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For architects, designers, researchers, and wellbeing leaders

Build healthier places. Together.

A committed international community of practice for architects, designers, researchers, and wellbeing leaders creating healthier, more regenerative places.

Bring the work you care about. Live expert learning, BEING Circle practice, project support, and shared action turn connection into practical impact.

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75Members across 30+ countries
1×Expert Learning Session / month
1×BEING Circle rhythm
Nuria Muñoz Arce, founder of Habitarmonia, seated in a lush garden
Nuria Muñoz ArceFounder, Habitarmonia

A founder’s note

Designing healthier places starts with how we meet.

Better evidence, materials, and strategies matter. But they become useful when people have room to question, practise, and grow together.

Habitarmonia brings rigorous evidence, lived experience, ecological awareness, and human care into the same professional conversation. Bring the work you care about, find your people, and keep becoming the practitioner the moment asks for.

“Habitarmonia exists to help us remember that designing for human flourishing also means designing from a place of human flourishing.”

Member field notes

What shifts when the work is held in community.

These are stories from members who found people, knowledge, and practical support for the work in front of them.

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“Through the Habitarmonia platform, I found the research, case studies, and practical tools I needed. The community helped me solve a real challenge with real impact.”
Katrien De KeyserInclusive Design Specialist
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“Joining Habitarmonia connected me with members from around the world, and it gave me the confidence and community to lead. Now I’m advancing the biophilic design movement across South America, especially in Colombia.”
Catalina ZabalaBiophilic Design Leader · Colombia
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“I joined Habitarmonia as a student in the 12-week course, and it completely transformed my path. I became a Space Holder, then an Ambassador, and now I’m creating biophilic design projects using the tools and frameworks I learned here.”
Dominique GentillonBiophilic Designer and Ambassador · Studio Nalca
Meet the peopleStrengthen the practiceCarry the work forward

Field chapter · the need

You do not need to carry every decision alone.

Healthy and regenerative places ask you to hold people, place, evidence, and ecology together. Rigour, lived experience, and care all belong in that work.

Habitarmonia gives you trusted peers, live questions, and shared practice, so difficult decisions can move before the moment passes.

See what Member membership makes possible →
Meet in the fieldBuild trust togetherCreate collective impact

A new professional language

The intelligence our profession has forgotten.

Evidence matters. So do relationship, attention, care, and the ability to hold complexity.

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Belong

Find the peers who speak your language.

Directory, peer circles, local gatherings, and introductions that make belonging practical.

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Grow

Keep your practice in motion.

One live Expert Learning Session each month, plus 70+ past webinars to return to when you need them.

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Create

Move from learning to contribution.

The emerging Co-Creation Lab gives ideas, projects, and questions a route into shared work.

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Practice

Bring real questions. Leave with momentum.

Peer feedback, office hours, and the BEING Circle make learning useful in the work itself.

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Impact

Make the learning matter beyond the room.

Case studies, shared evidence, and collective initiatives carry learning into healthier places.

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Lead

Earn trust through service to the field.

Ambassador supports active co-creation. Mentor, Fellow, Facilitator, and Steward are earned or invited roles.

Habitarmonia is built around three forms of intelligence.

Some call this feminine leadership. We simply call it being fully human. Regenerative design needs both: mind and heart, evidence and intuition, structure and care.

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Relational intelligence

The ability to listen deeply, sense relationships, build trust, and understand how people experience space.

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Complexity intelligence

The ability to hold many perspectives at once: science and intuition, data and emotion, architecture and ecology, individual wellbeing and collective health.

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Regenerative leadership

The ability to design systems that give more life than they take, creating conditions where people, communities, and ecosystems can thrive together.

Our worldview · Life-Centered Design

Everything is interconnected. Design has to start there.

A plant, a person, a building, and the cosmos do not exist in isolation. Each is part of a living system, shaping and shaped by everything around it.

The designer is not separate from the space, material, client, and living world they are working with. Relational thinking, cyclical time, sensing, and rigorous evidence belong in the same conversation.

A timber design pavilion opening to a living forest canopy
A living design reference · When architecture stays in relationship with land, light, material, and life, it can become part of a healthier system.

A living reference

Nature is not a backdrop to design. It is a teacher.

