Workshop

The future of TAE Trees is not just making trees for you to enjoy!

In 2025, we will be starting a Pilot project with homeschoolers from Orillia, Ontario.  The Tree Story workshop will challenge youth to look at trees differently.  Students will finish with their own TAE Tree.

  

         We want to be developing your ability to read and write tree-stories 

(develop do-it-yourself skill).

 What's in a TAE Tree workshop?

 

 TAE Tree 101 - Level A: ($101.00)

Time involved: one class of 2 hours
      1-2 follow-up classes of 1/2 hour

→ Explore the difference between art and decoration:
     investing your art with meaning and significance
→ Bonsai styles and the context which produced these genres
→ Explore various tree stories
→ Find and develop a new voice in a growing art medium
→ Develop the artist: growing in self-knowledge helps growth in knowing others

This course level produces a small simple tree (3-5 Stage tree)

 

TAE Tree 201 - Level 2: ($202.00)

→ Discuss "authorities for making meaning"
→ Discover the shift in meaning-making from Enlightenment through to Post-Modernity
→ Bonsai philosophy
→ Developing the idea of trees as living metaphors - as opposed to other grammars for self-understanding (explore the Tree Poem)
→ Learn to interpret tree stories and their metaphors
→ Develop new skills in tree-making
→ Develop the artist: growing in the knowledge of prejudice and its development

 This course level produces a larger tree (5-6 stage tree)

 

 

TAE Tree 301 - Level 3: ($202.00 + material cost)

→ Explore and critique  "authorities for making meaning"
→ Discover the shifts in meaning-making being used today: what/who are the big players?
→ Discover the art of interpretation - a gift of Western Civilization
→ Developing healthy life-structures for becoming a tree-maker: embracing trees as living metaphors
→ Write various tree stories and their metaphors
→ Develop new skills in tree-making
→ Develop the artist: toward developing a meta-culture, overcoming prejudice and blocks to development
→  Invitation toward becoming a community of tree-makers
→ Last thoughts on tree-making
→ Branch-turning specializations

This course level produces a tree of any size (6 stage tree)
(Available purchase of "TAE tree kits level 2" - to make your own)

Contact David Warner to talk about doing a TAE Tree workshop

  [more to come]