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My name is Podre Gautuma and I trained as conflict mediator and kind of went into a speciality

of group conflict which is really a study about how groups talk to each other. You can go in if

you're the group leader and you have an idea but you can't control it. You're ultimately there

trying to meet the group and see how the group wants to hold itself together and what it can say

that can make something creator or break something and the word poem means a made thing in a certain

sense a group experience if it's going well as a certain kind of poem that's what you're trying to do

to let a group make something, to let it be its own poem, to let it delve into its own creative

possibilities and for the group to discover this is who we are together.

The Rongs by Benjamin Gutiardi

Only the person with the green dice should be talking I remind the boys holding up the oversized

foam cubes and the others should be listening cases and how should we listen

Conel Corazon em replies thomping his chest with his closed fist that's right I say with the heart

who wants to start the dice are passed around the circle and the boys glass over the check-in question

when they reach B who walked here on a company from Honduras three months ago

he holds them like boulders we straighten when his lip begins to quiver it's not my place to tell

you what he shared that day but I can tell you how em put his hand on bees back and said mahe

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