Capability vs Capacity - The Expectation Gap - Rochelle Dunn

Why do people who can change... so often don't?

In helping professions, we focus on capability - what someone can do. But real change doesn't come from ability alone. It requires capacity - the emotional, cognitive, and environmental bandwidth to sustain it.

Capacity vs Capability: The Expectation Gap challenges a critical blind spot in trauma, education, and community work:

We are often asking people to make changes they do not have the capacity to hold.

This book introduces a practical, real-world framework for understanding why change breaks down - even when motivation and insight are present.

You'll learn:

This isn't about lowering expectations.

It's about aligning them with reality.

Because real change isn't what someone can do once -
it's what they can sustain.