HeyJaredSix Stages Diversity Framework: Building Bridges of Empathy
This podcast explores our understanding and ability to engage and deal with racism.It brings to you reflections on everyday psychology and explores the impact of racism on different sectors of the community from schools to businesses and charities.It explores some of the…
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My Dear White Friend – Letter Four: Please Don’t Make Me Your Textbook (opens the original)
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Episode description: Dear White Friend, When you ask me to explain racism, have you considered what that conversation might cost me? For you, it may be a fifteen-minute conversation. For me, it may mean reopening experiences I have spent a lifetime learning how to carry. In Letter Four of My Dear White Friend , Dr Shungu Hilda M’gadzah explores the hidden emotional labour of explaining racism, the importance of taking responsibility for our own learning, and what happens when curiosity encounter
My Dear White Friend — Letter Three: When a Story Arrives Before You (opens the original)
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Letter Three of My Dear White Friend , read by Dr Shungu Hilda M’gadzah. What does it mean to enter a new workplace believing you are beginning again — only to wonder whether a story about you may already have arrived? In this letter, I reflect on professional networks, reputation, belonging and the unsettling possibility that impressions can travel faster than context. I also ask what race adds to the experience of entering a new professional space. Do people see your qualifications before they
My Dear White Friend - Letter Two: The Discomfort of Looking Within (opens the original)
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What happens when understanding racism is no longer only about recognising what happens “out there” — but begins to ask us to examine ourselves? In Letter Two of My Dear White Friend , I reflect on the discomfort of looking within . Having Black friends, loving a Black person, raising Black children, doing anti-racism work or considering ourselves an ally may all be meaningful. But none of these things necessarily makes us immune from bias. Perhaps the more difficult questions are: What have the
My Dear White Friend — Letter One: When Understanding Racism Becomes Personal Episode description (opens the original)
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Episode description What happens when understanding racism is no longer something intellectual or happening “out there” — but something that asks us to examine ourselves? In the first letter from My Dear White Friend , Dr Shungu Hilda M’gadzah reflects on friendship, White privilege, belonging, adultification, bias and the difficult emotional spaces that can emerge when conversations about race become personal. The letter asks what happens when someone we care about experiences a shared world di
Why fear cannot build psychological safety (opens the original)
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🎧 New Episode Alert: Why fear cannot build psychological safety "You cannot build psychological safety with the same tools that created psychological harm". In this episode, we dive into Dr Shungu M'gadzah's powerful concept of the SSF Change Paradox . This paradox occurs when a system seeks a positive outcome—like trust, inclusion, and openness—while continuing to use negative methods built around fear, control, and punishment. Are you trying to fix your workplace culture using the very tools t
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