RADICAL RESPONSIBILITY
Achieve unshakable confidence. Live your highest purpose.
“The path of Radical Responsibility evolves our capacity to respond—with wisdom, courage, and love—to the suffering of our world. Fleet Maull guides us masterfully in awakening from our separateness and inspires a profound dedication to caring for ourselves and each other.”
Tara Brach, PhD
author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge
Imagine a Life Without Fear, Blame or Shame... Create a Life of Purpose and Joy, Now
Most of us struggle with our confidence and feelings of unworthiness.
It doesn't need to be that way.
Discover deep down... That there is absolutely nothing wrong with you.
You are not broken.
You are unconditionally good and worthy of love and success.
You are needed and your life has deep meaning and purpose.
Over three decades ago, Fleet Maull sat in an isolation cell in a US prison facing a possible life sentence for drug trafficking.
Just before dawn after a sleepless night on the edge of despair, he reached deep within himself and found the strength to make an ironclad commitment to never give up... never give up on himself, his family or life.
Later that day he was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison and had to face the fact that his life as he'd known it was over.
He also had to face the fact that his nine-year-old son would now grow up without a father.
That night, again unable to sleep, he made a second commitment...
Fleet vowed to find a way to create a better legacy for his son than just a dad that went to prison.
The Radical Responsibility® philosophy was born at this pivotal moment in Fleet's life. It evolved over the next 14 years as he followed through on both those commitments.
Fleet realized the only way forward was to stop blaming, justifying and holding anyone or anything outside of himself responsible for where he was.
He was no longer going to be a victim.
Transformation began by taking radical ownership for every single choice and circumstance in his life.
Fleet moved beyond the idea of blame and shame entirely.
With good behavior, Fleet was released after serving only 14 years of a 30-year sentence.
During his time he helped hundreds of his fellow prisoners turn their lives around through education, addiction recovery and meditation.
He co-founded the first hospice program inside a prison during the height of the AIDS crisis.
He also founded two non-profits and catalyzed two national movements...
National Prison Hospice Association launched a prison hospice movement that now includes over 70 hospice programs in U.S. state and federal prisons. It radically improves the quality of end of life care for prisoners and their families.
And Prison Mindfulness Institute has transformed the lives of tens of thousands of prisoners and thousands of public safety professionals through mindfulness-based emotional intelligence programs.
Since his release in 1999, Fleet has continued building a legacy of social innovation and transformation.
His work has bettered the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world.
He is a visionary social entrepreneur, global peacemaker and renowned meditation teacher empowered in both Zen and Tibetan Buddhist traditions.
Fleet met with Pope Francis and other Roman Catholic officials during the Buddhist-Catholic Dialogue on Suffering, Liberation and Fraternity.
He has also worked with Rwandan government officials to launch an international bearing witness retreat and peace initiative aimed at preventing future genocides.
Fleet has been a leader of the annual Zen Peacemaker bearing witness retreats at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau for the past 20 years. He also leads other social transformation and peacemaking retreats and training throughout the world.
And now you can experience this same life-changing training from the comfort of your home or anywhere else you can use your computer, tablet or smartphone.
Zen Roshi Fleet Maull, PhD
“Radical Responsibility is about living from choice. Letting go of the idea of blame altogether and moving beyond the fear and survival-based habits that undermine your success and happiness.”
- FLEET MAULL, PHD
PRAISE FOR RADICAL RESPONSIBILITY
“Fleet Maull draws on his unique life journey and remarkable expertise, sharing with us how we can find equanimity and compassion in the maelstrom of our days. Radical Responsibility offers a sound and original blueprint for a life well lived.”
Daniel Goleman
author of Emotional Intelligence
This is one of the most powerful books I’ve ever read. With great clarity and heart, it combines brain science, psychology, and soulful wisdom to help readers grow inner strength and inner peace. Fleet Maull is a friendly guide—someone who has seen both the worst of life and its highest possibilities, and who brings gritty good humor, deep insight, and practical suggestions to every page.
Rick Hanson, PhD
author of Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness
Following the path of Radical Responsibility—a gift to us from author Fleet Maull's amazing real-life backstory—we learn to own our choices and create the freedom to craft our lives to be truly happy, reach our highest potential, and be a force for good that can change the world.
Sharon Salzberg
author of Real Happiness and Real Love
Radical Responsibility
...will help you create deep relationships, an abundance mindset and unconditional confidence in your life.
Unconditional confidence is explained in the course, and it will be a huge "ah hah" moment for you.
Radical Responsibility is about giving you the insight, tools and capacity to choose a better way to live.
Live at choice. Not from the fear and survival-based part of your brain.
Right now, your past negative conditioning is destructively running the show.
Learn to thrive from this unique course from the comfort of your home or office.
We invite you to take a leadership position in your own life today and create limitless possibility for yourself.
You can work your way through this in-depth course at your own pace, watching each module as many times as you like.
This way you will fully ground yourself in the many skills and practices Fleet presents in this unique, transformative course.
“Radical Responsibility is about living from choice. Letting go of the idea of blame altogether and moving beyond the fear and survival-based habits that undermine your success and happiness.”
