburgh, PA, with the apples being made by handicapped students of the Children’s Institute . 12' x 8' Date: August 11, 2002 Facilitator: Laurie Marshall Partners: Peabody High School Mt. Lebanon High School Children’s Institute Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA Previous Next

be8f6738-c131-466c-90b4-91fe03505263 Back to Gallery Mural # 114 The Albany Oak Singing Tree of Strength and Happiness 1/1 A work in progress at Albany Middle School, 20 Lead Design Members, 350 additional contributors expected. Partnering with East Oakland Boxing Association . Funded by the Peaceful World Foundation and the Albany Middle School PTA. Facilitated by Sweta Chawla Date: December 29, 2022 Facilitator: Sweta Chawla Partners: Peaceful World Foundation Albany Middle School PTA Location: Albany Middle School, Brighton Avenue, Albany, CA, USA Previous Next

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Embody Kind Book Bonus Congratulations on accepting this free gift of instructions to make a mini-Singing Tree Collaborative Mural. Enjoy! SESSION 2 1.5 hours 11. Draw the tree on the earth with chalk on the galaxy you had prepared in Session 1. 12. Paint the tree on the earth. It’s fun to think about where the imaginary sun is and add light and shadow to the tree and the earth accordingly. You can portray the earth imaginatively or realistically. You get to decide together. Add details to the galaxy. Some people can paint while others make the paper elements 13. Make a stencil of the leaves of your tree. Manilla folders are good. 14. Use a template of birds from the Unity Through Creativity (UTC) website or draw your own. Make sure they fly both directions. Use the star template on the UTC website 15. Trace stencils on paper. Two or three leaves for each person. 16. Cut out leaves, birds and stars. Chat away – about your theme or whatever you want. SESSION 3 1.5 Hours 17. Make images on your leaves, birds and stars using colored pencils that envision a positive future to your challenge. Fill in all the white space of each element. Put your passion and love on to the paper. Trust your hand. We’ve been drawing for 60,000 years at least and only writing for 5000. Leaves often symbolize service, what action you will take to bring about the positive future. Birds often symbolize the dream of the positive future. Stars often stand for loved ones who are no longer with us. You can attach whatever symbolism you want. We are meaning-making animals. 18. Share the symbolism of what you have created with each other. 19. Place the paper elements on the painting. Experiment with locations. Using the Singing Tree story, the birds are flying to the tree. 20. Using the acrylic gloss medium, cover the whole paper, placing the paper elements in your chosen locations with a layer of gloss medium underneath and a layer of gloss medium over the top. Be sure to get all the air bubble out. 21. As the medium dries (15 minutes), share your experience of the Singing Tree you’ve created – your feelings, your thoughts, your appreciations for each other. 22. Put the image on the wall using push pins. Look at it together and decide where it can go to bring joy to your small community, to your larger community, to the world. 23. Decide on your next project. 24. Send Unity Through Creativity (admin@UnitythroughCreativity.org ) your high-quality Singing Tree photo and a description of your experience creating it: What you learned, felt, discovered and/or were surprised by. Please also note “freegift.”Thank you for adding to the Forest of Singing Trees. The whole world is invited!!

cee4a457-0cde-4cfe-a9a4-0ce82f4864ac Singing Tree Murals of 2021 102 The Olive Singing Tree of Evolving Elders More 101 The Singing Tree of Love and Inclusion More 99 Oak and Linden Singing Trees of Wholeness and Belonging More 98 Singing Tree of Love Born Out of the Darkness More 97 Mahogany Singing Tree to Reunite Children with Their Families More 96 The Cypress Willow Singing Tree of Growing Through What We're Going Through More 95 Banyan Singing Tree of Living Wisdom More 91 The Willow Singing Tree of Celebrating Our True Value More 90 Apple Singing Tree of Nourishment More 89 The Magnolia Singing Tree of Our Inner Wellspring More 86 The Olive Singing Tree of Health More 84 Mango Singing Tree of Peace More 55 The Juniper Singing Tree of Diné Traditions More Previous Next

