The Cave of Us: Why Change Can Feel Like Loss
Through the SSF Lens: Everyday News Reflections: 🔍 Looking beyond headlines to understand people, systems and behaviour This week’s headlines may have appeared very different on the surface: Different headlines. Different sectors. Different language. But through the Six Stages Framework lens, I found myself wondering whether many of these stories were asking a similar question: […]
Stop Trying to “Fix” Neurodivergent Employees: A New Framework for True Workplace Inclusion
If your leadership team is still asking how to “manage the performance” or “accommodate the deficits” of neurodivergent employees, you are already operating from a deficit-based, low-stage mindset. As an organizational psychologist, I see this daily: companies attempting to “fix” individuals to fit a static, narrow mould. 7 minute YouTube video The Six Stages Framework […]
CATCH UP ON SSF MONTHLY UPDATES & RESOURCES
Here are some key SSF Monthly updates and Resources 1. FREE SSF WORKSHOPS 2. A MILLION LITTLE CUTS- NEW PODCAST EPISODE 3. CHECK OUT MORE SSF SCRIPTS & VIDEOS 1. FREE SSF WORKSHOPS I am restarting the free introductory workshops to the Six Stages Framework. These sessions offer a space to explore how we understand: behaviour bias […]
Path For The Future Girl: Women Who Shaped My Life: Mbuya va Shungu
Today, I find myself thinking about all the women who have shaped my life and of The Future Girl. I was born in Zimbabwe and, in my early years, was raised by my grandmother. I remember her bicycle, with me sitting on the back as we travelled together. She was my protector, my guardian, my […]
Tourettes, Racism and Responsibility: Through the SSF Lens
What happens at the BAFTA (s) when an involuntary tic uses a word with centuries of racial violence behind it. Exploring Tourettes, Racism and Responsibility. In this episode of Through the SSF Lens, Dr Shungu H. M’gadzah explores a real-world incident involving Tourette syndrome, coprolalia (involuntary taboo speech) and the N-word – and asks how […]
Inclusion Isn’t Who You Think You Are – It’s How You Show Up.
A visual map of Sharon Hurley Hall’s Inclusion Profile — showing how her equity journey unfolds across race, disability, gender, identity, and leadership using the Six Stages Framework. A reminder that inclusion is a continuum, a practice, and a conscious way of showing up.
How to Respond to “Colourblind” Microaggressions: “I don’t see colour.”
How do you respond when someone says, “I don’t see colour”?
It sounds like a compliment—an attempt at fairness or unity. But for many of us, especially those who navigate racism daily, it can feel like a dismissal of lived experience.
In this episode of How To: Through the SSF Lens, Dr. Shungu Hilda M’gadzah unpacks this common phrase and why it matters. Drawing on the Six Stages Framework, she explores where statements like this sit along the inclusion continuum—and offers practical, kind, and courageous ways to respond that invite deeper awareness without shutting down the conversation.
Whether you’ve heard these words in a workplace meeting, a healthcare setting, or around the dinner table, this episode equips you with the language, insight, and mindset to meet the moment with clarity and empathy.
Because this isn’t about calling people out. It’s about calling them forward.
Is the UK policing system pruning branches while the roots remain toxic? You Can’t Build Justice on “Contaminated Soil.”
Today, “root and branch reform” is the phrase on everyone’s lips- UK Policing is under the SSF Lens.But what does that actually mean in practice? In my latest case study and podcast, I explore the UK’s proposed policing reforms through the lens of two powerful tools:🧠 The Bias Impact Tree🧭 The Six Stages Framework (SSF) […]
Is Your Family a Safe Place to Be Different?
Think about the last time you were with your family. Are there certain conversations that make everyone go quiet? Topics about race, gender, identity, or disability that cause discomfort, defensiveness, or a swift change of subject? If these questions bring a knot to your stomach, you’re not alone. Most families navigate these unspoken rules, often […]
Black Children: The Intersection of Racial Inequity and Systemic Failure in UK Educational Psychology
Introduction: A Dual Crisis Failing Black Children The United Kingdom’s system for supporting children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) is confronting a profound dual crisis. The first is a collapse of structural capacity, driven by chronic underfunding, a severe shortage of skilled professionals, and overwhelming statutory demand. The second is a deep-seated cultural […]
