Qawwamoon: Protectors & Maintainers

Join us in a discussion on how we can create safer processes for reporting abuse.

This event is a collaboration between Al-Meezan and SACRED body:mind:space and their research partner The Markfield Institute, Centre for the Study of Wellbeing.

Keynote Speaker: Dr Rahmanara Chowdhury

Dr Rahmanara Chowdhury is a Chartered Psychologist and Course Lead for Islam and Pastoral Care at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education. She completed her undergraduate studies in Ergonomics at Loughborough University. She has a Masters in Psychology from Nottingham Trent University and completed her PhD exploring Domestic Violence and Abuse in the UK Muslim population, at Brunel University London. She is the author of ‘Qawwamoon; Protectors and Maintainers’, and ‘Road to Recovery’, Ta Ha Publishers and is the Head of the newly formed MIHE Centre for the Study of Wellbeing. Her research interests focus on minorities and facilitating understanding of nuanced needs with sensitive topics such as domestic violence and abuse, spiritual abuse, forensic mental health and intersectionality. She is an associate fellow of the international association for Islamic Psychology.

Other Speakers

Maariyah Adam: Founder & Managing Director, Sacred body:mind:space

Mahrukh Adnan-Shaukat: Director, Sacred body:mind:space

This is a FREE online event, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/qawwamoon-protectors-and-maintainers-tickets-430850203557

For further enquiries please contact:

info@sacredbms.org.uk or 07989 436 603.