a membership club
for people who want to make beautiful, unruly, feelings-filled experiences
get exclusive monthly workshops, playable resources, a boatload of juicy inspiration, and a good effing time
the next live Good Chaos workshop is Wednesday, November 19th @ 9am PT
🔚 The Architectures of Endings: Part 2 🔚
🪄 get on in there 🪄
unforgettable experiences don't happen by accident...
they come from fueling both your craft and your inspiration,
again and again.
but when we don't have a place to refill our wells or sharpen our skills...
we burn out. we stay stuck making the same safe stuff.
and we don’t build the luscious things we’re truly capable of.
as a member of the good chaos club you'll...
feed your creative hunger,
get yer brain out of the rut it's been spinning in,
build the edgy, the unexpected, and the delicious,
and do it with a collective of humans wanting to worldbuild their way into something more beautiful.
what you get at this party
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exclusive monthly workshops
experiment with fresh frameworks and new playable tools in live immersive sessions
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quarterly creative jams
push your creative projects forward with guided making time
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weekly inspiration
jumpstart your week with Monday morning email drops full of juicy experiential invitations
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coaching
get priority access to 1:1 catalytic coaching — at a discounted rate
come clubbing — here's how it works
join the club
get access to all upcoming events plus past recordings
stay inspired with our weekly emails
book discounted coaching whenever you want
this club is for you
We know you want to design the kinds of experiences that make your creative-work-life and life-life feel good (because we do too). And that takes both the skills of experience design and a practice of gathering inspiration from the world around you.
But both of these two things wither when they’re not consistently fed. You end up stuck in a loop of making the same things the same way.
And, we believe learning experience design should itself be an exceptional experience. A little (or lotta) weird. Delightful. Thoughtfully curated.
Because when you’re surrounded by good chaos — fresh experiments, new ways of noticing, hopeful humans — you stretch yourself in unexpected ways and you make the moments that stay with people for a long long time.
The Good Chaos Club is your home for a consistent creative practice. It’s the party. It’s the people. It’s the new paradigms.
I’m here to help you build good things
I know what it feels like to be burnt out, uninspired, and stuck in a cycle of building things that are just fine and mostly meh. To be buried under a million decks and emails and project meetings, playing victim to urgency, sold the story that what people want is stuff that's "more businessy."
And...I know what it’s like to want the holy-shit moments. More smelling the trees. More play, ritual, and sweet absurdity in all the sticky corners of our lives.
I’m Olivia Vagelos and that’s why I built The Design for Feelings Studio — where we get to marry the left-brain rigor with the right-brain magic.
After years at IDEO, Stanford’s d.school, and inside big philanthropy, I helped build the very frameworks that shape how we design experiences today—then left to push them further and bring them to more humans in need of creative inspiration.
Through The Studio I’ve helped thousands of people, and dozens of companies, re-find the energy and the bravery to make the types of unforgettable experiences that they’re really frickin’ proud of. If you’re ready to make sh*t that matters, you’re in good company.
💸 let's talk dollars 💸
The future club price will be $97/month, but we're running intro pricing as a way of saying:
"Let's go party!"
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Because the beginning should feel like a 'hell yes'
plus coaching
$920
includes extra discounted coaching
Annual membership, plus two 60-min coaching sessions with Olivia (at an even larger discount than standard club pricing)
hear it from the humans
past workshops
when you join The Club, you'll get access to the recordings and tools from all our past sessions, including
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💕 Experience Design as Romance 💕
🪄 How to Design Experiences That Feel Like Magic 🪄
🎲 Game Mechanics for Experience Designers 🎲
⏳ Designing for Lingering in an Age of Urgency ⏳
🚪 The Architectures of Endings: Part 1 🚪
FAQs
Is this for me?
What's included each month?
What if I can't make a workshop live?
What's the difference between The Club and The Retreat?
Have other questions?
Send us an email at [email protected] or grab time on the calendar!
📲 book a 20-minute chit chat with Olivia 📲
"Olivia is a world-weaver, spinning together meaning, myth, ritual, language, and the full spectrum of the sensorial into spaces and experiences that unlock new possibilities.
When we speak of “magic,” we mean delight in the unexpected, the joy of wonder, emotional care, and a full-bodied sensorial immersion we are happy to surrender to.
Quite simply, Olivia is a magician."
Mitch Carter Jafery
Co-Founder of Friday Gallery, former Chief Creative Officer at IDEO
"Olivia is a phenomenal experience designer at the top of her craft, who is taking the rigor of the design thinking processes that she rocked at IDEO and combining it with the intangible art of experience design. She has created a process around the chaos of creating both the emotional and the transformational.
Run, don’t walk, to whatever she makes, or whatever she invites you to experience."
Jenny Gottstein
Creative Director and Founder of Playscapades Studio, Creator of the Climate Action Game Show
"As an executive producer of experiential marketing, I find Olivia’s approach to designing with emotions super aligned with how we should all approach creating experiences. Her ability to create safe space with intention is unique, and I find her strategies and tactics incredibly valuable and useful.
If you get a chance to spend some time in her welcoming space, definitely take it!"
Isis Arias
Executive Experiential Producer & Brand Marketer, Former Marketing Lead of Global Live Experiences @ Netflix
"Olivia challenges your existing perspectives with tenderness; brings depth, texture, and emotion to every topic, and takes participants on a gentle and provocative journey into what's next in truly beautiful ways.
Work with her! You might cry? You'll definitely feel warm and fuzzy. And maybe a little upset by the world as it is.
But that's ok, because you'll already be on your way to building what could be, instead."
Keely Adler
Cultural Futurist at RADAR & Dentsu Creative
have questions?
Drop us an email at [email protected]