Collaborative design requires space for capacity-building, hearing each others’ perspectives, and reaching consensus. We actively listen, sense and respond, reflect, and refine throughout any given design process. While the creative process can be messy, circuitous, meandering, inspired, and tedious, at times, we embrace it all—including (most especially) mistake-making—as necessary parts of the process. We support collaborators to take risks and embrace setbacks and missteps as expected, respected, and worthy of being inspected. Interdependence requires that we lean into hard conversations to grow capacity for creative collaboration in ourselves and partners and to deepen relational trust.