What is Responsibility Immersion?

Immersion is a 20-week guided study via live Zoom Conference (and more) so you can meet up with other members of the community and benefit from multiple points of view, dialog, learning, blending strengths, and a shared sense of ownership.

You will be invited to four or more calls each month, two for Core Modules, two for Q&A, and seven Application Mastery sessions (where the real work happens). In Application Mastery, members take turns in the “hot seat.” The host — a Responsibility master — helps members break through their current biggest issue to newfound freedom, choice, and power. This is how we turn coping into growing.

As an Immersion guest, you also get access to our private group forums where community members connect, share wins, and support one another.

You can complete it in 16 weeks. We allow you a 25% buffer, i.e., 4 more weeks. So you have 20 weeks to complete Immersion and apply for your Certification.

We promise hiring managers that this Certification stands for proven results and demonstrated abilities, and we will deliver on that. You’ve got this -- if you are willing to do the work.

To earn recognition as a Certified Responsibility Immersion Graduate, you will:

• Complete Core Modules 1 through 8 (live or recorded) including the exercises and practices,
• Complete Q&A Dialogs 1 through 8 (live or recorded),
• Actively participate in 4 (of 7) Application Mastery calls (live only),
• Report wins, and give and receive support, at least weekly in your cohort’s Forums.
• Complete an application for Certification reporting on your growth in freedom, power, and choice, and attesting to being a Responsibility Immersion Graduate.

Paying the registration fee DOES NOT ensure that you will be certified. Participating full-on in good faith, doing the work, and activating Responsibility in your life (by demonstrating profound changes in your life) DOES ensure certification.

We’ve got you covered. As a registered participant in Immersion you will be offered an exclusive limited-time opportunity to upgrade your participation to full membership in Responsibility Mastery. You will then be able to complete the requirements for Certification on your own schedule as well as accelerate your mastery in a group of like-minded amazing peers from all over the world.

Responsibility Immersion (aka “Immersion”) is a new offering as of 2019 that spun out from Responsibility Mastery (formerly known as The Leadership Gift Program). Immersion is an immersive 20-week growth experience designed for you to activate Responsibility-thinking so you can produce results that matter for yourself and others.

Mastery is a membership community designed for graduates of Immersion who want to progress from activating Responsibility to mastering Responsibility in their lives.

Christopher Avery, Ph.D., your host and Master Teacher (and CEO & Founder of The Responsibility Company), generally teaches the 8 Core Modules and the Application Mastery sessions. On occasion, a highly-qualified member of our faculty will substitute. Christopher hand-picks an international faculty to host the Q&A Dialog session. There faculty members are all accredited Practitioners, Coaches, and Mentors in the Mastery program.

Because they are real people with real Responsibility practices who have made profound changes in their lives. Consider the value of being immersed with a diverse international faculty. You get to study with leaders and coaches who have been studying and practicing Responsibility for various lengths of time. They aren’t all professional Responsibility teachers like Christopher. You might find it difficult to relate to Christopher’s 30-year practice, yet you can completely relate to Craig Dial’s 4-year practice while applying it to being a corporate manager.

• Elaine McNaughton, Senior Principle Team Coach, USA
• Ashley Johnson, Senior Agile Consultant, USA
• Nadine Wolf, Agile Coach, Germany
• Henning Wolf, Agile Coach, Germany
• Mike Edwards, Leadership Coach, Canada
• Ian Brockbank, Software Engineer, Scotland
• Craig Dial, Scrum Sensei, USA
• Jessica Soroky, Chief of Staff to the CIO, USA
• Karl Kolischan, PhD, Agile Coach, Germany
• Towo Toivola, Senior Agile Consultant, Finland
• Christopher Avery, PhD, Responsibility Master, USA

Perhaps. We address such requests on a case-by-case basis. Contact us.

Your situation describes many of our participants -- the busiest people in the world. That's why we require no expensive and time-consuming travel to courses, and we offer flexible eLearning options for most of the Immersion requirements, including online self-paced resources, downloadable resources for use offline, forums available 24/7 wherever you are, and frequent live calls for checking in, getting expert support, and breaking through stuck points.

