Islamic Counselling

Palestine and Israel: A Space Without Pretence
2024-02-07 13:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | online
A process group for us to sit together around our experience of the conflict in Gaza and Israel.

Vulnerable Selves: Conversations in Islamic Counselling
2023-12-07 17:00 - 19:00 (Africa/Johannesburg)
UCT Poster PDF

Celebrating Diverse Practice: Spirit, Mind and Body
2023-11-04 10:00 - 16:30 (Europe/London)
This conference makes room for the spirit, soul and the body in therapeutic practice. We also want to highlight the range of diverse practice within the BAATN membership and bring this work centre stage.
Sabnum and Abdullah will be presenting a keynote speech as well as a workshop in which they will explore journeys of light…..

The Diploma Year 2 in Islamic Counselling begins
2023-09-02 10:00 - 17:30 (America/Toronto) | Zoom
Welcome back to Year 2 students in Islamic Counselling. This inshallah is the year that you become an Islamic Counsellor.
And We are closer to him than you, but you do not see. [56:85] For, they who believe in Allah and His messengers – it is they who are, loyal, and the martyrs are with their Lord; they have their reward and their light. [57:19]

Level 2 in Islamic Counselling begins
2023-09-02 10:00 - 17:30 (America/Toronto) | Zoom
The Level 2 in Islamic Counselling is the first level in our accredited progression route. Running online, Saturday classes between September and January. See courses page for application.
And We are closer to him than you, but you do not see. [56:85] For, they who believe in Allah and His messengers – it is they who are, loyal, and the martyrs are with their Lord; they have their reward and their light. [57:19]

Counselling from an Islamic Perspective
2023-08-26 13:30 - 14:30 (Europe/London) | online

"Open Hour'"
2023-07-21 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | Zoom
Our last open event for the year! Come and meet us so you can discover all you need to know about our highly respected Islamic Counselling courses! Focusing primarily on our level 2 and Level 3.

Islamic Counselling Evening Open Hour
2023-05-19 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Toronto) | Zoom
Hear about course requirements, what you need to be an Islamic Counselor, progression routes, Nafsiyyat, /everything you need to know before you metaphorically pack your bags to join the flying carpet that is the course. 😊
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-hour-for-islamic-counselling-tickets-576308102047?aff=odcleoeventsincollection

Our therapeutic direction is towards Light: Islamic Counselling and a non-secular politics of difference and transcendence
2023-03-07 13:00 - 14:30 (Europe/London) | zoom, Rumi's Cave 26 Willesden Lane, London, United Kingdom
Part of Brunel University’s Departmental Seminars, presentation by Giulia Liberatore and sabnum Dharamsi, based on our collaborative paper, under editorial review.

Other than Myself Diversity Conference
2022-10-15 00:00 (America/Toronto)
Another interesting event – a collaboration between OnlineEvents and the existential Academy with keynote speakers Dr Dwight Turner, Celena Lewis and Dr Chloe Farahar. Many other workshops including:
Abdullah Maynard is speaking to:
‘They run from questions they create’ – diversity and the geopolitics of counselling
In this workshop we will consider some of the geopolitical realities of the last 10 years and what they mean for diverse individuals and counsellors working together in a plural society.
Sabnum Dharamsi is speaking to: – Recognising the “open door of every consciousness” – towards a decolonial perspective in psychotherapy.
“Frantz Fanon, psychiatrist and activist, author of Black Skins White Masks, said:
What matters is not so much the color of your skin as the power you serve and the millions you betray.
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
He also said:
I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
Her workshop identifies key concepts of decoloniality and invites participants to consider their significance in their understanding of self and relationships. “

ReOrienting the Post-Western: International Conference on Critical Muslim Studies
2022-09-23 - 2022-09-25 | Leeds University, United Kingdom
‘ReOrienting the Post-Western’ International Critical Muslim Studies Conference
23rd – 25th September 2022
University of Leeds

About the conference
Abdullah and Sabnum will be presenting their paper “Show me things as they really are” (Prayer of the Prophet SAW) The search for authentic'” at the 1st International Conference on Critical Muslim Studies. Hosted by The Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies in collaboration with the ReOrient Journal, and the International Islamophobia Studies & Research Association (IISRA), the conference will take place on 23rd-25th September 2022 at the University of Leeds. It will be an in-person event, and we are looking forward to (re-)connecting with colleagues working in this exciting emerging field and building spaces for explorations and reflections on the conference theme of ‘ReOrienting the post-Western’. The conference is an opportunity to expand the examples by which we understand the Islamicate and contribute to the ongoing debate about the promise of post-Western possibilities, decolonial paradigms and Muslimness.

