Thank you for a fantastic insight into the world of darkness, in order to get a real appreciation of how life can really be for Blind and partially sighted people.
After my initial panic, I’m so glad I got back into the workshop to have the experience along with my colleagues.
I along with my colleagues feel that Dialogue in the Dark was the most fantastic event we have ever encountered and have the good fortune to participate in.
As I mentioned to you on the day, we currently work with many associates, helping us to recruit people with disabilities into the workplace, and I have brought several candidates in with visual impairments, but this workshop was a unique opportunity and one that I will never forget.
(Lisa St Claire, BT Project Manager, Manpower UK Ltd. – London, UK 2010)

I think it was something that every leader in the country – every person who is
managing – is managing director or managing people should have to do.
(Participant form Kanchi Business Workshop Series – Dublin, Ireland 2009)

I can give a course on emotional intelligence for a week of what was accomplished
there in an hour and a half.
(Participant from Kanchi Business Workshop Series – Dublin, Ireland 2009)

One of a kind experience, which stresses that there are “NO LIMITATIONS” unless you
impose them.
(Participant from SAP – Hamburg, Germany 2007)

The first thing is that we should appreciate what we have now and should not take
everything that we have for granted. The second would be realizing the different
perspectives and different ways of doing things. We should be humble and always
try to listen to other people’s perspectives. And lastly, when we think the task is
impossible to achieve, there is always a way to get it done.
(Participant from Leadership Training – Hong Kong, China 2009)

I learnt that we could still achieve things in a really, really, you know, helpless
situation. You know, it was still manageable.
(Participant from Leadership Training – Hong Kong, China 2009)

I appreciate it that for us you learn something about leadership and cooperation
and mutual trust and I very much was struck with it, this being an example I give
also in other contexts because I am being asked nationally and internationally
quite often to talk on leadership.
(Participant from World Economic Forum – Davos, Switzerland 2007)

Managerial staff without a personal identity often fail to get across fundamental concepts for decisions. A few hours in darkness helps sharpen the identity of any manager.
(Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum – Davos, Switzerland 2007)

An ideal experiment for managerial staff.
(Financial Times Deutschland – Hamburg, Germany 2007)

The learning effect is achieved by really listening to each other and by thinking together in a challenging environment. Both of these things found direct application at work.
(Herald Sun, Australia – Davos, Switzerland 2007)

The experience was simply great, and the team was very enthusiastic. It was a great opportunity, as well as an important and lasting experience for us all.
(Stefanie Gauger, Team Leader, Otto GmbH & Co KG – Hamburg, Germany)

In the dark, nobody can hide. The voice gives away how you feel, the unfamiliar environment heightens your readiness to talk openly.
(Wirtschaftswoche, 2007)

The half-day training session for our European Junior Managers met even our highest expectations. Afterwards, the impressions and the exercises in the dark were discussed, giving our colleagues a chance to analyse their leadership skills from a completely new perspective. The feedback of all 16 participants was very positive, and for the future we have decided to offer this training to our own colleagues.
(Heino Plöger, Manager Personnel Development-Olympus Europa GmbH – Hamburg, Germany)

I recently toured “Dialog in the Dark,” an exhibit in
midtown Atlanta, with the Eye Center’s Advisory Council. What a fantastic
journey into, and thankfully out of, the world of total blindness – an experience
that should be shared by all sighted individuals. The exhibit poignantly
reminds us of the precious gift of sight and reaffirms the importance of our
work at the Emory Eye Center. (Timothy W. Olsen, director of EMORY eye magazine, ed. Summer 2010)