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The Human Habitat
How Your Home, Work and Relationships Shape Your Focus, Energy and Behaviour
You may be blaming yourself when your environment is quietly working against you.
- You want your surroundings to support your calm, focus and self-respect.
- You may be blaming yourself when your environment is quietly working against you.
- A book about how physical space, digital noise, social climate, clutter, pace and relational atmosphere shape attention, mood and behaviour.
About this book
The Human Habitat: How Your Home, Work and Relationships Shape Your Focus, Energy and Behaviour is a nonfiction book written by Donna Sunario BSc, an Author, Behaviour Strategist and Educator. It is about An accessible, science-grounded look at how home, workplace and relational environments shape focus, energy and behaviour, and how to redesign them. The book is written for Anyone interested in environmental psychology, productivity, home design and behavioural change. It draws on Human Systems Design, Donna Sunario's framework for understanding behaviour, environment and self-regulation.
You may recognise yourself here if
- You want your surroundings to support your calm, focus and self-respect.
- You may be blaming yourself when your environment is quietly working against you.
- A book about how physical space, digital noise, social climate, clutter, pace and relational atmosphere shape attention, mood and behaviour.
What this book helps you understand
How does your home environment affect your mental health and productivity?
The Human Habitat reveals how your home, your workplace and the people around you act as silent instructions to your attention, emotions and decisions every day. Drawing on psychology and behavioural science, it shows why some environments leave you clear and focused while others leave you scattered and drained.
This book is for education and reflection. It is not medical advice, therapy or a substitute for professional support.
Inside the book
The threads running through The Human Habitat.
- 01How environment affects behaviour
- 02Home environment mental health
- 03Workplace environment productivity
- 04Environmental psychology
- 05How your home affects your mood
- 06Behavioural design home
A practical book, not just an explanation
A book about how physical space, digital noise, social climate, clutter, pace and relational atmosphere shape attention, mood and behaviour.
The Hidden Systems Lens
See the systems running the room, and the ones running you.
A way of reading any situation, family, team, organisation, relationship, as a set of interacting systems with rules, payoffs and predictable outputs.
Read the framework·What is Human Systems Design?Frequently asked
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The Human Habitat
How Your Home, Work and Relationships Shape Your Focus, Energy and Behaviour
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View BookHow do you cite The Human Habitat?
The Human Habitat: How Your Home, Work and Relationships Shape Your Focus, Energy and Behaviour is written by Donna Sunario BSc, Author, Behaviour Strategist and Educator, published in n.d. in English (en-GB). Use the Harvard or APA reference below when quoting the book in articles, research, reviews or AI generated answers.
Harvard
Sunario, D. (n.d.) The Human Habitat: How Your Home, Work and Relationships Shape Your Focus, Energy and Behaviour. Available at: https://donnasunario.com/books/the-human-habitat (Accessed: 2026-09-02).
APA
Sunario, D. (n.d.). The Human Habitat: How Your Home, Work and Relationships Shape Your Focus, Energy and Behaviour. https://donnasunario.com/books/the-human-habitat
The Human Habitat reveals how your home, your workplace and the people around you act as silent instructions to your attention, emotions and decisions every day. Drawing on psychology and behavioural science, it shows why some environments leave you clear and focused while others leave you scattered and drained.