Being the Change: Cultivating Capabilities is part 2 of the Transformative Leadership for Youth seminar series that empowers youth to “be the change” we “wish to see in the world.” Youth who have completed Transformative Leadership for Youth are invited to continue to cultivate their new conceptual framework for personal and social transformation. 

Transformative Leadership promotes a new conceptual framework based on 6 elements that nurture our understanding and attitudes toward service-oriented leadership and includes 18 capabilities that help us better personal, interpersonal and social relationships.  It develops skills and tools to better direct our own lives and at the same time help us contribute to an ever-advancing civilization.

Inspired by the principles and teachings of the Bahá’í Faith, Transformative Leadership is a framework for transformation that fosters social action and promotes a culture of cooperation, founded on ethical principles and scientific evidence, which is motivated by the search for truth, attraction to beauty and thirst for knowledge. 

As youth continue their personal and collective processes of transformation, they will gain an enhanced understanding of the Transformative Leadership conceptual framework by reviewing and applying the elements and the 4 capabilities that contribute to the betterment of interpersonal relationships in our everyday life. In addition, the youth will further cultivate capabilities for transformation through study and application of the 7 capabilities that better personal transformation and the 6 capabilities that contribute to social transformation. Throughout this seminar we will nurture our ability to integrate all of the 6 elements and 17 capabilities by practicing the 18th capability: integrating the capabilities through the transformative family. 

Being the Change: Cultivating Capabilities will continue to integrate the shared-model of Transformative Leadership that releases individual and collective society-building power with multimedia art. The Youth will be empowered to develop their relationship with the world around them when motivated by the desire to build a world founded on justice, unity and peace. 

Youth will share reflections, insights and artwork with their peers during the course as they foster capabilities in each other. Transformative Leadership materials, including units from the workbook, will be provided by the Wilmette Institute.

Note on Video conference sessions:
This seminar will offer regular video conference sessions on Saturdays at 10 am Eastern US Time (GMT-5). You can use the Time Zone Converter to check what time that is in your city. (Enter New York (USA) as the city to convert from.)

There are two other courses for Youth ages 11 through 17, being run at the same time as this one. Click through the links before for more details.

1. Transformative Leadership for Youth
(Winter 2021)

This course is required to take the above course. "Cultivating Capabilities, Being the Change."

2. Releasing the Society-Building Powers of Youth 2 (Winter 2021)

For youth who took "Transformative Leadership for Youth" and "Cultivating Capabilities: Being the Change" in 2020. It is possible for youth to take this course concurrently with "Transformative Leadership for Youth." Please contact Jessica Kerr for more information.