Turning the Tide of Trauma

"Strong communities help individuals to heal. Strong individuals help communities to heal."

THE COMMUNITY SELF-CARE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM

How can we fill the gaps that leave so many of
the world's people completely neglected?

How can we turn the tide of the trauma...
of the devastation of violence and conflict?

Is it possible for communities to regain the promise of our human
birthright to activate our potential and pursue a purposeful life?

OUR MISSION

To bring about better conditions in communities in need through collaboration and partnership, offering knowledge and skills of value in resolving and healing from the devastating impact of violence, conflict, and natural disasters, with the core principle of honoring the innate wisdom of human beings and their ability to explore their own challenges and experiences within the context of their own culture and world view, so as to regain resilience, power of choice, and control over their own lives.

"It is my belief that the peoples of the earth live within the webs of cultural and social forces, much as stars and planets exist within webs of natural forces that both bind them together and keep them apart. Though we seem to live as separate individuals, nations, cultures, and faiths, we are one in our humanity." – Heidi Hardin, Artist and Founder of Think Round Inc.

The CSDP is a program of Think Round Inc. a community education non-profit organization dedicated to healing the human family through the arts, science, and community collaboration.

"We hold a vision of a better future where the human family thrives in a world whose air, water, and soil provide in abundance for its plants, animals, and people. Through educational programs, projects, initiatives and activities that are designed to mend our broken heart strings and in collaboration with the programs, projects, initiative and activities of people globally to establish effective, informed stewardship of the world and each other."

For more information about Turning the Tide of Trauma visit: http://www.turningthetideoftrauma.org/ or call (415) 602-9599 or email Heidi at heidi@heidihardin.com to sign up for our bi-annual open enrollments for free trauma incident reduction therapy.

CSDP Facilitator Training

August 6th - 18th 2019

HARDIN STUDIO classes celebrate family and explore family creativity!

ONGOING CLASSES are presented in a 12 week series on Saturday mornings from 10-11:30 at HARDIN STUDIOS, 2140 Bush Street, Suite 1B, San Francisco, CA 94115.

Classes are introduced by fine artists each week based on artworks from Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Oceania that are borrowed from the Education Department of the de Young Museum. Our artists guide projects that explore family roles: ancestors, grandparents, moms, dads, boys, girls, infants, adolescents and family setting: home, front yard, backyard.

Family members work together to make variety of masks (human, animal, spirit), button blankets, Grecian urns, ancestor dolls, pyramids, kachina dolls, and ceramics of all kinds.

Our purpose is to have fun learning new things about each other as well as to discover and explore artworks from cultures of the world that are direct evidence of the continuity of our shared past. At the end of each series of classes, your art is displayed at here at HARDIN STUDIO for your viewing pleasure.

Classes cost $40/week per family for ages 2-12 with up to two children plus $20/child after that; teens ages 13-17 do not need to be accompanied by an adult and pay the same fees. No family will be turned away for lack of funds. Join us in our next program that will begin November 2, 2013. Continental breakfast is available for everyone. If you would like to sponsor a family to enjoy our classes or for more information please contact heidi@heidihardin.com or call: (415) 771-2198.

think round fine arts classes celebrate family and explore family creativity!

ONGOING CLASSES are presented in a 12 week series on Saturday mornings from 10:30-noon at THINK ROUND FINE ARTS, 2140 Bush Street, Suite 1B, San Francisco, CA 94115.

Classes are introduced by fine artists each week based on artworks from Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Oceania. Our artists guide projects that explore family roles: ancestors, grandparents, moms, dads, boys, girls, infants, adolescents and family setting: home, front yard, backyard.

Family members work together to make masks, button blankets, Grecian urns, ancestor dolls, pyramids, Kachina dolls, animal masks, ceramics of all kinds.

Having fun and learning new things about each other and the world is our purpose. At the end of each series of classes, your art is displayed at here at HARDIN STUDIO for your viewing pleasure.

Drop-in classes are free of charge ; teens ages 13-17 do not need to be accompanied by an adult. No family or teen will be turned away for lack of funds. If you would like to sponsor a family, please let us know. We would greatly appreciate your support. Join us on October 13-14, 2018 until the end of the year for our next series of classes. For more information please heidi@heidihardin.com or call: (415) 602-9599.