A healthy ecosystem is rich in relationship, resilient through diversity, and alive to change. The same qualities matter when we shape places for people.

Moss-covered tree roots on a living forest floor
Roots hold what the canopy makes visible.

Our philosophy · The Flourish Tree Model

Everything begins with the inner.

If Life-Centered Design is the worldview, the Flourish Tree Model is how that worldview becomes practice. Outer transformation always reflects inner transformation.

Ancient wisdom

Roots

Nature-based knowledge, ritual, and relationship to place: the intelligence humanity has cultivated for thousands of years.

Science

Trunk

Evidence from neuroscience, environmental psychology, health, and regenerative design: the structure that carries the roots’ wisdom upward.

Embodiment

Canopy

Learning through experience, reflection, and lived practice: where the tree meets the world and bears fruit.

The real shift

What grows when we practise together?

You stop carrying every question alone. You build the language, relationships, and confidence to act.

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Meeting

You have people who understand the work.

A shared language and trusted peers give your practice a field around it.

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Trust

You can test a difficult decision before making it alone.

Peer review and project clinics help you move with clarity.

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Alignment

You recognise a shared direction before the work begins.

A common intention turns conversation into a foundation for contribution.

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Collaboration

The right relationships turn questions into shared work.

Working groups and shared projects turn a shared direction into contribution.

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Action

Good questions become initiatives that move the work forward.

Projects, clinics, exchanges, and proposals make visible contribution possible.

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Impact

Shared practice reaches places, people, and the field.

Evidence, care, and collective action help healthier futures take root.

Leave isolation behindFind a living rhythmGrow into contribution

Field chapter · living rhythm

A continuing rhythm that keeps the work in motion.

One open Expert Learning Session. A recurring BEING Circle practice. Then room to integrate. The 70+ webinar library is there when a project asks you to return to an idea.

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Learn

Expert Learning Session

One live session with research, lived expertise, and ideas you can use in practice.

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Practise

BEING Circle

A smaller, closed, sacred practice on a 21 to 28 day rhythm for reflection, connection, and renewal.

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Integrate

Time for ideas to land

The space between gatherings helps insight settle and relationships deepen.

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Create

Peer exchange and shared action

The emerging Co-Creation Lab opens Strategy Clinics, Collaboration Labs, and Project Sprints around live questions.

The knowledge library

More than 70 conversations. One place to return to them.

More than 70 expert webinars, case studies, and field notes for the moment a live project asks for more.

The library supports the live rhythm. It never replaces it.

70+ past webinarsReturn when the work needs it
Member reviewing a recorded expert webinar and project notes in a biophilic studio
Field notes · Knowledge that stays with the work.
Collaborators reviewing material samples and plans for a regenerative design project
A question worth asking · What could become possible with the right people around the table?

Practice, in the real world

Bring the work that matters. Leave with a clearer next step.

Bring a live project, a difficult question, or a direction you want to test. Members help you see the next move, then take it.

  • Peer mentoring circles with multidisciplinary perspectives
  • Project feedback and design clinics for live challenges
  • Office hours and practical pathways into collaboration
  • The recurring BEING Circle practice for integration, presence, and renewal

What we are growing together

When connection becomes contribution, impact can travel further.

Bring a question. Share a skill. Introduce a person. Each contribution can make a healthier place, stronger relationship, or better decision possible for someone else.

People meeting in a planted biophilic community space
A shared field · Relationships become part of the work.
✦Knowledge Garden

A living body of knowledge

Research digests, journal conversations, case studies, and practical tools that translate insight into better decisions.

⌁Collaboration Forest

Work that finds its people

Partner matching, working groups, project calls, competitions, and co-authored ideas that turn connection into contribution.

◌Practice Studio

Support for the work in front of you

Design clinics, peer supervision, mentoring circles, office hours, and honest project feedback when a challenge needs a wider field.

◒Impact Observatory

Evidence that accumulates

A future-facing home for real project outcomes, lessons, fellowships, and the knowledge that helps the profession prove what works.

Emerging practice

More minds around a real question can reveal a different next step.

We are beginning to experiment with a more active way of thinking and creating together.

