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LEVEL 1 - DELTA

Awareness & Foundations

At the Delta stage, organisations are beginning their inclusion and sustainability journey with good intentions but limited integration. Efforts often focus on representation, awareness training, or surface-level policy adjustments, but these actions remain isolated from core strategy and daily behaviour.

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From a neuroscience perspective, this stage is marked by low neurological coherence: inclusive behaviours are not yet embedded in habit loops, and the brain’s predictive systems still default to what feels familiar and safe. Leaders and employees may recognise the importance of diversity and environmental responsibility, but lack the tools to shift from intellectual understanding to behavioural change.

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Delta provides the crucial foundation. It helps teams build the psychological safety required for learning, introduces the brain’s role in bias and belonging, and sparks new neural pathways through consistent, low-threat, emotionally resonant micro-practices.

 

While confidence may still be building, Delta unlocks clarity, and clarity unlocks momentum.

Maturity Model Benefits

Neuroscience - Blocks and Enablers

  • Neuroplasticity: Initial efforts to rewire behaviours and attitudes through targeted programmes (e.g., mentoring, unconscious bias training, understanding fight, flight, freeze or sawn responses to change).

  • Mirror Neurons: Programmes encourage empathy and perspective-taking, but leadership is not yet consistently modelling inclusive behaviours.

  • Pause and Pivot: Efforts begin to disrupt reactive thinking by pausing to reflect before decision-making, but this is not yet widespread.

Digital Resources

  1. Interactive modules, quizzes, and virtual scenarios to reinforce learning.

  2. Customisable templates

  3. Practical Tools & Templates - Checklists, conversation starters, and templates for fostering inclusion in meetings, hiring processes, and performance reviews.

  4. Scripts and guides for addressing exclusionary behaviour compassionately.

  5. If/Then Playbook and Quick Brain Hacks. 

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

DELTA LEVEL – Awareness & Foundations

Theme: Understand the Brain. Recognise the Bias. Build Safety.

DELTA lays the neurological groundwork for inclusive awareness and introduces daily micro-practices rooted in neuroscience and transformative thinking. Drawing on the insights of five foundational thinkers, this level supports the shift from automatic to intentional inclusion.

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Module 1: The Predictive Brain & Unconscious Bias

  • Understand how the predictive brain shapes perception and reinforces bias

  • Recognise how unconscious bias manifests in real-time decisions

  • Explore the limitations of fast thinking in diverse environments

 
Module 2: Safety First – The Neurobiology of Trust

  • Understand the role of the nervous system in trust and safety

  • Identify what triggers threat responses in workplace interactions

  • Explore how leadership styles impact others' sense of safety

 
Module 3: Mirror Neurons & Social Learning

  • Understand how empathy and emotional contagion shape team dynamics

  • Learn how modelling inclusion changes social norms

  • Develop tools for non-judgmental observation and curiosity

 
Module 4: Neuroplasticity & Habit Loops

  • Charles Duhigg + brain science: Cue-Routine-Reward breakdown

  • Understand how habits form in the brain and how to shift them

  • Identify inclusive habits that support daily micro-change

  • Build confidence in change through repetition and safety

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Module 5: Awareness Without Attachment – Observing the Mind

  • Cultivate meta-cognition and awareness of thoughts and reactions

  • Recognise defensive identity responses and practice self-regulation

  • Create space between the trigger and the response

 
Module 6: Relational Intelligence – Inclusion Is a Practice

  • Understand inclusion as an ongoing, relational process

  • Practice collective meaning-making and shared thinking

  • Develop relational presence and peer accountability

Community of Practice -

The BARDO Hub

  1. Access to a global network of licensees who share best practices, challenges, and solutions.

  2. Ongoing webinars, workshops, and updates to keep the framework fresh and relevant.

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