Level 2 in Islamic Counselling
2022-09-03 - 2023-01-21 | online
Amidst all the noise of divergent psychological models, the Level 2 in Islamic Counselling opens up a whole world of spiritually embedded practice focused on helping self and other. The first level in our progression route. This course runs over 15 days between September and January. The additional dates for this course can be found in the prospectus. This course is eligible for Zakat Scholarships but prospective students must first be awarded a place.
Early bird fee also available.

"Open Hour"
2022-07-30 11:30 - 12:30 UTC | online
Come and meet us so you can discover all you need to know about our highly respected Islamic Counselling courses! A lovely informal way to get to know us and ask any questions about our courses.
Prospective Level 2 and Level 3 especially.

Black Identities + White Therapies Working with Race, Ethnicity and Culture in and Outside the Therapy Room
2022-07-15 19:00 - 2022-07-16 19:00 UTC | online
A Conference for Trainers, Practitioners, Students & Academics. Many interesting speakers with keynotes from Dr Dwight Turner on Twin tribes and intersectionality and Divine Charura & Colin Lago ‘Black Identities & White Therapies’: Race, Respect and Diversity. Abdullah Maynard is speaking on “Thinking differently about racism, refugees, and anger – (perhaps even
terrorism) in counseling and psychotherapy” and Sabnum Dharamsi on “Why I’m still talking to white people about race”
See link for full programme.

The Pomegranate Book Club
2022-04-22 18:30 - 19:30 UTC | online
A monthly book club for prospective and current Islamic Counselling Diploma Students on Friday evenings. Hosted by Mahjabin Choudhury, who is an Islamic Counselling and psychology graduate who has worked for MIND as a GP Counsellor in the BLMK area, as well as with The Lateef Project on counselling NHS staff during the pandemic.

Muslim Youth Helpline Training
2022-03-28 05:30 - 20:30 UTC | online

UKRAINE FUNDRAISER: Emergency Summit Contributing to Global Peace & Justice
2022-03-26 09:30 - 18:30 UTC | online
Join us on March 26 for UKRAINE FUNDRAISER: Emergency Summit Contributing to Global Peace & Justice
Register here
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ukraine-fundraiser-emergency-summit-contributing-to-globa l-peace-justice-tickets-289489409617
Give what you can!

Humayra Raouf Islamic Counsellor MBACP speaking tonight on Islam Channel
2022-01-18 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | online
Humayra Raouf live on the today show Islam Channel today 18th January at 7pm

British Psychological Society Conference on "Wellbeing: some insights into meanings and practices across cultures"
2021-10-22 10:00 - 16:00 UTC | online
Sabnum Dharamsi and Abdullah Maynard will be presenting at the conference above on:
How do Muslims survive and thrive within secular and prejudicial spaces?
Less heavily framed conceptions of well-being are a precursor for greater inclusivity, wherein clients can be multi-dimensional and balanced, rather than two-dimensional figures in the western imaginary. Abdullah Maynard and Sabnum Dharamsi will share their experiences of spiritual and socio-political realities in the teaching and practice of Islamic Counselling. In doing so we hope to touch on the nature of being, consciousness, belief, and how these primary concepts relate to Islam, a way of understanding reality shared by 1.6 billion people. We hope that this alternative perspective offers challenges to established thinking of wellbeing.
Excellent line up of speakers include Professor Zenobia Nadishaw, Andy Curtis-Payne and Audrey West.

Why is Islamic Counselling Different
2021-10-06 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | online
Sabnum Dharamsi and Ayesha Powell: Islamic Counsellors.
2pm BST https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/…/what-makes-islamic…

