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When one person's needs threaten group safety

Our meditation group has one person who consistently overshares personal trauma during check-ins and none of us know how to address it without seeming uncaring, but the energy is becoming so heavy that people have started skipping sessions and I can feel the whole community dissolving.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A community is paralyzed between compassion for individual pain and protection of collective wellbeing, lacking frameworks for navigating this essential tension.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Psychological safety in communities?”

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