RACISM IN REAL TIME
Workshops
Many people are beginning to reflect more deeply on race and racism, yet often feel unsure how to talk about it or what to do with the emotions that arise from fear and discomfort to shame, guilt, or confusion.
This course is designed to support you in navigating these experiences, helping you develop the awareness, language, and confidence to engage in conversations about race more openly and safely. It is particularly valuable for those working with others such as therapists, educators, or professionals who want to better support both white and BIPOC individuals.
In small, facilitated groups, you will explore your personal relationship with race, practice meaningful dialogue, and learn how to respond in real-time situations. The course begins with separate groups to allow for deeper reflection within your own context.
Racism is not only a historical issue but a present, lived experience that affects both individuals and society. It creates emotional and physical impacts that can remain unspoken and unresolved. This course takes a holistic, embodied approach, working with both the psychological and physical dimensions of racial wounding as they arise in the group.
Through this process, the aim is to foster greater understanding, compassion, and connection within yourself and with others and to begin reshaping the patterns that sustain racial harm.
Working through racism
Conversations about the experience within the Racism in Real Time workshops.
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With Lizzie and John
“The main function of racism is separating people out, but more importantly it’s separating your body your heart and your head, racism thrives in the head, if you’re allowed to come in to your body, racism then loses its potency, but as white folks its kinda scary to come into your body in that kinda way… particularly in British society it’s kinda taboo”
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With Katy Taylor and Alice Nicholas
“I used to feel frozen and paralysed about getting it wrong, but I don’t feel that anymore, that’s what you taught me that we will get it wrong again and again and again and again… I feel so liberated by that.. its taught me, trying to get it right, that’s not the issue, … my whiteness and white supremacy is in the fibers of my being… I can’t avoid that but what I can choose is how I address it and what I do about it."
"It’s taught me to be less judgemental, because before I started training, I was an activist, I’ve seen the way you work with black and brown people on their internalised racism, and you’re so gentle, I haven’t seen that before, I’ve seen other therapists who work with this but they’re so harsh - you’re so gentle.. that’s something I hopefully will take with me."
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With Jay Stewart
“It was truly amazing to see, we couldn’t communicate with each other (White and BIPOC) because there was something going on that was unnamed and Charmaine came and named it. Charmaine divided the group (initially). It was just something that had never been done before, and being direct, not wishy washy, but gentle as well, and this had a huge effect on our group because, when we came back together white and BIPOC we felt unified and a base to build from which was something we never had before because everyone was afraid to speak .. but we came back strong… and this is where we are now.”
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Charmaine McCaulay is a trauma-informed body psychotherapist who considers the client to be addressed as a whole person. She facilitates Racism in Real Time workshops.
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Lizzie Cummings is a drama and movement therapist who has worked in schools, mental health settings, and private practice for 19 years.
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John Wilson specializes in online counselling which has developed into offering online CPD for practitioners via onlinevents.
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Ayanda Dlamini and Lexie Noel
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With Ben Stewart
Racism in real time:
An Audio Introduction
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