Latest VF Publications
WR019 Part 2:Beyond the EHCP: From Cyril Burt to Bernard Coard — What Is Educational Psychology For?
VF018: Dynamic Pathways
WR018 | The Spring of Activation: What Moves Us from Awareness to Action?
What moves us from emotional awareness to meaningful action? Drawing on the Six Stages Framework, this reflection explores how empathy, belonging, loyalty, fear and psychological safety influence whether we challenge injustice, remain silent or move towards exclusion. Through the metaphor of a trampoline, we examine the forces that hold us still and those that release the energy for activated inclusion.
VF019: Part 1: 400 years ago
WR019 | 400 Years Later: Why Are We Still Surprised by Voices of Bias and Exclusion?
Four hundred years after Shakespeare’s appeal to humanity, why are we still surprised by racism? Through the Six Stages Framework, Dr Shungu Hilda M’gadzah explores the Cave of Perpetual Shock, the energy of outrage and what it takes to move towards activated inclusion.
VF017 | Ready, Steady, Go! — From Inertia to Activated Inclusion
Exploring how uncertainty, emotional activation and latent readiness influence our movement from awareness towards inclusive action. Sometimes the change is in the movement itself.
VF016 | Human Environments: The Climates We Create
Exploring how the emotional weather we bring into everyday interactions shapes the psychological climates others experience over time, influencing belonging, inclusion and psychological safety.
Exploring how our responses to difference, everyday behaviours and social environments can reinforce division or create pathways towards inclusion. This SSF Visual Psychological Formulation examines how the direction of our actions, the patterns we normalise and the choices we make can shape a more inclusive future.
VF015 | Building Inclusive Futures — Difference, Direction of Travel and What We Normalise
VF014 | Who Is Setting the Speed of Your Thinking? — Algorithmic Acceleration and Psychological Friction
Exploring how social media algorithms and digital environments can accelerate our thinking, intensify emotional reactions and reinforce existing beliefs. This SSF Visual Psychological Formulation examines the importance of psychological friction, critical reflection and conscious choice in resisting polarisation and maintaining independent thinking.
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VF012: What state are you occupying
