🌍 Introducing the Racism SURVIVAL Spectrum: From Harm to Healing

For too long, conversations about racism have been limited to one question — “Am I racist or not?”

But this binary view hides the truth: racism isn’t just an attitude; it’s an experience — one that can wound, silence, or transform, depending on how it’s met.

That’s why I developed the Prejudice Racism SURVIVAL Spectrum — a psychological response model that explores how people survive racism, and how support (or the lack of it) shapes our journey from pain to power.

The model maps two divergent paths:

🔹 The Path of Harm (Stages -1 to -6) — where denial, isolation, and internalised racism erode wellbeing, leading to crisis and despair.

🔹 The Path of Healing (Stages +1 to +6) — where awareness, validation, and empowerment lead to resilience, advocacy, and leadership.

This isn’t just theory.

It’s a lived framework — rooted in real experiences of exclusion, resilience, and recovery.

It helps us recognise that:

• The “Million Little Cuts” of microaggressions are not harmless.
• Healing requires community, validation, and language to name what we’ve lived.
• With support, we can move from surviving racism to dismantling it — one courageous conversation at a time.

🎥 I invite you to watch the short video below and reflect:

Where are you — or someone you know — on this spectrum right now?

https://youtu.be/_gScNd1MvtI

https://www.sixstagesframework.com/%f0%9f%8c%8d-introducing-the-racism-survival-spectrum-from-harm-to-healing/

⁠https://www.sixstagesframework.com/survival/⁠

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