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!"
Recent Interviews
The Design Flaw Affecting Most of the Population–Gurus and Game Changers
From Overwhelming to Oasis: Sensory-Smart Interiors with Stephanie Lee Jackson
Designing for the Senses: Creating Calm, Connection and Harmony in Neurodiverse Homes
Interview with Carrie Lingenfelter of The Spiritual Parent
Reinventing Life and Space with Rich Bennett
Conversations with Rich Bennett
Rich and Stephanie talk about…everything.
How Your Space Affects Your Nervous System
Trauma Undone Podcast with Natasha June
Addressing trauma triggers in your environment can help your nervous system heal.
Designing Your Practical Sanctuary
ReConnecting with Plant Wisdom Podcast with Tigrilla Gardenia
Why designing for your nervous system is more than a luxury—it’s a necessity.
- The difference between biophilic trends and truly supportive space design.
- How plants and lighting help regulate neurodivergent bodies.
- The role of personalization in creating healing environments for yourself and others.
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.)
“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.
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.
The Eccentric Genius Habitat Intervention
Your space, your nervous system.
Most of us were never taught how our bodies actually experience a room–the light, the sound, the layout, the smell–and what happens when those things work against us instead of for us.
This free seven-day course is a gentle introduction to sensory design. Each day brings one exercise–noticing what you feel, photographing what you’ve been editing out, dreaming about what you actually want. The exercises are all optional, and you can go as deep as you like.
By the end, you’ll understand more about why certain rooms drain you, what your body knows about your home, and how to start shifting without stressing out.
Sign up below. Your first email arrives within the hour.
Practical Sanctuary, sensory interior design, specializes in interior design for highly sensitive people.
We help you create spaces which are:
