Relationships are key

This is the half-way point of my week long provincial tour with 21Inc. We're in Bathurst, resting and thinking. Thinking about the past 5 days spent with 20 other young NBers, on a bus with little sleep, moving from community to community, watching relationships grow. It's now 2 in the morning and I can't sleep yet. There's so much information I've absorbed and haven't yet processed. My thoughts have been occupied lately with this question of 'what motivates people to create change?' What has to happen during this tour to create the momentum within each of us to take our ideas and solutions and turn them into action? I believe there are 3 necessary factors:
1. knowledge: people need to learn about the problem
2. capacity to create change: people need to feel that they're capable of implementing their solutions
3. relationships: for me, this is the 'make or break' aspect of having the energy to create change

During this tour, I think it's imperative that we form relationships, to some extent, with people who live in the spaces we visit. Without relationships, we will always see the situation through an outsiders' lens.