For Mental Health Professionals: Togetherness Design in Practice.

Every year, Katie and I run this lively, creative webinar that reveals how physical home environments contribute to overwhelm, dysregulation, and lack of follow-through, and how the power of design, alongside a therapeutic relationship, can turn this around. Subscribe to join the waitlist for May 2027 Webinar.

This online gathering invites a radical revaluing of the home, elevating it to the role it deserves in revealing our troubles, rewarding our efforts, and participating in our healing.

Through a story-rich, interactive 90 minutes together, you will gain a memorable design framework you can use in your own home and with clients. You will also experience the embodied relief that arises when home design supports the nervous system, as we rearrange a small corner of your home, in real time.

This design approach was developed for neurodivergent minds, overloaded households, and thoughtful people who want daily life to work better. It taps into our innate desire and ability to generate 'togetherness', using curiosity and compassion to put the right things together in the right places, so objects, habits and people can function better together.Internal Family Systems and its inner-ecosystem approach are a natural partner for this positive, non-pathologising work.

The session is offered as a companion to the upcoming 9-month House That Loves You Back guided home harmonising program, which starts 28 June. By the end of the session, participants of the project will be able to:

• Notice and name how everyday environments load or relieve the nervous system and executive function, and how this affects trust, defensiveness, relationships and follow-through.

  
  

• Practise re-arranging one small area of your home so it better supports you and the people around you.

  
  

• Use five powerful design principles in any area of life, including: Zones: protect and direct attention.

  Make Families: group related objects so the home gives clearer cues.

  Reduce Useless Diversity, lower unnecessary choice, friction and visual noise,

  
  

Understand how this work fits alongside psychological care Expect to leave with a shared language for noticing when environments are helping or hindering us, and a practical way to help clients feel the desire, confidence, and satisfaction of doing something about it.

Who this is for

For psychologists, mental health clinicians, allied health professionals, supervisors and practice owners who want a lived understanding of how homes can regulate the nervous system, shape follow-through and support psychological care.

This session is especially useful for professionals whose clients are participating in our annual 9-month The Home That Loves You Back: Guided Home Harmonising Project, starting June 2027. About the work

The Togetherness Method is an environmental intervention designed to work alongside psychological care. Its repeatable, practical approach focuses on reducing friction rather than increasing effort, helping homes become more supportive of regulation, follow-through and connection.

Created by ecosystem designer Cecilia Macaulay, with input from allied experts and decades of iteration in real homes facing real struggles, the method brings whole-system design together with the somatic wisdom of Japanese cultural practices.

Practical details

Live online session

90 minutes Eventbrite registration required

This is a hands-on session. Please wear comfortable clothing and be ready to have your camera on for group work and sharing.

Speakers

Cecilia Macaulay, Ecosystem Designer

Cecilia Macaulay is a pioneering home harmoniser and originator of 'Togetherness Design', a method of creating home ecosystems that spark clarity, useful action, and lively connection. Based in Melbourne, Sydney, and Japan, she blends Permaculture thinking with Japanese design and compassionate insight. If traditional home organising methods don’t excite you, today might be your lucky day. With Cecilia, order unfolds naturally, and your home begins to support your flourishing. She has 35 years of experience gathering teams and creating Permaculture habitats.

Katie de Araujo - Yoga Therapist

One of Australia's first qualified yoga Therapists. In Katie's presence, you get the feeling deep in your body that 'Everything's going to be alright'. From that safety, choice and possibilities open up. Katie's current work includes nervous system care for inpatients at institutions such as the Victoria Clinic and training mental health professionals in somatic practices.