Creative Sumud Resilience Workshop: Reflect and Create 

📍 USYD Campus, Cadigal Green (offline)
💻 Online via International Students of Islamic Psychology, Zoom Meeting ID: 814 8007 8868
⏰ Thu 2 Oct 2025 | 2–5 PM AEST
🎟 Free | Registration Required | All Welcome

✨ A hybrid gathering of reflection, creativity, and resilience — connecting with nature, art, culture, and faith while celebrating steadfastness (صمود).

What’s Happening:

🎤 We are honoured to welcome Sister Asma Dais (@evolved.minds.counselling), who will guide us through reflections on healing, resilience, and faith. With her experience in counselling and community care, she helps us explore how steadfastness (sumud) can be nurtured not only in times of struggle but also in everyday life — offering tools for inner strength, emotional balance, and spiritual growth.

🌿 Talk: Faith-based pathways to resilience

📄 Reflective Question Handouts to deepen your self-discovery

💬 Interactive Q&A Session — bring your reflections, curiosities, and challenges
Submit any questions for Sister Asma Dais in advance https://form.svhrt.com/68d50c32025899142541bff0

Collective Creativity & Expression 

🎨 Painting (canvas, t-shirts, cardboards, pebbles, etc.)
🧵 Tatreez pattern tracing (embroidery motifs)
⛵ Origami Boat flotilla of hope 
✍ Calligraphy, Poetry & Spoken Word
🧩 Sumud Collage Wall

Offline: Brushes, Acrylic paints, origami papers, color pencils provided
Online: Join Livestream, submit artworks via email oceania@isip.foundation

💬 Reflections & sharing
🤲🏽 Final duʿa
🍃 Light, zero-waste refreshments

✅ Principles

• Personal reflection 🧘🏽

• Empowerment through creativity 🎨

• Critical awareness ✊

• Spiritual grounding 🌙

• Empathy & connection 💞

✅ Bring With You

Own art materials if you’d like to create something specific (optional), Water bottle & light snack, Weather-appropriate clothing

🌱 Takeaways: Tools to improve resilience, resilience through creativity, compassion in healing, and collective strength.

✨ Let’s reflect, create, and celebrate resilience together.

📅 Thu 2 Oct 2025 | 2:00–5:00 PM (UTC+10)
📍 University of Sydney – Cadigal Green
💻 Online: www.isip.foundation

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