Today we welcome Dr Shungu Hilda M’gadzah.
Shungu has more than 30 years of experience since qualifying as an educational psychologist in 1990.
She is a Psychology Diversity and Inclusion Consultant and has a Doctorate in Emotional Intelligence. Her career includes working for 7 years in higher education teaching Post-graduate MSc Educational Psychology Students.
She has worked as a psychologist within health, education and independent special schools and has been appointed to a number of consultant posts, including Head of Special Educational Needs and Disability.
She is the co- founder of Psychologists on Boards. She has created the Six Stages Conceptual Framework for Understanding and Dealing with Racism designed for individuals and organisations.
She has Chaired a number of Committees including the British Psychological Society's Division for Education and Child Psychologists.
She has a number of journal and article publications including publication of her thesis on emotional intelligence in the UK Parliament's Children and young people’s mental health — the role of education.
In this conversation we explored important topics for our world.
- Passion and purpose from parents – Zimbabwe to the UK at age 8; the value of education and overcoming the barriers/level the playing field through education
- The 6 stages of understanding and dealing with racism
o A tool to help assess and identify where individuals/organizations/teams are in their ability to understand and handle/deal with racism
o Values are at the foundation and then the assessment creates a wheel with actions to move through the stage they are at to the next stage, etc.
- Using all of my skill sets – 2 meeting points of the psychology and the emotional intelligence and the work in education and organizations – utilizing all of my strengths and skills
- Building bridges of empathy is how we get this kind of work done in diversity, inclusion and equity; having the skills to understand someone else’s life experiences when we have not
- Passion for this kind of change and impact is what keeps me in the game; the impact for marginalized groups and helping
- Mistakes we make in society by ignoring critical learning topics in grade/primary school, like Emotional Intelligence, contributes to what we see in adulthood – lack of empathy, inequality, exclusion, marginalization and more
- We must move beyond unconscious bias and into action
To be in touch with Dr. Shungu
- Website: www.inclusionpsychologists.com
- Email: [email protected]
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Inclusionpsychs
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