RADICAL
RESPONSIBILITY

How to Move Beyond Blame, Fearlessly Live Your Highest Purpose, and Become an Unstoppable Force for Good.

A new book by Fleet Maull, PhD

What is the greatest obstacle to fulfillment, success, and happiness? “It's the belief that your current situation, whatever it is, has the power to determine your future,” teaches Fleet Maull.

 

Before he was a revered meditation teacher, Maull served 14 years in prison for drug trafficking. During that time, he embarked on a path of transformation and service that has helped tens of thousands from inmates to hospice patients to top-level business leaders. With Radical Responsibility, he invites us to experience for ourselves the life-changing journey from victim to co-creator.
 

“When we escape the belief that we are limited by our circumstances or others, we access the full power of our authentic selves,” writes Maull. Through teachings, practices, and Maull’s deep empathy for those in challenging life situations, this step-by-step book shows us how.

A new book by Fleet Maull, PhD

What is the greatest obstacle to fulfillment, success, and happiness? “It's the belief that your current situation, whatever it is, has the power to determine your future,” teaches Fleet Maull.

 

Before he was a revered meditation teacher, Maull served 14 years in prison for drug trafficking. During that time, he embarked on a path of transformation and service that has helped tens of thousands from inmates to hospice patients to top-level business leaders. With Radical Responsibility, he invites us to experience for ourselves the life-changing journey from victim to co-creator.
 

“When we escape the belief that we are limited by our circumstances or others, we access the full power of our authentic selves,” writes Maull. Through teachings, practices, and Maull’s deep empathy for those in challenging life situations, this step-by-step book shows us how.

"One of the most powerful books I've ever read."
Rick Hanson, PHD

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See what the experts are saying about Radical Responsibility

“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

“The path of Radical Responsibility evolves our capacity to respond—with wisdom, courage, and love—to the suffering of our world. Author 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

“Following the path 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 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

“This important work by Fleet Maull is full of practical wisdom and written from his deep experience as a teacher, practitioner, and guide of corporate executives, chaplains, and those serving others. It is a rare treasure and a book for today and for all time.”

Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD, abbot of Upaya Zen Center and author of Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet

“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

“It's a rare privilege to read the work of someone who walks the talk as fully as Fleet Maull. The transforming wisdom of his extraordinary life experience—from dharma practitioner to prison inmate to spiritual mentor—suffuses every page of this wonderful book. Engaging, pragmatic, and deeply insightful, Radical Responsibility shows us all how to take responsibility for the habit patterns of our lives. With personal stories, psychological research, and a range of meditative exercises, Fleet illuminates the possibilities of living a freer and more joyful life. Highly recommended.”

Joseph Goldstein, author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening

“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

“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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More About Fleet

Fleet Maull, PhD, CMT-P, is the founder and CEO of Heart Mind Institute, Windhorse Seminars & Consulting and also a senior partner and principal in New Line Consulting. He is an IMTA certified professional mindfulness teacher and an Acharya (senior meditation teacher) in the Tibetan tradition and Roshi (Zen master) in the international Zen Peacemaker Community.

 

While serving 14 years in a federal prison on drug charges (1985 - 1999), Fleet co-founded the first inside-prison hospice program anywhere in the world and launched two national movements, the prison hospice movement through the National Prison Hospice Association and the prison Dharma/mindfulness movement through the Prison Dharma Network and Prison Mindfulness Institute. Today, there are over seventy-five prison hospice programs in the U.S. and several hundred prison Dharma and prison mindfulness projects and programs. 

 

Fleet has written many articles and has given numerous interviews on a variety of mindfulness and leadership related topics in Inc Magazine, Lion’s Roar, Tricycle, Tikkun, and Turning Wheel. He is a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post and Forbes Magazine and made guest appearances on NPR’s Fresh Air program and the national syndicated E-Town.

 

He is the author of Radical Responsibility: How to Move Beyond Blame, Fearlessly Live Your Highest Purpose and Become an Unstoppable Force for Good and Dharma In Hell, the Prison Writings of Fleet Maull. Fleet leads prison programs, meditation retreats, chaplaincy and hospice trainings, leadership trainings, bearing witness retreats and transformational seminars throughout the world.


A Manual for Living with Integrity.


I am in awe of this book. So much so, I need to take it slow...it’s so rich, and requires a deep engagement. Even after having done multiple trainings with Fleet, I find the book to be extraordinary and completely fresh. It is a manual for enjoying a healthy life by growing our own wakefulness and mindfulness, and then learning that critical step – how to apply it.

 

With great warmth and insight, Fleet unveils the incredible potential we have to extend this wakefulness with bravery and intelligence. After decades of research and contemplation, he provides clear evidence that the awareness sparked from mindfulness training can naturally ignite a flurry of further developments in our lives…and there is no limit as to how far this awareness and insight can expand.

 

The foundation of this training is based on a revolutionary framework of human interaction called the “The Drama Triangle” developed by Stephen Karpman. This chapter, alone, is life-changing. The chapter on brain science is, as well. The added booster to this rocket is our willingness to take radical ownership of all of our life circumstances. Yes, this will be challenging; yes, it is asking us to radically pursue freedom from habitual mind.

 

This is an important book; it’s a powerhouse. There is hardly a page that doesn’t make me want to call friends to tell them about it. But that is secondary; what is primary is that I can take these teachings and apply them today. Fleet has a special magic—I can’t think of any other teacher who can weave together such an authentic and practical synthesis of the power of traditional meditation teachings and the brilliant insights of cutting-edge researchers, psychologists and philosophers.

 

In these perilous times, this book offers optimism and clear opportunity for change. Here, the spiritual and the practical are all rolled into one. It is a manual for living with integrity.

 

Radical Responsibility is a gem, and a gift to our world. I recommend it highly.

Alan Kent Anderson

Author of When Bad Lands

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We provide training programs and a community of practice focused on empowering leaders to create possibility, abundance and authentic relationship for themselves, their organizations and communities.

 

Fleet and everyone at Heart Mind Community is absolutely committed to you and your well-being. We are here solely to help you optimize your personal and professional performance, realize your dreams, and manifest your life’s destiny. Oh, and by the way, we are committed to co-creating with all of you a saner, healthier, more just and sustainable world for everyone and the generations to come! This is why we get out of bed in the morning.

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