Category: civic engagement

• 16 Capacities to Change the World

  After more than a decade of teaching people around the world how to do it, I’ve decided to share this list of key skills, abilities, knowledge, and dispositions. They’re based off my life as I’ve worked for social justice, and they are what I’ve seen consistently in my mentors, heros, and students. These capacities make the difference between people who talk about changing the world and people who actually change the world.

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  April 26, 2022

  action, adult allies, assessment, civic engagement, coaching, CommonAction, community engagement, community service, democracy, empowerment, engagement, Freechild, personal development, personal engagement, social change, society, student engagement, student training facilitation, student voice, Students, systems change, technical assistance, Theory, tip sheet, workshop, workshops, youth, youth action, youth development, youth empowerment, youth engagement, Youth involvement, youth leadership, Youth Voice, Youth Work, youth-led

  knowledge, personal capacity, skills, social change

• Best Practice: Find Meaning in Life

  

  This is the tenth and last post in my series on Best Practices in Engagement.Personal engagement requires nothing- it simply happens. If you want to be more engaged, all that you have to do is live life, and find meaning in the life you live.

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  April 18, 2022

  civic engagement, community engagement, engagement, personal development, personal engagement

• Best Practice: Don’t Tokenize

  

  Tokenism is placing anyone, anything, anywhere, any time into a separate category or definite treatment for how it appears, instead of what it actually is. In this post I’m introducing the concept of self-tokenism, which happens when we place ourselves or part of ourselves in a separate category than others. Self-tokenism leads to social tokenism, and here I explain how.

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  April 18, 2022

  civic engagement, community engagement, personal engagement, social change