The program endeavors to familiarize a group of handpicked young, enthusiastic individuals on the various activities and the functions carried out within Discover Islam.

The Internship Program is an extended in-depth version of the Darkness to Light Workshop. The workshop only touches upon certain key aspects and indicators of a healthy Islamic/Da'wah Organization, a glimpse, or a teaser on what Discover Islam has to offer on sharing Know-how. The Internship Program provides a deep dive opportunity for each of those aspects. 

The Program invites applications from interested people across the world to register for the 6-8 week program, and gives them the access to see firsthand, the practices and successes of Discover Islam and its various departments.  

The participants are taken through a combination of highly interactive fun concept sessions and immersive practical activities to given interns a deep dive experience within an Islamic organization.  

INTRODUCTION TO THE SESSIONS

The Internship is an immersion technique ofintroducing the ideas and best practices for running an Islamic Organization. Here are some of the sessions incorporated into the Internship Program.

MIND EXPERIMENT

In order to set the right mindset of the delegates that they need to maintain throughout the workshop, this interactive session will open new avenues of thought processes and instill out of box thinking for all of tasks that are performed by an Islamic Organization. This would revolutionize the way every topic, issue, problem or challenge is handled and how a fresh perspective helps better understand the situation at hand.

DA’WAH – A MARKETING APPROACH & SWOT

This will deal with looking at changing mindsets with regards to how we look at Da’wah as a function and a core operation of an Islamic Organization, introduce a paradigm shift in how we measure success and set short- and long-term goals for the same. If the expectations from our Da’wah endeavors take on the professionalism observed in the Corporate world, our mindset in dealing with the tasks needs to be on the same wavelength. This session tells us how that could be achieved. In order to achieve that understanding of the goals, current processes need to be measured. This is done through a generic analysis of all of the goals.

Based on these ideas, a task is given to the delegates to run specific analyses and come up with ideas on how their processes, tasks and goals could be fine-tuned to achieve higher productivity.

CHALLENGES FACED BY AN ISLAMIC ORGANIZATION

This session is an interactive one, that helps identify the various challenges that people who work for Islamic Organizations face. Every problem that the organization faces could be broadly classified into categories, and once that is done, a generic solution could be found for each of these categories. This session helps unravel that mode of classification.

VOLUNTEERISM

This session is interactive, and it explains the underlying principles of volunteerism and how to attract and retain volunteers. It delves deep into the psyche of human behavior and bring out simple concepts that motivate volunteers. It outlines the importance of a key behavioral theory, and how it could be used to explain the people’s attitudes to volunteerism as an idea.

FUNDRAISING

This session is an interactive one and it explains the underlying principles of Fundraising and what motivates donors to donate to a cause.

➢     What goes on in the mind of donor when a proposal is offered?

➢     Why would donor agree to the proposal?

➢     Why would he reject it?

➢     This session includes a simulation to illustrate these principles.

CONVEY OR CONVERT

This is a groundbreaking session in terms of breaking stereotypes on how Islamic organizations think and work. These ideas will revolutionize the question asked in the topic and how one should answer it. The subtle changes in the way we think about this subject will help improve quality and productivity in our endeavors.

STRATEGIC THINKING

This session incorporates ideas on how changing the way one thinks in general, will affect all aspects of one’s life and productivity.

➢     What are those changes?

➢     How does one analyze what one does in order to bring about those changes?

This session will answer those questions and more.

TYPICAL DA’WAH CONVERSATION

This session will take the delegates through a journey on what constitute the important elements of a typical Da’wah conversation. It will bring to light the flow of what Da’ees use when speaking to Non-Muslims and how it affects the listeners to change their world view and life.

SPOF (SPEAKING TO PEOPLE OF FAITHS) – ATHEISM, CHRISTIANITY

These are carefully planned breakout sessions designed to provide information relevant to specific groups and regions. The delegates will be divided into smaller groups, and each of these groups will get an opportunity to sit with Da’ees who have some experience dealing with these faith persuasions. They will get the opportunity to have discussions and share ideas, thoughts, and common tactics used by Da’ees at Discover Islam and around the world.

PRINCIPLES OF NEW MUSLIM CARE

This session will shed light on the journey Discover Islam took to define and provide effective New Muslim Care to New Muslims. This was a long and arduous journey, and the end result was excellent. The principles that underline that system could be adapted anywhere in the world to suit any situation or circumstance.

DISCOVER ISLAM NEW MUSLIM CARE SYSTEM

The entire process of How New Muslim Care works in Discover Islam will be outlined and explained in this session. This will provide a baseline for how NMC systems could be devised in various countries.

POINT OF SHAHADAH

This is an interactive session that describes the happenings around a point that a person takes Shahadah and the psychology of a New Muslim.

ORGANIZATIONAL CHALLENGES

This is also a fun interactive, activity-based session that allows delegates to learn a key skill that is an indispensable weapon in the arsenal of one who works in an Islamic Organization. The activity will drive home this skill perfectly, and you will be able to gather the thought processes that are essential to this skill.

1. The applicant must be between the age of 22 - 45 years
2. The applicant must be an active member of an Islamic Organization
3. The applicant must be fluent in English language (reading & writing)
4. The applicant must have basic Computer Skills (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
5. The applicant must be willing to do a project for Discover Islam Bahrain and for their respective Organizations
6. The applicant must be committed for the complete period of Internship (75 days)
7. Each Organization can recommend upto 2 participants only