Sometimes safe healing spaces are hard to find and many BIPOC leaders feel this tug-of-war on their humanity when expected to “show up” in white dominant spaces. Contending with microaggressions, cultural erasure, and stereotype threat - this heaviness, the physiological and psychological impact of race-based stress on one’s being, is racial battle fatigue.
Participants are invited to join this 2-hour session that will

(1) Define racial battle fatigue, its social-emotional and physiological implications.

(2) Create a safe healing space for reflection and community-building.

(3) Identify self-care and coping strategies to combat racial battle fatigue. 

About The Presenter

Tirrany Thurmond, M.Ed., NCC, LGPC is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Idaltu Counseling & Consulting. Her curiosity about people — who they are, how they evolve, where they hurt — guides her work and led her to found Idaltu. Just as human beings need one another to evolve, we need one another to heal.

Tirrany’s uses a culturally responsive and trauma-informed approach to guide her support for organizations and individuals. She is a skilled clinician with a focus on race-based stress and trauma, healing, and self-authorship. Her tenure spans over a decade in higher education on large and small campuses, specifically student affairs, equity and inclusion, student recruitment, and faculty and staff development.

Tirrany is a Qualified Administrator for the Intercultural Development Inventory and board-certified counselor, TEDx speaker, and sought-after facilitator and advisor. She earned a bachelors in behavior analysis from Savannah State University and masters in counselor education from Georgia Southern University.