Families enjoy the exhibition of their artworks at an end of the 10 week sessions of making art. Here we see pyramids that hold all that each family members desire in their afterlife: shoes, foods, sports equipment, homes, and the like!

Family enjoy their Button Blanket crafted after those at the deYoung Museum.

Animal Masks are always a huge hit with big kids and little kids.

If your school would like the Children's Mural Program as part of your art and science curriculum, please contact heidi@heidihardin.com.

Think Round, Inc. loves sharing the important news about the clean up and reuse of Hunters Point Shipyard. As the redevelopment process proceeds in earnest in the coming months and years, 700 acres of waterfront property will become available to San Francisco residence for enjoying home and business ownership, shopping and recreation. Our curriculum makes the complex issues of the environmental cleanup and reuse accessible to students of all ages, while making learning about the precious nature of air, water, and soil and the past, present, and future of the Shipyard lots of fun. Each year after twelve weeks of painting about the environment, our students create a public artwork for display in their neighborhood or potentially at the Shipyard. Join us!

A new public artwork created by San Francisco artists working with local children and youth…

Stream of Consciousness

is a new public artwork produced by Think Round Inc., commissioned by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, created by Heidi Hardin working with Colette Crutcher, Margo Bors and Nikki Lau—all teaching after-school and fifth grade students at Willie L. Brown Jr. Academy with help from students and teachers at Thurgood Marshall Academic High School and Amador Valley High School all supported by a cadre of teen artists/interns from City College of San Francisco.

Stream of Consciousness is a rich banner of animated visual images telling the story of water—from the depths of the sea to the constellations of the sky—through original visual images that were handmade in clay by children and youth and our artists. The children’s tiles are interspersed by a ribbon of specially selected quotes from historic and contemporary science and literature that were hand-stamped into clay by interns. When the panels are laid in one line, they will stretch 120 feet across the back of two public park benches at Hunters Point Shipyard becoming an integral element of outdoor seating that for the about-to-be constructed public park and a prominent designs feature that will afford both visitors and residents stunning views of the Bay Region!

Water’s story made over a period of six months in a workshop classroom at Willie L. Brown Academy in San Francisco. The artwork is composed of 24- handmade panels. Each panel is 1’ high by 5’ long and approximately 1” thick.

Special seating element for the new Shipyard Hilltop Park…

STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS begins to flow as the twenty four panels are installed at Hunters Point Shipyard Hill Point Park in January 2016.

The 24-mosaic panels are now installed with bench seating.

An initiative of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency…

Steam of Consciousness was commissioned by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, Hunters Point Shipyard Project and is a part of the Cultural Historic Recognition Program known as CHRP, and one of 11-community benefits programs.

The public artwork is one of nine artworks commissioned by the Agency for Hilltop Park following a national, open artist search and intensive local community outreach effort in 2009. Nine artists were selected by an art jury comprised of representatives from the community, professional arts leaders, the developer Lennar and the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. Artists Jerry Ross Barrish, Marion Coleman, Jessica Bodner, Matthew Geller, Mildred Howard with Walter Hood, Eric Powell, Rebar Group, and Jason Webster in addition to Heidi Hardin comprise this first group of artists to create work for the new Shipyard. Many of the artists have personal or artistic roots in the Shipyard and some celebrate historic themes about the Shipyard or Bayview Hunters Point community.

HPS Public Art also conducts a model youth in public art program produced by California Lawyers for the Arts (C.L.A.) for the Agency. Youth have an opportunity to meet the nine artists and learn about their plans for the public art commissions while engaging in hands-on arts activities and visiting artist studios and museums.

The HPS Public Art projects are supported by the Agency and funded by a grant from the United States Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration (EDA).

For more information about Stream of Consciousness please contact artist Heidi Hardin at heidi@heidihardin.com or (415) 692-9599.
For information about the Hunters Point Shipyard Project or HPS Public Art program please contact Amabel Akwa-Asare at Amabel.Akwa-Asare@sfgov.org or (415) 749-2592.