The Six Stages Framework: Leading with Equity and Empathy

By Dr Shungu Hilda M'gadzah

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This podcast explores our understanding and ability to engage and deal with biases, inequity and racism. Offering reflections on everyday psychology and explores the impact of discrimination and racism on different sectors of the community from schools to businesses and Universities Exploring challenges faced by individuals and organisation and offering ideas, support and strategies for equity and inclusion. The Six Stages Framework is an intersectional tool used to assess where individuals and organisations are in their journey and support them to grow in their understanding and actions.

Episode Date
The Cave of Us: Why Change Can Feel Like Loss
May 18, 2026
Emotional Drivers of the Six Stages Framework: The Fluidity of Leadership
Apr 24, 2026
The Architecture of Inclusion: Root Cause Analysis of Organizational Health: The SSF Lens
Apr 05, 2026
Conversations through the SSF (Six Stages Framework) Lens: Journeys through Equity and Inclusion⁠
Apr 03, 2026
A reflection on International Women’s Day
Mar 09, 2026
Empathy is a discipline, not a mood: Building Bridges of Empathy
Mar 01, 2026
Tourette’s, Racism & Responsibility – Through the SSF Lens
Feb 23, 2026
I Am Somebody: A Tribute to Dignity and Determination
Feb 21, 2026
🕵🏾‍♀️ Through the SSF Lens: When Language Becomes a Line in the Sand
Feb 01, 2026
How to Respond to, "I don't see colour." Colourblind microaggressions. Through the SSF Lens.
Jan 22, 2026
Is the UK policing system pruning branches while the roots remain toxic?
Jan 19, 2026
What if Hate was a Virus? -The Virology of Hate Framework
Jan 19, 2026
A System in Crisis: The Intersection of Racial Inequity and Systemic Failure in UK Educational Psychology
Jan 09, 2026
Legacy Isn’t a Ladder. It’s a Lighthouse: Review your impact and create your personal statement for 2026
Dec 30, 2025
The Quiet Moments After Christmas: Reflecting on Caves of Celebration
Dec 27, 2025
🎄 Feeling More Fake Than Festive? A Survival Guide to the 12 Stages of Christmas
Dec 23, 2025
Strength in Tenderness: Boys, Emotions & Mental Health
Dec 17, 2025
✨ NEW: The Six Stages Framework Individual Diversity Assessment Is Live
Dec 06, 2025
🌿 When a “Joke” Isn’t Just a Joke Through the SSF Lens – What Do You Do If…?
Dec 04, 2025
Through the SSF Lens: Nigel Farage, Denial, and the Spectrum of Racism
Nov 29, 2025
📢 Becoming Less and Less: A 12-Step Journey to Inclusion
Nov 07, 2025
A Guide to Navigating Our Reactions to Gender Equity: What Stage Are You In?
Nov 02, 2025
Dr. Shungu’s 8 minute Equity Meditation
Nov 01, 2025
Your Brain on Privilege: 4 Ways Power and Inequality Reshape How We Think
Oct 28, 2025
Evening Mindset: Equity Meditation
Oct 24, 2025
A Friendship Lost — When Discomfort Speaks Louder Than Love
Oct 23, 2025
The Racism SURVIVAL Spectrum: From Harm to Healing
Oct 21, 2025
🟡 “When Safety Becomes Optional: Taking the SSF Lens to TikTok’s Moderator Cuts”
Oct 19, 2025
🌍 Are you seeing clearly—or just comfortably?
