How VR Can Help Us To “Walk In Their Shoes” with Robin Rosenberg
Inside Learning | Unlocking human potentialShow Notes
Our guest is Robin Rosenberg, a Clinical Psychologist, CEO and Founder of ”Live in Their World”, a company built to help improve workplace culture using a modern virtual reality method to fully immerse individuals in workplace scenarios teaching diversity, equity, and inclusion. This enables open and honest conversation resulting in mutual understanding and respect among team members.
Our host Aidan McCullen and Robin discuss how Virtual Reality can help immersive training so that participants can not only ”walk in the shoes of others” but, ”walk in their skin”.
We discuss what our guest calls civility training, you prefer that term because DEI training ironically holds its own biases and can be exclusionary.
Aidan is also joined by Technology Lead with The Learnovate Centre, Bilal Ahmed where he discusses VR and learning and indeed the Metaverse.
You can find out more about our guests here:
https://www.liveintheirworld.com
https://www.learnovatecentre.org/about/our-team/bilal-ahmad/
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