FAITH AND PSYCHOLOGY. Spirituality is the basis of the well-being of the individual and society

I All-Russian Festival with international participation

“FAITH and PSYCHOLOGY. Spirituality is the basis of the well-being of the individual and society”,

within the framework of the ongoing project “FAITH and PSYCHOLOGY”

We invite you to take part in the Festival, which will be held for the first time in Kazan on November 20, 2022, at the site of the Islamic Cultural Center named after Sh. Marjani, at 17 K. Nasiri Street (Al-Marjani Mosque building).

The festival is held in order to preserve and revive spiritual and moral values and cultural traditions through an appeal to faith as a fundamental basic value of a person and psychology, as a valuable resource in the implementation of spiritual and moral tasks.

Organizers (Founders) of the Festival:

  •  “Islamic Cultural Center named after Sh. Marjani” (Kazan);
  • “Center for Self-development and creativity of MIASSAROVA and BURGANOVA” (Kazan);
  • Creative studio “Gulzada” (Kazan).

 With the support of: The First Kazan Cathedral Mosque al-Marjani (Kazan),  International Women’s Union (Moscow); Association of Psychological Assistance to Muslims (Moscow); ANO VO “International Women’s Academy “AISHA” (Moscow); Psychological Center “4 life”; Volga Institute of Continuing Professional Education PINPO education (Kazan); Spiritual and educational portal Muslim.Kz (Astana, Kazakhstan); Women’s public organization “Association of Muslim Women of Crimea “Bullyur” – “Crystal” (Simferopol, Crimea).

The online publication “Embassy Life” acts as an information partner.

9:30 – Registration of participants. Lobby of the 1st floor of the Al-Marjani Mosque

9:20-9.45 Tour of the Al-Marjani Mosque for Speakers and guests. (Deputy Head of the “Islamic Cultural Center named after Sh. Marjani, Vice-President of the NGO “International Union of Women” – Farida Yusupovna Khuzina).

10:00 – Opening, welcome part – A large conference hall.

Moderator: Elmira Rustemovna Miassarova

Opening of the event: Imam-khatib of the Al-Marjani Cathedral Mosque, Head of the Sh. Marjani Islamic Cultural Center, Chairman of the Council of Elders of the Duma of the Republic of Tatarstan (Kazan) Mansur Talgatovich Dzhalyaletdinov.

Greetings:

Khuzina Farida Yusupovna, Vice-President of the  International Women’s Union (Moscow), Deputy Head of the “Islamic Cultural Center named after Sh. Marjani”, founder of the Festival, member of the Organizing Committee of the Festival (Kazan).

Pavlova Olga Sergeevna, Chairman of the Board of the Association of Psychological Assistance to Muslims, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Ethnopsychology and Psychological Problems of Multicultural Education of the Faculty of “Social Psychology” of the Moscow Psychological and Pedagogical University MGPPU, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences (Moscow).

Sedankina Tatiana Evgenievna, member of the Association of Psychological Assistance to Muslims, expert of the Scientific and Educational Theological Association (NOTA), Head of the Department of Systematic Theology of the Russian Islamic Institute, author of the educational course of the PC “Spiritually oriented Pedagogy and Psychology”, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences (Kazan).

Elmira Rustemovna Miassarova, Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Festival, initiator of the author’s Project “FAITH and PSYCHOLOGY”, member of the Association of Psychological Assistance to Muslims, teacher of advanced training courses in psychology at the Volga Institute of Continuing Professional Education (PINPO), independent interdisciplinary researcher, practicing spiritually oriented, multicultural consultant, Ph.D. (Kazan).

Video greeting: Niyara Dzhanbazova, Director of the Bullyur Charitable Foundation, Head of the Bullyur Public Association of Muslim Women of Crimea, Head of social and cultural and leisure projects for Muslim women of Crimea (Simferopol, Crimea)

Video greeting: Syshchenko Tatiana (Aisha) Valeryevna editor of the spiritual and educational portal Muslim.kz of the Republican Mosque “Hazret Sultan”, consultant of the United Nations Population Fund on gender equality, combating violence against women and preserving motherhood and childhood (Astana, Kazakhstan)

11:00-12:00 – Professional Networking (Large conference hall)

Moderators: Guliya Damirovna Burganova, Elmira Rustemovna Miassarova

Greeting: Gulnaz Erikovna Akhmetzyanova, head of the psychological center “4Life”, member of the Association of Psychological Assistance to Muslims, head of educational programs of the Volga Institute of Continuing Professional Education (PINPO), author of transformational games, practical/clinical psychologist (Kazan)

Presentation of the Speakers of the Festival

Headliner: Yakhin Filius Flurovich, Candidate of Law, Head of the Bashkortostan representative Office of the Association of Psychological Assistance to Muslims, Director of Intel-lex LLC, practical/clinical psychologist (Ufa)

Workshop with presentation of the author’s method “AYA-therapy: “Quranic images and stories as tools of therapy and counseling” (Small conference hall)

