Praxis | Labs

What is a Lab?

Labs are 3-day, pre-designed, in-person gatherings that leverage Praxis’s broadly-applicable content and mentor-driven format and allow Labs Teams to contextualize the experience.

Across the gathering, founders are introduced to the Redemptive Frame, share vision presentations, discuss the content of the Redemptive Playbooks, and synthesize their learnings for personal and venture application.

Founders leave the Lab with an understanding of redemptive strategy, operations, and leadership; a series of prototypes to run in their venture; and relationships with peers and mentors for ongoing support.

Labs are hosted by Labs Teams who have been trained by Praxis and have a license to run them.

Who is Labs Team Training for?

Praxis looks to partner with ecosystem-minded builders who have a passion to see redemptive entrepreneurship advanced in their ecosystem.

We look for:

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Humble, ambitious Christian builders with entrepreneurial experience
A desire to serve founders and help them integrate the Redemptive Framework
Convening power with founders, mentors, and funders
Visionary, yet action-oriented and able to execute a world-class experience
A team of 2 with complementary skill sets: (1) a Lead who is ultimately responsible for the license, vision, budget, and recruiting and (2) an Integrator who leads planning and execution.

What is the Redemptive Labs Intensive

We begin with a 3-day in-person gathering with the Praxis team. Think of it as going through a Lab as a participant and then getting a behind-the-scenes tour to see how it all works.‍

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The next phase is virtual and self-paced. We provide a resource library of how-to videos, systems, templates and tools.

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Upon completion and approval, Praxis grants a license that:

Allows leaders to run as many Labs as they'd like in their ecosystem for 1 year
Gives them access to other, similar Praxis experiences

At the end of the year, we meet to mutually discern license renewal.

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Key tools offered by Praxis to Labs Teams include:

Event scripts and execution plans
Templated invitations and pre and post event communications for attendees
Onboarding and post-event surveys
Event book template (with our Redemptive Playbook content and follow-up exercises)
A web portal to manage and share about your event

For more detail, see the Frequently Asked Questions page.

Redemptive Labs Intensives

Location: Various
Next Intensive: February 20-22, 2025 in New York City

Who you are now

Humble, ambitious Christian seeking to live out your faith as fully as possible in your vocation, and eager to help other entrepreneurs do the same
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Experienced entrepreneur with capacity and passion to bring your experience to bear across many ventures; or

Active leader and developer of local entrepreneurial ecosystem with a platform to convene founders, mentors, and funders

What you’ll learn

How to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem and run a Lab in your context

What redemptive entrepreneurship is—in principle, theology, and practice—and how to guide others in its application

Guided “insider tour” of Praxis’s frameworks, principles, and tools for growing a venture-building ecosystem

Where you’re going

Using the Lab as a tool to convene, test, catalyze, and sustain a venture-building ecosystem in your context

Format

Labs Teams first go through training at a 3-day in-person intensive with talks, panels, and mentoring with the Praxis teamVirtual Planning Process—videos, templates, tools, content—to develop Labs plan

Timeline

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis

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Next Steps

APPLY FOR A FUTURE REDEMPTIVE LABS INTENSIVE

Praxis hosts several Redemptive Labs Intensives each year – either at our headquarters in NYC or at our global gatherings around the world. Each gathering has a limited number of seats, made available through a rolling, invitation-driven process that incorporates those who are very active in our community as well as those who are looking to be. For those ready to host Labs in their city, please fill out the Interest form below and note which of the gatherings you're interested in joining.

The form should be completed as a team of 2 (see "What We Look for").

If you have further questions, consult the FAQ or you can email us.

Interest Form nominate

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REDEMPTIVE LABS INTENSIVE & LICENSE FEES‍
Thanks to the generosity of our funding community licenses are offered at no cost. Attendance at global gatherings includes a small attendee fee to cover the costs of meals and materials. Participants in need of financial assistance can inquire about a limited number of international scholarships.There is no program fee for events held in New York City, NY, USA, however Labs Teams are responsible for the cost of their own travel and lodging and spots are limited.