The Three Hijabis create and develop bespoke anti-racism training for groups, teams, and organisation through dialogue and discussion to meet the needs of individuals and organisations.
Our approach is building tools to tackle oppression that enable a detailed understanding how systems of oppression and power intersect and overlap to create harms.
Training includes:
Exploring and understanding the roots and history of racism and how it manifests.
Anti-Racism: How to proactively challenge racism and start building an open, accountable and inclusive culture.
Creating a courageous and compassionate workplace and organisations to drive change.
Complimentary Therapeutic approaches to facilitating workshops, reflective spaces, coaching and mentoring.
Together we have decades of experience in mentoring people, specialising on working with senior leaders, marginalised people, especially women and women of colour.
We believe in the power of pulling people up and building their potential and confidence, increasing their resilience – to open up new pathways for them to flourish.
In 2023 we launched Ra7hma Safe Space, a regular reflective online gathering to support Muslim women living in the UK, Europe, North America and the Asian sub-content, who work in the social justice and education fields so they can share their experiences of Islamophobia in the workplace and in their professionals, and build peer networks.
Amna Abdullatif is a qualified international coach and speaker and is an experienced trainer and facilitator on equalities issues.
Shaista Aziz is a senior communications and campaign specialist and a trained Therapeutic Counsellor who regularly carries out complimentary therapeutic counselling through working 1:1 with people through coaching, facilitation and group work. She works on systems change.
Huda Jawad is a transformational systems practitioner who works with organisations and their systems to ‘bake in’ inclusivity, liberatory practice and makes power visible.
We offer a range of consultancy services focused on creating systems change and enabling organisations to create inclusive, anti-racist and healthy work cultures.
Our work is carried out through an intersectional lens and focused on making long term systemic change.
This work is co-created with organisations and clients to support the needs of individuals and organisations with the aim of helping them become more courageous and bolder at naming what is happening, what is not working and what needs to change.
The Three Hijabis believe generalised EDI practices can often create further harm only scratch the surface and do not enable the depth and level of transformative change that is needed in workplaces and in teams and organisations.
Consultancy work includes:
Power analysis: Examining power structures in systems, and how systems uphold societal oppression.
Creating protected spaces for dialogue and supervision.
Facilitating courageous conversations and creating action plans for systems change.
Campaigning is in our DNA! We successfully campaigned to galvanise 1.2 M people to sign our anti-racism petition to hold racists accountable for weaponising the beautiful game, our game, football.
Since then we have taken our campaign to parliament and inside the hallowed halls of the Football Association (FA), the Premier League, and spoken on panels across the UK and internationally, to build a mass community of anti-racist activists.
Our campaign has led us to speaking at schools across the country on anti-racism and the Three Hijabis ending up on the RE curriculum.
We’ve spoken about gendered Islamophobia and creating a vision of hope and inclusion in sports and cultural spaces.
Our Football for the Future Fanzine making workshops have further captured the imagination of football fans to dream of creating a game that really reflects our anti-racist values and community of change makers.
We’ve spoken on numerous platforms and venues including the National Football Museum in Manchester and delivered a workshop on anti-racism, Islamophobia and opening up football to more Muslim girls and women, at Manchester City Football Club.
In 2022, together with our feminist sisters at Level Up and End Violence Against Women (EVAW) Coalition, we successfully campaigned to change Premier League policy to introduce mandatory sexual consent training across all top flight clubs and for all staff. We are still working on ensuring all our campaign asks are implemented.
You can read our open letter with our demands here.
We run campaign workshops for organisations to better equip themselves with the tools needed to build communities that create change.
We work to change the narrative, and create space in the media and on public platforms to ensure more representative voices and stories are heard – that better reflect plurality wider society. We believe that it’s through storytelling that we connect with each other and understand the world better.
The Three Hijabis have impact because we know how to tell compelling stories that centre peoples’ agency and bring people together, through our shared passion of football, sports and culture.
Over the past four years we have successfully occupied space in local, national and international media to tell a powerful story of the Three Hijabis anti-racism movement, galvanising more than 1.2M to sign our petition and demand football tackles racism. We have also amplified our work and commitment to tackling misogyny and sexism in sport through the media and successfully campaigning to change Premier League policy on introducing mandatory sexual consent training across all Premier League Clubs and for all staff.
The Three Hijabis have featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, CNN, Aljazeera, and multiple print and broadcast media.
MEDIA TRAINING
The Three Hijabis offer bespoke media training and spokespeople training. Our co-Director Shaista Aziz is a trained journalist with more than twenty years experience of working as a reporter, producer and writer and has worked for the BBC, Aljazeera, CNN and regularly writes for the Guardian and other publications and broadcasts across a number of channels.
We specialise in media training underrepresented groups and individuals and offer training online and in person.
