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Produced: 1999
The Essential Blue Eyed with Jane Elliott is a diversity training video like no other. Many trainers first heard of Jane Elliott’s path-breaking "blue-eyed/brown-eyed" exercise from her two previous films, Eye of the Storm and A Class Divided, or from her appearances on the Today, Tonight, Donahue and Oprah shows. One of America’s earliest and most celebrated diversity trainers, Jane Elliott describes The Essential Blue-Eyed as "the most dramatic and complete summary of my 30 years experience helping organizations grapple with the difficulties and opportunities offered by a diverse workforce."
Jane Elliott’s method is based on her belief that people can best be motivated to fight discrimination by experiencing it themselves -- if only for a few hours in a controlled environment. In The Essential Blue-Eyed, Elliott divides a multiracial group of Midwesterners on the basis of eye color and then subjects the blue-eyed members to a withering regime of humiliation and contempt. In just a few hours, we watch grown professionals become distracted and despondent, stumbling over the simplest commands. People of color in the group express surprise that whites react so quickly to the kind of discrimination they face every day of their lives.
As an added bonus, we’ve appended a 36-minute Debriefing where Jane Elliott shows how to help participants apply the lessons of her exercise to their daily work lives. She encourages the mixed group to compare their personal experiences of discrimination to appreciate that white people and people of color inhabit two separate worlds. She asks why none of them came to the aid of the tyrannized group and points out that this makes them de facto accomplices to racism.
Key Points:
Demonstrate how people of color encounter subtle (and not so subtle) discrimination every day
Reveal how even casual bias can have a devastating impact on personal performance, organizational productivity, teamwork and morale
Illustrate that "color blindness" can itself be a form of racism if it doesn’t value the experiences of others
Identify culturally biased codes of conduct within an organization which may be invisible to the majority
Help all participants realize they have a responsibility for building an organizational culture welcoming diversity
Package Includes: 2 Videos on One Cassette and Facilitator Guide.
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