Feng Shui: Reading the Built Environment

Posted by Pauline Hechler

on Dec 04, 2015

The intention of this presentation is to introduce the attendees to Feng Shui on a broader scope, and the concept of ‘energy’ which emanates from the physical form of the environment. Did you ever walk into a space and feel creepy? Feng Shui can explain why! Energies can be beneficial and enhance human life, stagnant and non-supportive, or even destructive. This presentation will show how to recognize some of these energies, provide insights on how to capitalize on the beneficial ones, and mitigation techniques to neutralize the negative ones. In essence, the goal of the presentation is to enhance the way we look at the world.

Understanding how energy works will help ensure that the places we create support and enhance the lives of the people who live or visit there. The physical form of the environment affects us all, and often we can actually feel the impact. The value of feng shui is that it takes these things from a level of ‘feeling’ to the level of ‘conscious choice’ allowing us to mindfully choose better, more supportive environments.

Biography - Kevin Walters

Mr. Walters is the founder of Feng Shui Planning – Feng Shui and Urban Design. He is a graduate of the Masters of Urban and Regional Planning program at Virginia Commonwealth University, where his thesis focused on feng shui and Neighborhood Development.

He has studied Black Hat feng shui with the Western School of Feng Shui and Classical feng shui at the Golden Gate School of Feng Shui. He is the author of several articles on Feng Shui, including “The Feng Shui of Seaside” published in the New Urbanism Division Newsletter of the APA, and “What Can We Learn from an Ancient Chinese Practice?” published in the December 2007 edition of Planning Magazine.

He has presented Feng Shui programs at Arizona and Virginia Planning Conferences, Arizona and Virginia Housing Conferences, the National Healthy Homes Conference, the 2012 Virginia Main Street Toolkit Workshop.

Mr. Walters received a Bachelor of Business Administration from The College of William and Mary in 1975.