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 livestreamed and recorded so others can observe the process as it unfolds and revisit it later. People who attend live also join a backstage conversation before and after the livestream to reflect on the design choices they observed, ask questions, and apply insights to their own work.
Upcoming Livestreams
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.
15 days to the eventWed, Jun 24Zoom EventThis Design Lab will feature Nina and Sebnem from Cornell's Global Hubs program. You are invited to join backstage. This event is free to attend.
—Nina Chaopricha & Sebnem Ozkan
Global Hubs Initiative, Cornell University
This Design Lab will feature Nina Chaopricha and Sebnem Ozkan from Cornell's Global Hubs initiative.
They are planning a 2-day virtual network meeting for leaders and colleagues from ~20 partner universities around the world. The event has been moved online, and they need it to work across time zones, mix async and sync content, and leave 200 people feeling inspired to collaborate on concrete next steps.
Past Livestreams
Live Design with 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.
