Author: Elyse
Galleries: Toronto, Canada: High Park, Toronto Waldorf School, Queen’s Park
This willow tree located in High Park in Toronto ( near a stream close to the entrance to the zoo) seems to indicate a connection to some kind of geometrical/mathematical principle. I visited it...
Galleries: Guatemala
New types of trees that I had not yet encountered. It was clear that the hocote trees on the school grounds were very relational with the people and had been changed by the activity...
Galleries: Dyer’s Bay, Ontario, Canada and Macinaw Island, Michigan, USA
The landscape here has unique qualities. Limestone cliffs, white cedar growing without soil, water that is from the far North ( via Georgian Bay). Manitoulin island nearby is known by Native people to be...
Introduction to Tree Conversation Work: Questions and Answers
What do you mean by a tree conversation? A conversation arises in the space in between those who are having the conversation. It can bring something new if those involved are open to change....
The Tree of Life: Trees from my past. The butterfly tree.
If I trace my research into communications with trees I remember a time, (1988) when I lived on Salt Spring Island. We were in a house overlooking an inlet where a pod of orcas...
Tree Conversations: Article for International Institute for Transformation February 2015 newsletter
Suggested title “What trees have to tell us” The great Oracle at Delphi was a community who devoted their lives to the work of being the voice of the gods. They were able...
The Ancient Trollsgarden Oak: OOland Sweden: A sea of sounding colour
Prior to my understanding what my Maple tree friend ( In cedarvale ravine in Toronto in 2005) meant by “Make art with me”: ( at first I though he meant make art for him...
Researching Relationships with Trees: My first experiment
I was agitated, angry and sad in other words full of disruptive emotions! I was walking my dog wondering how I would or could communicate about what I perceived as a lie. I heard...