The A+D Wellness Toolkit is a resource for architects and designers to implement wellbeing in their personal and professional lives. The A+D Wellness Toolkit comprises five essential elements based on the foundations of health in order to sustain creativity-on-demand. The following pages link to tools and coaching that guide you through restorative exercises in Sleep, Gratitude, Movement, Meditation and Harmonious Engagement.
If you’ve landed here, perhaps you’re an architect or a designer who just experienced one of the most relaxing, restorative CEU experiences of your career. This site is designed to keep you aligned with the energetic momentum you experienced during the A+D Toolkit for Daily Creative Renewal. Follow the menu to access links to resources that will guide you through the micro-practices for Daily Creative Renewal and don’t forget to inquire for my eBook, The Sleep System: 28 Days to Better Sleep a pragmatic guide to designing the sleep you love.
If you have not experienced the A+D Toolkit for Daily Creative Renewal CEU, this website provides straightforward resources to serve as a guide on your path to incorporating healthy Sleep, Gratitude, Movement, Respiration and Play into your daily wellbeing.
As a veteran design journalist, WELL AP and certified yoga instructor, my quest is to help designers maintain high energy and creative stamina with small rituals that have large ramifications. Like Juran’s 80/20 Rule [20% of efforts lead to 80% of the results], these proven micro practices require minimal effort and their residual effects deliver maximum wellbeing.
We understand how buildings–namely the Exposome–contribute to occupants’ gene expression and longterm health outcomes. In a similar vein, our daily routines and behaviors are inextricably linked to longterm health outcomes. A culture centered around wellbeing is a foundation for engagement, high-performance, creative vitality and longevity. Additionally, the effects of individual wellbeing ripple outward to the people around us. The mission of the A+D Wellness Toolkit is to support architects and designers’ wellbeing; thereby creating an exponential ripple effect on family, friends, colleagues, collaborators and even the end-users of your designs.
“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them.
Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”
Buckminster Fuller