LEVEL 2 - ALPHA
Integration & Application
At the Alpha stage, organisations move beyond awareness into active integration. The focus shifts from knowing what neuroscience, inclusion, and sustainability are to understanding how to apply them consistently across roles, systems, and behaviours.
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Neuroscientifically, this is where new neural pathways start to stabilise. Through repetition, reinforcement, and emotional resonance, inclusive practices begin to transition from cognitive effort to behavioural habit. Leaders are learning to regulate their threat responses and create conditions of psychological safety for others, while employees are starting to embed inclusive micro-actions into meetings, decisions, and communications.
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Alpha is about rewiring—using the brain’s natural learning systems to move inclusion from theory into daily operational practice. It's where change becomes visible, contagious, and measurable.
Neuroscience - Blocks and Enablers
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Psychological Safety: Leaders create environments where employees feel safe to voice ideas and challenge the status quo.
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Growth Mindset: Teams embrace learning from mistakes and view feedback as an opportunity for growth.
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Synaptic Shifts: Organisational habits are rewired through sustained practice and reinforcement of inclusive behaviours becoming consciously inclusive.
Digital Resources
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Interactive modules, quizzes, and virtual scenarios to reinforce learning.
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Customisable templates
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Practical Tools & Templates - Checklists, conversation starters, and templates for fostering inclusion in meetings, hiring processes, and performance reviews.
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Scripts and guides for addressing exclusionary behaviour compassionately.
Train the Trainers Programme (Enterprise Package only)
A certified programme to train in-house facilitators to deliver the framework across their organisations.
Training Modules Content
Practice & Integration
Theme: Interrupt the Pattern. Build the Habit. Lead by Example.
Alpha takes insight into action. It supports deeper rewiring of leadership habits and team norms—using the brain’s natural systems for reward, reflection, and emotional regulation.
Module 1: Cognitive Load & Decision-Making Under Pressure
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Working memory, bias creep, and the prefrontal cortex in overload
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How stress shrinks inclusion capacity
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Leadership lens: Avoiding snap decisions under time or performance threat
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Employee lens: Techniques to reduce reactivity and pause productively
Module 2: Reframing Threat into Growth
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Amy Arnsten’s research on chronic stress and executive function
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Self-awareness practices to override survival brain responses
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Leadership lens: Building emotional granularity and role-modelling emotional regulation
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Employee lens: Using breath, body cues, and micro-reflections to stabilise before reacting
Module 3: Building Belonging with the Brain in Mind
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Dopamine, oxytocin, and serotonin: The neuroscience of inclusion hormones
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Why recognition, fairness, and voice matter more than "initiatives"
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Leadership lens: Neuro-inclusive feedback, fairness signalling, and visibility
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Employee lens: Practising inclusion in peer collaboration, project work, and cross-functional input
Module 4: Behavioural Nudges & Inclusive Defaults
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Introduction to inclusive "choice architecture"
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Disrupting pattern-dominant design: e.g., how forms, systems, schedules exclude
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Leadership lens: Nudge theory in team design, strategy, and innovation
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Employee lens: Shifting default settings in personal practice, e.g., agenda-setting, onboarding
Community of Practice
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Access to a global network of licensees who share best practices, challenges, and solutions.
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Ongoing webinars, workshops, and updates to keep the framework fresh and relevant.