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The third largest not-for-profit healthcare system in the US teaches responses to microaggressions in the workplace with 3D hologram scenarios. My firm, the Gronstedt Group, partnered with Providence Health to innovate unconscious bias training.

Exploring different perspectives improves empathy towards: people who are colorblind, people experiencing homelessness, oneself (such as reducing depression).

Embodying a cow or a tree impacts connection with nature and behavior, leading people to eat less meat and recycle more paper.

Being virtual Einstein makes people both smarter and less age-biased.

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Putting someone in the skin of a black avatar reduces implicit racial bias.Study upon study has validated the “Proteus effect” in which an individual’s behavior in a virtual world is changed by the appearance of their avatar: After four minutes, you’ll begin to experience the “body transfer illusion”: This superpower maps brains to virtual bodies and can be used to convey how a minority customer, employee, or colleague experiences the world, with the intention to spur people to think and act more inclusively. Look at yourself in a virtual mirror as a person of a different gender, age, or ethnicity. Meanwhile, a new generation of virtual reality (VR) is hailed as “the ultimate empathy machine.” For instance, you can strap on a reality-bending headset and get a small taste of the bias others endure by walking a mile in someone else’s virtual body. Recently, the Harvard Business Review explained that the $8 billion D&I training industry is at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive, making participants even more biased.

The traditional model of diversity and inclusion training is broken.