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What we do.

We assess the conditions that make trust possible, we identify where to intervene and we estimate resources, timeframes and safeguards. The reading is crossed with integrated impact in order to relate the strengthening of trust to an explicit projection of change.

The Lucid Trust method identifies its cross-cutting conditions. Its diagnosis makes it possible to recognize the critical reference points of an organization in order to orient its course with clarity, flexibility and impact.

Stage 01 Organizational trust

We assess and diagnose internal and external trust through the conditions that make it possible.

Stage 02 Integrated impact

We read in an articulated way the change the organization generates, from its data and its theory of change.

Stage 03 Potential impact

We project impact scenarios associated with a focused intervention within a declared horizon.

Stage 04 Support plan

We design a bounded plan, with objectives, activities, costs, timeframes and safeguards for those who would be most exposed.

Stage 05 Intervention

The plan can be carried out by the organization’s team, by a third party or by Confianza e Impacto.

Stage 06 Training

Training in lucid trust, impact, critical thinking, collective intelligence and nonviolent communication.

Training

Stage 07 Evaluation

We evaluate whether the plan was carried out and whether the condition that was intervened on changed within the agreed period.

Stage 08 Rereading

We produce a second cartography and contrast it with the initial reading and with the projected impact.

Registers of trust

Lucid Trust is the theoretical framework that grounds the method of Confianza e Impacto. It was born more than a decade ago out of direct experience with communities, organizations, schools and initiatives of high complexity and deep social sensitivity. From that ground of maximum ethical and human demand, the approach evolved toward a cross-cutting systemic understanding, applicable to all kinds of projects, networks and institutions.

Every relationship and every organization lives with fragility, uncertainty, friction and the search for orientation. Faced with this reality, Lucid Trust proposes an active stance: the capacity to decide and operate with a margin of uncertainty, without falling into the naivety of blind trust or the paralysis of total distrust.

This stance is vital, especially in moments of crisis. Although blind trust and total distrust appear to be opposites, they lead to the same loss of bearings: in both, the organization loses the capacity to read its own reality and deprives itself of the faculty of orienting itself, making decisions, developing and amplifying its impact.

Like every vital energy, trust is delicate. It is neither demanded nor decreed: it is cared for by cultivating the conditions that make it possible. And it is through those same conditions that it can be rebuilt when it has been fractured.

Blind trust
Lucid trust
Total distrust

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  • We trust without evaluating.
  • Loyalty replaces judgment.
  • Criticism is experienced as betrayal.
  • Conflict is avoided.
  • Warning signals are silenced.
  • The crisis grows quietly until it breaks.
  • Processes become transparent.
  • Decisions are argued.
  • Recognition of the other, respect, limits and collaboration structure the relationship.
  • Discourse and action coincide.
  • Purpose orients decisions and a plan exists.
  • Criticism is nourishing, sought, and produces change.
  • Error and crisis become shared learning.
  • We trust no one.
  • Every signal is read as a threat.
  • Coordination becomes impossible and processes turn endless and expensive.
  • The bond is reduced to control.
  • Learning stops.
  • The organization fragments.

Contact the Confianza e Impacto team

contact@confianzaeimpacto.org