My solution:
Pray first, individually and collectively. "Prayers of the righteous availeth much" and know this to be a fact! Then I would have to break down and do what I used to do with my students who had issues with one another. We would be spending the day together: ALL DAY until the air was clear. I would have us handcuffed in pairs - switching periodically. (No, I did not handcuff my students, they had to hold hands until their problem was resolved. I would send a note around to their other teachers explaining this and for them to reinforce it)When you are forced to be that close to someone, you're going to talk. Come back together as a group and play: Win, Loose or Draw, Who Wants to be a Linesister, [We're in] Jeopardy [ if we don't get along and know our history] or something creative so that it will not seem like a "bashing session".
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