The Sensory Standard ™️ is an environmental nervous system supporting certification system that provides structure, clarity, and measurable guidelines for creating sensory-safe environments through design. We prioritize access for humans most impacted by trauma and systemic harm.
Care, dignity, and performance are the results.
Environments should support you being and feeling regulated.
Harm, whether visible or not, is legally indefensible.
Created from necessity and driven to do the work through sharing medical wisdom our bodies already know on a global scale. We define the requirements humans need for nervous system balance.
“After hormonal collapse, neurological disruption, and environmental harms- my body needed balance. Answers disregarded environments and so I had to painstakingly create our checklist. Now you can benefit from my years of piecemeal struggle.“— Jennifer C Graf
We affirm recovery from default (medical, hotel, work, and home) interiors to those that are clear, consistent, and on purpose for your health.
ARTICLE LINKS
🌱 Core Framework
🡆 Healing Begins With What Interacts WITH You
Every material, surface, sound, smell, etc effects your body. This linked article lays out the truths your nervous system lives by—whether you were told about them or not.
🧵 Touch Matters – Skin Contact
🡆 Natural Fibers + Skin Contact – Clothing
Want to know why what touches you isn’t neutral to your nervous system? The linked article explains why nothing is neutral—it either supports regulation or triggers irritation and instability. Texture is a medical consideration, albeit aesthetic, too.
🌀 Full-System Redesign for Menopause
🡆 Peri/Menopause = System Redesign
Hormonal depletion is a neurological collapse. The linked article explains how The Sensory Standard™ provides guidelines for restoring safety for human, and will answer a lot of “you must live with it(s)” for those navigating menopause. Environmental integrity must align with you because it matters.
🛠️ What’s Coming
📣 Want to Co-Create or Fund This Work?
Email: Jennifer.C.Graf@gmail.com
Subject: The Sensory Standard™️ Partner Inquiry
Vision
Globally build environments that support nervous system regulation and individual well-being.
Mission
Provide structure, clarity, and certification to help people intentionally design sensory-safe spaces that align with their body’s neurological truths.
We live what we offer.
We build with feedback.
We prioritize funding access for those most impacted by trauma, sensory harm, and systemic neglect.
Every certified space affirms the right to recover—clearly, consistently, and on purpose.
We do our best* to live what we offer —not perfection.
The nervous system is a biological fact, Every material and method must align with sensory integrity.
Iteration, adaptation, and lived experience are a part of the growth and change framework.
20% of all projects fund access for those structurally excluded. Our standard redistributes power—not just aesthetics—because what affects one, affects all.
Healing environments removes or reduces what harms and increases what helps your body heal.
We scale with humility and care.
* We do our best and aim for integrity—not perfection. Growth is part of The Sensory Standard™️.
The Sensory Standard™ exists because most systems, as designed, dysregulate humans. We oppose that model. We do our best to support regulation, clarify requirements, celebrate humanity, and honor imperfection and growth.
We certify spaces where people can breathe, falter, adjust, and recover— fully, for themselves and others. Every value we name is one we live to uphold across our team, our clients, and our investors to the best of our human selves. Everyone involved agrees they are funding environments that prioritize human dignity and nervous system support—not flawless appearances or performance.
We do our best—and we invite you to check in with yourself: would you like the same?
B.B. King