Biophilic Design Certification Course
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And the Opportunity to Join a Live Session When Available!
What is Biophilic Design?
Biophilic design expresses our love of life (biophilia) in our homes and work spaces for greater well-being. It's never been more relevant, nor more desirable, than now.
Why should I take this course?
- We infuse biophilic design with some of the more spiritual dimensions (i.e., connection to the land, spirit of place) that it currently lacks.
- Helps you find and use cost-effective ways to adopt biophilic design in current spaces.
- Gives you the ability to help clients embrace biophilic design on whatever scale, be it new builds or renovation projects
- This is also the perfect complement to feng shui! It's a wonderful discipline to enhance a feng shui practice through a new set of tools, language, and research to back up much of what feng shui teaches.
Become the Expert!
I've studied Biophilic Design since 2009 and even visited with the "father" of biophilic design, Stephen Kellert, at his Yale University office at the Environmental & Forestry School.
Professor Kellert has said that "biophilic design is a modern take on feng shui."
However, there are some major distinctions between the two disciplines and learn how you can benefit from it.
In this 6-Module Online Course you will learn:
- What Biophilic Design is
- How it relates to Feng Shui
- The science behind Biophilic Design
- The principles of Biophilic Design from various perspectives
- Real case studies on Biophilic Design
- Industry applications per Module: Hospitality, Healthcare, Corporate, Residential, Civic Spaces
- The Latest Biophilic Design resources and research
- How Biophilic Design can complement your architecture, design or feng shui practice
Who is the course for?
You do not need to be a feng shui consultant. Participants have included architects, interior designs, sustainability managers, therapists, artists! From South Africa, to Australia, and Hawaii!
What's included in this course?
- Handouts on each Module
- Live Zoom sharing/discussions
- Industry focus per Module
- Module assignments
- Private FB Group
- Quizzes + short essay for Certification
- Ongoing FB community for sharing & continued learning!
- Founder of IFSG-approved Gold program
After completion of this Course you will be able to:
- Add an important new dimension to your architecture, design, or feng shui practice
- Help your clients develop a deeper connection to nature in their homes and lives
- Learn a new language – Tons of research supports how Biophilic Design improves behavior, productivity, creativity and morale, among other things.
- Be the Expert – educate architects, designers, and builders with this knowledge. So few know about biophilia still.
I want to be the Expert!
Invest in Your Biophilic Design Journey – Choose Your Pricing Tier
We believe in making biophilic design education accessible while ensuring the sustainability of this course. Choose the pricing tier that best reflects your financial situation—no questions asked.
💚 Pay-it-Forward Supporter Rate – $995 – $248.75/4 mos
For those who can contribute more. Your support helps fund lower-cost spots for others.
🌿 Standard Rate – $795 (Full Price) – $198.75/4 mos
For those who can comfortably afford the course at its intended value.
🌱 Reduced Rate – $595 – $148.75/4 mos
For those with moderate financial constraints. No application is needed.
We trust our community to select the appropriate tier. If you're able, choosing the Pay-it-Forward Supporter Rate helps keep this course accessible for more people!
Some of Our Past Graduates
Past graduates includes architects, designers, sustainability managers, feng shui consultants, educators, healthcare management, facilities management, artists, and more!
Testimonials
This certification has deepened my ability to bridge the wisdom of Feng Shui with evidence-based corporate design strategies. I can now confidently communicate to executives about the measurable benefits of biophilic design, from productivity and retention to workplace culture, while keeping human potential at the center. I feel called to bring these principles into corporate, residential, civic, and community spaces where design can truly transform lives.
- Lisa Alban, Feng Shui Master Designer & Biophilic Design Consultant
Maureen consistently brought heart, depth and insight to every lesson. The course has a powerful framework with practical assignments, real-world examples, which makes this course an invaluable resource for anyone wanting to bring the power of biophilic design into their work and life.
- Monica Verma-Vachery, Founder. Monica Vachery LIFEstyle Design
Ahhhh! I have loved this course. Thank you for providing abundantly rich content that I look forward continuing to explore in depth!
– Maria Best, Spatial Wellness Practitioner.
I really enjoyed learning with Maureen. The way she teaches is very clear, so, learning is soft and easy. Her passion is contagious as you move forward with her training with incredibly good vibes.
- Olivia Laurence Bertaux, Feng Shui Practitioner
I feel Biophilic Design, like Feng Shui, is where the future is. This course has given me the tools to help clients understand how important our spaces are to wellbeing. The Universe was telling me it is time to level up - and this course was just that for me.
– Alejandra G. Brady, interior design + feng shui practitioner
I love being an early adopter, and the content provided in this class will help me create a design presentation that will assist in networking and hopefully catapult my business and, in turn, contribute to the Madison community. …The idea that Biophilic Design is a modern interpretation of Feng Shui interests me the most. … the fundamental truth that “nature nurtures.”
– Joy Pontrello, Feng shui designer, Joy Interiors
I loved this course! As a horticulture teacher, Maureen's 5 elements helped me better organize the 15 patterns of biophilic design and incorporate them into both my curriculum and physical classroom setting. As an instructional designer, this course was beautifully structured. Participants can easily understand and immediately apply biophilic concepts to their own practices.
– Betsy Anderton-Tipton, Ph.D. , teacher of Horticulture
I truly enjoy the way you teach, how you coupled the Bioliphic Design concept and integrated it with the 5 Elements. A super-spark has ignited in me and I am so grateful that I learned this from you. There’s a true inner-knowing in all of this and can’t wait to put it into practice.
- Patsy Balacchi, Feng Shui Practitioner
The knowledge I have gained will become an integral part of my practice moving forward. I now have some wonderful tools for me to easily integrate biophilia into my feng shui practice and are key components of my tool kit.
- Linda Bischoff, Diploma Interior Design, Feng Shui Practitioner; IFSG - Red Ribbon
I can't tell you how much I am enjoying the class and how much I'm learning... I just love it!! Thank you for creating this perfect course. 😍
Dawn Critchley, M.A. - Patternologist
My work intuitively has an elemental relationship with the landscape, but to see where those design principles are embedded in the respective elements -- to give it a language + have research behind it -- was REAL GOLD. This course provided a valuable framework when evaluating my designs.
- Janine de Waal, Design Architect - connects people to nature to survive + thrive
Although I have been practicing feng shui, the concepts of biophilic design are much easier for many people to grasp. The tools provided to evaluate a space helped me to focus on the opportunities in a big way. The conversations and readings have served to give me so much more confidence in the importance of this work. When I enrolled, my goal was to gain inspiration and motivation in SOME WAY, as I was really struggling to start my career as a Feng Shui consultant. From the first class and assignment, there was a success!
- Chelcey Dunham, Enlightened Interiors
