Design Lab
Design Lab is a live coaching and design consulting session where Erica Marx works with a guest on an event, workshop, retreat, or stakeholder process they are designing.
The session is attended by a live audience and recorded. People who attend live also join a backstage conversation before and after the session to reflect on the design choices they observed, ask questions, and apply insights to their own work.
Upcoming Design Lab Session
Attending live puts you in the room as it happens. After the recording ends, the audience joins Erica and the guest directly, to ask questions, share what landed, and go deeper into the design decisions you just watched get made.
Design Lab Library
[Design Lab Ep. #002] Rethinking Facilitation for Neurodiversity
The coaching session looks at how nervous systems and neurodiversity influence participation, learning, and belonging, and how group experiences can be designed to support emotional safety, connection, and responsiveness for the program Robin is designing. Together, they focus on the overall learning arc so each session builds intentionally toward lasting shifts in how participants understand and work with people.
[Design Lab Ep. #001] Reshaping a 3-Hour Workshop for Journalists
Alex Leviton is an experienced facilitator and was looking to redesign her workshop to make it even more interactive and cohesively designed. In this live streamed design session we applied our 5-stage design framework that Erica Marx developed based on leadership coaching to her program. She has many insights along the way that are applicable to anyone who is designing workshops, events, webinar series, or training programs.
Past Design Lab Sessions
Robin Fox
In this live design lab, facilitator and coach Erica Marx works with educator and improv actor Robin Fox as she shapes a 10‑week certificate program on facilitation grounded in nervous system awareness and embodiment. Together they clarify the program’s focus, pacing, and arc of learning so participants can truly integrate what they learn. The session explores how to design experiences that help facilitators stay grounded, responsive, and inclusive, while drawing on neurodiversity, applied improvisation, and embodied presence.
—Robin Fox M.Ed.,
Social Emotional Learning Educator, Meditator, and Improv Actor
Robin Fox is a social emotional learning educator, lifelong meditator, applied improvisation practitioner, and professional actor whose work sits at the intersection of nervous system awareness, neurodiversity, mindfulness, and human connection.
Live Design with Alex Levinton
Alex Levinton, writer and facilitator, brought a 3-hour workshop supporting journalists' creativity, mental health, and resilience. Erica and Alex mapped a clear flow, moved key exercises into pre-work, structured three focused segments, and built in concrete on-the-call action steps.
