GannTree

Arts Integrated Children's Programs

GannTree approaches learning with robust programs developed in alignment with the EUME method, in practice with children.

GannTree programs are available for delivery direct from our artist educators to children ages 4-16 and also for licensing as an integrated training ground for SEL informed EUME pedagogical practice with the professional development training.

Chess Ballet Theatre (strategy and social)

Chess Ballet Theatre has been offering a multi pronged program combining music, dance, and chess. Children are immersed in the magical world of “Glittering Leaf Forest”. Which is narrated by the Storyboard Conductor to be a place of joy, dance, music, song, and play. As the Storyboard Conductor introduces the children to Glittering Leaf Forest the Songsmith introduces musical undertones which prompt the Storyboard Conductor to tell the students about “The Forces of Shadow”.

The Forces of Shadow are usurpers who have infiltrated Glittering Leaf Forest to steal the joy, dance, music, song, and play. These dark forces, led by their own dark king, do not understand the eternal abundance of the forest. It is the task of the Storyboard Conductor and the Songsmith to take the students on a journey of discovery through the land of Glittering Leaf Forest that culminates in defeating and forgiving the King of the Forces of Shadow; making the forest whole again.

Cardboard Kingdom (engineering & sound - instrument and costume creation)

Cardboard Kingdom is an joyful, learning adventure about sound, resonance, vibration, crafting, tension, compression, and listening to each other's rhythms as we play together in the discovery of paper constructed music.

 Children build xylophones, guitars, and drums while learning about how and why they work. Side by side, they pick up and exchange teachable moments, playing together, while they play together.

Art is truth - one’s capacity to create touching art is one’s capacity at telling the truth - and one’s capacity to tell the truth is one’s capacity to sit in discomfort and heal.

Founding Partners

Pamela Gardner

Vitality sees vitality.

Trained in Carl Roger’s client-centered approach, spiritual care practitioner, actor, aerialist, dancer, performer, educator, and mother, artist Pamela Gardner lives an integrated approach holding that people are trustworthy, resourceful, creative, and capable of self-understanding and self-direction, able to make constructive changes and able to live effective and productive lives.

pamela@ganntree.com

One can facilitate great growth by simply

witnessing other’s as competent and capable.

Philippe Laurent

Looking with a lens of love.

Engineer and numeric literacy advocate, Philippe Laurent approaches all through the lens of love. Patience and empathy rule as Philippe takes his manufacturing, automation and programming experience of attentiveness to minute measurements and punctuative detail and allows it to attune his educational presentations and tutoring with gentleness and care, honouring the whole human as a complete being to whom respect is due.

philippe@ganntree.com

_{Learning how to teach meant learning how to learn.}

_{Overcoming my own personal difficulties in learning and then}

_{in exploring how to help others how to learn I began to}

_{realize what it was to really know something and to share it}

_{- that I wasn’t teaching a subject I was sharing an approach.}

Program Development Partners

All our children’s programs are developed with children for children and exist in an ever evolving practice of exploration.

1. Arts For All
2. Today's Family
3. Concepts In Chess
4. Steel The Sky
5. Start Sleek Sites
6. Deep Dive Doula

Courses

Pamela and Philippe have been teaching in various disciplines for years; both in the tangible and in the intangible sciences. Their combined skills compliment each other by filling in the full spectrum of teachable experience and pedagogical practice.

Our courses have been developed with a strong emphasis on parallel creation with children. We have refined and reoriented our practices to meet the methods that children learn best and feel fulfilled so that learning and discovery are intrinsic to interacting with the world around them.

All of our courses incorporate a physical, emotional, and intellectual component. 

1. Geometry In Nature
2. Fluid Dynamic World
3. Words of Expression