Jane Elliotts Blue Eyed

One DVD with three versions of Jane Elliott's Blue Eyed. Thousands of copies are in use in colleges, government agencies and corporations across the country. Item#:5160    Purchase: $295 Scroll Down for Product Details and Ordering Information.   ***  Includes Facilitator Materials ***   Free DVD Preview ( By Mail )            DVD Preview FAQ

Jane Elliotts Blue Eyed

Elliott's exercise, initiated in 1968 as a ground breaking experiment in anti-racist training, has been featured on Today, the Tonight show, Donahue, Oprah, ABC News and PBS' Frontline. Elliott believes, "Blue Eyed is by far the most comprehensive and useful video on my work available; it sums up 28 years of experience in schools, universities and corporations."  Elliott contends that "A person who has been raised and socialized in America has been conditioned to be a racist... We live in two countries, one black and one white." In contrast to the more usual encounter group strategy, the feisty Elliott believes it's important for whites to experience the emotional impact of discrimination for themselves.

In Blue Eyed, we join a group of 40 teachers, police, school administrators and social workers in Kansas City - blacks, Hispanics, whites, women and men. The blue-eyed members are subjected to pseudo-scientific explanations of their inferiority, culturally biased IQ tests and blatant discrimination. In just a few hours under Elliott's withering regime, we watch grown professionals become despondent and distracted, stumbling over the simplest commands.

Clips from her original classes and interviews with former students confirm that Jane Elliott's workshops make them permanently more empathetic and sensitive to the problem of racism. Counselors, student program administrators, corporate trainers and psychologists agree: Blue Eyed is a film every American needs to experience.

Many trainers told us that the original Blue Eyed was the most compelling film on race they'd ever seen but at 86 minutes was too long for many training contexts. So we prepared a special Trainer's Version, THE ESSENTIAL BLUE EYED, condensing the original film to the most insightful 50 minutes with a 36 minute Debriefing making what we call The Essential Blue-Eyed.

The program was condensed even further to create a more concise version concentrating all the drama and insight of the original into an even more powerful 30-minute video; the 30 -MINUTE BLUE EYED.

• You'll get One DVD with three versions of Jane Elliott's Blue Eyed; Blue Eyed (Long Version), The Essential Blue Eyed, and the 30 Minute Blue Eyed on one DVD, for $295.00.