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content/session/trust.md

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 Bad support, which is usually given by corporations but also sometimes by austerity-minded governments, begins when you’re led to believe that you are receiving some kind of help that will allow you to thrive, but then this ‘help’ reveals itself to take more than it ever gives. Often and obviously this comes in the form of extortionate debt, a life line that’s actually a noose, but it can come in other forms too: a dream job that turns into a nightmare, etc. The worst part of this lesson is that it trains us to expect bad support or unexpected punishment when we are most in need, so we may start to avoid seeking any kind of support and believe in self reliance which is impossible for a cooperative species. Worse still, we may reproduce this pattern when we are asked for support, because it is all we know: we become bad support for others. This  may happen because we fear our support for others will be bad and so we never learn to offer it. Or when we offer support, we’re so scared of making a mistake that we overdo it and exhaust ourselves, or offer non-transformative support that maintains the status quo.
 
 
-**The atrophy of the sharing muscle **
+**The atrophy of the sharing muscle**
 
 If we can only receive help from corporations or institutions, we lose the skills and practices involved in asking for and offering help from people in our community. Having relationships where our central resources are carefully shared is fundamentally intuitive to humans, a cooperative species. Like language these practices are far from innate. They take energy, time, and practice. Central resources include housing, money, and our skilled labour. Sharing them requires lifelong practices of  communication and negotiation. Unfortunately, since sharing is so devalued in this society, we are led to believe that it’s easy or automatic. But when we do not actively practice sharing our resources, we lose the muscles needed to do so, and we may even forget that this kind of hard core interdependence is possible or desirable. Indeed, it can seem like a threat. Attention and care are also central resources, and, while we all have the capacity to produce and receive them it’s not automatic and requires practice and structure. 
 
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 ### Questions for consideration
 
-    • Can we do this without experts?
-    • Can we do this without space?
-    • Can we do this without money?
-    • Can we do this without stability?
-    • Can we do this when we are all a little sick?
-    • Can we do this when we have been taught that we can only trust experts?
-    • Can we do this when we don’t even trust ourselves?
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+* Can we do this without experts?
+* Can we do this without space?
+* Can we do this without money?
+* Can we do this without stability?
+* Can we do this when we are all a little sick?
+* Can we do this when we have been taught that we can only trust experts?
+* Can we do this when we don’t even trust ourselves?
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 ## Activity 1
 
-    a. On paper make a T chart. On the left side write a list of who you call when you are really stuck but need to make a decision.
-    b. On the right side list all the people who come to you for the same reason. 
-    c. Which side has more people?
-    d. What’s the difference between the people who you trust, and those who trust you?
-    e. What would it take to help the people who need support to be able to become people who you could go to for support? Or, what would help your supporters become better at what they do for you? And, what would make you better at offering support?
-    f. For each person, and in relationship to you, consider the following
-        a. Boundaries (positive and negative)
-        b. Courage (yours and theirs)
-        c. Skills (yours and theirs)
-    g. Based on your considerations, circle the three people you might approach to be your triangle, if you were to be a hologram
-    h. Based on your considerations above, circle the three people whom you might learn from if they were a hologram and you were in their triangle.
+1. On paper make a T chart. On the left side write a list of who you call when you are really stuck but need to make a decision.
+2. On the right side list all the people who come to you for the same reason. 
+3. Which side has more people?
+4. What’s the difference between the people who you trust, and those who trust you?
+5. What would it take to help the people who need support to be able to become people who you could go to for support? Or, what would help your supporters become better at what they do for you? And, what would make you better at offering support?
+6. For each person, and in relationship to you, consider the following
+    a. Boundaries (positive and negative)
+    b. Courage (yours and theirs)
+    c. Skills (yours and theirs)
+7. Based on your considerations, circle the three people you might approach to be your triangle, if you were to be a hologram
+8. Based on your considerations above, circle the three people whom you might learn from if they were a hologram and you were in their triangle.