Each month, the IES presents a live webinar on a current topic that helps expand your lighting knowledge and furthers our mission of improving life through quality of light. Live and on-demand webinars are free to all IES members, and are eligible for IES continuing education credits (CEUs). Live webinars are available at a fee of $20 for non-members.
Please note, on-demand webinars are available on a complimentary basis only to IES members and are eligible for CEUs for a nominal fee. Non-members may also purchase access to on-demand webinars and corresponding CEUs. Visit our eLearning Portal for additional information on pricing and availability.
Refund Policy:
- For Live Webinars, and Seminars — IES will issue a full refund for cancellations received no less than 24-hours prior to the scheduled broadcast start time. Please email education@ies.org to cancel & request a refund. Refunds will not be issued for cancellation requests received less than 24-hours prior to the scheduled broadcast start time.
- For recorded webinars and other pre-recorded products — Once purchased, webinars registration fee is nonrefundable.
Webinar Schedule
Salutogenic Lighting Design – Looking Beyond the Cliché and the Fuzz
Salutogenesis is a term coined to describe a model for socio-environmental influences on health and refers to an approach towards wellness focusing on health that is different from pathogenesis that focuses on diseases and illness. The salutogenic theory essentially posits that a strong ‘sense of coherence’ is an integral part of the natural healing process involving three attributes, namely, comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness. This lecture demonstrates how the dynamics of health, experience, and performance can be integrated with lighting design using salutogenic concepts and argues that the lighting industry, which is currently dominated by the pathogenic model of health, can take a great deal more from this theory.
- Free registration for members / $29 USD for Non-Members
- Registration for this event ends on Thursday, October 29, 2026 at 12:00 PM (ET)
- Participants will receive one (1) IES continuing education credits (CEUs)
Light + Justice Symposium: Just and Humane Lighting for the Incarcerated
Overview
Nearly 2 million people in the United States live in spaces of incarceration where lighting is primarily designed for surveillance rather than human health. Continuous or excessive light exposure—often far above natural nighttime conditions—disrupts sleep, circadian rhythms, and cognitive function, contributing to long-term physical and psychological harm.
Trauma-informed design principles show that sensory conditions directly influence stress regulation, recovery, and behavior, highlighting core needs for control, predictability, and sensory modulation. When environments lack these qualities, chronic sensory dysregulation—through constant illumination, noise, or deprivation—reinforces trauma and prolongs physiological stress.
This symposium connects these critical findings to the Light Justice framework, positioning light and darkness as designed, time-based conditions essential to neurological recovery. Moving beyond traditional lighting engineering, this event brings together lived experience, environmental psychology, correctional leadership, advocacy, architecture, and lighting manufacturing to reframe light from a tool of control into an instrument of care.
Sessions curated to cover:
- Trauma-Informed Design (TID): Environmental control, predictability, and sensory modulation.
- Sensory Dysregulation: Overstimulation vs. deprivation in institutional spaces.
- Health & Chronobiology: Circadian disruption, amber light integration, and restorative sleep.
- Policy & Standards: ACA guidelines, IES recommended practices, and institutional regulations.
- Application Strategies: Security fixture retrofitting, manufacturer research, and daylight access.