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OASIS: Healing by Design Psychology October 2, 2012 3:30 – 4:30 • Copyright Toby Israel, 2011
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OASIS:
Healing by Design Psychology
October 2, 2012
3:30 – 4:30
•
Copyright Toby Israel, 2011
• Toby Israel, Ph.D.
Oasis by Design, LLC
Princeton, NJ
• Marian Hamilton
Ken Hamilton Caregiver Center
Northern Westchester Hospital
Mount Kisco, NY
PRESENTERS
Learning Objectives
1. Define Design Psychology and its
application to healthcare design
2. Complete Design Psychology
exercises to explore/identify your own
experience of healing oases
3. Summarize the importance of involving
users in selecting color, texture, layouts and
objects to create healing places.
4. Recognize how to incorporate Design
Psychology exercises into your own
healing places programming process
Design Psychology
The practice of
architecture, planning
and interior design
in which psychology
is the principal
design tool.
Timeline of Healing Oases
0 13-17 13-18 18-22 23-now 42 - Present
The “Big
Woods” Alpine
nature
preserve
Baumgarts
Ice cream
parlor
College
library
5-12
Coffee
shops
Grounds for
Sculpture
HUT
- quiet
- beautiful
- views of
nature/art
- fireplace
- surrounds/
embraces me
Our Ideal Healing
Hospital OASIS is:
Design Psychology Steps
– Explore past history of place
– Identify “high positives”
– Use “high positives” to envision ideal design
– Climb the pyramid of needs to be satisfied
to achieve ideal design
– Using the pyramid as a touchstone,
translate vision into a fulfilling design
Self-
Actualization
Esteem Needs
Belonging Needs
Safety Needs
Physiological Needs
Maslow’s
Hierarchy of Needs
Place as Self-
Actualization
Satisfaction of
Aesthetic Need
Satisfaction of Social Need
Satisfaction of Psychological Need
Shelter
PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY
(PNI)
“The art and science of creating environments
that prevent illness, speed healing and
promote well-being.”
- Millicent Gappell, 1991
CREATING YOUR OWN
HEALING PLACE
• More in Control
• Engaged in process of creation/renewal
• Moving forward to focus on the future
www.robetowellness.com
“In deep waters, friends carry you.”
MY IDEAL HEALING OASIS IS:
For more information:
www.oasisbydesign.net
www.robetowellness.com
www.nwhc.net
QUESTIONS?
