What the Personal Development Industry Is Really Built On, and Why Every Muslim Woman Needs to Know
Who Is This Talk For
This talk is for the Muslim woman who is serious about her deen and has also been exposed to, trained in, or is currently using the tools and frameworks of the personal development and coaching industry.
It is for the woman who has sensed that something is wrong but has not yet had the language to name it.
It is for the Muslim woman who coaches, who is considering coaching, or who has invested in coaching and walked away with a quiet sense of contradiction she could not fully explain.
It is for the woman who wants to understand what she has been exposed to before she goes any further.
What This Talk Is About
The personal development industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world and Muslim women are entering it in large numbers, as clients, as coaches, and as students of its frameworks and certifications.
What most of them do not know is what that industry is actually built on.
This is not a conversation about whether certain tools are useful or whether the industry has good intentions. This is a conversation about the philosophical foundation the entire industry rests on, where it comes from, what it assumes about the human being, the source of her problems, and how change actually happens.
When that foundation is examined against what Allaah has established in the Qur'aan and the Sunnah, the contradiction is not minor and it is not a matter of interpretation. It is fundamental.
In this talk you will understand what the personal development industry is actually built on at its root. You will understand where specifically that foundation contradicts tawheed. And you will understand why that contradiction produces the confusion, the spiritual stagnation, and the sense of displacement that many Muslim women experience when they attempt to grow inside these frameworks while holding onto their deen.
This talk does not offer motivation.
It offers clarity.
And it is that clarity that every Muslim woman who has been exposed to this industry needs before she takes another step inside it.
Entry is free