Terry Cline
Posts by Terry Cline:
Getting Started With Your Dream Home
Your Place Journal & Inspirational Reading List
Gathering Images:
In some organized way, assemble data about the places in your life that make you feel comfortable and those that make you feel uncomfortable. Document their size, take photos, or make diagrams illustrating what it is within the space that evokes the response. Images of other spaces can supplement your notes – magazines are a great resource for this. Some current non-prioritized favorites for gathering images are:
Natural Home & Garden
Fine Homebuilding
Fine Homebuilding’s annual House issue
Architectural Digest
Better Homes and Gardens Building Ideas
Better Homes and Gardens Home Plan Ideas
Better Homes and Gardens Remodeling Ideas
Elle Decor
Home Magazine
House and Garden
House Beautiful Home Building
Metropolitan Home
Traditional Home
Dwell
Inspirational Reading, Somewhat prioritized book list that reflects the philosophy behind my work. *
“Not So Big Remodeling”, Sarah Susanka & Marc Vassallo; The Taunton Press, 2009, $32
Tailoring of Your Home for the Way You Really Live
“A Pattern Language”, Christopher Alexander; Oxford University Press, 1979, $50
Finding your desired patterns of behavior.
“Inside the Not So Big House”, Sarah Susanka; The Taunton Press, 2005, $35
Discovering the Details that Bring a Home to Life.
“Home By Design”, Sarah Susanka; The Taunton Press, 2004, $35
Transforming Your House Into Home.
“Outside the Not So Big House”, Sarah Susanka & Julie Messervy; The Taunton Press, 2006, $35
Transforming Your House Into Home.
“Creating The Not So Big House”, Sarah Susanka; The Taunton Press, 2004, $35
Insights and Ideas for the New American Home.
“The Not So Big House”, Sarah Susanka; The Taunton Press, 1998, $30
The merits of quality over quantity.
“Manipulating Spaces – What We Do To Them and What They Do To Us”,
Prof. Roger Richmond (SpaceTherapy® business partner), self published 500 page text book, $35
“The Temple in the House”, Anthony Lawlor, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994, $18
Finding the sacred in everyday architecture.
“The Natural House Book”, David Pearson; Fireside, New York, 1989, $20
Exploring ways of living in non-toxic environments.
“Healing Environments”, Carol Venolia; Celestial Arts, 1988, $10
Your Guide to Indoor Well-Being
* Record page numbers per book and email them to me, stating why you like or dislike images and ideas.
Developing a Program
In addition to the above collection of images and ideas gathered, create a written “Design Program” of your needs, desires, and wants – listing desired activities per space, taking care not to get attached to the labels of these spaces. Pay more attention to your desired patterns of behavior and feelings. Also list any phobias, likes or dislikes, hobbies, and anything that adds further clarity in defining your needs. (See Sample Design Program provided elsewhere.)
Developing a Memory Log
Equally important is the creation of a written memory log of the spaces you have lived in over the course of your life. While you may describe each home in detail, the primary objective is to establish your inHABITations……… the quality and character of those spaces in your life that shaped habit-forming behaviors. Your childhood bedroom, the kind and nature of home you lived in. The size, shape, color, texture, etc. of the primary spaces in your life…, and whatever else you’d like to share.
Some things to think about:
What are your commitments in your life and in the world?
What’s the ideal experience of your home?
What would you like to have your rooms support?
What shape and size spaces, lighting, colors, acoustics, textures, smells, furnishing arrangements and ‘homescaping’ would support those goals?
Enhancing Space for Optimum Result!
Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate in contacting me. Sincerely, Terry Cline
Discovering The Sacred In Everyday Places
A free transformational experiential presentation guaranteed to leave you with immediate, practical, no-to-low cost take-away techniques to use at home, office, classroom, or any room for the enrichment of your physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and global well-being.
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Saturday, April 1, 2017
2:00 – 3:30
(arrive early)
Community Room
F O R B E S L I B R A R Y
20 West Street, Northampton, MA
(parking lot available)
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Here’s what people are saying about my work:
“Thanks very much, Terry, for the wonderful event. It was quite experiential and felt very much like collaboration and dialogue rather than simply a presentation. You really put your heart and soul into the event. We enjoyed our time tremendously. Thanks for your contribution to humanity. As an Architect of Change, you are helping the world to be more at peace amidst this paradigm shift of awareness we are experiencing!”
Jim Arsenault – Integral Life and Business Coach
“When I heard about what Terry does (SpaceTherapy) I was immediately intrigued because of my academic background. I already had a sense that one’s environment has an impact on behavior and well- being. What Terry does is beyond traditional architecture and interior design, and has none of the “fluffy” science of feng shui. Terry is not only a passionate presenter; he is deeply knowledgeable and compassionate to your needs. The changes we’ve made are tangible and noticeable right away!”
