safety

What Emotional Safety Really Looks Like in a Coworking Space

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and European Coworking Day. So I've been writing nonstop about where mental health and coworking meet, with stories from Coworking Values Podcast guests and my direct experience of mental health and coworking. Below are four reads from this week: * Coworking saved my mind. But it can't save everyone. * The Loneliest People Walk Past Our Doors * Coworking doesn't save everyone. But it saves some of us. * You Can't Heal in the System That Made You

Human-Centered Coworking Design: What Safe Design Really Feels Like

Yesterday I was on the edge of my seat to podcast with Paula A. Madrid . We’d spoken on the phone before. Missed each other at the Workspace Design Show London in February. So when we finally hit record, I was all in. Paula is a Colombian-born New Yorker who built an extraordinary career—first as a clinical and forensic psychologist, and now as the founder of Blue Panda Office Spaces . She’s not trying to be trendy. She’s trying to make you feel something real. “I aim to make places