- FLEET MAULL, PhD
“After training with Fleet, my life is easier, more fun and I have more clarity and I now get the things I want most out of of my relationships, my life purpose and my heart.”
What you will develop:
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Unshakable Confidence
Facing major transitions, rejections and other challenges with less pain and drama.
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Bountiful Joy and Endless Possibilities
Move beyond scarcity and fear. Embrace life with trust and conviction in life's abundance and your own unconditional goodness.
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Deep Connection and Authentic Relationships
Communicate honestly, free from blame, resentment, justification or being right.
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Self-Compassion
Let go of shame and self-blame in order to become your own best friend and trusted ally.
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Compassion For Others
See people through the lens of kindness, understanding and compassion. Become an empowered and enriching presence for everyone you meet.
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Presence in the Moment
Learn to appreciate and thrive in stillness. Let go of old fear-based patterns that keep you busy and distracted so you can find joy in what you are doing right now.
What you will stop:
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Sabotaging yourself with Emotional Triggers
No longer be pushed around by intense emotions and habitual reactions. Instead, learn to make the shift from being reactive to responding with confidence.
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Being a Victim and Feeling Helplessness
Learn to own and embrace your circumstances and choices. Your destiny is ultimately determined by the choices you make.
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Wasting Time in Drama
Learn to recognize when you are hooked in negative drama and how to step out of it. Save your vital time and energy for the actions that can actually create positive change in your life.
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Getting Stuck in Confusion
Learn to be decisive and take the right action quickly and with confidence.
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Blaming Yourself, Others and "Things"
Learn the difference between ownership and blame, liberating yourself from the culture of shame and blame. Focus your time and energy where you have the most influence...with your own thoughts, attitudes and behaviors!
“If we spend one minute above the line, operating from choice, that one minute can cancel out a lifetime of operating from the fear-based survival program in our brain, it can make all the difference.”
- FLEET MAULL, PHD
COURSE STRUCTURE
Fleet guides you through eight transformative modules designed to launch you on a self-sustaining path of abundance, connection, and choice. You will receive access to one module per week. You can also decide to go slower and proceed at your own rhythm.
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Module #1 - Introduction & Overview
Introduction to the Radical Responsibility® model, its context of basic goodness, living without blame, mindfulness and mindfulness-based emotional intelligence (MBEI).
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Module #2 - Mindfulness Training & the Ground of Basic Goodness
Exploring meditation as a foundational tool for creating sustained change. Basic mindfulness-awareness meditation practices proven to rewire our ever-changing brain.
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Module #3 - Mindfulness-Based Emotional Intelligence (MBEI)
Growing the capacity to recover quickly from emotional triggers and developing emotional intelligence. How to take control of your emotional and physical state.
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Module #4 - The Drama Triangle
Being involved in less unhealthy drama. Identify what the drama triangle is, its harmful and crippling effects, and how to move beyond it.
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Module #5 - Transforming Victim Thinking to Empowerment
Finding empowerment beyond complaint. Shifting your beliefs from life is happening “to you” into a place of choice and power.
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Module #6 - The Power of Choice
A new model or framework for living a drama-free life.
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Module #7 - Authentic Relationship
A new model for living a drama-free life. Learning what it means to take true ownership of your life to create authentic relationships and lasting change in yourself and those around you.
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Module #8 - Course Conclusion and Support Materials
A closing meditation, integration, and resources you need to move forward to a life of Radical Responsibility®.
“In my opinion, Fleet Maull is one of the clearest, most grounded, most compassionate thinkers and implementers of the principles of mindfulness and emotional intelligence in the world. He has a gift for translating inner work into relevant action, and an unparalleled generosity of spirit.”
“Because we’ve been raised in a blame-based culture we think responsibility and accountability equal blame...either blaming others or myself. Here we are talking about completely transcending, transforming, and stepping out of the blame-based mindset and culture altogether. We are talking about liberating and empowering ourselves by embracing Radical Responsibility and choice.”
- FLEET MAULL, PHD
MORE ABOUT FLEET
Fleet Maull, PhD, CMT-P, is an author, meditation teacher, management consultant, trainer and executive coach who facilitates deep transformation for individuals and organizations through his philosophy and program of Radical Responsibility® and Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness (NSM)™. He is a tireless and dedicated peacemaker and servant leader working for positive, social transformation and a more just and sustainable, global society.
He is the founder of Prison Dharma Network, Prison Mindfulness Institute, Center for Mindfulness in Public Safety, National Prison Hospice Association, Windhorse Seminars and Heart Mind Institute.
He is also the co-founder of Engaged Mindfulness Institute, Transforming Justice Initiative, Upaya’s Institute’s Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program, the Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat & Peace Initiative, and the Center for Contemplative End-of-Life Care at Naropa University.
He currently serves as the CEO and Director of Training, Research & Development for Prison Mindfulness Institute, Center for Mindfulness in Public Safety and the Engaged Mindfulness Institute, as well as CEO and senior trainer for Windhorse Seminars & Consulting.
