Healing Design Presentations

How can you use Design Psychology to create home, community and/or healthcare settings that enhance healing? Dr. Israel discusses the important role environmental design can play in creating an oasis in the face of stress, illness or following personal or catastrophic disasters. Through “hands-on” exercises, she illustrates how attendees can determine the personal, nurturing associations they/their clients have with color, fabrics, furniture and special objects. Case study examples provide insight into ways such a “Design Psychology Blueprint” can be used by designers, healthcare professionals and homeowners seeking to create a healing oasis by design.


One hour lecture, CEU #5617

If everyone loves the idea of high performance educational facilities, why don’t we have them? In this hands-on lecture you will learn about the consequences of non-high performance educational facilities in contrast to the characteristics and benefits of ‘healthy’ and ‘smart’ educational facilities. Replacing myths with facts, case studies will demonstrate that high performance need not cost more. Leave with your own ‘action plan’ to gain support for and take steps toward creating high performance buildings in your region.

One hour lecture, CEU#: IIDA 5095 / AIA 540

In this time of personal/economic stress and crisis, let’s create ‘homes we can believe in!’ Dr. Israel, discusses ways to “design from within” as Home Therapy helping people re-invent/revitalize both their sense of self and home. In this interactive talk, inspiring case studies illustrate ways Home Therapy helped those facing life-stresses create authentic, nurturing places. Audience members learn how to design homes of flexible size, configuration, color, materials and memory that not only look good but support positive growth and change.

One hour lecture

In this series of interactive workshops, Dr. Toby Israel will help you “design from within” to create a healing home that not only looks good, but supports your positive growth and change. Knowledge gained will be translated into a “Design Psychology Blueprint”—specific guidelines for home choice, space planning, style, color, furniture and other elements to be used as a catalyst for life-enhancing design.

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Dr. Toby Israel presents a series of seminars, workshops and public lectures “in residence” at institutes and university departments of interior design, architecture, planning and psychology around the USA and abroad.