Spacemaking for Growing Children and/or Family
October, 22nd 2:30-4:30pm
Learn how to adapt and shift your space to best support and navigate your child’s and family’s growth phases.
Do you have a toddler who has recently started crawling/walking and getting into every.single.thing??
Are you overwhelmed at the constant chaos and clutter in your shared spaces - and sometimes in your own personal spaces as well?!
Are you struggling to find space for your pre/teen who desperately needs autonomy and/or a creativity outlet within your home?
Do you wish that you had more space for you and your family to retreat to without starting a full-on construction project?
Through Intentional Spacemaking™, we help you create holistic spaces that not reflect your unique style, but that give you the personalized systems to support your daily needs…and future goals!
What exactly is Intentional Spacemaking?
During times of transition, we have an opportunity to take stock in how we design, create, and relate to the spaces we inhabit in the world (both tangible and intangible). We get to see how they connect, how they affect each other, and how we can shift them to support us as we move forward.
Here at Spatial Medium, we call this Intentional Spacemaking: where physical spatial design meets caretaking. We have consistently seen a ripple effect of good that comes from a holistic perspective on creating space during transition…for ourselves, our businesses, and our communities!
And…transitions can be hard when tackled alone. Especially now when it seems as though they just.continue.to.happen. Maybe it’s simply the times we’re living through. Or perhaps it’s the phase of life you’re currently moving through.
Either way, change will never disappear entirely. Wouldn’t you love better tools to navigate it?
Raise your hand if you see yourself in one of the below scenarios:
You are constantly worried as you have a toddler who is walking and exploring all.the.things while simultaneously tearing up your home.
You feel stressed out that there is no “you” or “partnered” relaxing space in your home - it’s all for the littles!
You feel sad as you want to give your children their dedicated creative/learn/alone space but you aren’t in the market for a costly construction project.
You feel overwhelmed at the site of your common spaces as there are toys and unfinished projects everywhere and…wait, what is that in your bedroom?!
You are frustrated as the activities you used to do for fun/relaxation are tossed aside in a closet…out of sight, out of mind.
If you’ve identified with any of the above, you’re in the right place!
This workshop will help you gain clarity during the midst of chaos and confusion allowing you to embrace this transition with perspective and calm.
In this 2-hour, virtual event we will:
Identify the most challenging areas of struggle in your current transition, from a physical space standpoint as well as an energetic/personal standpoint
Understand the (6) easiest ways to adjust existing space, regardless of constraints outside your control (ie: if you rent, if you live tiny, etc)
Learn DIY perspective as well as tips and tricks you can use to test out potential design elements
Create an actionable set of experiments to create a more supportive space!
This is no ordinary design exercise...we will be bridging and connecting tangible and intangible spaces during our chat. You will learn about physical space and architectural strategies, however, there will also be an exercise to help you integrate the ways you interact with your daily and future activities/goals. This is one part architecture, one part caretaking.
Ready...? We’re gonna have some fun!
“Like most people in 2020, my family of three had a sudden transition of accommodating multiple, competing activities in our one-room, Brooklyn studio apartment. It was overwhelming and I wanted help making sense of everything. Working with Spatial Medium provided an easy process of guided explorations and strategic exercises that not only built trust but sparked a perspective shift about creating space I didn’t know I was missing! Once implemented, I was able to see my physical (and digital!) spaces as systems I could design, test, and refine to support my busy family. The Spatial Medium session was exactly the steady partner I needed during that hectic and all-encompassing transition.”
Re-creating space to cultivate joy.
Do you know the “sparking joy” movement? Where you hold up each object in your life and if it doesn’t “spark joy”, you release it?
This isn’t that. We don’t barter with joy here.
During times of transition, joy can sometimes be difficult to find, let alone be a decision-maker. If it’s a transition you chose you may catch glimpses. If you enjoy change, it may be a travel partner. But if your transition was unexpected, it may leave you struggling to navigate your emotions with joy playing an elusive friend.
Here, we listen to and observe our own daily rhythms, persistent desires, and long-held dreams in order to create (and shift) space for them to thrive.
Here, we help you create the best spatial conditions - tangible and intangible - for welcoming joy as a friend. For bringing joy into our communities. And for supporting our way towards it when joy is nowhere to be found.
Life is hard enough without placing expectations on ourselves to maintain joy in all situations…don’t you think? Let’s be more intentional when creating lives for ourselves and our communities.
What clients say about Intentional Spacemaking offerings with Spatial Medium…
“I was overwhelmed with ideas and had no focus on where and how to set up my workspace for the school year. By communicating different ways to think about and connect to the spaces in my home, Valerie helped me see and prioritize what I need to have in place to support myself throughout my workday. As I left the session, I was feeling excited and relieved to have a plan that worked specifically for me and was easily achievable.”
“No one ever tells you how difficult it is to baby proof a New York City apartment. With one FaceTime call, Valerie made suggestions that improved our day-to-day living with a baby and two work from home parents. Once implemented, our child had her spaces, we had our spaces (they were less frequently confused) and she was safer in our home. We were able to say the word “no” much less!”
About your guide…
Yep. Me geeking out in and over spatial installations all over the world. Hello!
Hi! My name is Valerie Farber and I developed Intentional Spacemaking™ offerings to help those in transition feel grounded, calm, supported, and even inspired while re-evaluating and re-creating their spaces (both tangible and intangible) during uncertain times or in the midst of conscious, big life changes.
With over 20 years of architectural design and spaceplanning experience as well as my own studied and tested experiments with living and working out of many small homes/apartments, I am well versed in the language of creating space regardless of constraints. With a strong self- and community-care practice over the last decade, I utilize unconventional tools to gently investigate the more emotional side of life transitions.
In this masterclass, I will guide you through exploring your space, your habits/rituals, and your dreams to create fully supportive spaces in your day-to-day for the next year or beyond.
If you’ve been wanting holistic support during this challenging time and aren’t ready to invest in one-on-one services, please take advantage of this group masterclass. I look forward to helping you through this transition!
What we’ll develop during our time together:
spatial exercises that help you understand the constraints, and unseen possibilities, of your space
internal exercises to reveal pain points, where they actually stem from, and how to approach solving them
a digital “evolution map/guide” documenting your space and exercises above with support system priorities and experimenting trackers for refinement in the future
a perspective-shifting system to return to with another space or further evolution in the future
Bonus resources? You betcha! You will also receive:
participation in an Insight App meditation group to support creating internal space as needed
a digital 12 Days of Spacemaking card deck for prompting transformative Qs
a digital DIY matrix of ideas to inspire out-of-the-box explorations
The logistics:
When: Saturday, October 22nd, 2:30-4:30pm EST
Where: From the comfort of your own home via our own private Zoom room
Who: This workshop is limited to 6 participants so we may address any unique spatial conditions* and share our explorations during our time together.
The Investment: $275.00
*Please note: this requires reliable internet connectivity, the ability to share video, and a decently lighted room so we can assess details of the space.
I look forward to working through this transition with you!
Our always question…how do you relate to the spaces you inhabit and/or create in the world?
Here at Spatial Medium, we believe strongly that how we inhabit and create space (both physical and intangible) in the world matters not only to our personal experience, but our community participation as well.
Our Intentional Spacemaking™ offerings will always center around design/systems thinking as well as caretaking (both self and community - we can’t have one without the other!). We have consistently seen a ripple effect of good that comes from a holistic perspective on creating space…in whatever form it may take!