Who should attend

You should attend if you work in a pastoral support setting or

provide advice or support to people on health & wellbeing issues

Mosques

Schools & Colleges

Chaplains

Counselling

Community workers

Community champions

NHS and social care staff

Quran & Emotional Health Seminar

This is a Free Event and only 50 places are

available:
For further information or to book a place, please contact:
Herbie McKenzie
Rochdale and District Mind
Mind Wellbeing Centre
3-11 Drake Street
Rochdale
OL16 1RE !
Tel: 01706 752 339
Email: bme@rochdalemind.org.uk

Providing Pastoral Support to Muslims and

Muslim Communities.
10.00am 1.30pm
Wednesday 25 February 2015
Castlemere Community Centre
Tweedale Street
Rochdale OL11 1

Quran & Emotional Health Seminars

This is the third and final seminar following the Quran and Emotional Health
(QEH) conference & Booklet launch in March 2014 that aimed to raise
awareness of mental health and enable better engagement with Muslims and
Muslim communities. This seminar is targeted at those who work specifically in
a pastoral support setting and aims to examine some of the cultural idiomatic
expressions and imagery used in communicating emotional wellbeing and how
these are understood within an Islamic context. The seminar will also examine
some of the challenges and opportunities in providing pastoral support that is
holistic and culturally competent. Some quotes from the QEH conference:
Our wellbeing depends on everyone else around us, in a symbiotic system where the
existence of one depends on the existence of another. This means we need a truly holistic
approach to wellbeing to support physical and mental health of the whole population, not
only the Muslim community Zaid Mohammad, Imam, Central Mosque Rochdale:
Islamic
understanding of mental illness is a long-standing tradition based on key principles
acknowledging that there is a spiritual part to the human being that needs to be taken
into consideration when deciding to provide therapy
When it
comes to treating mental health problems is a diverse society like the UK one must
recognise that one size does not fit all. A wide range of therapeutic interventions is
needed.

Programme
10:00:

Arrival and Registration

10:30:

Introduction & Chairs Opening Remarks

10:40:

The QEH Project & Booklet presentation

10:50:

Offering Pastoral Support within an Islamic Context:

Challenges and opportunities
Zaid Mohammad, Imam, Central Mosque Rochdale (TBC)

11:15:

BREAK

11.30

Mental Health & Wellbeing from an Islamic

Perspective.
Dr Asad Sadiq, Consultant Psychiatrist, Fairfield General Hospital, Bury

12:00:

Communicating Emotional Wellbeing: Cultural

Idiomatic Expressions and Imagery.
Speaker TBC

12:30:

Open Forum Discussion & Q&A

12:55:

Using the QEH Booklet

13:00:

CLOSE: Lunch and Networking

It is crucial
to provide systems of treatments that are coherent with an Islamic understanding of
emotional wellbeing.
Each delegate will receive a copy of the Booklet: The Quran & Emotional
Health: An Introduction, A Guide to Emotional Health & Wellbeing. This Booklet
aims to spread good practice and knowledge to better engage with local Muslim
groups and meet their emotional and mental health needs in a culturally
appropriate way.

Lunch and networking opportunities

Herbert McKenzie, BME Health & Wellbeing Team Manager