As the next session of Global Educators Academy approaches Linda asks:
I've thought many times of attending your workshop. Would you tell me how attendees use the material when they teach. Do you require a total replication of your ideas, or can the material (with plenty of credit for your work) be incorporated into a broader context? Linda
Great question. Thanks. I'm glad you asked, and I hope you don't mind my answering it in the blog and inviting comment.
My Purpose and Vision
The Responsibility Process™ and Keys to Responsibility™ is the most important information I know and have to share. I stumbled upon it searching to understand how shared responsibility operates in teams. I've been field-testing this information since 1991 based on the study began by Bill McCarley in 1984.
I've dedicated my career to advancing this information not just in business, but in all sectors of society worldwide. My purpose is to study, apply, and teach Responsibility Redefined™, the brand I've given to this amazing information.
My vision is to see the Responsibility Process poster hanging in every office, classroom, kitchen, and church in the world.
Do I require a total replication of my ideas?
I offer a total understanding, integration, and thus replication, of Responsibility Redefined fundamentals for anyone who wishes to attain mastery of their own responsibility process and then apply Responsibility Redefined to their chosen field of endeavor.
To clarify, I believe that the Responsibility Process is a natural mental process that operates identically in all humans to regulate how we do or don't accept ownership of our actions and outcomes. I've pursued mastery of my own Responsibility Process for sixteen years and have learned many ways to fail to attain mastery and a few ways to succeed.
So, as it applies to the fundamentals, the answer is "yes". I would expect no less of any master from whom I was learning, whether a master plumber, a master gardener, or a Tai Chi master.
As it applies to practice and application, the answer is "please, please join me in confronting and uncovering how this information can be studied, taught, learned, and applied so we can reach more people in more sectors of society around the world faster and better and easier with this extraordinary information."
Can the material be incorporated into a broader context?
Yes! That's precisely the intent of Global Educators Academy. To quote the web site:
Calling all coaches, consultants, team-builders, trainers, organization developers, teachers, preachers, parents, therapists, counselors, facilitators, mediators, professors. These could be the most important three days of your life! Learn to use, teach, and apply this powerful material in your own work. (underline added for emphasis)
I've applied Responsibility Redefined to the practice of teamwork, partnering, and collaboration. And with others am applying it to leadership, change, culture shaping, and personal growth and success. But it can also be applied to parenting, teaching, accounting, being a student, coaching, pastoral counseling, therapy, athletics, medicine, architecture, art, music…
I want Global Educators Academy to be an engine for innovation where practitioners from all fields come together and conceive of new directions and vectors for Responsibility Redefined… did I say "in all sectors of society around the world?" 
Gosh, I sure hope people who learn Responsibility Redefined from me apply it in more broader contexts than I can imagine!
Take Action Now
Who do you know that could make a difference in some sector of society by learning, practicing, and applying the Responsibility Process and the Keys to Responsibility to their vocation? Invite them to attend Global Educators Academy with you.
At the very least pose your question about Responsibility Redefined at AskChristopherAvery.com and listen in on the live free monthly tele-training.
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I forgot to address Linda’s most general question: How do attendees use the material when they teach?
Here is a sampling of examples:
Alejandro, an internal consultant at a manufacturing conglomerate in Mexico, designed a brief experiential exercise for exposing the natural Responsibility Process to people. It’s a simple exercise — like building a tower with a deck of cards — that has lots of opportunity for failure built in. As mistakes and problems happen during the exercise Alexandro records the comments. Later he writes them on the flip chart and briefly teaches the Responsibility Process. The students then categorize their own comments as Lay Blame, Justify, Shame, Obligation, Quit, Denial, and Responsibility.
Susan, an internal “agile coach” in an information technology department, uses Alexandro’s exercise now in every agile class that she teaches. She relates agility to the Responsibility Process.
Flower and her husband teach Sunday School for High School students. They relate the Responsibility Process to Christian principles and practice.
Ashley is a “lean Software development” consultant. He teaches the Responsibility Process to every person, team, and audience he addresses as fundamental to removing wasted effort and getting lean and agile.
Ashley is responding to my challenge to teach Responsibility Redefined to every audience he faces. I’ve been living with that same challenge for 16 years.
How would you like to teach Responsibility?
Dear Christopher,
Mind? No, not at all. I thank you for your reply and for sharing our conversation in your blog. I look forward to others joining in.
You asked, “How would you like to teach Responsibility?”
I would like to teach what I’ve learned throughout my life and from others through public speaking and writing. I see Responsibility Redefined as a tool, a very excellent tool, to include in my new career. I don’t have a label for it, and may never put a label on it…more opportunity for creativity…to invent my new career.
I first learned of Responsibility Redefined in the business context. My immediate response was: this is not just for business, it’s for everyone.
What I’ve learned so far makes sense and I want to learn more.
I want to attend the November meeting, but have a Saturday committment through December. So I will attend some time in the beginning of 2008. Meanwhile, I’ll join the tele-training.
Warmest regards,
Linda
Christopher! I just had a big AH-HA!
You are not “dumping” information, or dictating adherence to a set standard, you are starting a very large (worldwide) conversation!
Here’s a very small and simple story I’d like to share: I was shopping at the supermarket with my son who at that time was small enough to sit in the seat of a shopping cart. He wanted a cookie from the bakery and I gave it to him planning to pay for it later.
In the parking lot, I realized that I hadn’t paid for the cookie. I went back to the cashier, told her what had happened, and paid for the cookie. She looked at me with a funny expression on her face…then thanked me for coming back to pay!
Whenever we take personal responsibility, we have an opportunity to change our and others’ perception of the world. I knew I was taking responsibility for payment, but she surprised me by taking responsibility when she thanked me! No lecture, no guilt, no anger.
And Chris enjoyed the cookie. It was a good day.
Linda
Linda — thanks for your comments. Congratulations on your AH-HA! Those happen when you confront questions for which you aren’t willing to accept stock/available answers.
Nice story about the cookie. It’s a good illustration of personal responsibility. Lots of folks have advanced a philosophy of personal responsibility over the centuries. I’m not new there. What I do offer that is new is the discovery and field testing of the Responsibility Process…
And I’m happy to invest thirty or so years raising it up for a global conversation.
Thank you again Christopher.
I want to learn more!!!
Linda
I applaud your inspired interest. Clearly “wanting” is what’s required most.