Oct 17, 2025
“Case Study: The Professional Cost of Whistleblowing on Racism in Elite Sport” Luther Burrell
Oct 13, 2025
🎧 A Million Little Cuts – My Story on Racism and Resilience
Oct 12, 2025
🎙️ Introduction: Moving Charlotte and Emily Forward — From Silence and Resistance to Courage and Connection
Oct 11, 2025
🌍 Understanding Anti-Racism in Our Schools: A Guide for New Parent Advocates**
Oct 09, 2025
🎙️ Lifting the Veil: Seven Seconds and the Six Stages of Humanity
Oct 08, 2025
Equity Meditation: Rest with Intention, Wake with Purpose
Oct 06, 2025
🎙️ Episode Title: 4 Uncomfortable Truths About Conditional Compassion
Oct 06, 2025
🟡 The Hypocrisy of Men and Religion: When Compassion Becomes Conditional
Oct 05, 2025
🎙️ That Awkward Joke Wasn’t Just a Joke: What It Really Tells Us About Unintentional Bias
Oct 04, 2025
Beyond the Headlines: 5 Unsettling Truths the Manchester Synagogue Attack Reveals
Oct 03, 2025
🎭 Beyond the Mask of Tolerance: Why Your Workplace Inclusion Efforts Are Failing
Oct 02, 2025
🎭 Beyond the Mask of Tolerance: Why Your Workplace Inclusion Efforts Are Failing
Oct 02, 2025
🖤 More Than a Month: What Does Black History Month Mean to You?
Oct 01, 2025
🖤 More Than a Month: What Does Black History Month Mean to You?
Oct 01, 2025
Racism is not Binary 🔍 Introducing the Prejudice Racism Spectrum: A New Lens for Understanding Bias
Sep 29, 2025
My Encounters with Racism Across 60 Years: What is Racism?
Sep 28, 2025
A 60-Year Journey with Racism Reveals Four Truths We Can’t Ignore
Sep 27, 2025
“Love, Prejudice, and the Six Stages Framework”
Sep 26, 2025
What_Keeps_Us_Stuck: Exploring Claire's Cave: When Good Intentions Aren’t Enough
Sep 26, 2025
🎧 New Podcast Episode: Mr. James Meets the Headteacher
Sep 26, 2025
"The Teacher Who Meant Well: Stage +1 in the Classroom".
Sep 23, 2025
"The Teacher Who Meant Well: Stage +1 in the Classroom".
Sep 22, 2025
"The Teacher Who Meant Well: Stage +1 in the Classroom".
Sep 22, 2025
Charlotte- The polite Professional: Stage +1 of the Six Stages
Sep 22, 2025
🎙️ New Podcast Episode: The Uncomfortable Truths Psychology Can No Longer Ignore
Sep 20, 2025
📢 New Podcast Alert: Unpacking the Crisis for Black SEND Children in UK Education! 📢
Sep 18, 2025
The Pathway to Violence: Why We Must Pay Attention to the Signs
Sep 17, 2025
🎙️Combatting Racism: Frameworks for an Anti-Racist Society Understanding the Pervasive Nature of Racism- and the Path to Change
Sep 16, 2025
HOLDING LIAT – How We Create Monsters Through Indifference
Sep 14, 2025
Addressing Young People’s Mental Health Crisis through Education and Integrated Support.
Sep 09, 2025
Racism is a Safeguarding Issue: How your School should Respond to Racist Behaviour even in Four-Year-olds.
Sep 07, 2025
If Racism Was A Virus: NotebookLM- Lessons from the Pandemic. By Dr Shungu H. M'gadzah
Sep 06, 2025
Who Is Shaking The Jar: When division is engineered. How can we hold the lid open for others?
Sep 05, 2025
"Special Needs, School Battles & the Fight for Tailored Autistic Support"
Sep 04, 2025
Building Bridges of Empathy: How We Heal Through Connection: 'It's not safe here...
Sep 02, 2025
It's not Safe Here: Building Brides of Empathy: Podcast by Dr. Shungu M’gadzah assisted by Google Notebook LM
Sep 01, 2025
Understanding the Six Stages Framework (2025), Equity and Inclusion in Action – Presentation by Keri Link, Assistant Psychologist | Inclusion Psychologists Ltd
Aug 24, 2025
Challenging Everyday Biases by Helping to Adjust Our Equity Lenses 👓
Aug 21, 2025
🌿 Steps of Kindness |Mindful Mondays & Bridges of Empathy: Season 3 🌿
Aug 18, 2025
What caves are you inhabiting: Do you sometimes feel hidden or held back
Aug 15, 2025
Walking Slowly through Monday
Aug 11, 2025
It's a New Day
Aug 11, 2025
If Racism was a Virus? Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic THE SIX STAGES FRAMEWORK
Aug 11, 2025
Building Bridges of Empathy with the Six Stages Framework
Aug 11, 2025
Training your Brain for Equity: A Guided Reflection from Dr Shungu and The Six Stages Framework
Aug 11, 2025
Episode 3: Reflective Step 2: From Awareness to Action.
