When Race Comes Between Us: Tending to Racial Ruptures in Mixed Race Relationships
June 11th · 18:00–20:00 (Online Event)
Love Without Borders: Navigating Interracial Relationships
This powerful audio series from Kokoro Therapy explores how systemic racism impacts interracial couples. Through raw, honest conversations, Neha, an Indian woman, and her white husband Simon are guided by body-psychotherapist Charmaine as they learn to communicate across the racial divide.
About the Seminar
Inspired by the Japanese art of Kintsugi—a Japanese art that repairs broken pottery with gold, rendering a new piece that is more exquisite than it was before the break—this interactive seminar explores how moments of rupture in mixed race relationships can become opportunities for deeper connection and transformation.
Led by Charmaine McCaulay and supported by Lizzie Cummings, this 2-hour online session offers a supportive space to reflect on the complexities of racial dynamics with partners, friends, colleagues, or co-parents. Using their lived experience and the Four Stages of a Racial Breach—The Shattering, The Retreat, The Orbiting, and A Different Season—participants will learn how to navigate and repair racial wounds with honesty, courage, and care.
This interactive seminar is for anyone in meaningful interracial relationships—romantic, familial, professional, or therapeutic—seeking to build trust, resilience, and understanding.
Key learning outcomes include:
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Understanding and applying the four-stage model of racial breaches
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Deepening emotional awareness of racial tension
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Cultivating meaningful repair, accountability, and growth
Meet the Facilitators:
Charmaine McCaulay (Lead Facilitator) is an integrative body psychotherapist specializing in the healing of racial trauma. She is the creator of the transformative “Racism in Real Time” workshop, guiding participants through embodied and emotional processes to reclaim authenticity and humanity in the face of racial wounding.
Lizzie Cummings is a drama and movement therapist who brings over 20 years of experience in creative, embodied healing. She works in collaboration with Charmaine, offering playful and imaginative approaches to support personal and relational growth.