Muslim Mental Health Today
2021-08-26 11:00 - 12:30 UTC | online
The SFH Foundation is hosting a conversation on
Muslim Mental Health Today
https://youtu.be/DV5DdyQDwhg
26th August
12pm South Africa
11am UK
Between Muna Bilgrami, Yaquta Morton, Sabnum Dharamsi and Abdullah Maynard
This pilot podcast explores the dimensions of mental health, Islam and spirituality.
The current Covid pandemic period has brought a huge rise in the frequency and intensity of mental health issues – such as anxiety and depression. Our intention is to start a conversation by mapping out what mental health and spirituality may mean in 2021 during a pandemic for people of faith.
Some of the topics we will be covering are:
What is mental health? Naming the prevalent issues of our time including: trauma anxiety and depression
Intersections of religion, race, gender and spirituality with mental health
Guilt and shame
Spiritual Bypassing
Painful emotions and how to be with them
Traditional and emerging modalities for healing
Please note that we will not be addressing severe, clinical stages of mental health.
If you have questions which you would like to put forward during the course of the podcast, we will try to address them in a series of future podcasts. Your collaboration will help us create useful discussions that will insha’allah benefit all the listeners.
The participants
Facilitating this conversation is Muna who is completing a PhD on a contemporary Sufi master and his students, and has a background in publishing books on Islam, radio broadcasting and teaching.
Based in Sweden, Yaquta is a great-grandmother, and retired community health educator specializing in Traditional Chinese Medicine, QiGung, permaculture design and self-care.
Sabnum has spent a lifetime raising awareness around mental health, previously in the drugs and alcohol fields, race and social justice, HIV and AIDs, sex and relationships and holistic/spiritual well-being at the individual, community and research/strategic level. For many years now her primary focus is the development and teaching of accredited Islamic Counselling in Britain, the first courses of their kind.
With an extensive background in psychology and humanistic counselling, Abdullah has worked with NGOs and in the public sector with a number of central government departments in the UK. Abdullah wrote the 2007 Muslim Mental Health Scoping Report for the Department of Health and Social Care and is also the chairperson of the Lateef Project, a major Islamic counselling service whose work includes serving NHS key workers.

Muslim Mental Health Today
2021-08-23 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
“do not despair of Allah’s mercy” (Quran 39:53)

The SFH Foundation is hosting a conversation on
Muslim Mental Health Today
https://youtu.be/DV5DdyQDwhg
26th August
12pm South Africa
11am UK
Between Muna Bilgrami, Yaquta Morton, Sabnum Dharamsi and Abdullah Maynard
This pilot podcast explores the dimensions of mental health, Islam and spirituality.
The current Covid pandemic period has brought a huge rise in the frequency and intensity of mental health issues – such as anxiety and depression. Our intention is to start a conversation by mapping out what mental health and spirituality may mean in 2021 during a pandemic for people of faith.
Some of the topics we will be covering are:
What is mental health? Naming the prevalent issues of our time including: trauma anxiety and depression
Intersections of religion, race, gender and spirituality with mental health
Guilt and shame
Spiritual Bypassing
Painful emotions and how to be with them
Traditional and emerging modalities for healing
Please note that we will not be addressing severe, clinical stages of mental health.
If you have questions which you would like to put forward during the course of the podcast, we will try to address them in a series of future podcasts. Your collaboration will help us create useful discussions that will insha’allah benefit all the listeners.
The participants
Facilitating this conversation is Muna who is completing a PhD on a contemporary Sufi master and his students, and has a background in publishing books on Islam, radio broadcasting and teaching.
Based in Sweden, Yaquta is a great-grandmother, and retired community health educator specializing in Traditional Chinese Medicine, QiGung, permaculture design and self-care.
Sabnum has spent a lifetime raising awareness around mental health, previously in the drugs and alcohol fields, race and social justice, HIV and AIDs, sex and relationships and holistic/spiritual well-being at the individual, community and research/strategic level. For many years now her primary focus is the development and teaching of accredited Islamic Counselling in Britain, the first courses of their kind.
With an extensive background in psychology and humanistic counselling, Abdullah has worked with NGOs and in the public sector with a number of central government departments in the UK. Abdullah wrote the 2007 Muslim Mental Health Scoping Report for the Department of Health and Social Care and is also the chairperson of the Lateef Project, a major Islamic counselling service whose work includes serving NHS key workers.

IC and LP Presentation: Minds Matter
2020-10-29 00:00 - 23:59 (Europe/Moscow)
information to follow

The Search for a soulmate - limited seats available
2020-10-24 21:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Moscow) | Zoom
A free event for mothers with children of marriageable age in East Africa only.
TO REGISTER CONTACT
aftab@africafederation.org
+255 655 553 883/ +447791506386

Accredited Islamic Counselling Level 2
2020-09-29 10:00 - 2022-01-22 17:00 UTC | Zoom
The first stage in our progression route. Ends 22nd January

Our Progression Route in Islamic Counselling
2020-08-03 19:00 - 20:00 (Europe/London)

Islamic Counselling : The Open Evening
2017-07-21 | zoom, Rumi's Cave 26 Willesden Lane, London, United Kingdom
Join us for an informal evening at Rumi’s Cave in London where you can gain more knowledge about Islamic Counselling courses, speak to counsellors and students about their experiences and become familiar with the feel of an Islamic counselling course.
