--- title: "Mind Shift: microaggressions and inclusive hiring" description: "Mind Shift VR: PTR's interactive workplace scenarios on microaggressions, bias, inclusive hiring and team inclusion, with a facilitated group debrief." canonical: https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library/mind-shift --- [XR](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr) / [PTR VR Library](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library) # Mind Shift VR Interactive scenarios set in virtual workplaces, covering microaggressions, unconscious bias, inclusive hiring and team inclusivity. Participants make choices that decide how each scene unfolds. A team idea, and a reply to choose. Speaking up at the meeting table. ## Mind Shift: Glass Ceilings A meeting starts. Ideas get raised, dismissed, then repeated back by someone else to a warmer reception. You are in the meeting, and what you choose to say changes what the room does next. ## What changes for your organisation The choices are the point. A team that has watched a scene turn on one remark knows what its own remarks do. Discussing a promotion by the cooler. ### Mind Shift: Inclusive Perspectives An ordinary chat by the water cooler turns to who deserves a promotion, and why. Inclusive hiring and team inclusivity are decided in conversations like this one, which is where the title puts you. ## Choices that change the scene Each scene branches on what the participant says. The same meeting can end more than one way. Three replies, one meeting. A team area, where the remark is made. Answering back, mid-sentence. > "I lead a team of passionate changemakers dedicated to creating immersive virtual reality experiences that foster better understanding and improved workplace culture. Our PTR VR experiences aim to reduce discrimination and bias while enhancing empathy and inclusion." Leonie Sanderson Co-founder, People Tech Revolution; finalist, Women in Technology Lifting Communities Award 2024. [WiT 2024 award finalists (archived)](https://web.archive.org/web/20250116184525/https://wit.org.au/awards/2024-awards-finalists/) ## How a session runs Mind Shift titles run between 4 and 10 minutes each and can sit within workshops and other training. PTR delivers Library sessions with a facilitated group debrief. Some features need an internet connection; the Library collects no personal data, though it may collect app-improvement and analytics data. The briefing before the headset goes on. The debrief, naming what the room noticed. A facilitator guiding two participants through the workshop. ## Where it has run PTR drew on its Mind Shift modules, alongside Everyday Inclusion, for Etihad Airways' cabin crew inclusion pilot: microaggressions, racial and gender bias and allyship, delivered with facilitated discussion and reflection sessions. A cabin crew member fitted with a headset. ### Airline crews and corporate teams At Etihad the modules ran over two days inside a longer facilitated program, with a Yarning Circle and carousel sessions around the headset. The same modules slot into corporate training rooms, with the same debrief each time. ## Inclusive hiring and team inclusivity, in the rooms they happen An interview panel, a briefing, a team feedback session: the scenes Mind Shift is built from, and the ones PTR builds for the same conversations. An interview, from the candidate's chair. An interview panel deciding on inclusive hiring. A briefing in a bright office. ## The rest of the Library The other Library titles, each built for one conversation, and the PTR pages that put them to work. [Everyday Inclusion. Unconscious bias, microaggressions and intersectionality, felt first and then discussed.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library/everyday-inclusion) [Finding Common Ground. Discrimination in a customer-facing workplace, and what a team does about it.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library/finding-common-ground) [Speak to Me Normally. Social anxiety at work, felt from the inside.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library/speak-to-me-normally) [Lift VR. Leaders answer a sensitive request in their own voice.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library/lift-vr) [Immersive training and roleplay. How PTR builds practice for the hard human moments.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/training/vr-training-and-roleplay) [Workplace and enterprise. The sector where the Library runs most, and the conversations it covers.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/industries/workplace-enterprise) Want to bring Mind Shift to your own team? [Open the contact form](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library/mind-shift#contact) Ask our CEO Simon Lowe’s Digital Twin a question ## Sources Each source, linked to the original. ### [Women in Technology awards 2024, finalists](https://web.archive.org/web/20250116184525/https://wit.org.au/awards/2024-awards-finalists/) Women in Technology, 2024 (archived) Leonie Sanderson's finalist entry, the source of the quote above. ### [Welcome to Mindshift VR](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIH3aSKAixM) People Tech Revolution on YouTube PTR's short clip filmed inside the Mind Shift environment, introduced by its guide, Rosie. Related PTR work Related PTR work - [Etihad Airways: cabin crew inclusion](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/etihad-cabin-crew-inclusion) - [How Library sessions are delivered](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/everyday-inclusion-cornell) - [Workplace & enterprise](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/industries/workplace-enterprise) - [The PTR VR Library](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library) - [Try it in the browser on Labs](https://labs.peopletechrevolution.com/)