< Back Bobbie Rae Jones Certified Singing Tree Facilitator Bobbie Rae Jones believes arts is an essential aspect to solving our social problems. A credentialed visual arts educator with over twenty years of experience instructing groups of all ages in a variety of modalities. Bobbie Rae Jones believes arts is an essential aspect to solving our social problems. A credentialed visual arts educator with over twenty years of experience instructing groups of all ages in a variety of modalities, she recently served disaster relief and long term recovery for 2018 Camp fire, 2020 COVID pandemic, 2020 Bear fire, and 2021 Dixie fire. She completed an MA in Art and Education: PreK-Older Adult in 2018, where she researched how to use Art Education and Socially Engaged Art to build community. Bobbie specializes in developing the muscle of the imagination as a tool, and combined with critical thinking she facilitates creatively visioning powerful results with the individual and group. Using trauma-informed practices, her intent is to transform populations affected by multiple disasters into thriving communities, aspiring to offer a positive experience to every person as a means to transform trauma into beauty, build peace and community through the arts. Bobbie has facilitated: The Singing Tree of Reproductive Freedom that Restores Mother Earth More The Magnolia Singing Tree of Our Inner Wellspring More Camp Fire Five Year Memorial More

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6964ad55-4c8c-4d36-ba2b-4428e39ed42a Singing Tree Murals of 2007 13 Gratitude Singing Tree More Previous Next

The Singing Tree Mural Project Peace Building Through Art – Inspired by Nature Singing Tree Mural Gallery Singing Tree Mural Gallery Singing Tree Certification Singing Tree Certification Enter the Forest Enter the Forest About ST A Shovel-Ready Team Building and Community Healing Program. Now Certifying Facilitators. The whole world is invited to make a painting together. The Singing Tree ® Mural Project is an invitation to everyone on the planet to transcend disconnection and loneliness by having fun creating together. It was inspired by Meredith Miller, an 8 year old school girl who asked “What if the whole world made a painting together?” When founder Laurie Marshall heard Meredith's idea, the vision of all of humanity working together resonated with a deep longing for peace in the world. She designed the Singing Tree™ mural structure - works of art created by many people working together inspired by the mutualism of trees and forests. The Singing Tree ® Mural Project demonstrates that collaboration is not only possible, but it produces extraordinary results. 144 murals have been made by over 26,000 people from 52 countries. This leadership training program incorporates Peace Literacy , neurobiology, STEAM, Worldview Exploration, Conversational Intelligence and artistic skills for both youth and adults. The title of the Singing Tree ® Mural Project is inspired by Kate Seredy’s book called The Singing Tree. She tells the story of her father, who was a soldier in World War I: One night, his battalion crawled all night long on their bellies to escape the enemy. Everything had been destroyed by war. When the dawn came, one tree was still alive. Birds from hundreds of miles away, who aren’t normally together, filled the tree, singing a song that had never been heard before. The earth is like the Singing Tree of the Solar System. All the things that divide us are not as important as the fact that there is no life around us, that we know of. We can choose to destroy each other and our Earth, or to create something beautiful, like the new song of the birds in the Singing Tree. Become a Certified Singing Tree Mural Facilitator Become a Certified Singing Tree Mural Facilitator Certification Map

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< Back Rachel Quintana Secretary Rachel Quintana, a native of El Paso, Texas, is an advocate for community unification, public service and the well-being of children. Rachel Quintana, a native of El Paso, Texas, is an advocate for community unification, public service and the well-being of children. As a Public Relations and Organizational Communication major, with a Criminal Justice minor at the University of Texas in El Paso, she has been been in marketing and sales for the Denver Broncos, Farmers Insurance, DirectTV, FedEx and SCORE, among others. Rachel has demonstrated strong leadership skills in managing a team and supervising daily office operations, providing guidance and support to staff, setting performance expectations, providing feedback and addressing issues as they arise. Community unification and outreach is her passion. She served for four years as an El Paso City Councilwoman and volunteers for Planned Parenthood and Borderland Rainbow Center. Along with being an adventurous traveler, she is also deeply committed to her daughter and granddaughter. Casa Singing Tree of Trust, Love, and Community More