Leaders should treat popular mistrust as evidence to examine, not defect to punish

Evidence

The role of revolutionary leadership (under any circumstances, but especially so in those described) is to consider seriously, even as they act, the reasons for any attitude of mistrust on the part of the people, and to seek out true avenues of communion with them, ways of helping the people to help themselves critically perceive the reality which oppresses them. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 529

Categorization

• QUESTION: How does a facilitator ‘consider seriously even as they act’ — does reflection-then-action serialize, or must the acting itself be restructured? This is the seam the reader’s redesign must resolve.