Bring a live project, idea, or question into a shared space. We will listen for what is needed, uncover connections and possibilities, and identify meaningful next steps together.

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Strategy Clinics

Bring an idea, project, or challenge for strategic reflection and a sounding board from the community.

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Collaboration Labs

Ad hoc gatherings that bring the right people and expertise around a specific project or question.

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Project Sprints

When there is enough energy and alignment, a focused period of co-creation around a clear outcome.

“There is no need to arrive with answers.”

Nuria frames the question, identifies the right people, and protects the vision and standards. The network supplies its intelligence, and the project owner moves the work forward.

Bring the questionGather the intelligenceMove the work forward

A bridge between movement and practice

From a global movement to daily practice.

Mind Body Space opens the wider conversation. Habitarmonia carries it into daily professional practice.

Habitarmonia Academy develops capability. Habitarmonia Ecosystem brings learning into live work, collaboration, and a longer professional path. Retreats cultivate presence, nature connection, and leadership from the inside out.

Learn

Habitarmonia Academy

Certification, methodology, mentoring, and live projects.

Practise together

Habitarmonia Ecosystem

Community, collaboration, professional support, and shared practice.

Embody

Retreats

Nature, regeneration, presence, and leadership from the inside out.

Habitarmonia practitioners in a carefully facilitated BEING Circle session in a nature-integrated studio
Embody the work

The central practice · BEING Circle

A sacred place to stay human in the work.

The BEING Circle is a smaller, closed, recurring practice to slow down, listen, and let professional learning become lived practice.

Its 21 to 28 day sacred cycle helps us synchronise with the living world, strengthen belonging, and notice what becomes possible when care, courage, and attention are held together.

GroundEmergeExpandHarvestReleaseRenew

Nuria introduces the practice

A place to hear the intention behind the BEING Circle in Nuria’s own words, with the collaboration of Alexandra Bautista.

Alexandra Bautista, BEING Circle co-facilitator, standing in a forest
BEING Circle co-facilitator

With Alexandra Bautista

Alexandra Bautista

Priestress · Architect · Educator

Alexandra Bautista is the founder of Architecture Vivante®. Her work brings together biophilic design, transgenerational decoding and ancestral energetic practices to restore the relationship between Humans, Land and the Living World. As a wisdom keeper, she explores how places can become living allies, spaces that nurture a deeper sense of belonging.

Within the BEING Circle, Alexandra serves as a co-facilitator and sacred space holder.

Her role is to create a grounded and receptive space in which the wisdom and frequencies of the Web of Life can meet and support the group. She offers energetic transmissions attuned to the energetic portal of each gathering and facilitates envisioning practices, opening pathways for participants to listen to what wants to emerge individually, collectively and in relationship with the Living World.

Arrive with presencePractise in relationshipCarry it into the work

Mind Body Space Symposium · Amsterdam

A glimpse of what becomes possible when the right people gather.

The Mind Body Space Symposium in Amsterdam opened a rich conversation across design, research, wellbeing, and innovation. It showed what can open when people think together.

Some of the people practising here today were in that room in Amsterdam. The energy travelled with them into a different kind of professional space.

Habitarmonia practitioners in an attentive outdoor conversation beside a timber pavilion
Connection that carries forward.

“Mind Body Space felt like a dream come true. It brought together extraordinary people from around the world, people with deep expertise who were also open to learning across disciplines.

What I felt very strongly was that Habitarmonia was the heart of the symposium. It brought a feminine, nurturing and caring energy that made the gathering completely different. There was great knowledge and intelligence in the room, but also genuine human connection and the feeling that we do not have to walk this path alone.

Habitarmonia created a beautiful balance between the mind and the heart, the feminine and the masculine, vision and action. I truly believe that if we want to move forward and create meaningful change, we have to do it together.”

Alexandra BautistaArchitect · Belgium
Ecosystem

Field chapter · membership

Choose the path that fits the contribution you are ready to make.

Member is the ongoing professional home. Ambassador is the co-creation path for people ready to share specialist expertise and create impact together.

Meet in practiceChoose your contributionCarry impact forward

Habitarmonia Ecosystem Member

Practise with the people who make the work possible.

