The Grove of Intention Mural Unveiling Celebration: POSTPONED

Intentional Creativity© Facilitators and Artists Rosie Mac of Christchurch and International Artist Kerry Lee of the San Francisco Bay Area, California are creating an international collaboration with “The Grove of Intention”, an interactive experiential mural featuring seven large scale Klimt inspired gold metallic graphic painted trees on a dark blue background.

The mural is the second and the largest in the world of a series of Intention Trees interactive experiential public murals created by the Intentional Creativity Guild, whose members are found in seventeen countries globally.

The purpose of this series of seven symbolic trees called The Grove of Intention, is based on a singular specific inquiry for each tree. The inquiries lead to personal introspection, contemplation, creating conversation and communication, finding commonalities and ultimately building connection and community.

The trees and inquiries include:
- The Wish Tree: What is one big wish you have for yourself?
- The Peace Tree: What is one wish you have for the world?
- The Wellbeing Tree: What nourishes your soul?
- The Connection Tree: Where in Christchurch is your favourite place to be in conversation?
- The Witness Tree: How do you help improve the world?
- The Wisdom Tree: What is something you know for sure?
- The Gratitude Tree: What are you grateful for?

During the unveiling celebration you are invited to write you one-word answers on a temporary paper leaf and add it to the trees. Artists Rosie Mac and Kerry Lee will paint answers on the branches of the trees.

After the celebration citizens and visitors to Christchurch City Center are invited to visit the trees on their own, as family, with friends, as a school outing or with a group. Visitors can write their one word answers on a piece of paper and take a photo with the mural to post on social media with the hashtag: #TheGroveOfIntention

What is Intentional Creativity?
Everything within us, past, present, and future lives in story. When we create around our story, we gain clarity. When we create with intention, we activate both sides of the brain. When we activate our brain, we gain greater access to our own information, how to articulate it and how to move it from the stuck places.

Creating with intention is simply working with mindfulness in whatever we set our hands to, whether it is cooking a soup, planting a garden, writing a business plan or painting a painting.

We are more present because we choose to be and the results are different than if we are not paying attention. Intentional Creativity is an approach to creating that yields greater access to who we are now and who we are becoming, and what is possible for us and our unfolding future.

Intentional Creativity does not necessarily refer only to painting or writing, rather it expands on a philosophy of being, living, and falling in love with our lives, one another, and creation itself.

Intentional Creativity is practiced in homes, hospitals, social work settings, foster care, cancer recovery, homeless shelters, classrooms, circles and in the form of interactive public art. It is also used in ceremonies like wakes, births or weddings.

“Intentional Creativity is a method that is accessible to all to discover or rediscover your true self, not the you that is buried under cultural conditioning, other people’s opinions and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a child that became your beliefs about you are. It’s a returning to your own bright navigational North Star and inner guidance.” - Kerry Lee, The Alchemical Artist

“Intentional Creativity is a magical way of navigating both the internal and external journey of life, an expansion of the world view where possibility abounds." - Rosie Mac, Artist,

“Intentional creativity is a path to accessing the within – the language of the heart.” - Shiloh Sophia , Artist & one of the Founders of the Intentional Creativity Foundation