wellbeing by design lab

The first cross-disciplinary community🇨🇦 where designers and health professionals thrive and co-develop environments and knowledge that enhance human health and longevity — while fostering a healthy, mindful, and collaborative way of working.

! Online information session coming early 2026 !

About the Lab

The first Collaborative Hub for Design and Health Professionals

WBDL is not a place to “design wellness projects.”
It is a place where designers stay well while they work and live their optimum life.

Wellbeing by Design Lab (WBDL) is a health-focused work system for independent designers. We address the wellbeing of our members first—teaching how to reduce overload perception and improving daily work/life balance—through shared tools, structured communication, including Selftropy™ protocols and the Dochia Hybrid Method™.

We operate as a collaborative workspace and think-lab that gives independent designers, architects, and health practitioners access to better infrastructure: clear processes, behavioral-health-aligned systems, and a community that shares expertise without the traditional pressure of running a solo practice.

What We Are

A workspace designed around member wellbeing and sustainable workload
A think-lab for operational innovation, research, and problem-solving
A community with shared standards, shared tools, and shared mental load

What We Support

Healthier, more predictable workdays through Selftropy protocols ™ and other evidence-based methods
Reduced pressure through the Dochia Hybrid Method™
Access to collective knowledge, project support, and evidence-based work practices

this is a democratic space where individual IP is protected

Your practice, your ideas, your way — within a community that designs, researches, and educates for health

Professional autonomy
run your practice, not someone else’s

Shared credibility
under a wellbeing-enforced umbrella

Non-hierarchical collaboration
peers, not employees

Why It Matters

Across the design profession, research consistently shows high levels of burnout, stress, and job dissatisfaction—especially among small firms and independent practitioners. The “feast-or-famine” cycle leaves many talented designers without affordable infrastructure for marketing, administration, and steady collaboration.

The Wellbeing By Design Lab responds to that gap. Alongside its research and project collaborations, WBDL offers members access to practical wellbeing tools, shared resources, and supportive systems that make independent practice sustainable. Our goal is to prove that health in design starts with the health of the designer.

Wellbeing By Design Lab is an initiative of
Land of Dochia Wellbeing Group