CHAPTER 7
Cultivate Trust
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other’s lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.
—WENDELL BERRY, “THE LOSS OF THE FUTURE”
Trust has become something of a buzzword. Most people will acknowledge that it’s important, yet many see it as a by-product of other activities, rather than something that should be cultivated deliberately. On the contrary, the web of connections that develops between participants is the invisible structure that holds impact networks ...
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