Our Design Process For Healing & Wellbeing
In designing for healing & wellbeing, the intention of our practice is to create peace with nature, while designing spaces that are balanced, healthy, and promote wellness, stimulate creativity and healing within the built environment
Trauma Responsive Care
The connection of neuroscience and the cognitive experience means that as humans we are wired for narrative; as designers we seek to create a harmonious relationship between humans and the built environment, which then gives life to the narrative. In the field of trauma, we have learned that some of the most challenging behaviors connected to trauma are biologically-based fear responses.
The impact of trauma affects our emotional and thinking centers. In design we have learned that how the brain responds to the built environment can impact human emotion and create the experience.
Individual trauma results from an EVENT, series of EVENTS, or set of CIRCUMSTANCES that is EXPERIENCED by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening and that has lasting adverse EFFECTS on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being. ~SAMHSA’s Trauma and Justice Strategic Initiative, July 2014
What Is Trauma?
Evidence-Based Design
Our Evidence-Based Design principles allow us to create spaces that inspire, heal and encourage the user. When designing a space, we integrate research studies, input from the end-user and outcomes-based data to create the most effective healing environment.
Through this approach the built environment becomes a part of the strategy of healing. The spaces we inhabit can cause changes in our emotions, energy levels, and overall health. Negative environments can trigger toxic stress and result in poor health conditions for employees, clients and customers.
The use of evidence-based design principles improves the design process by allowing us to clearly define the goals and process to deliver the best outcome for our client. The full spectrum result is a human-centered focus, where neuroscience, psychology, and interior design meet.