Tom Karl - R1 Founder & President
Welcome to R1
Hello, my name is Tom Karl. I founded R1 as a result of my professional experience and my own recovery journey. I am grateful to have survived the struggles and consequences from my addiction with the help and support from so many others along my path. A positive outcome following my last relapse was the inspiration to create the R1 Learning System. I am now committed to three tenets:
Keep “Recovery First” – This is true for me and those we touch through R1. Without it, nothing else is possible. And with it – anything and everything is. We can reach our dreams and aspirations if we keep recovery #1. This has certainly been true for me.
Serve others – Helping others who also struggle with mental health, substance use disorder, other addictions, or life challenges, and their loved ones, supports our own recovery and personal growth.
Choose to live a healthy and meaningful life – Life is precious… and our time here is short. Happiness comes from serving others, doing good, and being grateful. I choose to be happy and hope to inspire others to live a healthy and meaningful life along my R1 journey.
Connecting with others and sharing our experience is foundational to general wellness, recovery, and personal development. We at R1 are driven to spark meaningful conversations through self-discovery that increase connection, expression, choice, action, and change for individuals and their families. The R1 Learning System was developed to encourage these things. We hope you find it does just that – increases engagement, builds vocabulary, helps individuals express themselves more effectively, and spark meaningful conversations for you and the people you work with.
We are committed to developing and disseminating quality training and technology driven multi-language tools for the mental health, substance use disorder, and personal growth communities. We want to hear from you. We will need your input and feedback – both your successes and challenges – so we can continue to improve the tools.
We look forward to meeting you, working with your team, and serving your community. We look forward to making a difference – with you!
R1 Learning
Who We Are and Aspire to Be
Vision: To be the best health and wellness education company in the world
Mission: Engage, educate, and empower people to live a healthy and meaningful life
Primary Focus: Substance use disorder, mental health, and co-occurring disorders
Description: R1 provides innovative evidence-based strategies that drive results. R1 offers training, certification, and tools that increase client engagement, workforce effectiveness, and program outcomes. Our hands-on and technology driven tools create engaging learning experiences through self-discovery for behavioral health, substance use disorder, and life skill topics. Grounded in evidence-based and best practice models and theories, our tools sparks meaningful conversations in group and 1-on-1 settings. R1 offers enterprise licenses and consulting services to support the R1 training and tools.
The R1 Learning training and engagement tools enable:
Self-discovery — The act or process of acquiring insight or knowledge about one’s character, abilities, feelings, motives, needs, and aspirations
Connection — The relationship with others; sharing with, serving, and helping others
Expression — The ability to thoughtfully communicate one’s beliefs, thoughts, and feelings with others
Choice — The ability to thoughtfully select or decide and commit when faced with options or multiple possibilities
Action — The process or steps taken to achieve an aim or goal
Change — The act to shift, transform, or become different in nature
R1 Learning System Features
Evidence-based / Best Practices – R1 researches, curates, and adapts the highest quality evidence-based and best practice content from experts in the field
Hands-on – Engages kinesthetic learners through use of tactile tools
Vocabulary Building – Increases expression by providing topic models and taxonomies. Builds shared vocabulary for clients, workforce, and programs.
Learning Theory – Engages all learning styles through activity-based experiential adult learning principles
Simple – Easy to learn. Easy to master. Easy to implement
Practical – Puts theory into practice allowing individuals to self-discovery where they are in the theories and models
Engaging and Fun – Encourages full participation
Quality – High-quality content, technology, materials, and tools
Impactful – Enables self-discovery, connection, expression, choice, action, and change
Memorable – Experiences remembered and shared with others
On Roadmap:
Technology Driven - Provides engaging user experience through flexible user-interface and data analytics
Global - Deploys training, tools, and technology in multiple languages
