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A commitment from the coworking industry to make mental health support as easy to reach as the front desk — free of cost, free of stigma, free of barriers. Sign your space up, and the clock starts.
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What GCUC Access is

Coworking can be the first industry to get this right.

GCUC Access launched at GCUC’s 50th global event in New York City in April 2026, built on one idea: every coworking member, anywhere in the world, should be able to reach mental health support through their workspace — not as a premium add-on, not as a favor, just as part of what a space is.

In practice, that looks different space to space. Some spaces partner with a local mental health provider. Some pilot in-person or digital support pathways. Some train their team to recognize when a member needs more than a desk. Some trade space for a provider’s time. There’s no single required blueprint — there’s a shared deadline.

“Every coworking member, anywhere in the world, should have access to mental health support through their workspace. Not as a premium add-on.”

— Liz Elam, founder, GCUC

How it works

Three steps. One year.

1

Sign your space up

Add your space to the wall below. The moment you do, your one-year clock starts — public, ticking, yours.

2

Build access your way

Partner with a provider, subsidize sessions, train your team — whatever gets a member from “I need help” to “I got it,” faster.

3

Open your door

Before the clock runs out, your space offers real, barrier-free mental health access. Then you tell us how you did it.

The fine print (the good kind)

What signing the wall actually commits you to.

No contract. No fee. No approval committee. Just a public promise with four parts.

1

One year, starting the second you sign

Your clock starts the moment your space goes up on the wall. What you build in that year — and how — is entirely up to you.

2

A real path to support, not a poster in the lobby

By your deadline, every member needs an actual way to reach mental health support — a partnered therapist, subsidized sessions, a team trained to recognize when someone needs more than a desk, a hotline built into onboarding. Whatever fits your space.

3

No paywall, no hard conversation required

Members shouldn’t have to upgrade a plan or work up the nerve to ask the front desk whether help exists. If it takes digging to find, it isn’t access yet.

4

Show your work when the door opens

Once you’ve built it, tell GCUC how — what you tried, what worked, what didn’t. That’s how one space’s fix becomes the next space’s starting point.

Start your clock

Commit your space.

This is a public wall — your space’s name and city go up where every visitor can see the countdown. No cost to join, no fine print. Just a year, and a door to open.

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They didn’t wait for a perfect roadmap.

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1909 didn’t wait for a full program to launch — they made a trade. A therapist got a break on office space; in return, she gave members her time.

Every session offered in August was booked.

Full story on the GCUC podcast this week.

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Adam Walker built mental health access into Foundry and brought the blueprint to the rest of the industry — presenting how he did it at GCUC’s 50th global event in New York City.

His approach leaned on partnership rather than waiting for a perfect internal program: bring in a provider, make the pathway visible, and let members use it.