Pressure and demanding seasons
When people have been carrying more than their roles reveal.
Emotional Care for Professionals
Support the people carrying the work.
Great Minds Think Different helps teams pause, process, and reconnect through founder-led Poetry Clinics.
Each experience uses guided poetry, reflection, listening, and shared creation to make space for the human weight of demanding work.
For teams navigating pressure, transition, loss, milestones, change, and demanding people-serving work.
What emotional care means
Care for the human being inside the role.
Emotional care, in its simplest form, means paying attention to feelings and treating them with kindness and respect.
At work, that means making room for the human being inside the role. Emotional support responds to a specific moment. Emotional care is practiced over time.
The problem we solve
Some moments ask more of people than a meeting can hold.
Teams are still expected to lead, serve, decide, and deliver while carrying the effects of pressure, change, grief, disconnection, and difficult work.
Most organizations have few structured ways to acknowledge that weight without turning the experience into therapy, another presentation, or a forced conversation.
GMTD creates a voluntary, guided space where people can slow down, listen, reflect, and put language to what the moment has asked of them.
Change and transition
During leadership changes, restructuring, onboarding, or organizational shifts.
Team connection
When a group needs meaningful participation, not another passive presentation.
Milestones and meaningful moments
For appreciation, memorials, anniversaries, reunions, and moments worth naming.
The Poetry Clinic
A participatory experience your team helps create.
The Poetry Clinic is a guided group experience led by professional poet and facilitator Wesley Robinson.
Wesley introduces a theme and a series of prompts. Participants may write, listen, share, or pass. Their words, observations, and ideas can become a collective poem or creative artifact shaped by the people in the room.
No one has to perform.
No one has to call themselves a poet.
The purpose is not to create perfect writing. It is to give people another way to reflect, communicate, and connect.
60 to 90 minutes
Approximately 10 to 60 participants
On-site or virtual by arrangement
Customized around the organization and moment
What your team receives
More than a presentation. Something the room makes together.
Each engagement may include:
- A planning conversation with the organizational sponsor
- A customized theme and guided prompts
- Founder-led facilitation
- Voluntary writing, listening, and sharing
- A structured beginning, middle, and close
- A facilitated close shaped around the room
- An optional aggregate participant-feedback summary
The Poetry Clinic is a creative-expression and team-development experience. It is not therapy, clinical treatment, crisis intervention, or legal mediation.
Inside the room
The room is the work.
People listen, respond, write, pass, contribute, and watch their shared language take shape. These are real Poetry Clinic rooms and real moments from the work.
Packages
Choose the level of support that fits the moment.
Emotional Support
The Reset Session
One team. One meaningful pause.
A single 60-to-90-minute Poetry Clinic offering emotional support around a specific challenge, transition, milestone, or gathering.
- Customized theme and prompts
- Founder-led Poetry Clinic
- Facilitated listening and shared creation
- Optional aggregate feedback summary
Best for: Off-sites, leadership cohorts, appreciation events, transitions, memorials, team gatherings, and difficult seasons.
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The Culture Series
A consistent rhythm of reflection.
Four customized Poetry Clinics that make emotional care part of the organization’s calendar, culture, transitions, and priorities.
- One founder-led session each quarter
- Sponsor planning before each session
- Customized themes and prompts
- A collection of GMTD-created collective poems and artifacts
- Aggregate sponsor summaries
Best for: Organizations that want emotional care to become part of the culture rather than a one-time event.
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Embedded Poet Partnership
Creative care across the year.
A custom emotional-care partnership for organizations that want recurring Poetry Clinics, original creative work, and support around significant organizational moments.
- Recurring sessions across teams or departments
- Original poems for milestones, transitions, and memorials
- Leadership or organization-wide experiences
- A GMTD anthology of collective poems and creative work
- A custom engagement calendar
Best for: Organizations seeking a deeper, long-term relationship with GMTD.
Discuss a PartnershipPricing is customized based on format, location, audience size, frequency, and scope.
Proof from the room
Real people. Real rooms. Work created together.
500+
Poetry Clinic sessions led
20 years
As a professional poet
Since 2018
Serving through Great Minds Think Different
Multiple sectors
Healthcare, education, public safety, justice, philanthropy, youth, and community organizations
Organizations represented in GMTD's work
Participant reflections
We were all able to learn and speak as one, and I learned how to work and communicate with others better.
It helped bring the group closer, in my eyes, and it helped put words to some feelings.
It left a lasting positive feeling. Being heard through writing is something I have started to use as an everyday tactic.
Work created in the room
I Got Your Back / the human in ME
Cleveland Division of Police Poetry Clinic
Built to Last
GMTD collective poem, March 2024
The Grief Poem
New Visions Unlimited Counseling Center and GMTD, 2025
About Great Minds Think Different
Poetry is the method. People are the purpose.
Great Minds Think Different was founded in 2018 by Wesley “Wallstreet Wes” Robinson to bring creative expression into the places where people work, lead, and serve.
After twenty years as a professional poet, performer, entrepreneur, and facilitator, Wesley developed the Poetry Clinic as a way to help groups reflect, listen, and create meaning together.
Wesley leads every GMTD engagement personally.
His experience gives the work its foundation. The people in the room remain its focus.
How the room is protected
Participation is always a choice.
- Participants may pass on any prompt or activity.
- Sponsor reporting is aggregate.
- Private participant notes are not collected or treated as individual deliverables.
- Wesley selects, edits, arranges, and writes the final collective poem; GMTD owns that final work.
- GMTD may publish, display, adapt, license, sell, distribute, or reuse a final collective poem without additional participant permission.
Start the conversation
Tell us what your team is carrying.
Bring us the people, the moment, and what you hope the room can make possible.
We will listen, recommend the most appropriate package, and outline a thoughtful next step.
A ten-minute introductory conversation. No presentation required.