Amina MWRC would like to invite you as a member of our community to work on solutions for better safeguarding in religious spaces. This event is in association with SACRED body:mind:space and their research partner The Markfield Centre for the Study of Wellbeing.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rahmanara Chowdhury

Dr. Rahmanara will share her reflections on the impact of spiritual abuse on faith and our communities. She 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.

The Event

We hope to gather ideas for actions we as organisations working on or with this issue can take to promote healthy communities and make reporting accessible when anything goes wrong.

If you are unable to attend, you can take part by filling in this survey: https://bit.ly/3M1ZFcV

Note: This event is not for survivor support but solution-focused. Examples from participants’ experiences however are welcome. The session will not be recorded.

Abuses in Spiritual Contexts