Transforming workspaces, homes, and healing spaces into hi-functioning, good feeling settings.

July 6th 2008
     
 

Radio Show

"If These Walls Could Talk" Radio Show has featured numerous shows, some of which are listed below. Copies of shows are available upon request for $19.95. 

 
Host, Katherine Morris, Ph.D., FSII

Depth psychologist Katherine Morris delves into both obstacles and the answers lie within all types of settings. The show offers methods of decoding the 'secret codes' hidden in every office, building, home, store everywhere we find ourselves.

"If These Walls Could Talk" Radio Show has featured numerous shows, some of which are listed below. Copies of shows are available upon request for $19.95. 

 

 

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Topic: Setting Profiler: Who Lives Here? Who Works Here? What Are They Like? The Setting Will Tell Us!

Guest: Benjamin Huntington, American Society of Interior Designers [ASID], Professor at the Feng Shui Institute International, BA Architecture

Episode Description:   Drapes instead of blinds, papers piled up in the far left corner, diplomas hung over the length of the wall, green as the dominant color in the room, miniature stuffed animals on a shelf, pairs of items on the bookcases are the kinds of clues that strung together give us a profile of who lives or works in a particular setting. Want to know more about the people in your life? 

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Topic: Lighting Can Change Your Mood, Make You Come Unglued, and Even Feel Renewed! It Can Transform a Room Simply and Soon.


Episode Description: Conversational topics in the same room will differ if the lighting changes. Purchasing decisions will vary depending upon lighting. Work output is affected by lighting. Happiness and health are affected by lighting. Transforming a room or an area dramatically and quickly can be done with lighting.

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Topic: Exposing Off-Screen Hollywood -- A Revealing Look at How Behind-the-Scenes Settings Affects Actors

Episode Description: How do directors use the set subliminally to affect the actorsand the audience? How does an actors off-screen setting affect their on-screen performance? Can the wrong coffee pot sabotage a day on the set? Tune in and find out how where an actor works and lives can lead to an artistic meltdown or an Oscar-winning performance. Ivory Ocean, Film Director and CEO of Swashbuckler Films, and Industry Insider Chuck Trimbach of Ocean Pictures joined host Katherine Morris to answer these questions.

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Topic: Sacred Settings The Locations Might Surprise You!

Episode Description: What makes a place sacred? Do you know where your sacred setting is? You could be in it right now and not even realize it. Can any place be a sacred setting? Well take a walk back in time and into other cultures to discover the secrets, mysteries, and subliminal messages behind sacred settings. From our homes, to places of worship, to nature itself, find out what makes them such powerful places for us and why we need them.

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Topic: Unmasking the Places that Heal Us Are They Keeping Us Sick?

Episode Description: Can hospital rooms prolong recovery time from illness?  Yes!  Can your home heal a head cold or speed recovery?  Yes!  How can emotional problems be made worse in the wrong setting?  This week we pull back the curtain and examine healing settings from the doctors office, to the hospital, to the home and learn what types of settings promote healing or keep you sick.  Find out why it is in your best interest to bring a little "home" to the hospital or therapy office.

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Topic: "Greening" Your Home.  The Hottest Makeover Sprouting Up Across Mainstream America!

Guest: Robyn Griggs Lawrence, Editor-in-Chief of Natural Home and Garden Magazine

Episode Description:  Who's "greening" their homes?  Its no longer just environmentalists and movie stars!  People across America are adding up the benefits of "greening" their homes. From small changes to major overhauls, these people are netting big rewards.  Can "greening" your home save you money on energy costs and medical bills?  Yes indeed!  This week well show you how you too can easily "green" your home and reap the benefits!  Keep more green in your wallet by adding "green" to your home!

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Topic: Architecture - Building or Erasing American Communities?

File written by Adobe Photoshop® 5.0Guest: Professor Vincent Scully

Episode Description:  Where have all the neighbors gone?  Renowned architectural professor and art historian Vincent Scully joins Katherine Morris in examining the social and psychological impact of architecture on American culture.  Does architecture reflect or instigate changes in our society?  Can it control how we feel?  How does it affect our sense of community?
 

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Topic: On the Road with Dan Rather The Mysterious Power of Setting
Guest: Rob Klug, Director of CBS’s 48 Hours Mystery

Episode Description:  What do Donald Trumps penthouse, Las Vegas casinos, and mental institutions have in common?  Director Rob Klug has seen them all and more.  As director of the award-winning CBS show 48 Hours traveling the country with Dan Rather took Rob Klug inside wildly varying settings. 

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Topic: Room for Romance

Guest: Benjamin Huntington, AIA, FSIA

Episode Description:  Find out how your bedroom could be killing the romance in your relationship, and learn how a mint, a canceled television show, and a hijacking can ignite a passion that lasts long after the Valentines Day cards have faded. Does your bedroom serves as a second office, laundry room, storage closet, den, computer center, or all of the above? If so, where is the room for romance?

