Fawn’s Blog
This is very, very exciting news! Late last year I participated in a study with PPG/Campos and Rand Corporation exploring the impact of color in classrooms on student and teacher engagement and happiness. Working with teachers across multiple states, I worked with them to select and place colors in their classrooms for the optimal impact of the classroom on those …
How to have easier, better focus, more done in less time & more freedom & fun The above quote was excerpted from a beautiful blog post by Timothy Ferris, best-selling author of The 4-hour Work Week. The Multitasking Virus and the End of Learning (part 1) Don’t force it – It’s counter productive Much information available is about how to strong-arm …
Oscar Niemeyer understood biophilia the way the body reads it and needs it. I proclaim him an architect of longevity, joyful longevity: Earth’s version of biophilia, vitality and biomimicry. Or as George Burns would say, whether you had the chance to ask him or not: “If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have …
If your desk is like the ones in this post, no matter how beautiful or well organized, the answer is a resounding YES! It is limiting your options and sabotaging you! What can you do to not be stymied, unproductive, passed over for raises, clients or advancements? Learn to look at your space the way your body, and subconscious mind …
A season for Feng Shui and getting ready for the harvest and for the stillness of winter. This is Fall. Whenever you feel the urge to undergo a cleaning overhaul during this season, especially in this time of COVID, you undoubtedly have a profound connection to and a call from nature. We are after all, intimately intertwined with …
Replace Sneaky Fear with Beauty Fear is everywhere these days and sneaky as always, embedded in sentences and words and even our homes. The body reads and responds to everything…know how it reads and responds, then make a simple and beautiful SHIFT. Every time you are fighting something, it’s killing you slowly. 1 SECOND DISRUPTER SHIFT: have a few funny …
Whew! Things are shifting…are you on the leading edge riding the wave or tumbling in the surf? “What would it be like for you to feel like an expert easily navigating life right now?” I have had so much great feedback this year from my presentations and courses about how those who attended are experiencing tremendous …
Stress is The Opposite of What We Need to Thrive The body is built to thrive. One SMALL part of the whole body response is killing us — slowly — reducing our immunity and our creativity. We have it upside down: our modern lives are far removed from the bucolic pace of nature, night gradually morphs into day, time lingers …
Of course we do! We need space and privacy, inspiration and balance. I had to pass this on, because I get very excited about intelligent design and so does (shhh) Brad Pitt. Well-made and well designed furniture that does double duty makes good sense all the time. ResourceFurniture.com provides some great solutions and has been used by Brad Pitt to …
A. We will expect MORE…In this series, I explore with you the true NEEDS of the Body in the “built environment” and how to design for stronger, healthier, more satisfying lives, including the essence of Nature and the Trends & Colors that support us.
When life goes sideways, it’s time to yell “PLOT TWIST!” Take Action and Laugh After the “plot twist” in any story is when something magical usually happens: new resolve, new awareness, better relationship, a newfound super-power, the “better way” shows up, freedom and freshness and woo-hoo…sound like a “chick flick”? Sign me up! Take any action: Move your body, shake …
It’s as though she said: “OK, all you humans are in TIME OUT! until you can learn to play nice with each other and the planet…and don’t come out until you have a good idea of how to do it better.” Let’s THINK about it and DO IT!!!!!