Elevate Your Event.
Looking for a speaker who will get your audience actively engaged and energized?
Stephanie wants to connect with you and your team!
Her signature talks on sensory interior design will inspire your group with new insight into how you live, move and create in your spaces. Engaging, insightful, and creative, Stephanie’s talks are guaranteed to get your energy flowing.
Elevate: The Eccentric Genius Habitat Workshop
- Simple, fun exercises to find your sensory profile.
- Create your sensory blueprint on the spot!
- Discover how small tweaks in your space can trigger BIG changes.
- Grace, not judgment: navigating sensory differences at home and at work.
"I have done embodiment work my whole life, and I had never considered most of what she was sharing. It's like learning to shape your space to your soul rather than just decorate to please the eye - a completely unique experience. She's inspiring, insightful, and practical!"
Sensory Real Estate Bootcamp:
Find and fix the sensory challenges in any space.
- From urban row home to suburban office park: sensory issues in your locale.
- The perks and pitfalls of open plan offices.
- How to make your industrial conversion FEEL as good as it looks.
- New construction: things to pay attention to, things to avoid.
Recent Interviews
Designing for the Neurodivergent Mind: Creating Inclusive Spaces that Heal
Adulting with Autism Podcast
A lively discussion about whether or not you should redecorate your autistic child’s room while they’re away. (Spoiler: NOOOOOOO.)
“How Sensory Interior Design Transforms Focus, Healing & Inclusion”, KAJ Masterclass Live
Stephanie talks about how to transform your space to create comfort and connection, even when you’re renting.
“Hey, I’ve Got Something to Say” with Sandy Joy Weston.
Discussing boundaries and high sensitivity with podcasting powerhouse Sandy Joy Weston.
Designing Sensory Accessible Spaces
What makes a space sensory accessible? With Joanna Craney, Special Needs Planner, Empowered Financial Strategies.
Witnesses Podcast: Creating Spaces for Healing and Growth
Ambassador Elisha gets Stephanie to open up about the challenges of life as a fine artist, and her pivot to sensory interior design.
Designing Inclusive Spaces for Healing and Connection
Stephanie speaks with Martha Sharkey, founder of Today is a Good Day, about inclusive design, the challenges with universal standards, and how design impacts your well-being.
Neurodiversity and Design: Designing Sensory Accessible Spaces.
The TED talk in progress.
- How neurodivergence works, and why it gives you superpowers.
- How architecture and interior design affect your sensory system, for good AND ill.
- Design trends which make it hard to function, and how to fix them.
- How to create spaces for sensory inclusivity.
VIDEO: Stephanie speaks at Blue Cadet Design Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Sensory Interior Design: A Necessary Luxury When There Are Exceptional Needs
“I should be doing yoga every day, but that’s not possible,” said Zeke, at the start of the pandemic. “There’s not enough space in my apartment. I could move the furniture aside and put it back, but realistically I’m never going to do that.”Interview by Bradford Bucknum, Philadelphia Sustainable Business Network
Why would it be a loss for our society to not consider how to be more inclusive in the workplace to people who are neurodiverse?
Neurodiverse people have superpowers! They will literally save the planet!
Hyper-focus, systems design, programming, scientific analysis, creative insight—there’s a lot of overlap between the kinds of skills that built the tech economy, and the superpowers of the neurodiverse. There’s a reason that Silicon Valley and other tech-heavy areas have a higher rate of autism diagnoses among their children.
Our species is evolving to become more neurodiverse, as a response to the ways we have changed the environment. It’s my bet that neurodiverse people will be key players in solving the problems that threaten our existence, such as climate change, because unlike most neurotypicals, they can’t easily ignore uncomfortable circumstances. Most of us learn to compartmentalize the idea that, say, much of our coastline will be underwater in 50 years, or that the Trump administration is killing small children and wrecking our democratic institutions. Neurodiverse people, not so much. They don’t have those cognitive filters. They see a problem, and will not rest until they solve it.
Are you an eccentric genius?
You’re in the right place, darling.
In this free e-course, you will discover:
The ONE design mistake that NEARLY ALL HUMANS make in their habitats, and how to fix it in 15 minutes. (You will roll your eyes. And cry.)
Three senses your kindergarten teacher didn’t mention. (And how they make you a NINJA.)
The design trend which created an epidemic of shut-ins. (NOT COVID-19. Some of us now know the meaning of schadenfreude.)
Why Febreze is EVIL. (There should be a warning label.)
What kinds of light fixtures will be BANNED when the establishment comes to its senses.
What color has to do with hormones. (And how to leverage it–St. John’s Wort, piffle!)
What NEVER to do, ever ever, if you do not wish to induce psychosis, extreme depression, vertigo, or actual regurgitation in guests and members of your own family. (We all love those Bad Examples.)
Practical Sanctuary, sensory interior design, specializes in interior design for highly sensitive people.
We help you create spaces which are:
