Spiritual Healing & Counseling for Individuals, Couples, Families and Communities is taught by:
Nura Laird MEd, Susan Rahima Schmall PhD, and John Abd Al Qadr Davies, PhD.
The Prophetic understanding of health, as put forth by Sidi al-Jamal, teaches us that true health and wholeness come from proper relationships with Allah, ourselves, our families, loved ones and community. This masters program will show you how to face Allah in most facets of your life and how to help others to do so. It’s good for people who want personal healing, relationship healing, or want to work with those people.
In this Masters you will receive:
Knowledge: an advanced understanding of how to apply the Sufi teachings to assist people in regaining health and wholeness, individually and within their families and relationships.
Skills: to identify a Prophetic understanding of ill health & separation, to re-establish health, and to restore love to damaged or compromised relationships.
Walking/spiritual development: advancement and acceleration of your journey to Allah through your role as healer and spiritual counselor, and an ability to help others in their journey.
Spiritual Healing & Counseling for Individuals, Couples, Families and Communities Course Descriptions and Credits
881 Development of the Healer as an Instrument in Allah’s Hand (17 Hours)
This course complements the core curriculum and brings students deeper into being the hands, eyes, ears and tongue of Allah. Students are helped to clear their own issues that interfere with receiving clear guidance and with giving what is needed for effective healing of another person. They learn how to contain strong energies in themselves and others.
882 Use of the Qu’ran, Qualities and Healing Prayers (16 Hours)
In this class students learn the use of surahs, qualities and traditional prayers used for healing to help dispel influences that cause illness and bring their people face to face with Allah.
883 How to Analyze Subtle Influences that Affect Health and Well-Being (15 hours)
Students develop their ability to perceive subtle influences on the body, learning how to use their perceptions to direct a person into a deeper connection with Allah, and hence a deeper sense of health and well being. This course offers students an understanding of the qualities and roles of the female and male and how to help individuals hold the love in relationship.
884 Prophetic Perspectives on the Creation of Illness (15.75 hours)
In this class, students learn how sickness arises, describing the role of the nafs (ego) in the creation of illness and how to purify them. They articulate the relationship between spirit and body, determine how the heart is a mirror of the world and the relevance of this to healing. They do case studies on people with a variety of illnesses, researching the Western understanding of the disease and then learning through direct experience how these illnesses are held in the body, heart and soul.
885 Relationships in the Sufi Way (39.75 hours)
Relationships are an essential fact of life for everyone, and they can be our greatest challenge, and our strongest vehicle in our journey to Allah. When we learn how to move through the pitfalls or “deal breakers” in our relationships, we discover the healing, transformative nature of Allah’s love, and we ultimately come to know ourselves and our Lord. This course addresses:
• How relationships travel through the four worlds
• Communication skills through the four worlds; listening as a healing modality
• Turning from separation to connection
• Love-our source & our goal; developmental stages of love
• Relationships in the way of the Prophet (pbuh)
• Tawba and reconciliation
• Mirrors: what manifests to you is from you and for you and is you
886 Peacemaking in the Sufi Way (24 hours)
The Sufi peacemaker integrates mediation and Sufi healing methods in order to transform conflict in relationships and within groups so that wholeness is restored. The Sufi peacemaker is a healer who helps those involved return to love and unity.
887 Healing Families, Organizations & Communities through Sulha and Shura (22 hours)
Sulha (reconciliation) is a traditional Islamic approach to community peacebuilding that is used with families, groups, and communities to move beyond reaction, separation, blame or violence, and toward deeper love, partnership, integrity and authenticity. Shura (consent decision making) is a traditional Islamic approach to integrative decision making that draws on divine wisdom as reflected through all group members, leading to wiser decisions, deeper trust and stronger community. Both of these heart-centered processes are effective across many cultures and contexts.
888 Zawiyah (40 hours)
Personal retreat allows students to develop their heart and their character to become the instrument in Allah’s hands and therefore enabling them to be more effective healers and peacemakers.
889 Individual and Group Mentoring (6 hours)
Students receive personal direction in working with others, in walking others through conflict, with an eye toward further development of their skills in holding hearts, verbal and non-verbal communication, ability to read subtle energy, ability to align, connect and discharge an energy, and their use of healing prayers and qualities in healing. They are guided in the development and application of their peacemaking skill set, in crafting their peacemaking service project(s), and in their soul’s journey into the world of Allah, so that they truly embody Allah’s qualities in their role as healers and peacemakers.
890 Practicum (110 hours)
The student group works together to create and facilitate a residential intensive healing experience for a group of participants who are interested in deepening their sense of well-being by developing a closer relationship with Allah. Students will have a chance to integrate their skills from all their coursework and receive mentoring on their healing and facilitation during the experience. This course also provides the opportunity for fieldwork in a wide range of humanitarian, healing and peacemaking projects with a focus on integration of Sufi principles. It includes journaling, supervision and a master’s thesis in the form of a final written paper, project or presentation.
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