12:00-12:30 – Namaz, coffee break

12:30–14:00

Headliner: Creative meeting “About the spiritual in art” with Rustem Khuzin, member of the Union of Artists of the Russian Federation and RT (Large conference Hall)

Speakers:

Barieva Maryam Natalia Yusufovna, Vice-Rector of the AISHA International Women’s Academy, member of the Board of the Association for Psychological Assistance to Muslims, coordinator of the hotline of the Association for Psychological Assistance to Muslims and the All-Russian Hotline for Muslims, psychologist, crisis psychologist (Moscow)

Master class “Resource state: psychological self-help skills” (Round hall, 2nd floor)

Elmira Rustemovna Miassarova, Ph.D., member of the Association of Psychological Assistance to Muslims, head of the “Center for Self-Development and Creativity of MIASSAROVA and BURGANOVA”, consultant of the “Center for Psychology and Creativity “Jasmine”, leading author’s courses of the center “4 life”, teacher of advanced training courses in psychology PINPO, practicing clinical (medical) psychologist, psychotherapist (not medical), multicultural, spiritually oriented consultant, existential analyst, certified in “Etheric psychology” aroma practitioner (Kazan)

Master class of the author’s method using the resource of essential oils and art therapy in solving spiritual problems “Aroma-art synthesized practice in working with the existential “I”: “To the world of the soul through the soul of a flower” (Round hall, 1st floor)

Makhmutova Rezeda Gilmutdinovna, Candidate of I. N., member of the Association of Psychological Assistance to Muslims, Associate Professor of the Department of Conflictology of KPFU (Kazan)

Mediation Workshop “Conflict Resolution: Value-spiritual aspects” (Small Conference Hall)

Burganova Guliya Damirovna coach, Director of the “Center for Self-development and Creativity of MIASSAROVA and BURGANOVA” (Kazan)

Workshop “How to stop suffering and find peace” (additional room, 1st floor)

14:00-15:30 – Lunch for speakers

14:00–15:30

Headliner: Immersive performance in the Japanese style “Rakugo”. Psychodramatic action with the participation of female viewers from Ruzana Khusnutdinova, screenwriter, director, founder of the creative association “Distant People” and the play of the same name “Distant People”, which was attended by 1,700 people from different cities of Russia, director of the film “Coolness of the Eyes”, which became the winner at the International Festival of Muslim Cinema in the nomination “Best National Film” 2021 (Kazan). (Large conference room)

15:30-16:00 – Namaz, coffee break

16:00–17:30

Headliner: Alina Faskheeva, author of poetry collections, head of the literary and poetic association “Kasyda” (Kazan)

Creative meeting “On the spiritual potential of creativity” (Large conference hall)

Speakers: Bayirova Zeineb Muzafarovna, Director of the FMJA “Resource Center”, member of the Board of the Association of Psychological Assistance to Muslims, theologian, psychodramatotherapist, (Simferopol, Crimea)

Psychodramatic workshop “Roots – a conversation with the past. Working with family history in psychodrama” (Round Hall, 2nd floor)

Akhmetzyanova Gulnaz Erikovna, clinical psychologist, non-medical psychotherapist, author of transformational games, member of the Association of Psychological Assistance to Muslims, head of the psychological center “4 Life”, teacher of PINPO (Kazan)

A workshop from the author of transformational games for finding optimal solutions, overcoming personal crises and difficult situations “The possibilities of transformational games in working with personal customer requests on the example of T-games “Integrity. Movement to the dream” and “He and she. Movement towards each other” (Round Hall, 1st floor)

Natalia Laukart, member of the Association of Psychological Assistance to Muslims, co-founder of the women’s club “VesNa”, head of educational work at a private family school (Ulyanovsk); Aleeva Venera Nailevna co-founder of the women’s club “VesNa” (Ulyanovsk)

Workshop: “Finance, self-realization of women in Islam” (Small Hall)

Sergey Zyazin, Director of ANO NPCC “Moderation and Creation”, Rector of ANO VO “International Women’s Academy “AISHA”, member of the Board of the Association of Psychological Assistance to Muslims, consultant psychologist (Moscow)

Workshop “Transformation of destructive feelings into a resource state or how to tame your anger” (additional room 1st floor)

17:30 – 19:00

Tarasevich Irina (Sobira) Rudolfovna, Master of Psychology, member of the Association of Psychological Assistance to Muslims, certified process-oriented psychologist (Kazan)

Sand art therapy master class on light tables by Sand-art method “Grains of sand in the palms” (Large conference hall)

Avdoshina Ekaterina Vladimirovna, practicing fairy tale therapist, expert in the field of communications (Kazan)

Master class “Fairy tale therapy as a tool of self-knowledge” (Round hall 2nd floor)

Markova Maria Igorevna, art therapist (technique of T.Y. Koloshina), specialist in neurography, consultant of the Center for Psychology and Creativity “Jasmine” (Kazan)

Art therapy workshop “Arabesque as an art therapy tool for the harmonization of psycho-emotional state” (Round hall, 1st floor)

Nikolay Strakhov, Master of Psychology, MSPPU, practicing psychologist, multicultural consultant, ethnopsychologist (Moscow)