Untold Stories: Working w/ Mixed-Heritage Identities in a Racialised World

Untold Stories: Mixed and Multi-Heritage Experiences and Racialised Positioning.

A TaSC Seminar with Mary-Claire Wilson.

'There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.' Maya Angelou

As a dual-heritage woman who grew up in West Africa, I aim to raise awareness of the stories of BIPOC mixed and multi-heritage groups. These stories are often neglected in our vital conversations on race and (in my experience) ignored in therapy trainings and practice. I know, for myself at least, how much this exclusion hurts.

The workshop draws on my lived experience, creative, research-based and clinical threads. We'll explore issues such as navigating multiple racial/cultural/ethnic identities and multi-heritage positioning in the racialised hierarchy. Systemically granted privileges, like colourism and featurism, and their impact on all races, are also discussed.

We'll discuss monoracism: prejudice and othering specifically directed at multi-heritage groups. Monoracism, intersecting with racism, has historically been encouraged by white supremacy to maintain its power. Monoracism is frequently expressed in microaggressions in society, which may also be enacted in practice. Examples are offered here.

The workshop draws on my lived experience, creative, research-based and clinical threads. We'll explore issues such as navigating multiple racial/cultural/ethnic identities and multi-heritage positioning in the racialised hierarchy. Systemically granted privileges, like colourism and featurism, and their impact on all races, are also discussed.

We'll discuss monoracism: prejudice and othering specifically directed at multi-heritage groups. Monoracism, intersecting with racism, has historically been encouraged by white supremacy. Monoracism is frequently expressed in microaggressions in society, which may also be enacted in practice. Examples are offered here.

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• Recognise key historical, political and relational themes in BIPOC mixed and multi-heritage experiences with an intersectional lens.
• Identify the impact of systemic racism, monoracism and marginalisation on BIPOC groups.
• Consider ways therapy, and wider society, may decolonise racialised belief systems and support social justice.

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• Everyone interested in mixed and multi-heritage experiences, and/or with a connection to mixed and multi-heritage peoples, personally or professionally.

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• By becoming more equipped to sensitively hold conversations about BIPOC mixed and multi-heritage experiences.
• By prioritising cultural competency and addressing racialised systemic trauma.
• By providing a deeper understanding of how unconscious bias and racialised enactments may appear.

RECORDING 

This event will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

ZOOM 

This event will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

SELF-SELECT FEE

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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Mary-Claire Wilson

Mary-Claire Wilson (she/her) is an integrative transpersonal psychotherapist supervisor, group facilitator and trainer, with over a decade of therapeutic experience. She's lectured and now trains at various counselling and psychotherapy organisations, including delivering modules on Race and Power and LGBTQ+ inclusion. She's a BAATN (Black, African and Asian Therapy Network) Conference Speaker.

As a dual-heritage woman, she has a special interest in BIPOC mixed and multi-heritage experience. Some previous workshops she's facilitated are ‘How the Dust Settles After Things Fall Apart' (named after Nigerian author Chinua Achebe's famous novel, Things Fall Apart), exploring how white supremacy created global multi-heritage groups; and On Growing up a Multi-Heritage Child; exploring the experience of young multi-heritage identities. Her recent publication on this topic, in the BACP Private Practice Journal Sept 2025, was titled, 'I cannot behave like oil or water when I am neither. I am both.'

She also hosts a podcast series called 'Mixed Mirror: Multi-heritage Conversations across Cultures and Generations.'

Website | www.mary-clairewilson.co.uk