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.
Design Lab Agenda
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Context & Connection (15 min) Our guest, Erica, and the observing participants meet and settle into the session together.
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Design Lab (50 min) Erica works with our guest to explore the questions, choices, and possibilities that are live in your design right now.
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Backstage Debrief (25 min): Everyone in the session can reflect on what emerged from the session, share observations, and make connections to your own work.
