community service – Adam F.C. Fletcher

Expanding on Capacities to Change the World

I call these items “capacities” because they provide definition to our vessel in life. They determine what we can do, who we can be, and where we are. Each of us is absolutely limitless in our capacities. The following attributes are what I’ve experienced and observed are useful when working to change the world.

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.

Best Practices: Personal-Driven Engagement

This is Adam Fletcher, age 19, at work at a youth program in North Omaha, Nebraska.

Everyone seemed to want to save the neighborhood I grew up in, but nobody actually did. From the time I was 10 to the year I was 20, I lived in a low-income primarily Black neighborhood in the Midwest. A big old Methodist church on the corner hosted programs for kids, and I went there forContinue reading “Best Practices: Personal-Driven Engagement”