“In 1982, in a prison outside Damascus, I broke a man’s hands with a telephone book. I was twenty-two. I did it because my uncle said if I didn’t, they would take my mother. I did it. And then I did it again. And then I began to like the sound of the pages compressing against bone.”
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This psychological safety is engineered. Trainers are trained not just in their domain (tech, business, languages, STEM) but in . They are certified through the "Circle Keepers" program—a rigorous 6-month pedagogy course that is harder than the subject matter they teach. “In 1982, in a prison outside Damascus, I
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