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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.
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.
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.

A man wearing a VR headset faces a floating panel of three written replies in a meeting room, two colleagues at the table beyond.
Three replies, one meeting.
Two colleagues stand in an open team area, seen through the headset.
A team area, where the remark is made.
A woman wearing a headset raises one hand mid-sentence in a room with a rust-red wall and a window onto a city.
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, PTR's co-founder, seated at a table.Leonie Sanderson
Co-founder, People Tech Revolution; finalist, Women in Technology Lifting Communities Award 2024. WiT 2024 award finalists (archived)

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.

A facilitator briefs two participants in a workshop room.
The briefing before the headset goes on.
A facilitator and a participant sit and discuss a completed exchange.
The debrief, naming what the room noticed.
A facilitator guides two participants through a workshop, one wearing the headset.
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 lounge scenario for welcoming a traveller.
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 interviewer faces you across a spare room, seen through the headset.
An interview, from the candidate's chair.
Two interviewers sit at a table, one nearer than the other, seen through the headset.
An interview panel deciding on inclusive hiring.
A man wearing a headset points into the air in a bright office.
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.

A colleague faces you across a bare table, a floating panel of replies in front of him, seen through the headset.
Everyday Inclusion. Unconscious bias, microaggressions and intersectionality, felt first and then discussed.
 A visitor stands beside a bare reception desk, seen through the headset.
Finding Common Ground. Discrimination in a customer-facing workplace, and what a team does about it.
 A young woman waits in a staff room, seen through the headset.
Speak to Me Normally. Social anxiety at work, felt from the inside.
A man stands in a lift lobby facing the closed doors, one hand raised mid-request, another person at the edge of the frame.
Lift VR. Leaders answer a sensitive request in their own voice.
 A learner faces you in a coaching room, seen through the headset.
Immersive training and roleplay. How PTR builds practice for the hard human moments.
 Two leaders confer in a plain meeting room, seen through the headset.
Workplace and enterprise. The sector where the Library runs most, and the conversations it covers.

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Sources

Each source, linked to the original.

Three colleagues sit at a round table in a meeting room, one wearing the headset.

Women in Technology awards 2024, finalists

Women in Technology, 2024 (archived)

Leonie Sanderson's finalist entry, the source of the quote above.

Two colleagues talk across a meeting room table, a panel of reply choices beside them.

Welcome to Mindshift VR

People Tech Revolution on YouTube

PTR's short clip filmed inside the Mind Shift environment, introduced by its guide, Rosie.

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WHAT CLIENTS SAY
Keia Hobbs, MD
PTR demonstrated a profound understanding of the intricacies of human behaviour, crucial in crafting meaningful and impactful experiences. I wholeheartedly endorse PTR and their commitment to creating impactful experiences.
Keia Hobbs, MD
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Martine McCash
Over the past six months, XRHealth Australia has worked closely with People Tech Revolution to co-design innovative immersive applications... supporting workplace mental health and recovery in the transport industry. Simon and his team have been exceptional collaborators: creative, responsive and genuinely committed to human-centred design. Their ability to understand clinical and operational needs and translate complex ideas into safe, realistic VR environments has made the partnership both productive and enjoyable. Together, we are developing practical, evidence-informed tools that build confidence, resilience and coping strategies through structured, real-world scenarios. I highly recommend People Tech Revolution as a trusted technology partner.
Martine McCash
Vice President - Services, XRHealth Australia
Sally Wagnon
From the initial concept discussions to the final execution, PTR demonstrated a commitment to guiding us through what was completely new territory. Their approach was structured and transparent and they always let us know what was achievable given the timeframe and budget.
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Nic Barry
I don't think role plays will ever cut it again in this space. Participants are able to empathise and discuss the experiences... with detail that just wouldn't be possible without actually experiencing it themselves.
Nic Barry
Digital Learning & Organisational Capability, Domain Group
Rhonda Brighton-Hall
They jump back, step away, they gasp, they try to find their voice, they ask to be included and when dismissed, they physically shrink. And when they can't do any of those things, the learning sticks and the real conversations begin.
Rhonda Brighton-Hall
CEO, MWAH - Making Work Human Again
Sean Hunter
Working with the PTR team has been great and I look forward to continuing the relationship and developing more VR training.
Sean Hunter
Director of Systems Transformation, Mater and Mater Education
Christine Mudavanhu
We work together with People Tech Revolution to codesign experiences and we are both committed to creating psychologically safe environments and workspaces.
Christine Mudavanhu
Founder and Principal Consultant, Utano Global
SWGJ Program Lead
VR will be a game changer, helping us create ongoing opportunities for deliberate and safe practice following the live workshop experience.
SWGJ Program Lead
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