Supporting Muslim Families
” The training was led in such great and sensitive way; providing a really useful and engaging variety of direct experiences and emotional accounts, alongside lots of really informative factual information, cultural and religious insight. Thank you SO much Manisha, and I’ll look forward to Level 2!”
Training on exploring how to support Muslim families as well as the role of healthcare and perinatal practitioners in offering culturally aligned care.
This is a 7-hour training, either delivered over 2 half-days or a full day, exploring the impact of Islam on perinatal practices as well as the role of healthcare and perinatal practitioners in offering culturally competent care. This will be an interactive and reflective workshop discussing:
- Basics of Islamic beliefs and Muslims
- Differences between culture and faith
- Impacts on maternity care
- Family dynamics
- How to support Muslim families during birth and the postnatal period
- Contraception & fertility treatment
- Miscarriage and infant loss.
- Perinatal mental health
About This Training
Who Is It For?
This training is for anyone who supports families during pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and postnatal recovery; e.g. maternity & neonatal staff, perinatal psychologists/counsellors, doulas, infant feeding practitioners, health visitors, antenatal/hypnobirthing teachers and anyone else who works within the perinatal field.
About The Trainer:
This training has been created and will be delivered by Manisha Sheth, co-founder of Support ME Maternal Project CIC and the Muslim Village Lead. Manisha has had lived experience of birth trauma and postnatal depression & anxiety and has spent the last several years helping to improve equitable perinatal care.
As well as running Support Me, Manisha is an experienced Cultural Safety trainer and perinatal Advocate for marginalised families. She now focuses on training within Support Me as well as her work as a Perinatal and Child-loss Counsellor, helping to reduce stigma and improve services for Muslim and South Asian families.
She has developed this programme as a practising Muslim, through her own lived experience and through the stories of those in her community. This will not be a lecture or a talk, but instead an engaging and reflective workshop through discussions and exercises; leaving you with a productive outlook on how to work with Muslim families in a culturally safe way. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions and explore specific scenarios in a safe and non-judgmental space.
” Manisha made it feel like a really safe place and non-intimidating topic. You could see the genuine passion she has for this area and I would highly recommend the course. It covered the basics but in a really informative way. “
