Ralph, et al; As usual you have blown my cover, seen through my illusion, engaged my love for ambiguity!
First, it is clear to me that trust and mutual respect a very closely related, maybe the same thing...in a model we sometimes use to help create dialogue we use them together and seperately...either by whim or design...Terry tends to use mutual respect more, I tend to use trust more. The following is an on line sense of the moment on this question for me and I will appreciate reactiions which may help me get more clear...as much as I resist clarity! My expereince is that putting trust on the table as an explicit issue for individuals, organization and communities tends to up the emotional charge in the dialogue. I often hear people acknowledge verbally and demonstrate behaviors which are related to mutual respect: you know more about this aspect than I do, you have more skill or access than I do related to this mutal need or want. It just occurred to me that the word "mutual" in the phrase seems to imply either a trasnsaction or interdependence as related to some aspect of our relationship...maybe a boundedness. For me trust, explicitly or implicitly, seems to be deeper, less conditional, less transactional. As you know, I am prone to the long version. I think I will stop here a find out what comes up. Chris