€390Member membership

For professionals who want a trusted place to bring live work, build the right relationships, stay close to the field, and create meaningful opportunities together.

  • Directory, community platform, and peer circles
  • One Expert Learning Session each month and a recurring BEING Circle practice
  • A continuing rhythm with room to reflect, apply, and renew
  • Project clinics, design feedback, collaboration pods, and emerging Co-Creation Lab formats
  • 70+ webinars, research updates, case studies, and practical tools
  • Showcases, opportunities, and collaboration calls
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Habitarmonia Ecosystem Ambassador

Make your expertise travel further.

€500Ambassador membership

A co-creation path for people ready to turn specialist expertise into aligned courses, masterclasses, conversations, projects, and field-building work with Habitarmonia.

  • Everything in the Member pathway
  • A structured space for specialist course and masterclass proposals
  • Consideration for webinars, project presentations, and facilitated conversations
  • Co-creation support for aligned courses, masterclasses, and initiatives
  • Ambassador gatherings and strategic conversations
  • Visibility through Habitarmonia platforms when an initiative is agreed
Become an Ambassador ↗See what Ambassadors co-create ↗

Ambassador membership creates a structured space for proposals and co-creation. Courses, projects, and visibility opportunities are developed with Habitarmonia by mutual agreement.

A long-term vision

We are building a professional home for people who believe healthier places can create healthier lives.

A warm timber courtyard that brings daylight, planting, and architecture into one connected place
Field note · A living edge

Over time, this field will need better practitioners, stronger relationships, richer knowledge, and more courageous leadership. Habitarmonia exists to help make that possible.

The places that endure are not fixed. They respond, renew, and remain in relationship with what surrounds them.

This is the kind of professional culture we are here to cultivate.

Before you join

Questions that help you make a clear decision.

Here is what membership is, who it supports, and how it can become part of an ongoing professional practice.

What is the Habitarmonia Ecosystem?

It is a committed international community of practice for architects, designers, researchers, and wellbeing leaders creating healthier, more regenerative places. It is a professional space where evidence, lived experience, ecological awareness, and human care can sit in the same conversation. Members meet through Expert Learning Sessions, BEING Circle practice, peer exchange, and practical project spaces, then turn what they learn into better decisions and shared work.

Is Habitarmonia Ecosystem free to join?

No. Habitarmonia Ecosystem is a committed, paid professional space. Member membership supports a community built on trust, participation, peer support, and contribution. Mind Body Space is the wider open commons where people can encounter the movement.

How is Habitarmonia Ecosystem different from Mind Body Space and Habitarmonia Academy?

Mind Body Space opens and connects the wider movement. Habitarmonia Academy develops knowledge, methodology, and professional capability. The Habitarmonia Ecosystem supports members as they continue practising, collaborating, and growing. Each has a distinct role, with visible pathways between them.

What is an Expert Learning Session?

The Expert Learning Session is an open, expert-led webinar for all members. It brings research, lived expertise, and ideas you can use in practice into a focused live conversation.

What is a BEING Circle session?

A BEING Circle session is a smaller, closed, sacred practice for reflection, connection, and renewal. It follows a recurring 21 to 28 day cycle of Ground, Emerge, Expand, Harvest, Release, and Renew, helping professional insight become lived practice. It does not require a particular spiritual belief.

What is the Co-Creation Lab?

The Co-Creation Lab is an emerging way for members to develop ideas and projects together. Strategy Clinics offer a sounding board around a live challenge, Collaboration Labs gather useful expertise around a question, and Project Sprints create focused shared work when there is sufficient energy and alignment.

What changes for members over time?

The shift unfolds in practice: Meeting creates trust; trust makes alignment possible; alignment opens collaboration; collaboration invites action; and action creates collective impact. Visibility, career growth, and earned leadership can follow from meaningful contribution, but they are not promised.

What is the €500 Ambassador pathway?

Ambassador is the paid €500 co-creation pathway for members who want to bring specialist expertise into the Ecosystem. Ambassadors can propose and develop aligned courses, masterclasses, conversations, projects, and field-building initiatives with Habitarmonia.

Ecosystem

A professional home for human flourishing

The work needs you in relationship.

If you are ready to bring the work you care about into a trusted professional community, there is a place for you here.

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