Change moves at the speed of trust: The value and loss of relationships in today’s global society
In this session, we invited Diane Roussin from The Winnipeg Boldness Project and David Robinson from Relationship Project to reflect on the different lenses they have taken in their own work, around building meaningful relationships to themselves, to their communities and to the natural world.
Key takeaways:
Solutions that are needed are ones that are good for the whole planet where relationships to the earth are interconnected just as much as they are with other people. This means taking risks which many mainstream systems lockdown on as they lack the centring of trust, co-creation and interconnectedness.
In the digital age, in an age where truth has become a game, in an age where trust in the people who are meant to govern us have been eroded, have we lost the ability to have meaningful connections with each other? When there is a breakdown of trust, all of the structures around us start to erode.
When we look at building different futures we must look at poverty through many different lenses; relationship poverty is a concept that needs to be picked up by the majority.
Taking an indigenous approach to relationships and trust in relation to our cities and society would mean leading with a knowledge system that would view healing and trust as ongoing work of inclusivity, instead of the western approach that is based on authority and power at the top. What would happen to our cities and towns if relationships were centred?
