Honeycomb wellness wheel
Du’aa Moharram
Today's Roadmap
Today's Roadmap
learning objectives
Attendees will...
By the end of the training, attendees will... At the end of the training, attendees will...
analyze their ability to address Muslim students’needs before the Honeycomb Wellness Wheel is presented to them apply the Honeycomb Wellness Wheel to 3 examples of working with Muslim students create suggestions for the expansion of the Honeycomb Wellness Wheel due to examples of working with Muslim students
theory
Peek’s (2005) religious
identity development model
Intersectionality (Crenshaw, 1989)
students
students of faith &
their context in life
Spirituality: greatest predictor to sense of community to students of color (McIntosh, 2015)
Positionality (Zine, 2004)
why the honeycomb wellness wheel?
competency & care
Do you feel competent in caring for the needs of Muslim students?
Why or why not?
the woven fabric
Muslim community in the US is incredibly hetereogenous
Sect:
• Sunni
• Shia
• Ismaili
• Ahmadi
• Gender
• Sexuality
• Neurodiversity
• Dis/ability
Culturalbackground:
• Black/AfricanAmerican(28%)
• Asian(23%)
• White(19%)
• Arab(14%)
• Hispanic(8%)
• NativeAmerican(lessthan5%)
Goal:todevelopa stronginternal locusofcontrol context Islamophobia:
• unfounded hostility of Islam OR fear of Islam or Muslims, as a social group
• introduced in the late 80s, coinciding with a wave of immigration from Muslim-majority countries
Spiritual&religiousidentitymodel
• spirituality:subjectiveandinward aspectsoffaith
• religion:institutional&outward expressionsoffaith
Howcanwecontribute tothepsychological wellnessofMuslim students?
• faith:intersectionofreligion& spirituality
context
• CAIR: more than 8,000 reports of Islamophobia in 2023
• 56% increase from the previous year (Chavez, 2024)
Islamophobiaassociated withpoormentalhealth outcomes(Awad,2023)
• depression,anxiety
• lowself-esteem
Howcanwecontribute tothepsychological wellnessofMuslim students?
Myers et. al, 2000
hinchcliffe & wong, 2010
Els, D. A., & De la Rey, R. P., 2006
HONEYCOMB Wellness Wheel1.0
Bronfenbrenner, 1994; Main, 2023
• Identities: Black Muslim woman
⚬ Hijabi
• Experiences: anti-Blackness and Islamophobia
case studies
• Identities: nonbinary queer Muslim
• Experiences: homophobia and transphobia
• Identities: SouthAsian Muslim man
• Experiences: Islamophobia and racism
Salma Ali Aisha
suggestions
Expansions on the Honeycomb
conclusion
The work is not done; this is just the beginning of the resources that Muslim students need.
Continue to stay updated on the experiences of Muslim students through publications on Inside Higher Ed and the Chronicle of Higher Education
SPIRITUALITYMATTERS!
Thank you for listening!
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