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Topic: Embers and Ash Firehouses and the Heroes Who Keep Them
Guests: Paul Hashagen, former NYFD firefighter, and lead instructor in the FDNY Technical Rescue School, and former firefighter Don Cannon, Ph.D., professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Episode Description:  When the sirens are quiet, what goes on inside the firehouse, the "home" to Americas’ heroes?  What stories, triumphs, tragedies, and tears does it keep?  Do the same "family" dynamics exist here as in any house on any block? 

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Topic: The CEO’s Office: Does It Say Domination or Collaboration?
  
Episode Description: Your office is talking and clients are listening. Is it a dealmaker or a deal-breaker? What message is it sending? Does it say you are a Man of the People, Queen of the Mountain, or you’d rather be fishing? From Intel bigwig Andy Groves cubical to the extravagant office of bond trader Sherman McCoy, well examine the psychological impact of the most powerful office in the company: the CEOs office. This week CEOs speak from the other side of the desk and tell it like it is-from the deliberate thought behind their own office to their opinions on the settings of other captains of industry. Jeffrey Zavick, CEO Immuno Labs (pictured)

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Topic: From the Warfront to the Homefront--Our Military Calls It "Home"

Guests: Retired Air Force Officer, Joe Davis and Retired Airborne Ranger, Steve Robinson

Episode Description: For our military, "Home" can be anywhere a house in the Heartland, the cramped quarters of a ship, an embassy on foreign soil, or the front lines of a war zone. But how does this ever-changing "home" affect our troops and their families? In a war zone, how important is it to create a home environment, and what does it take to accomplish this?

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Topic: Sinister Settings

Guests:
Former Commanding Officer of Manhattan Night Watch, Detective Wally Zeins and UCLA psychiatrist, Dr. Reef Karim (pictured) 

Episode Description: When detectives or psychological investigators enter a suspects lair, they tune into what it has to say. You might be surprised by the things they focus on! Ordinary items, their location, and the setting itself, reveal secret clues about the occupant’s personality a psychological imprint. Clothing, books, clutter, neatness, and a myriad of other elements can tell them who this person really is. But can a "smart" criminal change their setting to trick investigators? What dark secrets is your house giving away?

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Topic: Movie Theatres vs. DVDs: Cinematic Showdown or Community Breakdown?

Guest: Kendrick Macdowell, General Counsel of the National Association of Theater Owners

Episode Description: A stormy debate is raging in Hollywood with declining ticket sales and a growing DVD audience, is the beloved movie theater in peril? If so, who is to blame? Do waning box-office numbers reflect a breakdown of community or simply a convenience-seeking public? What may seem like an issue important to only those in the "biz" may actually be a symptom of a social shift 35 years in the making.

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Topic:  Mind Games: Outsmarting the Ads that Get You to Buy

Episode Description: Think products are the only star in television commercials? Think again! The next time you watch a commercial take a good look at the setting behind the product. Advertisers know a lot about us, and they go to great lengths to create a "world" that sends a specific message. Ever feel like you can relate to the character in a commercial? That is the setting at work, painstakingly designed to communicate a feeling of familiarity. From coffee mugs, to Armani suits, to clutter, to furniture, the "world" reflected in commercials plays a major role in getting us to buy. Advertising mastermind, Dr. Michael Solomon, Director of Mind/Share and author of Conquering Consumerspace: Marketing Strategies for a Branded World, talks about the process and psychology used in the fascinating world of television commercials.

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Topic: Hiding in Plain Sight: The Psychological Assault of Hotel Rooms

Episode Description: You may not realize it, but a hotel room can actually cause stress, regardless of the sticker price! However long your stay, a hotel room is your home away from home or at least it should feel that way. Luxurious or thrifty, most hotel designs seem to ignore the psychological assault the rooms have on the guests, and most people do not realize the potentially negative impact this has on them, mentally and physically. But if the hotel industry won’t change it, what can you do? Plenty! From hermetically sealed windows to plastic-wrapped glasses, and everything in between, Katherine Morris, an expert in setting psychology, discussed you what she does to make every hotel room she stays in an oasis from stress and a mini-home, and along with a discussion about ground-breaking research with Stephani Robson of Cornell University. A more relaxing stay is just around the corner!

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Topic: The Talking Home: Listen in with a Psychic and a Psychotherapist!

Episode Description:  What would a psychic see if she walked in to your home? What would a psychotherapist see? There are four basic types of homes on an energetic and psychological basis. Which one do you have? The type of home you have will dictate the type of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors encouraged in your home.  Is your home set up for safety? for convenience? for goodness and caring?  for your imagination?  Which home would make you appear to be a psychological victim? Which home would make you look normal? Each part of your home conveys a different message! TV Psychic Janet Brennan, has been seen on the David Letterman Show, The Morning Show, and Nickelodeon
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Show Resources: Janet Brennan 718-377-7222

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Topic: Quick Fixes to Make Any Room a Feel Good Room

Maybe you don’t feel that great when you’re in your living room. Maybe you completely avoid your living room.  Is a good night’s sleep in your bedroom something you only dream about?  Do you do anything you can not to go in to a certain room in your home? Many people don’t even know why they dislike parts of their home. Well tell you what the biggest room problems are and how to fix them quickly. 

Show Resources: www.fengshui-ii.org; www.buildingbiology.net

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