I’m giving a lecture called Feng Shui Patterns: Recognition, Utilisation, Creation and Freedom Beyond Feng Shui on Saturday, 16 May 2026, 5pm UK time, at IFSG Feng Shui Summit.
You can register for this Feng Shui Summit here. The live sessions are FREE.
Fengshui is the study of environmental patterns shaping your life through space and time. Advance beyond traditional feng shui models into advanced fengshui pattern recognition, utilisation and creation – learn to read the hidden patterns of your home and workplace, understand energetic flows, feedback loops and leverage points, work intelligently with complexity, and design environments that resolve challenges at their roots and genuinely support long-term freedom, stability, growth and success.
Fengshui (wind-water) is, at its core, the study of environmental patterns. It explores how qi, or life energy, moves through space and time, shaping landscapes, buildings, organisations and human experience. Fengshui therefore works with two inseparable dimensions: spatial patterns, how energy arranges itself in environments, and temporal patterns, how energy changes, cycles and evolves.
At the foundation of fengshui lie several key pattern languages. Yin and yang describe divergence and convergence. The five elements express cyclical transformation through seasonal processes. The bagua maps energetic relationships within space. Fengshui astrology extends this into time, exploring how energetic patterns unfold across life phases. Together, these models provide a vocabulary for observing how environments function, where harmony emerges, and where imbalance develops.
This talk goes beyond using these models descriptively and focuses on advanced pattern work. You will be introduced to three interrelated capacities: pattern recognition, pattern utilisation and pattern creation.
Pattern recognition is the ability to perceive recurring structures across environments, behaviours, organisations and systems. It means seeing underlying configurations rather than isolated events. In fengshui this begins with observing flows, relationships and feedback loops within spaces. In this talk, the skill is sharpened through systems thinking, revealing how environments operate as dynamic networks rather than static layouts.
Pattern utilisation is the skill of working intelligently with existing structures. It involves identifying leverage points, amplifying supportive dynamics and reducing destabilising ones. Drawing on cybernetics, this section explores how environments self-regulate, how feedback loops stabilise or destabilise systems, and how small interventions can generate disproportionate effects. Fengshui becomes not decorative placement, but strategic environmental tuning.
Pattern creation is the most advanced dimension. It moves from responding to patterns toward deliberately designing new ones. At this level, fengshui becomes a generative practice. Semiotics, the study of signs and symbols, helps us understand how environments communicate and how we actively create meaning through colour, form, material, layout and cultural cues. This dimension also integrates insights from artificial intelligence, where pattern learning and generation are central. Here, AI is approached as a creative assistant for exploring possibilities, generating variations and visualisations, which are then evaluated through fengshui principles, lived experience and symbolic coherence.
As Winston Churchill famously observed, “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” This captures the central theme of the talk: environments are not neutral. They condition perception, behaviour and possibility. This insight also underpins Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language, which demonstrates how recurring design structures influence human life. Fengshui stands within this lineage, offering an environmental grammar through which patterns can be read, modified and invented.
Rather than being confined by techniques or formulas, you will learn to think in patterns, work with complexity, and consciously design environments that support intelligent, adaptive and flourishing systems. By engaging fengshui through advanced pattern recognition, utilisation and creation, fengshui becomes a practical problem-solving language, giving you greater clarity, flexibility and confidence to work with any situation, transform challenges at their roots, and design homes and workplaces that genuinely support long-term freedom, stability, success and growth in your life.
Jan Cisek, MSc, is a world-leading, leading-edge fengshui consultant, environmental psychologist, PhD researcher with over 40 years of experience. A co-founder of the Feng Shui Society of Great Britain in 1993, he has been instrumental in popularising fengshui internationally. His work integrates classical fengshui, semiotics, systems thinking, cybernetics and AI-informed pattern design, extending fengshui into a transpersonal, creative, innovative, yet deeply practical environmental discipline.
You can register for this Feng Shui Summit here. The live sessions are FREE.