Trust & Mutual Respect
Shared Lives Plus -A Shared Lives Charter
Our vision is a kinder, stronger society built on sharing our lives and our homes.
Life’s A Journey
Listening is how we discover where to go. Independent Facilitation involves supporting people with disabilities, and those who love them, in building and sustaining desirable futures. It requires a focus on listening and discovering; gathering a supportive network; connecting to people, places, and activities in the community; and accessing and managing resources that can support life in the community as citizen, worker, volunteer, neighbour, and friend.
How to Build (and re-build) Trust
Trust is the foundation for everything we do. But what do we do when it’s broken? In an eye-opening talk, Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei gives a crash course in trust: how to build it, maintain it and rebuild it, something she worked on during a recent stint at Uber. “If we can learn to trust one another more, we can have unprecedented human progress,” Frei says.
The Neuroscience of Trust
Psychology Today publishes content written by clinicians, experts and researchers from across the fields of behaviour and psychology.
Gather My Crew
The “Gather My Crew” project creates an opportunity for collaboration and partnership that reflects the values of reciprocity, trust and mutual respect. Gather My Crew was developed to provide support for people and communities to regain personal and community wellbeing during challenging times. The online rostering system makes it easy for people to ask for help, and the help received is meaningful, sustainable and it becomes ongoing. Once people are signed up to help, they realise how good it makes them feel to lend a helping hand. The “Crew” know that they are making a positive and practical difference to people who really need extra care and support during and after a crisis.
Trust and Inequality
A Yarn with Dr Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann
This webpage contains a link to a special episode podcast. Dr Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann talks about Dadirri, healing and the importance of listening. Trust, mutual respect and understanding is enhanced when we engage with the practice of deep listening. In 2021, Dr Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann was honoured as the Senior Australian of the Year. Perhaps her greatest achievement however, is bringing the concept of Dadirri to the world. It speaks to the value of deep listening and quiet stillness, and has been a part of Aboriginal practice for thousands of years.
The 3 R’s of Social Care Reform
How constructive risk taking, respectful relationships and a sense of reciprocity characterised a positive response to the Covid-19 pandemic. This paper draws upon the TLAP Insight Group report, A Telling Experience and subsequent meetings with regional ADASS branches, as well as interviews with people for the case studies. It also draws on some of the rich conversations from the Social Care Future Festival, the National Children and Adults Services Conference (NCASC), as well as the ‘fireside conversations held with TLAP Partners, all at the end of 2020.
The concept of language of trust and trustworthiness: (Why) history matters
This paper puts forward the argument that the concept of the language of trust and trustworthiness can be a useful way of understanding what trust means in specific situations. This concept refers to linguistic devices – verbal and non-verbal – which purposefully convey trust and create a foundation for continuing or improving relations.
Socio-materiality of trust: co-design with a resource limited community organisation
Trust is an essential if often implicit aspect of co-design particularly when working in community-based, political and sensitive settings. The paper highlights the significance of materials in negotiating the interdependencies of trust, in how distrust can be leveraged and trust can be supported through sensitive socio-material exchange conducted with resource limited community organisations.
Recognition, Vulnerability and Trust
This paper examines the question of whether recognition relations are based on trust. Theorists of recognition have acknowledged the ways in which recognition relations make us vulnerable to others but have largely neglected the underlying ‘webs of trust’ in which such relations are embedded.
Relationships Project – Turning to The Light
Relationships are essential to all of us, in all walks of life. From schools to GP practices and big businesses to grassroots organisations, everything works better when relationships are nurtured. Find out more about the importance of good relationships through our bank of case studies or our collaborative blog.
The Relationships Framework
This kit of resources is designed to help councils sustain and enhance the community relationships that emerged during Covid in a way that empowers rather than controls citizens. It is also intended to help councils look ahead to reimagine their organisations and services with relationships at their heart.
