BAATN Online Conference 2026 Speakers
Therapy, Activism and Self-Care: seeking liberation in a wounded world.
Anti-Racist Psychotherapy – Healing Racial Trauma When the World is on Fire
This talk will give an overview of Anti-Racist Psychotherapy, a broader definition of racial trauma and why both interpersonal and systemic discrimination require the development of trauma-focused perspectives based on Afrocentric perspectives.
Archer’s Rhythm and Processing (RAP) approach will be discussed as a possible step forward, and the discussion will include the importance of healing traumatic experiences from the past to best prepare for the times that lie ahead.
David Archer is a Montreal-based Black Jamaican African Canadian therapist, EMDR trainer, author, and keynote speaker specialising in complex PTSD and racial trauma through Africentric, trauma‑focused approaches.
Working Outside: re-storying, re-membering, & re-connecting to the natural world
This talk explores how outdoor therapeutic work can deepen healing and social justice. Psychotherapist and trainer Nicole Worrica shares how she collaborates with the land as co-therapist, centring nature’s wisdom, ancestral connection, and the needs of marginalised communities. Drawing on trauma training, indigenous practices, and her experience with groups such as Wild in the City, she invites practitioners to re-embed therapy in the more-than-human world, honour intersectionality and power, and reclaim connection to land, identity, and belonging as a radical, restorative act.
Nicole Worrica is a psychotherapist, supervisor and tutor whose outdoor, trauma‑informed and anti‑racist practice centres nature, indigenous wisdom and marginalised communities, integrating land, identity and power into contemporary therapeutic work.
Rest is Resistance
Influenced by Tricia Hersey’s “Rest is Resistance,” she has come to see rest not as a reward for productivity, but as a human right and a radical act. Grind culture and our obsession with busyness keep people exhausted, especially those already marginalised. Choosing rest is choosing liberation: a way to reclaim bodies, time, and humanity from systems that demand constant output. Today, she invites you to stop—and see stopping as resistance.
Rakhi Chand is an online therapist, supervisor and writer based in the Peak District. She is in the final stages of her PhD at Manchester University, examining the career progression experiences of racially minoritised women in healthcare leadership.