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\nIn our work as coaches, teachers, leaders and community makers, we have been finding anew over the last few years just how important \u2018deliberateness\u2019 is in making relationships that can hold and spaces in which there is genuine welcome.
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\nIt might be easy to ignore the deliberate practices needed to make relationships in this way, or to treat them as optional. But, as the poet Seamus Heaney tells us in this week\u2019s source, it\u2019s the careful making of such deliberate \u2018scaffolding\u2019 for our relationships that gives them a chance to endure the very real challenges, difficulties and surprises of our personal and organisational lives.
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\nHosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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\nHere\u2019s our source for this week:
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\nScaffolding\xa0
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\nMasons, when they start upon a building,
\nAre careful to test out the scaffolding;
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\nMake sure that planks won\u2019t slip at busy points,
\nSecure all ladders, tighten bolted joints.
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\nAnd yet all this comes down when the job\u2019s done
\nShowing off walls of sure and solid stone.
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\nSo if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be
\nOld bridges breaking between you and me
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\nNever fear. We may let the scaffolds fall
\nConfident that we have built our wall.
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\nSeamus Heaney
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\nPhoto by Mathieu Perrier on Unsplash
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