BAATN Online Conference 2026 Workshops
Therapy, Activism and Self-Care: Seeking liberation in a wounded world.
Saturday
You will be invited to choose your workshop when you purchase your ticket
- Workshop 1 – David Archer: Reflection on Keynote Talk
- Workshop 2 – Nicole Worrica: Reflection on Keynote Talk
- Workshop 3 – Rakhi Chand: Reflection on Keynote Talk
- Workshop 4 – Ayan Ali: Working in therapy services without losing yourself or burning out
- Workshop 5 – Samina Ali –Nature in Psychotherapy: as co-facilitator, resourcer, and form of activism. Exploring creative ways to work with our intrinsic nature, in nature, within our professional field – for our clients, ourselves, and the global community.
- Workshop 6 – Dennis L Carney –Is therapy activism?
Workshop 1 – David Archer: Reflection on Keynote Talk
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.
Workshop 2 – Nicole Worrica: Reflection on Keynote Talk
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.
Workshop 3 – Rakhi Chand: Reflection on Keynote Talk
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.
Workshop 4 – Working in therapy services without losing yourself or burning out
Workshop Outline
Working within a statutory, voluntary or charity therapy service can be deeply meaningful. It does, however, ask a great deal of us. This workshop will offer a reflective space to explore how therapists can stay grounded, resourced, and connected to their values while navigating the pressures of service settings. Drawing on a systems psychodynamic lens, we will consider self-care, boundaries, burnout prevention, organisational dynamics, and the ways activism and advocacy can become part of sustaining both ourselves and the communities we serve.
Ayan Ali has been practising as a Counsellor/Psychotherapist since 1994 and has been instrumental in setting up and developing counselling services for Asian Women and the national forum for Asian Counsellors.
Workshop 5 – Nature in Psychotherapy: as co-facilitator, resourcer, and form of activism.
Exploring creative ways to work with our intrinsic nature, in nature, within our professional field – for our clients, ourselves, and the global community.
Workshop Outline
An experiential inquiry and creative exploration of ways that this field of consciousness around “nature” can support our psychotherapeutic work in the moment, resource us, and provide a seemingly critical link to global activism in terms of environmental, social, cultural and economic – reflecting our own inherent interconnected human nature.
That’s a lot to achieve in 85 minutes! So there’ll be a lot of experiential, a bit of talking, some poignant examples, and some sharing using live methods to get this theme building amongst us in the group, as an emergent process within itself on the day – allowing for the wisdom that each member brings to also “in-form” us.
Samina Ali is a dance movement psychotherapist with 10 years’ experience supporting adults, young people, and communities across education, therapy, DEI, and conflict resolution.
Workshop 6 – Is therapy activism?
Workshop Outline
TBC
Dennis L Carney is a facilitator, lecturer and trainer with over 30 years’ experience in workshops on personal development, equality, groupwork and anger management.