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When creative groups lose the ability to argue productively

Our theater collective has been devising work together for two years, and we used to be able to argue passionately about scenes and then laugh about it afterward, but somewhere along the way we all got more careful with each other, and now our creative disagreements feel loaded with unspoken relationship tensions.

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A collaborative group has traded creative honesty for emotional safety, but the safety is becoming its own constraint.

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