Where past thinking meets present understanding- The SSF Living Archive.
The Evolution of the Six Stages Framework Through Psychology, Lived Experience and Reflection
The SSF Living Archive documents the evolution of the Six Stages Framework through earlier articles, books, psychological reflections and lived experience. It explores how ideas have developed over time and how they continue to inform contemporary thinking about human behaviour, belonging and systems change.
The purpose of the Living Archive is not to rewrite the past, but to understand how earlier questions, observations and experiences contributed to the framework as it exists today.
Many of these earlier writings explored themes that remain central to the SSF:
• how harmful attitudes become normalised
• why early warning signs are often missed
• how prejudice, discrimination and hate can escalate
• how lived experience can generate psychological understanding
• how systems can move towards harm or towards belonging
The Living Archive documents the evolution of a framework that remains reflective, evidence-informed and open to learning.
The purpose of the Living Archive is not to rewrite the past, but to place it into conversation with the present.
SSF LIVING ARCHIVE SECTIONS
Looking Back Through the SSF Lens
For reflections on earlier blogs and articles.
Revisiting the Racism Virus
For chapter-by-chapter reflections on If Racism Was a Virus.
Early SSF Articles and Blogs
For original posts on racism, hate crime, school shootings, bias and the negative axis.
The Evolution of the SSF
For pieces showing how the framework developed over time.
Questions for Future Research
For emerging research questions, theory development and possible university collaborations.
Each Living Archive reflection will usually include:
• Original publication
• Historical context
• What I was beginning to notice
• Through the SSF Lens today
• What has changed?
• Questions for future research and practice
• Reflective question
First Articles to Revisit From The SSF Living Archive
1. Are You Concerned About the Increasing Levels of Hate Crime? The Six Stages Framework Can Help
2. The Good, The Bad, The Evil and Worse Still the Indifferent
3. Why Is So Little Being Done to Challenge the Negative Rhetoric Around Racist Thinking and Behaviours?
Foundations of the Six Stages Framework
The following publications mark important milestones in the early development of the Six Stages Framework. Each will be revisited through the contemporary SSF lens to explore how the framework has evolved, what has remained consistent and what new psychological insights have emerged.
📄 Are You Concerned About the Increasing Levels of Hate Crime? The Six Stages Framework Can Help
https://www.sixstagesframework.com/are-you-concerned-about-the-increasing-levels-of-hate-crime-the-six-stages-framework-can-help/
📄 The Good, The Bad, The Evil and Worse Still the Indifferent
https://www.sixstagesframework.com/the-good-the-bad-the-evil-and-worse-of-all-the-indifferent/
📄 Why Is So Little Being Done to Challenge the Negative Rhetoric Around Racist Thinking and Behaviours?
https://www.sixstagesframework.com/why-is-so-little-being-done-to-challenge-the-negative-rhetoric-around-racist-thinking-behaviours/
The SSF Living Archive reflects a central belief of the Six Stages Framework:
Psychological understanding is not static. It develops through reflection, evidence, lived experience and dialogue.
By revisiting earlier work through today’s SSF lens, the archive documents not only the development of a framework, but an ongoing journey of psychological inquiry into human behaviour, belonging and systems change.
SSF Weekly #3: Developing the Six Stages Framework: When Ideas Need Different Homes
Linked in SSF Weekly Newsletter #4
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-ssf-more-than-framework-dr-shungu-hilda-m-gadzah-1xlle
