Trust is a choice: How I learned to trust a stranger 40-feet underwater

There’s a common saying in racial equity work: “Work can only move at the speed of trust.” This basically means that while we want movement work and systems change work to progress quickly, it often progresses much slower due to lack of trust. The disparate people, institutions, and communities trying to move this work along have complex histories of not always getting along, of having different priorities and agendas in the past, and of having different levels of privilege and power. Often, the conventional wisdom on how to tend to this is by spending a long time trying to build trust through exercises, retreats, conversations, and more. <a href="https://medium.com/@sudhanandagopal/trust-is-a-choice-how-i-learned-to-trust-a-stranger-40-feet-underwater-9dd87495977f">Learn More</a>