| Institute For Redesign of Learning | The Almansor Center
625 Fair Oaks, Suite 200 South Pasadena, CA 91030 Phone: 323.341.5580 Fax: 323.257.0284
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Taking ChargeTM Personal Responsibility Training Programs Created by Founder and President, Dr. Nancy J. Lavelle, the Institute’s innovative approach is known as the Taking ChargeTM Personal Responsibility Training Programs and includes three training courses: Taking ChargeTM for Educators The Institute is a pioneer in the field of teaching personal responsibility. Personal responsibility is the willingness to see oneself as the source of one’s successes and failures in life. Personal responsibility is not blame, guilt, or placing fault on oneself or others. Rather, it is the willingness to work together with others to discover areas of concern in our lives, develop competencies and strategies to handle those concerns and learn to follow-through with effective action that is conducive to the well being of ourselves and others. By empowering each person to take chargeof his or her own learning process, the Institute’s education and training programs have successfully restored the capacity of thousands of children, adults, parents, caregivers and professionals to become competent, caring, and contributing members of society. Regardless of age, the key to success is each individual’s personal decision to do well. Linguistic CoachingTM A fundamental principle of the Taking ChargeTM approach is to empower individuals to observe how language opens up or closes possibilities for taking personal responsibility for one’s own success in life. Taking ChargeTM empowers learners to observe the language that they use and become linguistic coaches of themselves and others. As originated by Dr. Nancy J. Lavelle, Linguistic CoachingTM is a system of conversational analysis and communication based on the work of Dr. Fernando Flores. Linguistic CoachingTM focuses on the set of assumptions implicit in the language we use, which determines the nature of our thoughts, feelings, and the subsequent actions we take. The premise of Linguistic CoachingTM is that all speaking and listening is an interplay of commitments (i.e., assertions, requests, offers, and promises), directed towards explicit cooperative and responsible action. Please visit our website at www.takingcharge.com or For further information, plese contact: Nancy J. Lavelle, Ph.D.
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The Institute for the Redesign of Learning is a multi-service, community based education and training facility for at risk youth. |