Now you can make sure that your designs will affect them FOR THE BETTER!

Feng Shui Friendly
Residential Design 102
Unlock the Mysteries of Environmental Energy

Architects, designers, NAHB home builders, and landscape architects create environments. These environments affect the people who live there. I have been called in to many of homes to deal with the results of the environmental energy patterns set up by the home's design. This is the driving force behind the creation of this course for you.

When I can stand in the street and see the
back yard THROUGH the house, I know the
people who live there are in trouble.

The homes are beautiful. They're creative. They're unique. But sometimes they wreak havoc on families that live in them.

When you can see straight through a house and out the back you see how the energy of this environment moves through that house and out without stopping. It is the object of survival to have energy come to us and stay a while. This is the same for our bodies and the food we eat as it is with our homes and the energy that comes through. To have enrgy pass through our home without stopping is like eating food and having it go straight through our body without stopping. No matter how much you eat, eventually, you'll starve to death. Environments affect those who live there. It's so very important that the environment is created to be supportive that I have created this class just for home building professionals.

YOU can help stop this situation from recurring by simply adding awareness to your home designs.

With an understanding of how energy moves in an environment, you can create homes and workplaces that not only support humans but also give them a sense of well-being. You just need to know a little about some things that are probably new to you. Architects and home designers often naturally implement some of the principles of feng shui. It is when these home building professionals don't know about energy in environments that FAMILIES SUFFER. And it doesn't have to be that way.

Feng Shui Friendly Design 102
Course Description

The Feng Shui Friendly Design curriculum was created at the request of an area home builder. His firm had received so many requests for homes designed using feng shui principles that he was looking to have his designers trained. He did not want them trained as consultants. He wanted them taught ONLY and EXACTLY what was necessary to integrate the principles of Feng Shui into their designs. 

Because there are thousands of years of history in the evolution of feng shui, that was a pretty tall request. As a master teacher and a feng shui master however, I created a one day (8-hour) class that delivers precisely what was requested. The class includes no sales pitches for building materials or supplies, no superstition or religion, and no pointless fluff - only specific details needed to energize environmental designs using feng shui principles. 

As a registered provider of continuing education for the AIA, these classes are valid for continuing education requirements for licensing of architects, providing 8 HSW hours of continuing education program hours (CEPHs). As of March 2008, Feng Shui Friendly Design expanded to included one hour each of ADA/barrier-free design and one hour of energy efficient/sustainable design. These hours are also recognized for landscape architects, interior designers, and home builders.

Energy as Defined by Western Physicists

• Preliminary exposure to Western views on energy
• Description of true nature of matter as interchangeable with energy
• Understanding our inability to define energy, only what energy can do
• Division of descriptions of energy into 4 elements: earth, wind, fire, and air
• Exploration of electromagnetic energy spectrum
• Brief overview of quantum physics and mechanics
• Discussion of universal laws of energy and how they affect environments and people
• Genus Loci - visual study of the "spirit of place"

Energy as Defined by Eastern Metaphysicists

• Preliminary exposure to Eastern views on energy
• Examination of the Tao (The Way) and yin and yang energies
• Introduction to the use of metaphor in the Chinese description of energy
• Adventure into the support of the Celestial Animals
• Experimentation with the lack of support (Jesse James Syndrome)
• Division of descriptions of energy into 5 elements: earth, metal, water, wood, and fire
• Survey of the creation and control cycles of these 5 elements of energy
• Elements of Energy - visual study of the 5 elements

Study of the Bagua Energy Map within Environments

• Brief overview of the I Ching, the Chinese Book of Changes
• Examination of the origination of the Bagua, including former (for tombs) and latter (for the living) Bagua configurations
• Survey of the nine areas of Bagua and correlation of energy supporting each area
• Practice with infinite overlays and positioning
• Discussion of different types of feng shui: form school, compass, and black hat set
• Prioritization of environments by concentric rings of influence
• Study of metaphoric meanings of each energy zone 
• Analysis of the interconnectedness of each zone with its opposite zones

Introduction to Feng Shui Friendly Design (FSFD) Checklist and Evaluation System

• Explanation of evolution of the FSFD Evaluation System and rating scale
• Discussion of evaluation of design based only upon elements within designer's control
• Overview of 100 FSFD elements on checklist with alignment of legends and quantum mechanical wave functions
• Group recommendations for additional checklist elements or revisions to current elements
• Q&A 

Designer's Challenge

Attendees work in teams or individually to create a design integrating all their own personal and professional experience with the elements of energy and principles of feng shui, and staying within budget. Students will collaborate and brainstorm to design the home to minimize clutter, provide a barrier-free kitchen, and integrate a bedroom and bath for a vision-impaired resident. Students will also collaborate and brainstorm to design this home to be as naturally temperature controlled as possible, using structure shapes, thermal mass, and green roofing systems. Finally, students will integrate a gray-water irrigation system to their designs to provide for all landscape irrigation.

Upon completion of designs, each team uses the FSFD Checklist to evaluate and score their plans. We reconvene as a group and discuss their designs, their integration of the principles of feng shui, and whether or not their design could be built within budget. We brainstorm ways to raise their scores or improve their cost effectiveness. Those who meet the requirements are listed in Directory of Feng Shui Friendly Architects, Designers and Builders as Winners of the Designer's Challenge. (Multiple winners are possible.)

Feng Shui Friendly Design Series
Empowers You to:

See the world of energy in environments
Raise the value of your designs by up to 50%
Create environments that safely support families
Make the world a better place - one design at a time!

Feng Shui Friendly Design expands your DESIGN PHILOSOPHY beyond simple form and function to include feelings and ENERGY. You will integrate conscious and unconscious reactions to energy frequencies to support ambitions, remind people of their dreams, and enhance their views of self and the world. This class teaches you to SET THE STAGE for the safety, well-being and success of the families who live in your homes. As each family becomes stronger and healthier, they add to the well-being of our world. Together, we'll make the world a better place one design at a time.

Feng Shui Friendly Design is a one-day course that will FOREVER CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE THE WORLD, both professionally and personally. With your new understanding of energy implemented into your designs, the lives of your clients and and their families will change too. Apply the same skills to YOUR home and office and the difference will begin to affect you too! In addition, the changes will enhance relationships with your clients, your vendors and your employees.

Designs that are Feng Shui Friendly (FSF) provide energy, vibrance and flavor along with greater comfort, support and ease to the lives of those residing within the design. All designers hope their creations will change the lives of their clients. Now you can KNOW that your design will provide the balanced energy your clients need to enjoy abundance, health, wealth, and more in their lives.

INVEST IN YOURSELF AND YOUR FUTURE - YES, YOU ARE WORTH IT!!

Feng Shui Friendly Design training provides all these benefits and more:

- Gerry Reynaud, Principal, RTKL, Dallas TX

- Paul Hay, Principal Architectural Alliance, Incorporated, Beaumont TX

"I usually find continuing ed classes are a waste of my time and wish I had a laptop under my table to get some work done. This class is entirely different. I actually learned something in this course and had a lot of fun doing it. Trisha Keel has a personable and enjoyable teaching method." 

- Doug Walton, Principal, WPH Architecture, Las Vegas NV

- Will McThewson, AIA, ASID, Pacific Rim Architecture, Maui, HI

"This class provides a great general introduction to feng shui that now allows me to work with clients who are interested in the subject. Trisha Keel is engaging, energetic, and passionate, as well as super-knowledgeable about the subject!" 

- Jamie Busch,
JB Architecture, Inc., Kailua-Kona, Hawaii