What I can run for your group
I run sessions for masjids, madrasas, youth groups, community interest groups, charities and schools. Tell me what your young people need, and I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help.
#1 Amazon UK bestseller in three Young Adult categories, 4 September 2026.
90 minutes13–18
One idea, worked through properly.
Vibe Check
Knowing yourself from the inside: what you are actually made of, and what is really driving a decision. Once a teenager can see what is pulling on a choice, they can start making better ones.
Making It Stick
They have all decided to change something, and they all know how long it lasted. This is the part nobody teaches: how to build a plan you keep, so the decision survives the week after it.
Don’t Get Fooled
Not emotional intelligence. Situational intelligence: reading what is going on around you, and who is pulling you where. One chart, one advert and one viral reel, taken apart until each confesses what it was selling.
Let Me Handle This
Confidence, and not the loud kind. The habit of being the one who steps forward when something has gone wrong, taught as a move you practise rather than a personality you were born with.
Where the Day Goes
Time management. They pull apart the week they have just had, hour by hour. Nobody is told to get up earlier. They find the missing hours themselves.
When It Gets Hard
Grit. Not a thing you either have or you do not, but something you build, and the difference starts to matter the moment it stops being fun.
2 hours13–18, or 19–23
Remember Me: The Seminar
The whole book in one session: eight movements, one for each Part. Fast, funny where it should be, and built to make a room think rather than sit still. They leave with the map, and with the one thing the book is for: knowing how they actually work.
3 hours13–18, or 19–23
Long enough that they practise it in the room.
Before You Go
Getting ready for college or university, and making those years count rather than just surviving them. Relationships, stress, coursework, dealing with tutors, and running yourself when nobody is checking. The aim is to look back on them with pride rather than relief.
Introduction to AI
How to use AI at school without cheating, and how to use it to actually learn faster. What it is good at, what it quietly makes up, and where the line sits.
Say It Out Loud
Public speaking. It starts with standing up and keeping the nerves in check, and ends with being worth listening to. Prepared and impromptu, evaluated properly.
A Walking Dawah
Dawah in the West without a leaflet and without an argument. You are being read before you speak, so this is about what your conduct is already saying, and how to answer the questions non-Muslims actually ask, without apologising for the deen and without turning it into a debate.
Sell Something
Business acumen the way it actually gets learned. Live simulations, board games, and sometimes an afternoon out with a small float and something to shift. Model, margin and ethics, learned by losing money that is not real and occasionally making some that is.
For parents, not teenagersparents
For the father who wants to run his home with the same seriousness he runs everything else. Mothers welcome, and usually already there.
The Family Shura
A business with no meetings, no numbers and no plan would fold inside a year, and most homes are run on exactly that. This is the meeting that fixes it: the structure, the sheets, the talking page for each child, and the one rule that stops it turning into a telling-off. You leave able to run the first one that week, and knowing what you are actually measuring.
The Parents’ Boardroom
Every serious businessman has people he can put a problem to. Most fathers have nobody. This is a board of advisors for your own home: present the problem, take clarifying questions only, hear one suggested action from each person round the table, commit to one, and come back next month having done it. No advice-giving free-for-all. The format is the whole thing.
Questions organisers ask
- What does it cost?
- Nothing to me. I don’t take a fee for these. What I ask is that whoever hosts it charges the people coming, even a small amount, and keeps it. A room that paid to be there turns up, and stays. The money should go to the people who did the organising.
- Our programme is free. Can you still come?
- Then I am probably not the right fit, and I would rather tell you now than waste your time. A room that paid to be there turns up, and stays. It does not have to be much, and every penny of it stays with you, but it is the one condition I hold to.
- What about safeguarding?
- How I work with young people is written down, in plain English, and you can send it straight to your safeguarding lead. Read the policy. I work to your organisation’s policy first, and I will cooperate with any check you need to run.
- There are fourteen. Which one do we book?
- Don’t choose from the list. Tell me what your young people are actually struggling with, and I will tell you which one fits, or that none of them do.
- Will you deliver to girls as well as boys?
- Yes, both, in one session. What I ask is that they are naturally separated in the room, so they are not distracting each other.
- What do we get?
- All presentations are delivered through a slide deck, and worksheets where applicable.
- How many young people do you need?
- It depends on the session. I have run these for ten in a classroom and for a hundred and twenty in a library. Outside Leicester I ask for at least fifty.
- What do you need in the room?
- A screen or projector with something I can plug into, and tables the group can work around rather than rows of chairs. For a bigger room I will need a microphone. The worksheets are printed by you, so you will have them in good time.
- How much notice do you need?
- About a month. That is enough for your committee to agree it and for the worksheets to be printed.
- How far will you travel?
- Ask me. It depends on the date and where you are, and I would rather look at it properly than put a rule on a page.
- Do you have a DBS check?
- An enhanced check is not required for supervised visiting work, which is what this is, and I do not hold one. I will cooperate with any check your organisation wants to run.
- What do you get out of it?
- Nothing. This is part of giving back to my own community.
Could you do something for the young people where you are?
Look around your masjid this Friday. The man you nod to every week fixes cars. Somebody two rows back runs a business. Somebody else writes code, or teaches, or builds things for a living. You have prayed beside them for years and never once asked what they do.
So ask. Then get one of them to come and sit with a group of your young people for an hour, and tell them what they know.
Then a different one the month after. The teenagers where you live need it far more often than anyone is offering it, and they are never going to say so out loud.
It spreads faster than you would think. Somebody is an AI lead in a large corporate. Somebody is a dentist. There are people sitting in your own rows who hold serious titles and never mention them, and who would give something back tomorrow if anybody asked. Nobody has ever asked them.
And if there is nothing running near you at all, start one. You do not have to work out how. Here For Youth are a UK charity, and they help communities right across the country put a youth club into their own masjid. They have been doing it for years. Speak to them.