Aug 10, 2025
🧠 “Building Bridges of Empathy: How We Heal Through Connection”
✍🏾 By Dr Shungu H. M’gadzah.
Aug 06, 2025
Training Your Brain for Equity: A Guided Reflection with Dr Shungu and The Six Stages Framework
Aug 02, 2025
Episode 2: Reflective Step 1: Noticing the Unseen | Six Stages Framework Journal Series
Jul 30, 2025
Everyday Equity: A Reflection Guide for Everyday People: The Six Stages Framework for Equity and Inclusion.
Jul 27, 2025
Everyday Equity: A Reflection Guide for Changemakers: Using the Six Stages Framework to Build Awareness and Take Action  
Jul 19, 2025
Stuck in Caves of privilege and lobbing anti DEI grenades: Proudly waving the white privilege card and tarnishing Black people and POC with the brush of radicalism.
May 29, 2025
OVERCOMING CAVES OF FEAR AND EMERGING FROM CAVES OF PRIVILEGE: By Dr Shungu Hilda M’gadzah
Dec 19, 2024
A lifetime of micro aggressions- A million little cuts
Oct 13, 2024
UNDERSTANDING WHAT RACISM & EXTREMISM LOOK LIKE & CHALLENGING BIASES BEFORE THEY BECOME EXTREME (Before they spiral down the negative axis of the Six Stages Framework
Aug 08, 2024
From Universities to Gaza and Israel, to walking around whilst openly Jewish or Black. When no where is safe and thousands of innocent children are dying.
May 27, 2024
If Racism was a Virus... Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Six Stages Diversity Framework by Dr Shungu H. M'gadzah
Jun 03, 2023
Conversation with Tandi Kuwana exploring the ways in which we discriminate.
Aug 27, 2022
Inclusion and Discrimination Profiles & The Six Stages Framework
Aug 21, 2022
Shortened version: In What Ways Do We discriminate: Discrimination and Inclusion Profiles. Guest speaker: Dr. Unati Makiwane, Family Physician, Canada.
Aug 20, 2022
In What Ways Do We Discriminate: Discrimination and Inclusion Profiles. Guest speaker: Dr. Unati Makiwane, Family Physician, Canada.
Aug 20, 2022
Own your privilege and be proud of it!
Jul 02, 2022
Why staying silent is a choice. Do you choose to speak up or do you choose to remain silent? Are you in the middle of the road or in the gutter?
Jun 20, 2022
Understanding and Dealing with Everyday Discriminations and Behaviours
Jun 02, 2022
THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE EVIL AND WORSE STILL THE INDIFFERENT.
May 30, 2022
THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE EVIL AND WORSE STILL THE INDIFFERENT.
May 30, 2022
Conversations that make a difference: Community Narratives- Child Q and Training for UK Police Force and One Man's Reflection on What Happens When You Are Accused of Racism
May 24, 2022
Why is so little being done to challenge the negative rhetoric around racist thinking & behaviours? There’s no place for hate violence in our communities.
May 15, 2022
Extract from Episode 5: We expect our leaders to lead by example.
May 02, 2022
Leadership comes in all forms_ negative and positive. We don't always choose our leaders!
May 01, 2022
On compassion, empathy and humanity: Black people are human beings and we are not animals.
Apr 11, 2021
Politicians, identities and policies. Implications for selection, recruitment and creating a safe space for black and ethnic minorities.
Jan 24, 2021
The Six Stages Framework: Leading with Equity and Empathy (Trailer)
Jan 12, 2021
Owning up to our Negative Automatic Thoughts: Diversity and Inclusion in the Boardroom: What's at stake?
Jan 12, 2021
Setting the scene: What are your top 3 Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Resolutions or Intentions for the Year 2021?
Jan 03, 2021