Dimensions of Trust

Christine McDougall
2 min readOct 18, 2021

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Trust does not live in a tight box, smothered by rules and constraints.

Trust lives within a field of spaciousness.

The field is defined by a set of values and agreements. The values are often solid and fixed. The agreements breathe, requiring review and renegotiation. (This is the Trust Manifesto of a Syntropic Enterprise.)

Trust is a gift given as a first act. To respond in trust is to say yes to the ongoing health of the relationship.

“I want this relationship to evolve and develop. Therefore I will cultivate the field of trust with my actions and behaviours. If something creates dissonance in the field, I will take the first step to address it at the earliest moment I am aware of it.” (This is the Clean Communication tool we teach in the Syntropic Enterprise Masterclass)

Ongoing trust is not a given. It is a moment-by-moment act of choice, a commitment to the higher dimension of the relationship itself, beyond the separate self.

We choose the endurance of the relationship — the dynamic that is created by being in relationship — over our short-term opinion and wants.

To trust one’s self is to trust the dynamic of the relationship we cultivate with self. To trust life is to trust the relationship with all of life. Its beauty, its horror, its yielding, its unyielding.

We trust that greater than us is a pattern of perfection unfolding of which we play a small yet significant part.

Photo taken October 19th 2021

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Christine McDougall
Christine McDougall

Written by Christine McDougall

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