Our writing group has been meeting for two years and we've gotten really good at being supportive, but lately I feel like we're all protecting each other's feelings instead of making each other's work better. The feedback has become so gentle that I'm not growing as a writer anymore, and I suspect the others feel the same way but nobody wants to be the one to break the nice dynamic we've built.
More people experience this than they realize.
A creative community reaches the point where emotional safety begins to inhibit the very growth it was meant to foster.
“Where Are You with Architecture as creative practice?”
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