William Spear is a recognized authority on health and environmental issues, feng shui, natural architecture and community planning. His own approach to vital design, Intuitive Feng Shui ®, is presented in his bestselling book, Feng Shui Made Easy: Designing Your Life With the Ancient Art of Placement (HarperCollins, 1995), which has been translated into fourteen languages and was hailed by The New York Times as “the most user-friendly explanation of feng shui for American audiences.”

His courses are taught internationally for architects, interior designers, urban planners and concerned citizens. The focus of his teachings is innovative community and home design that balances the maximum wellbeing of inhabitants with minimum environmental impact. It is his belief that a sustainably designed structure should aid its dwellers in integrating their inner and outer realities; to this end, supporting stress-reducing interior design and landscaping, energy-efficient and renewable energy technologies, and, ultimately, sustainable economics, organic agriculture, and ecological conservation. He is particularly interested in innovative design for schools, hospitals and nursing homes, parks and playgrounds, libraries, homeless shelters and urban planning projects.

William has been an active member of his local school board and served on the town’s building committee during a three-year school restoration and building project working closely with architects and school officials. He has consulted on design projects for Waldorf, Montessori and other schools and consulted with hundreds of families with children of all ages and backgrounds as well as raising three vibrant and uniquely talented, healthy sons.

He worked with Sweden’s largest furniture manufacturer, (who specialize in school furniture) which resulted in creation of line of furniture that began to change the way in which classrooms and schools were organized.

William Spear is president of The Fortunate Blessings Foundation who since 1983, have undertaken a variety of studies on the effect of the environment on health and the relationship of diet to disease; care and support of patients dying of cancer and AIDS; care and support of nuclear-accident survivors, especially children, in Chelyabinsk, Ukraine; and care and support of people affected by the wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. They conducted whole-foods cooking classes for refugees in Croatia and victims of radiation poisoning in Chelyabinsk, to show how nutritional fortification could help reduce the negative effects of radioactive fallout and exposure to the conditions of war. In 1993, their sister organization in Zagreb, The Society for the Improvement of the Quality of Life, was awarded the "Green Oscar" - the Earth Day International Award - at the United Nations for its work in environmental protection during the Bosnian war.

He also serves as a member of The Special Advisory Board for Developmental Delay Recourses, a nonprofit organization dedicated to meeting the needs of those working with children who have developmental delays in sensory motor, language, social, and emotional areas. www.devdelay.org

William Spear has long been regarded as a most personable, knowledgeable, and accessible educator in the fields of human potential, feng shui, the I Ching, integrative health, and the macrobiotic way of life. He has traveled worldwide giving lectures and consulting. In addition to extensive television appearances and radio interviews, he served as the first honorary President of the International Feng Shui Society in London. In 1991 and 1992, he delivered the best-attended lectures at the International Interior Design Exposition held in Toronto; these lectures, which were both on the subject of feng shui, were some time before feng shui became 'main stream'. William's warmth, humor, insight, wisdom and practical experience add up to make him an ideal teacher. Read more about the work of Wiliiam Spear at www.fortunateblessings.org