Unit 1: Refining Self-Awareness

• Getting to know one another: Sharing our stories

  • Understanding what formed our personalities and made us who we are today.

  • Know your teachers: Amany will share her story.

• Introduction:

  • The differences between the work of a Hakima and the work of a psychologist, counselor, social worker, or life coach.

  • The difference between a regular conversation and a conversation with a Hakima.

  • Methodologies of spiritual assessment

• Understanding our feelings based on the vocabulary of the Holy Qur’an (joy, anger, sadness, desire, fear)

  • The Seven Levels of Anger: causes, purposes, and cures

  • The Seven Levels of Desires: causes, purposes, and cures

  • The Seven Levels of Fear: causes, purposes, and cures

  • The Seven Levels of Sadness: causes, purposes, and cures

• The spiritual purpose of relationships and Levels of Love

• The epistemic tools of acquiring knowledge

  • Sensation

  • Feelings

  • Reason

  • Imagination

  • Intuition

• The role of analogies and self-reflection in raising self-awareness

• Grief and Loss: understanding and intervention

• Crisis: understanding and intervention

• Death and Dying

  • Facilitating end of life reflections

  • Dealing with fear of death

  • Understanding advanced directives

• Understanding Group Dynamics

• Understanding the Seven Levels of Hell

• Understanding the Seven Levels of Heaven