Stewardship & Permissions
Agency Restoration Framework · sharing · citation · collaboration
Agency Restoration Framework (ARF) is stewarded by Tony H. T. Tsang. This page clarifies how ARF materials may be shared, cited, referenced, adapted, taught, or used in collaboration.
The short version: read it, share it, cite it, discuss it. If you want to adapt it, teach it, republish it, commercialize it, operationalize it, or represent yourself as authorized to use ARF in a formal setting, ask first. Dragon at the door. Cardigan on. Clipboard mercifully not cursed.
At a Glance
ARF may be read, shared, cited, and discussed. ARF should not be adapted, taught, republished, commercialized, represented, or put into formal use outside its original context without permission from Tony H. T. Tsang.
Using ARF somewhere else?
Public ARF materials may be read, shared, cited, and discussed with attribution. If you want to adapt, teach, republish, commercialize, operationalize, or represent ARF in another context, ask first.
Share links to the original public source so context stays attached.
Name Agency Restoration Framework, Tony H. T. Tsang, and the specific page or post.
Do not turn ARF into training, tools, policy language, or paid work without permission.
You May
You are welcome to engage with public ARF materials in ordinary, good-faith ways.
Read public materials
Read public ARF pages, posts, and resources for personal learning, reflection, and discussion.
Share links
Share links to public pages or posts so people can read the work in its original context.
Quote short excerpts
Quote short excerpts with attribution, especially when the quote points readers back to the original source.
Discuss in good faith
Discuss ARF, cite it, question it, respond to it, or connect it to your own thinking without representing it as your own framework.
Please Ask First
Please contact Tony before using ARF in ways that move beyond ordinary reading, citation, or public discussion.
Training, workshops, courses, or presentations
Ask before adapting ARF materials into professional learning, internal training, slides, courses, workshops, handouts, or team documents.
Republishing or substantial reuse
Ask before republishing substantial portions of ARF pages, posts, stories, tools, diagrams, or other materials.
Paid or commercial settings
Ask before using ARF in consulting, coaching, paid training, products, services, platforms, programs, or other commercial contexts.
Claims of authorization
Do not describe yourself as ARF-trained, ARF-certified, ARF-authorized, or able to teach ARF unless Tony has explicitly granted that permission.
Formal decisions or policies
Ask before using ARF language to justify interventions, policies, assessments, placement decisions, team directives, or institutional claims.
Tools, datasets, and derivative systems
Ask before feeding ARF materials into datasets, knowledge bases, custom tools, training systems, derivative frameworks, or products beyond ordinary personal reading and writing support.
Attribution
When you cite ARF, keep the source visible. Don’t make the work wander around in a fake moustache pretending it grew in your basement. It did not. The basement has enough problems.
When citing a specific ARF page, resource, or Substack post, include the specific title and URL as well.
Adaptation Boundary
Do not flatten ARF into generic tips, behaviour-management scripts, compliance language, leadership hacks, or “agency” branding detached from its context.
ARF is not a permission slip for claiming authority over children, educators, teams, families, or systems. It should not be used to decorate decisions that have already been made, force compliance with softer language, or make control sound like care.
If the use makes ARF sound like a shortcut, a script, a badge, a certificate, a compliance tool, or a way to sound deep while flattening real people into tiny administrative pancakes, stop. Ask first.
What This Protects
These boundaries are not here to make the work precious. They are here so the work does not get detached from its context and used against the very people it is meant to honour.
Authorship
The framework should remain properly attributed to Tony H. T. Tsang.
Context
ARF should not be reduced to slogans or tools separated from the conditions that make them meaningful.
Children and vulnerable people
ARF language should never be used to claim power over people with less room to refuse.
Public readers
Readers deserve clear attribution, visible context, and an honest path back to the original work.
Framework integrity
The work should not be repackaged into something easier, shinier, flatter, and wronger. Very impressive. Still wrong.
Future collaboration
Clear boundaries make careful adaptation possible without turning collaboration into accidental theft wearing a friendly hat.
Collaboration
If you want to work with ARF carefully, that conversation is welcome. Permission is not a wall. It is the clean doorway that keeps the room from becoming soup.
Consultation
For schools, teams, organizations, or projects seeking careful conversation around agency, support, refusal, and humane arrangement.
Writing
For articles, interviews, essays, responses, citations, and other writing that engages ARF in its original context.
Professional learning
For school-facing or team-facing learning that needs to be clear, practical, bounded, and respectful of role and context.
Careful adaptation
For translations, tools, workshops, documents, or collaborative projects that need permission, context, and fidelity before use.
When in Doubt, Ask
Read freely. Share clearly. Cite visibly. Discuss honestly. Ask before adapting, teaching, republishing, commercializing, operationalizing, or claiming authorization.
Permission questions are not an inconvenience. They are how the work stays connected to its source, context, and purpose without becoming oatmeal-puck agency branding. Nobody needs that. Truly. Society has suffered enough.