A weekly reflection from Dr Shungu M’gadzah exploring current events, leadership, inclusion, neurodiversity, race, disability, psychological safety, human behaviour, and social change through the Six Stages Framework.
These reflections connect everyday stories and global events to deeper questions about empathy, bias, belonging, courage, and the choices we make as individuals and communities.
What are we becoming accustomed to hearing one human being say about another? SSF Weekly Reflection #015 explores how harmful language becomes normalised, why inclusion does not require agreement, and how our environments shape what becomes psychologically and socially permissible.
How quickly can a viewpoint become a certainty? This week’s SSF reflection explores algorithmic acceleration — how digital environments can shape the speed and direction of our thinking — and asks whether psychological friction may create the pause needed for curiosity, reflection and more thoughtful movement through the Six Stages Framework.
In August 2024, I called upon people to stand in the light as Britain witnessed racist violence and hostility. Two years later, I revisit that article through the Six Stages Framework, examining what we have learnt about escalation, psychological states, social environments and the conditions needed for meaningful change.
What state are you occupying right now? Weekly Reflection #012 explores how stages, states, emotions and environments interact, why earlier states can be reactivated, and how repeated states may influence who we are becoming.
In 2022, the Six Stages Framework was already exploring gender bias as a dynamic and fluid process involving silence, dismissal, blame, entrenchment and extreme advocacy. Four years later, Dr Shungu M’gadzah revisits that work to ask what stood up, what became more complex and what the SSF has learned.
Why did Dolly Parton seem to connect with people across race, class, faith, sexuality and politics? This SSF Weekly Reflection explores childhood memory, music, poverty, Whitney Houston, allyship and what it means to create belonging without requiring sameness.
How much certainty do we require before taking action — and is that threshold the same for every issue? This week’s SSF reflection explores the accountability spotlight, unequal roads to certainty and whether accountability should begin before certainty ends.
What do we ask people to give up in order to belong? This SSF Weekly Reflection explores the psychological cost of assimilation, conditional belonging and what happens when adaptation flows primarily in one direction.
What are our environments creating? This SSF Weekly Reflection explores how narrow ideals of perfection may shape our responses to difference, vulnerability and the early warning signs appearing in our relationships and communities.
Extreme events may feel sudden, but the conditions that make them possible often develop long before crisis arrives. This SSF Weekly Reflection explores why warning signs become normalised, why reassurance is mistaken for readiness, and why early intervention is an act of care.
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