Category: decision-making

• Rethinking Youth Empowerment

  When I write the phrase “youth empowerment”, I’m talking about young people of all ages, including very young children and very old teenagers.

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  September 3, 2013

  adult allies, adults, decision-making, youth empowerment, youth engagement, Youth involvement

• Radical Transparency with Children and Youth

  How To Be Radically Transparent With Children and Youth Start when they’re young. While young people are still young, that’s the time to make be radically transparent with them. Having a transparent conversation with a 17 or 18 year old can be difficult, if only because they’re conditioned to accept adults obfuscating. By starting early, […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  August 4, 2013

  activities, children, decision-making, empowerment, engagement, nonprofits, Theory, youth empowerment, youth engagement

• Mind, Heart, and Body in Heartspace

  I was talking with one of my teenage nieces earlier today. Swapping stories, she said something about being afraid she thinks about things too much. It’s funny, because a lot of people say they think too much. Winnie The Pooh would get stuck in a conundrum, then command himself to “Think, think, think.” We’re all a […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  December 21, 2012

  decision-making, personal development, personal engagement, personal engagement