We recognize this limitation. That's why all web-meetings except the Application Mastery web-meetings are recorded and posted in the Immersion library for 24/7 access.

Participation is about convenient access when you want it. No one attends every call.

We choose a consistent schedule convenient to the Americas and Europe. As we grow, we will add more calls at different times.

The bottom line is that you will want to show up live to 4 of 7 Application Mastery calls to qualify to apply for Certified Responsibility Graduate. See the schedule above for those dates.

You can learn a lot from the RI What, Why, & Who free email series. Sign up above.

We can tell you from experience who is likely to be in your cohort. They will be similar to the members in Responsibility Mastery.

Membership in Mastery is 2/3 Male and 1/3 Female.

We range from age 23 to 60 with most between 30-50.

The majority of members are in the USA, Canada and Europe (Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, UK) with a few in Australia, India, Thailand, South Africa, and South America.

Titles include:

• CEO
• CFO
• COO
• Dean, MBA Programs
• Director, R&D
• Division Director
• Executive Coach
• Enterprise Transformation Coach
• Homemaker
• Investor
• QA Lead
• Release Manager
• Senior Program Manager
• Software Manager
• Scrum Master
• Software Engineer
• Vice President

The program earns a 9.4 (out of 10) net promoter score measured at 16 weeks after joining.

Yes. That's why we are organized as an eLearning community. It is highly interactive through live calls and forums. We surround you with others who are changing the same habits of mind.

Discuss with your employer the benefits to your business:

• Achieve higher levels of performance and success
• Ability to lead yourself and others more effectively to produce results that matter
• Save valuable time and money identifying and solving problems
• Get teams aligned, engaged, inspired, and focused on priorities quicker

Remind them there will be no travel costs, travel time, or time away from work. Negotiate whether you participate on your own time or on your employer’s time. Either way, make the web-calls a high priority.

As you grow and make progress, keep your employer informed of the new value you are adding to the business.

Also consider this: Given that it activates Responsibility-thinking which you will use to transform your life over and over until -- well, until! -- Immersion is incredibly affordable and accessible to individuals who want to invest in their own development. We suggest that you make the investment in yourself so you have full ownership of the benefits.

Employers find Responsibility Immersion to be an effective leadership development investment for their business. Here is what we've learned from 10 years of Mastery:

• Keep the sponsored employee in the position of ownership for their participation.
• Make it a special opportunity. They must want to participate. If they do it out of obligation (to tick a box for you) it probably won't work.
• The participant, not the sponsor, is our customer. We do not track participation or report progress to sponsors.
• Clarify whether you are providing time for attending web-meetings or whether the sponsored employee is to do that on their own time. Members who make the program a strategic priority enjoy the best return. Provide 35 hours over the 20 weeks for attending live web-meetings or consuming the replays.
• Make time in your one-on-one's to discuss the sponsored employee's goals for participation and how you can support them. Set a check-in cadence.
• Some leadership teams participate as a team, attending web meetings together and making time to apply the ideas together. If you are considering this, contact us to explore a volume discount for your team.
• Go first. The program will make you a better leader, truly producing results that matter. You'll have a language and core organizing principles for ownership, leadership, and change that you share with team members in the program. This will change the culture of your group.

In a word, yes.

Many managers have sponsored employees in Responsibility Mastery and Immersion. They report that it is exceptional personal and leadership development. The results are clear in terms of the employee exhibiting:

• greater ownership,
• better decision making,
• improved problem-solving,
• and more.

Mostly what we hear is that the employee just starts showing up differently. They are:

• more aware,
• more present,
• more effective,
• more confident, and
• more real.

Yes. Two unique guarantees:

First, if in the first 30 days of participating in Responsibility Immersion you discover that it is not what we represent it to be, tell us where we misled you and we will refund 100% of your investment.

Second, if you participate fully in the 20-week Immersion and you still don’t know how to activate Responsibility in your life, we’ll refund 100% of your investment.

Yes, you may apply for PDUs/CEUs. While we are not a registered education provider with PMI or any other association, Immersion graduates have successfully applied for and received 30 PDUs in the Leadership category. Thirty PDUs is half of the three-year requirement to maintain your PMP designation.