Do you:

❉ believe that your environment has an affect on you?

❉ do you want your space to support your desired feelings, emotions, social interactions, behaviors and thus your performance?

❉ have a space that isn’t being used and you don’t know why?

❉ have a room that you don’t like and you wonder why?

❉ often have the urge to “move the furniture around” in your environment but don’t necessarily know why, or what “effect” you are seeking?

❉ want to change a social or personal behavior that you find exists in the environment you now inhabit?

If your answer is “yes” to any of these questions,
SpaceBehavior consultation(s) may be just what you’re looking for.

Wouldn’t it be great to walk into the place where you spend the largest chunk of your day, and feel so good about it that you don’t even want to leave when it’s time to step away? To feel nurtured and stimulated, relaxed and empowered, productive and energized—all at once? This isn’t some pie-in-the-sky fantasy! It’s not only achievable, but often, surprisingly easy (and, because you’ll typically be re-purposing things you already have on hand, also surprisingly affordable). You’ll feel so much better when your space actually reflects your wants, needs, and goals—instead of getting in their way.

Space Behavior Consulting is like an personal environment “therapy” service. The service was created to help you become more aware of the subtle ways in which your workplaces and homes are affecting your feelings, emotions, social interactions, behaviors, and thus your performance.

The service represents an actual analysis of your workplace or home, and how it’s physical, social, and psychological expression may influence you and how you behave. Each space is evaluated for its positive or negative effect on you, the activity of the space, and your interpersonal relationships within the space.

SpaceBehavior Consulting is of great interest to business people wondering how the design of their salesrooms affects customer response, or a homeowner wondering why one space in the home is never used, or why one space always feels so uncomfortable. People living or working together would want to know if their personal environment is undermining their relationships or helping it to flourish. Mental Health Professionals might be interested in the ways that their clients' personal environments affect their mood and emotions. A space can depress or elate.

The service is effective in that positive design changes in the environment will produce a change in YOU and your experience with others. As you use the changed space over time, you slowly re-adapt to its new influence. The change will create a new pattern, a new behavior, and perhaps more enjoyment of activity! Even a small change in the space you use will cause an immediate change in your response that begins to introduce new behaviors and feelings.

A SpaceBehavior Consultation will increase your awareness of the relationship between your personal environment and your behavior. We usually suggest simple design changes that can be done right away, involving no additional remodeling expenses. We might suggest moving a light or changing its intensity, not buying a new one.

We consider the space AS IT IS. During the analysis, the Space Behavior Consultant will confidentially discuss with you the ways that your personal environment may be affecting you or your business, either positively or negatively, and what you can do about it, right then and there.

If you are aware of a problem “area” that you want to be used in a different way, or even a social problem area with business or family members, we will demonstrate how the physical environment could be altered to bring about the desired change.

The most exciting part of a Space Behavior Consultation experience is that you are a direct participant in the awareness and possible change of your behaviors.

During the analysis you may begin to realize that the rooms you live in and work in affect you and also serve as a “mirror” of your feelings. In the same way that we dress to fit our mood and personality, the appearance and use of a space can be seen as a “reflection” of ourselves.

You might consider the rooms you inhabit as your next layer of clothing. The way(s) we modify our personal environments to suit our personal taste and needs often yield some valuable insights into the ways we may feel about ourselves and relationships with others.

A space you live in or work in, modified by your own special use of the space, gives it a unique character and appearance. It expresses a language similar to “body language” that can be perceived and “read". Part of our service is to share with you what the space is “saying” about you or your business through its appearance and what it may mean.

A space that doesn’t support an activity or the desired personal and social interaction may cause STRESS!

Our relationship to our personal environment will have an influence on how we participate and enjoy the activities for which the spaces were designed. If the space cannot SUPPORT and PROMOTE its activity and bring out its “highest and best use,” YOU, the user of the space, are in some way being deprived of positive potential experience!

Personal environments have remained unchallenged as a cause of stress because the effect is subtle and takes a long time in building up. Right now, your personal environment may be slowly undermining your relationship with another, preventing an important intimacy from occurring, make someone look different, put the damper on an indoor family social event, or change a person’s voice from soft to hard. Things may occur, and you will never know why.