Trust Building

Practical insights from 13 re:build sessions on implementing trust building in regenerative villages.

Definition

And so what am I, core philosophy is I guess it's trust-and-verifying, which is Russian military terminology, but, it just means that you can say, yes, I believe you, but I'm also going to double check just in case

Key Principles

  • And those principles, just like a constitution of a country, have to be protected by a group of people that says, "Yes, I have enough time capacity and trust of other stewards to take decisions on behalf of other people
  • And then other people that of course give the trust to this core circle, they the information, to eventually say, yes, I have enough time not only to be someone living here, maybe taking care of the social, or the garden or whatever, but I'm actually interested in protecting the principles that brought us together

Methods and Approaches

Because you need to be in a weekly basis and you have to give all these transparency of your projects and your next actions, you can trust in the process and trust in the rules that

Key Insights

Belonging foundation: If we start with belonging, we can go beyond basic trust to deeper connection and mutual support.

Loving systems: Some practitioners prefer to talk about "loving systems" where each person does what they need to do, trusting that by giving energy into the system, people will look after each other.

Trust through action: First, you get people out of their comfort zones. After trust is established through action, if they see it work and do it again, love and loyalty naturally emerge.

Trust and verify: Some practitioners use a "trust and verify" philosophy (originally Russian military terminology) which means you can say "yes, I believe you" but also double-check just in case—combining trust with verification.

Social fabric connection: Even when uncertain, you can have a sense of being instantly connected to a social fabric—the network of relationships that holds communities together.

Stable relationships: Over 15 years of experimentation, what has been stable is having very high-quality relationships and a strong social fabric that supports people.

Social fabric support: Being part of a social fabric means being able to support others in meaningful ways, creating mutual aid and care networks.

Examples and Case Studies

She's cultivated in a deep sense of hope, a lot of nature, and belonging to land, and other persons who are trying to be working on the project

I imagine that relates to a number of people in different ways, whether whatever they are in the art of creating once you give a read over that, we do speak in there to the degree of complexity around trusting belonging, for understanding the example of four pattern one, there are even seven around the domain

Best Practices

  • It works because it's very high trust between the members
  • You can't have very high trust with the very large groups of people
  • The larger the groups, the less trust you can have between the members and the members
  • She's cultivated in a deep sense of hope, a lot of nature, and belonging to land, and other persons who are trying to be working on the project

Implementation Guide

To implement trust building in your regenerative village project, consider the following approach:

Implementation details to be added.

Challenges and Considerations

We'll need to trust building has become an issue

And trust that we are able to build a new paradigm that provides them with the security they are longing for through a completely new ways of relating to environment to, to each other to water to the climate to the, the forests we're living within and that brought up a bunch of challenges

And never did I really challenge was this vision aligned at that point because I said of course it is we just have to keep going just trust in God trust in spirit trust in themselves and keep pushing and it's only in hindsight that I realized my vision was aligned to what the planet needs and I think that I was just trying to do it

Real-World Examples

These partners are actively implementing trust building in their projects:

Pure Project

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Terran Collective

A community of care and practice building systems and tools for a regenerative future.

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