Our second conference – Islam: therapy, Spirituality and Politics

15th & 16th May 2026

To every mental health professional and student who has ever felt the tension between their values and their practice — this is for you.

Part of the established tradition of mental health work is that the therapeutic space is ‘neutral’. This idea of neutrality, developed in the West, has been exported globally to places and people with mixed experiences of many Western conceptions, including justice.

Increasingly attention from diverse perspectives critique the idea of therapeutic neutrality as a myth. Are the values of our therapy indigenous to the ‘West’, or do they reflect universal truths? Are they divine-sacred, or pragmatic and political? All are welcome to this conference, which offers therapists from our diverse communities an opportunity to reflect and dialogue on ancient and contemporary Islamic understandings of self, therapy, and well-being. Our worlds are structured by our imaginings of it, and this conference explores Islamic understandings of knowing, being, and health, that may invite a wider understanding of the field of mental health as a whole.

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Organised jointly by onlineevents and Stephen Maynard & Associates.

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