A World of Good Relationships
The Relationships Project have set out a plan in this Prospectus that takes us through the months of reflection and recuperation post Covid, into a period of renewal and new building and on towards a vision for a generation. More than ever, the big questions in 2021 are all about relationships. Their substance and character will determine the direction and quality of our lives. Imagine a place where good relationships are the central operating principle, the starting point for all decisions, the mechanism by which change is realised, the outcome we all strive towards. Think of your place, an organisation perhaps, a neighbourhood, a school, a council: what would change?
From Interpersonal to Interorganisational Trust: The Role of Indirect Reciprocity
In recent decades, trust has emerged as a dominant concept for examining the structure and performance of relationships between organisations. This paper examines how interpersonal trust (i.e. between individuals) leads to interorganisational trust (i.e. between groups of individuals). The theory is based on indirect reciprocity in which interorganisational trust arises from individuals and their dispositions, actions and observations.
Five Valued Experiences with John O’Brien
Genia Stephen, in her ‘Good Things In Life’ podcast series invites John O’Brien to talk about belonging, respect, sharing spaces, contribution, and choice. Those are the five valued experiences for the good things in life, as defined by John O’Brien.
Microboards: Social Capital and Quality of Life
A Microboard™ is a small group of dedicated friends and family who work together to help an individual plan their life, brainstorm ideas, advocate for what they need, monitor services, and connects the individual to their wider community.
Microboards™, Social Capital and Quality Of Life
Plain Language Executive Summary: The main characteristics of Microboards identified in this study—autonomous, person centred, empowering, and interconnected—contribute directly to both social capital outcomes of friendships and relations and community inclusion as well as the Quality of Life outcomes of safety, stability and self-determination.
Microboards™, Social Capital and Quality Of Life
Final Report of a Two Year Qualitative Inquiry: While distinct concepts, social capital and quality of life have multiple intersections. Social connections and relationships are a critical variable in quality of life outcomes. This research project sought to examine through qualitative interviews with Microboard members how MBs may help to connect people to their communities and serve as a means to enhance and sustain social capital and quality of life.
What is a Microboard? Easy Read
A microboard is a group of family members and friends that you like and trust. You can ask your microboard to help you work out what you would like to do in your life.
Individuality. What Is Normal?
Why does it feel like there’s a set of rules for everyone to follow so we’re all the same? Gian, Amal and Tayla have some ideas…
Story of Self Across Cultures
Harvard Kennedy School’s Marshall Ganz explores the power and perception of “story of self” across cultures.
Dialogue that Enlarges: Bridging Ideological Divides through a Faith Lens
This workbook provides a guide for robust engagement based on an understanding and respect for our differences, coupled with a mutual commitment toward to the common good. An argument, an exchange of diverging or opposite views, carried out with the principles outlined, has the potential to help bridge ideological divides by engaging more productively across differences, whether in town meetings, around the dinner table, or at houses of worship.
The Art of Belonging
Jessica speaks to the Art of Belonging conference in Toronto as a member of the 4 R’s youth movement. “We can discover a way to forge and maintain trusting and respectful relationships. With respect, reciprocity and relevance, we can continue creating a positive reconciliation with integrity.”
Seven Threads Prompt Book
Practical prompts to help non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations engage First Nations Peoples and foreground First Nations’ wisdom, so that together, we can further reconciliation, self-determination and change.
Turning the Beam of Inquiry Inward
Moving forward is never easy, but once you master turning the beam of inquiry inward, it becomes much easier to work alongside each other. Listen now for more on how changing the way you think can lead to more effective problem-solving!
Right Relationships
Michael Kendrick speaks at a presentation from Family Advocacy’s 2012 Odyssey Conference.
Is it possible to create a partnership between families and services that really works?
CRUcial Times- Principles for Partnering between Natural and Formal Supports
Article by Dr Michael Kendrick provides clarity about the strengths and limitations of formal and informal supports . A thoughtful combination of natural and formal supports can potentially enrich a person’s wellbeing. ‘Formal’ supports are various forms of assistance provided to a person via paid formal services, professionals and agencies. Informal or ‘natural’ supports would include all of the many forms of everyday helpfulness and assistance ordinary people freely provide to each other in daily life.