My favorite projects to teach are interactive ones, particularly Yoko Ono inspired Wish Trees. It never ceases to amaze me how personal, moving, silly, thoughtful, compassionate, and heartbreaking the wishes end up being. A reminder that so many people, youth especially, are crying out to have their voice heard in a world that typically tells them there is only one right answer for something and rarely asks them what they care or dream about.
You can create a Wish Tree of your own at home, at church, at your mosque, ashram, synagogue, meditation center, backyard, neighborhood, in the park, school, friend's house-anywhere there are trees! Can't find a tree? Paint your own on a big piece of paper and use sticky-notes.
For more information about Yoko Ono's Wish Tree project, please visit website below. She has collected over a million wishes and they are being buried in time capsules at the base of the John Lennon Imagine Peace Tower.
You can also tweet wishes or send facebook wishes!
mail all the wishes to IMAGINE PEACE TOWER, PO Box 1009, 121 Reykjavik, Iceland.
http://imaginepeacetower.com/yoko-onos-wish-trees
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