Bio & Professional Background
Dr. Fatima Hendricks is an interdisciplinary decolonial scholar (B.OT, BAHIS, MBA, MS AIM, MA ITEP, OTD, OTR/L) currently progressing the understanding of human occupation in occupational science. She is particularly interested in Muslim human occupations through a decolonial lens. In her research, she draws on Multiplex Ontology and Epistemology (Senturk, 2020) and Islamic Spirituality (Ninowy, 2021).
Fatima is an Occupational Therapist working in program planning and community mental health and well-being.
Her doctoral scholarly work (OTD) was in authentic leadership development, and she continues to develop leadership camps and youth summits as the format for doing so. She is invested in intergroup dialoguing and is a professional international trainer/facilitator. Her current PhD is in understanding human occupation through Islamic Ontology and Epistemology.
Fatima dedicates her time to research, teaching/facilitating and consulting. She has international career experience spanning 25 years in a diversity of health, education, FMCG and retail settings in Africa, the Middle East and North America.
In her work within the decolonial praxis of action and reflection, she wrestles and toils with many others in recovering, restoring, renewing, rediscovering, and re-articulating rich and diverse perspectives for rich meaning-making, delinking from the imposition of colonial logic as a consequence of colonialism (Mignolo & Walsh, 2018).
Fatima's community service is in philanthropy, creative story telling with children, and people development through coaching/mentorship.
On a personal level, Fatima is a survivor of Guillain Barre, having spent 30 days on life support, 40 days in ICU, 4 months in hospital and 18 months in rehabilitation. She is also a cancer survivor having undergone radical surgery and chemotherapy. Fatima draws on spiritual practices for health and well-being and shares her journeying with many others from whom she learns.
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