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Explore the Nature of Trust Framework and how it maps the ways trust is established, grown, and maintained over time. Drawing from biology, the video shows trust as fluid and non-linear—strengthening or eroding based on experience and context.

Explore why slowing down to really study trust can be transformative. Roxey Nelson of SEIU 1199 explains how nature’s insights helped name patterns she already sensed—revealing why trust, learning, and alignment underpin effective systems of every kind.

Nature has been solving the challenge of trust for billions of years. This video follows the research journey that uncovered shared trust patterns across species—and the real-world experiments that turned those insights into the Nature of Trust framework.

What does it really take for trust to begin? It starts at a threshold of willingness: when perceived benefits slightly outweigh risks, organisms—from penguins to playful animals to cleaner wrasse—opt in, creating mutual vulnerability and the conditions for trust to emerge.

How do relationships grow through experimentation? The Discovery principle uses low-risk trial and error—testing boundaries, norms, and methods—to learn, adapt, and strengthen trust across humans and other species.

Witness an unlikely act of trust in the ocean, where the tiny cleaner wrasse enters the mouths of much larger fish to remove parasites. The story offers a vivid biological example of mutual reliance, where both parties benefit by honoring the relationship.

Explore how leadership grounded in trust principles can transform a union’s culture, inviting members to weigh risk, benefit, and willingness in shared decisions. See how intentional practices create moments of clarity, commitment, and collective alignment.

Discover how leadership can cultivate willingness and alignment by shaping the conditions for trust, rather than relying on intuition alone. Learn how deliberate, nature-inspired practices guide teams to navigate complexity, make choices, and build relational resilience.

What begins as a food sovereignty practice becomes a living architecture of trust. Guided by nature’s principles—low‑stakes discovery, honest signals, familiarity, reciprocity, and cooperation—the Living Pantry shows how shared nourishment can regenerate relationships, belonging, and collective capacity across communities.

Shift Health Accelerator shares how they apply nature-informed trust principles to rebuild relationships with communities and healthcare institutions. By centering willingness, discovery, and familiarity, they create safe spaces for experimentation, assess readiness for engagement, and guide organizations toward honest, cooperative, and accountable partnerships over time.

Creative Reaction Lab shares how they restored trust with youth leaders in Chicago by centering willingness, discovery, and honesty. Through authentic engagement, vulnerability, and modeling repair, they cultivated reciprocal trust, familiarity, and accountability, allowing young people to co-create and own the process over time.

EarthCare shares how they’re using a culturally grounded game—Lotería—to build trust with immigrant families. By translating nature-informed trust principles into Spanish and embedding them in playful, familiar gameplay, participants explore trust, values, and relationships safely, while iterative translation and facilitation ensure clarity, relevance, and engagement. The game acts as both a learning tool and a conversation starter, supporting community cohesion, cross-cultural understanding, and healing practices.

Trust can be intentionally designed. Every choice—from how we show up to the spaces we create—shapes trust or mistrust. By focusing on reliability, feedback loops, boundaries, and willingness, we can cultivate connections, collaboration, and shared power. Designing trust invites deeper relationships and creates environments where equity, justice, and lasting trust can flourish.

Exploring nature invites us to discover new ways of understanding trust. Observing other species reveals patterns and practices that expand our understanding of connection, reliability, and relationship. Nature serves as a blueprint, reminding us that trust is fundamental—not just human-made—and offering lessons we can apply in our own lives and communities.

Shift Health Accelerator shares how healthcare leaders respond to nature as a teacher. Engaging funders and hospital leaders with biomimicry frameworks and trust principles sparked curiosity, play, and discovery. Nature provides a relatable, intuitive lens, offering tools to explore abundance, honesty, and feedback loops. By framing trust through natural examples, participants gain a fresh perspective on collaboration, decision-making, and addressing entrenched challenges in their organizations.

Creative Reaction Lab highlights the different ways youth and adults engage with nature as a teacher of trust. For youth, nature itself can be the entry point, leading naturally to lessons about trust. For adults, trust often comes first, with nature providing evidence and reinforcement for those lessons. By naming nature as the foundation, they offer a reliable, observable reference that bridges generations and provides a novel way to explore human behavior and the principles of trust.

EarthCare highlights how Latinas engage with nature as a teacher. Many participants, especially those with agricultural backgrounds, already understand ecological patterns—adaptation, cycles, and interdependence—from lived experience. By connecting these insights to trust, they gradually recognize how observing and interacting with nature can inform relational understanding, decision-making, and community practices.

Gina explains that while the toolkit’s trust principles may look obvious at first glance, each one contains deeper, practical insights that humans rarely articulate. She emphasizes that these often-implicit dynamics make the toolkit surprisingly revealing and groundbreaking for understanding how we build and maintain trust.

This video shows how trust principles depend on one another—honesty, boundaries, willingness, and discovery only work when practiced together. Antionette and Brandi explain that trust is dynamic and situational, requiring us to re-establish, grow, or maintain it depending on what a group has experienced and what the moment calls for.