YOU are the focus of this interactive training session. The program is authored by psychologists and takes an entirely different approach to sexual harassment prevention. Instead of focusing exclusively on the identifying and stopping the perpetrator, we will also look at the coworkers and the setting in which they all live. We will help you to understand your perceptions of and reactions to sexual harassment as it naturally occurs.

To do this, you will be asked to view our video dramatization of sexual harassment over seven successive episodes. After each critical scene, you will be asked to complete the written scales in the participant guide that assess and chart your perceptions of the characters and their interactions. You will watch our live studio audience engage in group discussion and role-playing about the dramatization. You will be given feedback on your self-assessment so that you can monitor your perceptions of the critical events as the training progresses. You will learn how others react these same events so that you can evaluate your responses. You will be given the opportunity to interact directly with your trainers and other faculty members at specified times.

With the assistance of an outstanding faculty including a prominent employment discrimination litigator and a risk manager, we will help you to discover how the law and human resource policy coincide or contradict with your perceptions and reactions to sexual harassment. By "connecting the dots" between the laws against sexual harassment and the human experience of it as it naturally occurs in the workplace, we hope to empower you to be stronger.

Most of us know what sexual harassment is without any formal training. Most of us know the right thing to do if it occurs to others or ourselves in the workplace. But "knowing the right thing to do" and "doing the right thing" do not always coincide. Our goal in training is to remove the roadblocks that prevent people from acting constructively on what they know.

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