The Essential Blue-eyed (complete package)

Produced

• 1996

Key Features

The Complete Blue-Eyed Training Package includes:

• Blue Eyed- the original 93 min. version
• The Essential Blue Eyed- an abridged 55 min. version with a 35 min. debriefing
• The 30 Minute Blue Eyed- the 30 most dramatic minutes of Blue Eyed
• A brief trainer's guide to Blue Eyed

All of these are available on a single DVD video or the set of 3 VHS videos.

Now America’s most powerful diversity video can be yours in a new form:
one 3-1/2 hour DVD or 3 VHS cassettes

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 BLUE-EYED, Elliott divides a multi-racial 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.

Included as an added bonus is a 35 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 tryannized group and points out that this makes them de facto accomplices to racism.

THE ESSENTIAL BLUE-EYED can help trainers:
1. Demonstrate how people of color encounter subtle (and not so subtle) discrimination every day
2. Reveal how even casual bias can have a devastating impact on personal performance, organizational productivity, teamwork and morale.
3. Illustrate that “color blindness” can itself be a form of racism if it doesn’t value the experiences of others
4. Identify culturally biased codes of conduct within an organization which may be invisible to the majority
5. Help all participants realize they have a responsibility for building an organizational culture welcoming diversity

Critical Reviews:
"Top 10 Medial Training Products of 1998"
Media Training Review

"This film is extraordinary in so many ways...Other videos may have an impact equal to Blue Eyed - maybe - but I can't imagine any having the potential for a greater one."
Bill Ellett, Training Media Review

"Jane Eliott captures the attnetion of people of all different backgrounds.  Her powerful and captivating work hits a nerve!"
Lilia Moore, General Motors

"A terrific training tool to get dialogue started in your organization."
Barbara Stern, Vice President, Diversity, Harbard-Pilgrim Health Care

"Brava, Brava! Thanks to Jane Elliott we may just have 800 more students who are cognizant of the issue of racism on our campus."
Joseph A. Oravecz, Jr., Central Michigan University

The "blue eyed/brown eyed" technique can be used to illustrate:

• How even casual bias can have a devastating impact on personal performance, organizational teamwork and productivity.
• How  "color blindness" can itself be a form of racisim.
• How to identify culturally-biased codes of conduct within an organization that may be invisible to the majority.
• How all participants can take responsibility for building a welcoming and inclusive organizatonal culture.

Note: The pricing reflected for this program IS the price for educational and governmental agencies. The only other discount for this program would be for volume (multiple copy) discounts.

 

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EYE OF THE STORM

The first peabody award winning film on the "blue eyed/brown eyed" exercise, this 1970 ABC news speical shows Jane Elliott in her third grade classroom and records the storm of controersy her exercise unleased in the local community....

THE ANGRY EYE

THE ANGRY EYE brings the "blue eyed/brown eyed" exercise up to date for the MTV generation....

A CLASS DIVIDED

Fourteen years after the initial third grade class exercise (see EYE OF THE STORM VHS), eleven of the students return for a reunion. As young adults, the former students talk about the impact Jane Elliott's lesson in bigotry has had on their lives and attitudes...

THE STOLEN EYE

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