In this final episode we give many practical phrases you can use when telling your family you have changed. We also share some great responses you can use when someone in your family shares a big change they have made. We finish off with a Thanksgiving story and a very special true story that illustrate how you can negotiate diversity

This episode introduces the biggest challenge: negotiating diversity with those you are really close to. But first, so we can understand some of the ways to negotiate problematic relationships, we talk about children and friendship.

We continue giving you really practical techniques to negotiate diversity. We’ll challenge you to dare to be different and then enter the expectation -free zone!

This episode looks at some practicals for connecting with people you may feel a little uncomfortable around, or don’t know how to approach. We’ll look at techniques for building bridges and finding common ground.

We start applying the science to the question: How do you stop judging others? After considering the science of the mere exposure effect, the social brain and cultural neuroscience, we apply it all to help us negotiate diversity. We start with a hopeful clinical story. Then it’s step one: Accepting and Applauding difference.

Using words isn’t the only way we communicate. There’s something more going on: our feelings underneath. Intent vs impact and eye contact are how our feelings are transmitted unconsciously. Negotiating diversity involves being skilled and sensitive to each other but screen technology means that we are deskilling in this area.

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Negotiating diversity well takes altruism and trust, both of which have their networks in the brain. We explore these to see what factors help us choose altruism and trust. Belief can be a stumbling block to negotiating diversity so it helps to understand how belief works in the brain.

Cultural neuroscience is an emerging and exciting area of science that can be applied to diversity. In this episode we talk about how we not only have a biological but also a cultural inheritance. We also discuss the mere exposure effect.

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Geert Hofstede and Fons Trompenaar also articulated ideas about how diverse we people are. Understanding and accepting these differences will be key to negotiating the diversity of our day and moving forward to being able to accept diversity.

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We begin to delve deeper into the diversity of people interactions through the insights of anthropologist Edward T. Hall who articulated how we all feel comfortable within our personal space, with being task-oriented or people-oriented, and with cultures that are either more direct with words or indirect with words.