Healing the wounds that divide us

We honor relationality as a pathway to collective liberation.

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What does wholeness call you into? What do we mean by “relational repair”?

Discover reflections, intentions, and lived experiences of practitioners engaged in the work of relational repair.

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A report by Compton Foundation & Informing Change, November 2025
Illustration by Flora Cabili
About Us

We invite people across race, class, and gender into the slow, courageous work of healing the wounds left by chattel slavery, settler colonialism, and systems that divide us.

We nurture practices and tend relationships that restore dignity, belonging, and interconnection.

We serve as a hub where relational repair circles and initiatives connect with resource allocators, peers, and networks.

We amplify the ecosystem that sustains this work, connecting people and resources across difference.

A large, diverse group of people stand in a wide circle inside an industrial event venue with exposed brick walls and tall windows. Round tables with navy blue tablecloths, chairs, water bottles, and small floral centerpieces fill the center of the room. The group appears to be participating in a collective activity or shared moment during a convening, with some attendees still seated at the edges. Warm natural light streams in from the windows on the left side of the space.
“Something different is possible.”
June Wilson
Our Work

Three areas of focus

Two people sit side by side on a concrete surface, viewed from above, reviewing printed materials together. One person wears a black head covering and points at a page with a map graphic, while the other wears green beaded bracelets and a yellow wristband and holds open a booklet featuring photographs and text. Both are engaged in close conversation over the documents.

Seeding and Building Practice

Nurture new and emerging relational repair efforts across the U.S. and the ecosystem that sustains them.

A man in a white button-down shirt and dark cap stands with his back to the camera, addressing a diverse group of people gathered outdoors in a sun-dappled park. Many attendees sit along a low wall or on the ground, listening attentively, while others stand nearby holding folders and papers. Trees and green hedges line the background, and strong midday light casts long shadows across the walkway.

Community Engagement

Convene and cultivate digital and in-person spaces where relational repair practitioners learn, heal, practice, and co-design liberatory ways of being together.

Two people stand close together in a hotel ballroom, one in a purple floral blouse and the other in a black top wearing a blue wristband. The person in black speaks into a handheld microphone while the other gently holds their arm in a supportive gesture. Colorful ribbons and fabric strips hang from the backdrop behind them.

Story-sharing

Share and lift up narratives, art, and immersive experiences that reveal how repair feels, lives, and takes root in communities.

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Be part of the work

Connect with a community of practitioners building pathways to collective liberation.

Or send us an email: info@relationalrepair.org

The Institute for Relational Repair and Mutuality supports the long, loving work of repairing relationships across race, class, and history.

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