Dr. Maull has been practicing mindfulness-awareness meditation for more than 45 years, training in the Tibetan, Zen, Vipassana Buddhist traditions. He was a close, senior student and personal attendant to the renowned Tibetan meditation master, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and a close student and Dharma Successor of the renowned Zen master, social entrepreneur and peacemaker, Roshi Bernie Glassman.
He is a fully empowered, senior meditation and Dharma teacher in both the Tibetan and Zen Buddhist traditions, as an Acharya (senior Dharma teacher) in the global Shambhala Meditation Community and a Roshi (Zen master and lineage holder) in the Zen Peacemaker Order and Soto Zen tradition. He is also a fully ordained, senior Zen priest ordained in the Soto Zen lineage of Maezumi Roshi. His ordination was officiated by two renowned socially engaged Buddhist teachers, Roshi Joan Halifax and Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara.
Dr. Maull is also a pioneer and thought leader in the mainstream mindfulness movement who has developed cutting edge mindfulness-based and trauma-informed leadership trainings, transformational seminars, and consulting and coaching programs that he delivers in diverse business, nonprofit and government settings, including his pioneering work in developing mindfulness-based emotional intelligence (MBEI) and mindfulness-based wellness & resiliency (MBWR)® training programs. Dr. Maull is a certified professional mindfulness teacher and advisory board member with the International Mindfulness Teachers Association (IMTA) and a board member with the Institute for Organizational Mindfulness. He is also an advisory board member with the Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism.
Dr. Maull is the author of Radical Responsibility: How to Move Beyond Blame, Fearlessly Live Your Highest Purpose and Become an Unstoppable Force for Good (2019) and Dharma in Hell: The Prison Writings of Fleet Maull (2000) along with numerous book chapters and research articles in peer-reviewed professional journals.
Acharya Maull travels world-wide offering mindfulness retreats, transformational seminars, leadership training, prison programs, first responder training, and bearing witness retreats. He has trained correctional officers, law enforcement and other public safety professionals in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Kentucky, Indiana, Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Island and Ontario, Canada.
Here is everything you'll receive with the Radical Responsibility Online Course
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Eight carefully constructed modules designed to launch you on a self-sustaining path of authentic relationships, abundance, and unshakeable confidence.
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Lifetime Access to the Radical Responsibility Course so that you can return to the lessons as many times as you like
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A 30-Day Money Back Guarantee.
“Fleet's trainings have taken away my excuses. That one question, “Am I living in the Empowerment Zone or Drama Zone?” keeps me from pointing the finger anywhere but at myself.”
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MORE PRAISE FOR RADICAL RESPONSIBILITY
“Radical Responsibility is an empowering and heartfelt guidebook to living more fully, a systematic training for practical liberation in your life.”
—Jack Kornfield, PhD, author of A Path with Heart
“A practical, direct, and accessible guide to human flourishing from someone who faced tremendous adversity and emerged from this challenge with vigor, equanimity, and the deepest passion to share his wisdom for the benefit of others. This book is a gift for anyone facing adversity, which is all of us!”
—Richard J. Davidson, PhD, coauthor of The Emotional Life of Your Brain and Altered Traits; founder and director, Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Fleet Maull’s creative and time-tested framework for reining in your own mind’s inflammatory, self-destructive, imprisoning tendencies can be powerfully freeing―and healing. All you need to do is put it into practice. He guides you in exactly how to do that and sustain it for life. You couldn’t be in better hands or have a more capable and authentic guide.”
—Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, author of Full Catastrophe Living and Mindfulness for All
“At once inspiring and practical, this book masterfully shows us how to thrive in the face of adversity. Based on insights from ancient wisdom traditions, modern neuroscience, contemporary psychology, and his own remarkable journey from maximum-security prison inmate to transformative teacher, Fleet Maull provides a wealth of accessible tools anyone can use to discover their own basic goodness and engage more fruitfully in the world. With warmth, skill, and humility, he provides step-by-step instructions to help us courageously face reality, heal our wounds, and live richer, happier, more fulfilled, and effective lives.”
—Ronald D. Siegel, PsyD, assistant professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and author of The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems
“Fleet Maull has lived a life of transformation. Emerging from a drama-filled life that led to imprisonment, he knows deeply what I call the ‘Dreaded Drama Triangle’—originally the Karpman Drama Triangle—and its roles of Victim, Persecutor, and Rescuer. His journey of awakening to his essence as a Creator should be an inspiration to all. He is an exemplar of TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic®) and, through Radical Responsibility, he serves as a Challenger and Coach to readers to become Creators in their own lives.”
—David Emerald (Womeldorff), author of The Power of TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic)
“I’ve been teaching about the importance of looking at everything through the lens of personal responsibility for decades. Taking personal responsibility is the only ‘above the line’ perspective. Anything else—blaming, shaming, or justifying—is decidedly ‘below the line,’ and will only hold you back and limit your opportunities for advancement and growth. Fleet addresses this issue beautifully in Radical Responsibility, and I wholeheartedly endorse his work.”
—Marshall Thurber, cofounder of Burklyn, student of Buckminster Fuller and W. Edwards Deming, and creator of Money and You
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