In My Own Skin Facilitator Feedback

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In My Own SkinFacilitator Feedback

• CCMW Annual Conference
• Montreal, Canada

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Facilitators

• Azmina Ladha Vancouver
• Zainab Roya Vancouver
• Mina Khan Calgary
• Sabina Sayed Calgary
• Salma Walji Calgary
• Rania El Saadi Edmonton
• Sihaam Khan Toronto
• Beenash Jafri - Toronto
• Zainum Bahadshah - Victoria

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What We FoundCalgary

• Great piloting of brother/sister participant
  combos.
• Evident need to build relationships/ trust among
  Muslim women first.
• Tough to get participants out due to
• Local politics and lack of affiliation with
  Muslim youth women groups.

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What We FoundEdmonton

• Good turn out and response
• Able to leverage local CCMW chapter contacts with
  women
• More work needed to build solid network and
  community of young Muslim women.

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What We FoundVancouver

• Positive reception by participants
• Participants were primarily friends and family of
  facilitators
• Tough to get participants out due to
• Lack of links with Mosques, Muslim Student Assoc.
  and
• Lack of local awareness of CCMW work within
  these circles.

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What We FoundVictoria

• Were able to leverage existing youth Muslim women
  group.
• Good turn-out at first 2 workshops.
• Lower attendance at last 2 due to timing (exams)
  community issues
• Nice balance of traditional and liberal
  Muslim women (and conversation that showed these
  stereotypes were just stereotypes).

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What We FoundToronto

• Different groups at each workshop students
  women in 20s/30s
• Liked video appreciated chance to discuss these
  issues openly.
• Felt more diversity in participation and
  representation in video needed
• Need for more radical analysis of issues facing
  Muslim women in the future.

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What Worked

• Safe, all-women environment
• Food, comfortable setting
• Co-facilitation!
• Video good conversation starter
• Workbook allowed easy preparation
• Relevant topics
• Social opportunity for young Muslim women to
  connect and discuss issues
• Good public speaking/presentation skill practice
  for participants

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What Didnt

• Getting participants out on cold-call advertising
  (you had to have contacts)
• Solutions arrived at werent always applicable to
  real-life
• Discussing sensitive topics when high levels of
  trust not already established
• Video wasnt as relevant to younger women
  (16-18yrs)
• Feedback from most cities indicated more diverse
  representation of Cdn Muslim women needed.

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Recommendations

• Create video of teens and their issues.
• Re-word questions that appear biased.
• Provide report template for facilitator use post
  workshops.
• Formally organize facilitator networking (i.e.
  required monthly check-ins).
• First build community amongst Muslim youth women
  then run workshops.
• Link with other local groups serving target
  population --gt promote CCMW image increase
  support of its work.

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Future of In My Own Skin OUR SUGGESTIONS

• Book Club, List-serves, Networking Events
  following workshops -gt create networks and
  sustain relationships amongst participants.
• New Kit, New Scenarios that bring Canadian Muslim
  Youth together (women and men). We both have a
  part in the problems Canadian Muslim women face
  (i.e. violence against women) so both need to be
  a part of the solution.