3 Singing Tree Murals made in the Fall of 2023 by students of Piner-Olivet Union School District.

Unity Through Creativity Founder Laurie Marshall interviewed by Kenny Granville.

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

Making the Casa Singing Tree of Trust, Love, and Community with Casa Auto in El Paso TX.

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

Creative Community Teambuilding Facilitator Joanna Vaughn shares her experience as a facilitator.

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

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

​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.

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

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

Peace with Each Other Panel for the International Day of Peace Symposium 2024

Peace Within Panel for the International Day of Peace Symposium 2024 in El Paso, TX

Stephen Niamke National Field Organizer, PAX Christi USA speaks at the International Day of Peace Symposium 2024

Panelists speaking on Peace with the Earth at the International Day of Peace Symposium 2024

Grandma Bea speaks at Internaional Day of Peace Symposium 2024

Devo Peña speaks at the International Day of Peace Symposium in El Paso 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.

IDOPS Promo 1 2024

The Willow Singing Tree of Trust made with students in Albany Middle School.