Spaces That Hold You: November 2026Â
A Masterclass Series by Dominique Gentillon
Studio Nalca x Habitarmonia Academy
About This Masterclass
Spaces That Hold You is a live online masterclass series designed for designers, architects, wellbeing practitioners, biophilic designers, creative professionals, and anyone who wants to understand how migration, belonging, identity, and the nervous system are held within the spaces we inhabit.
Guided by Dominique Gentillon, founder of Studio Nalca, multicultural wellbeing designer, and Habitarmonia Academy Certified Biophilic Designer, this series opens an important and often overlooked conversation:
What happens when a person crosses borders and has to rebuild the feeling of home in a new place?
Migration is not only a geographical transition. It is also emotional, sensory, psychological, cultural, and embodied. Even when migration is chosen, something is often lost: familiar landscapes, daily rhythms, cultural references, objects, textures, light, language, and the version of ourselves that belonged to another place.
This masterclass introduces the concept of migrational grief and explores how displacement can live in the body before it is fully understood by the mind. Through nervous system science, migration psychology, biophilic design, and Dominique’s own lived experience, you will discover a new way of understanding the relationship between space, belonging, and emotional regulation.
This series invites us to design differently: not only from style, layout, or budget, but from story, body, memory, culture, and the deep human need to feel held by space.
Investment & Dates
Join the November 2026 Edition
Introductory Webinar
The Body Before the Room
Friday, 27 November 2026
Time to be confirmed
Live Online
This introductory webinar is part of the Habitarmonia Ecosystem. Habitarmonia Ecosystem members will be able to access this session, and it is also included for participants who have purchased the full masterclass series.
In this introductory session, Dominique will open the theme of migrational grief, the nervous system response to unfamiliar spaces, and the importance of designing homes that can hold people through cultural transition.
This webinar is a first encounter with the deeper framework of the series and an invitation to understand home not only as a physical place, but as an emotional, sensory, cultural, and embodied experience.
Masterclass 1
Spaces That Hold You
Monday, 30 November 2026
17:00–19:00 CET
Live Online
In this first session, Dominique will explore how displacement and migration live in the body.
Through nervous system science, migration psychology, and spatial experience, you will begin to understand how unfamiliar environments can register as potential threat before the mind can explain why a person feels unsettled.
You will learn how to read a space not only for what is visible, but also for what may be missing: sensory references, cultural continuity, grounding objects, familiar light, materials, rhythms, memories, and cues of belonging.
Masterclass 2
Designing for Return
Wednesday, 2 December 2026
17:00–19:00 CET
Live Online
In the second session, Dominique will move from understanding to design response.
You will explore practical tools, biophilic anchors, intake questions, and design strategies for creating spaces that honour where a person is from while helping them feel grounded in where they are now.
This session introduces a deeper way of designing for clients in transition by integrating memory, identity, culture, nature, emotional regulation, and a renewed sense of belonging.
The goal is not to create a home that forces someone to choose between past and present, but a home that can hold both.
What Is Included
Your participation includes:
- The introductory webinar The Body Before the Room on 27 November 2026
- Two live online masterclasses of two hours each
- Masterclass 1: Spaces That Hold You on 30 November 2026, 17:00–19:00 CET
- Masterclass 2: Designing for Return on 2 December 2026, 17:00–19:00 CET
- A guided personal reflection before the first paid session
- An introduction to migrational grief and its relationship with the nervous system
- Practical tools to read space through cultural identity and emotional regulation
- Biophilic anchors for designing spaces that support, regulate, and reconnect
- Intake questions for working with clients in cultural transition
- An introduction to Dominique’s SLOW methodology for transitional clients
- Group dialogue, reflection, and peer learning
- Live Q&A during the sessions
- Certificate of Completion issued by Habitarmonia Academy after completing the two paid sessions
Who This Series Is For
This masterclass is for architects, interior designers, landscape designers, biophilic designers, wellbeing practitioners, and creative professionals who want to bring a deeper understanding of human experience into their work.
It is also for people who have experienced migration themselves and want to understand why certain spaces feel grounding, unfamiliar, emotionally charged, or difficult to inhabit.
This series is especially relevant if you work with expats, global nomads, international families, multicultural clients, or people who are navigating transition, relocation, or questions of belonging.
Price
Price: €390
VAT included
Format: Live Online
Language: English
Minimum participants: 5
The two paid sessions will run when a minimum of 5 participants has enrolled. If this minimum is not reached, participants will be offered a full refund or the option to transfer their place to a future edition.
After Your Purchase
Once your purchase is complete, you will receive the practical details for the masterclass, including access information for the online sessions and preparation details.
Before the first paid session, you will receive a guided reflection to help you connect with your own relationship to space, home, belonging, migration, and cultural identity.
Please make sure that the email address used during your purchase is correct, as this is the address address that will be used to send you all access and preparation information.
Cancellation Policy
Because places are limited and preparation begins before the live sessions, your booking becomes non-refundable once your place has been confirmed and the guided reflection has been sent to you.
By enrolling, you agree to this condition.
Enrollment
Places are limited to ensure a close, sensitive, and meaningful learning experience.
If you are ready to understand how design can hold people who have crossed borders, and to learn how to create spaces that honour both past and present, you can reserve your place now.
“A home does not have to choose between your past and your present.
And neither do you.”
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