Jennifer Williams, Home Owner & Neuromarketing Consult. @ Verilliance
“Excellent! A presentation that anyone from left brained pragmatics to
right-brained visionaries will both benefit from and enjoy.”
William Treadwell, Business Owner
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Download the PDF → Discovering the Sacred in Everyday Places of Living and Working
Dan Kirsch
“Terry is a passionate advocate for his craft and a gifted teacher. He is able to make design concepts accessible to even a complete novice like. He smoothly transitioned from vision/possibility to tangible examples that illustrated his points and instantly revealed the impact of even small changes. I appreciate the spaces we dwell in and see new possibilities because of Terry’s influence.”
Dan Kirsch
Frank Lloyd Wright
“It is the duty of every man to raise the character and tone of his own home to the highest point his capabilities permit.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
Robert Sardello
“Home is more than a box within which to live; it is a soul activity to be retrieved from the numbness of the world of modern objects.”
Robert Sardello
Frank Lloyd Wright
“The enclosed space within….is the reality of the building.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
Kahil Gibran
“As between the soul and the body there is a bond, so are the body and its environment linked together.”
Kahil Gibran
Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche
“The only way to implement our vision for society is to bring it down to the situation of a single household.”
Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche
Sir Winston Churchill
“We shape our buildings and thereafter they shape us.”
Sir Winston Churchill
Ernest Dimnet
” Architecture of all the arts, is the one which acts most slowly, but most surely on the soul.”
Ernest Dimnet
Philip Johnson
“All architecture is shelter; all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, and stimulates the persons in that space.”
Philip Johnson
What do you actually do so that my house will feel like a home?
A house starts to become a home when it fosters relaxation and productivity, and just makes us feel good about living, working, or visiting there. A house becomes a home when it nourishes our soul, our heart, our brain, our energy, and our highest functioning. Because we live in three dimensions, I invite you to start thinking and feeling in three dimensions, to explore the difference between a “room and a space“. Beyond the flat-two-dimensional, square foot influenced floor plan is the 3D reality of:
- “Negative space”: creating a wider whole out of both what is present and what is empty…
- Where a room already falls naturally into “sub-spaces” and “implied sub-spaces” that might be either thwarting or supporting desired behavior and performance…
- What parts of the house already feel treasured, even sacred—and how to spread that powerful positivity into the rest of the room, the rest of the building, and the world beyond.
In collaboration with you, I will often provide simple, no-to-low cost, on–the-spot revisions that immediately encourage new and more positive behavior patterns. The results are often astounding and immediate!
What’s it like to work with me?
The process starts with a walk-through of the space, either on-site or on-line. My approach is to remove any assumptions about what activities take place in which space, start by thinking about what you need to accomplish—I call this “inside-out” approach to design—and then determine the ideal location for each activity, and how to make it as suitable as possible. Bringing skills in architectural and interior design, behavioral design, psychoneuroimmunology – PNI , the ancient art and science of placement, counseling, and other disciplines into play, my unique approach focuses directly on you and your needs. Typically, the end result is a much more harmonious space that both soothes the soul and facilitates the work you want to get done.
What is the connection between SpaceBehavior and SpaceTherapy?
A Unique Design and Coaching/Consulting and Design Approach to Affordable Personal Environments.
SpaceBehavior is a personal environment coaching/consulting and design service. The service was created to help you become more aware of the subtle ways in which your workplaces and homes may be affecting your feelings, emotions, social interactions, behaviors, and thus your performance and sense of well being.
Our places of work and living represent a collection of spaces created for our needs, and designed for the varied activities of our lives: living, learning, working, and thriving. We call these spaces our ‘PERSONAL ENVIRONMENTS’. The way we use these spaces may have an impact on our individual and social behavior. Every space we experience may be influencing our emotions in some way.
SpaceTherapy® is the tool or methodology used in co-creating personal environments that truly nourish the inhabitants.
For an radio interview of me, go to Public Presentation and listen to a 2 part radio interview by The Eco-Logical Home.
How is SpaceBehavior different than interior design or decorating?
Think of SpaceBehavior as the full gestalt: the holistic ‘ontological/neurocentric-design‘ approach that assembles all the puzzle pieces into a coherent and effective entity. Interior designers and decorators, architects, and even therapists contribute important factors, but it takes a SpaceBehavior practitioner to join them into something that unites beauty and functionality with a positive mental and emotional state. SpaceBehavior coaching, consulting and designing is grounded in years of design experience and the on-going research by The Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture.
Interior designers might also do interior decorating (use objects to make a space more attractive), but interior decorators do not do interior designing. Architects may design but interior designers and decorators don’t do architecture. A SpaceBehavior practitioner may harness decoration, design, and architecture to create a living dwelling or workspace that enhances who you are and what you do—but decorators, designers, and architects who don’t employ neurocentric-design strategies won’t be able to work the same level of magic.
In short, SpaceBehavior is the missing ingredient. It allows you to fully understand how the spaces you live and work in profoundly impact your behavior and your well-being.