Lets Cognize

The Journey

I am a learner. I attempt to learn and understand everything that intrigues me and / or challenges me. A twenty-four-hour day seems short as I have to do a lot more than the duration of a regular day allows me to do. Notions and theories don’t make any sense unless a comparative analysis is done – so, it means a lot of searching and a lot of cognitive appraisals for the meanings.

I scratched a few aspects and peeped into a few alleys of life; and it is seriously diversified. Subsequently, the clickable can expand into a concise detail.

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Academics

... earned PhD in Psychology.
... along with heading a research organization taught psychology as visiting faculty till 2004.
... in 2004 diagnosed with brain tumor.
... started fulltime teaching after recovering from surgery.
... taught at the Karachi University on ad hoc basis.
... currently teaching at a private university [IoBM] as a permanent faculty.
... acquired advanced diploma in counseling from USA [online course].
... cumulative teaching duration spans 25 years.

Therapy

... started as trainee psychologist / psychotherapist in 1991.
... practicing as a psychotherapist for the last 19 years.
... conduct psychosocial skills training sessions.
... maintain vlogs for answering questions about mental / emotional issues.
... vlogs for explaining psychological phenomena and their philosophies.
... to enhance the mental health in community, my social enterprise ‘OTL’ helps me to organize awareness sessions in communities around Karachi.

Institutions served:
... Al-Amal Hospital. Dammam. Saudi Arabia.
... A. K. Psychiatric Center. Karachi.
... Karimabad Psychiatric Clinic. Karachi.

Research

I had been running a Qualitative Research organization the ‘McCoy Market Research’ [in market research domain] from 1994 to 2004 [till I was diagnosed with brain tumor]. Some of the projects completed can be found subsequently.

... conducted a research study for UNDP as principal investigator on ‘Diversity and Tolerance in Karachi’.
... employee Opinion Study for BayerDAS Pakistan.
... conducted complete personality profiling in the organizational context in eight (8) cities of Pakistan.
... market Segmentation; attitudinal research for Syngenta (former Ciba-Geigy) of farmers in Pakistan.
... qualitative Research Study for SMP-Social Marketing of Pakistan for the concept and use of contraceptives in urban and rural Sindh.
... advertising Impact Study for Syngenta Pakistan.
... qualitative Research Study for Shell Pakistan when it was acquiring Pakistan Burma-Shell in 1997.
... executed a six month project for psychological rehabilitation in Bagh-Kashmir after 2005 earthquake.
... conducted a three days’ workshop on teacher-parent-child relationship.
... conducted a training five days’ workshop on BCC (Behavior change communication) for NGO personnel.
... assisted in development of disaster management program of NDMA.
... developed and executed a 75 day program of psychological intervention, rehabilitation, and advocacy at SOS village Karachi.
... developed and executed a “Street Theater” on parent-child relationship in Park Towers DHA. Karachi.
... conducted three days training on “teaching and mentoring’ at Jamshoro, Haiderabad, and Tando-alaYar.
... completed an evaluative research study for UNICEF on children repatriated from UAE who engaged in camel racing.
... developed a consolidated technical report for a UNODC project Drug Abuse & HIV/AIDS.
... prevention for Street Children with Solvent Abuse Problems.
... prepared an impact report of a project for street children in Karachi, Sindh.
... conducted qualitative research on street children suffering from drug addiction and HIV using HFD/HTP projective techniques.

Software

... started learning computer programing in 1985 when computers run on DOS mostly. Since then, till today I am a logic developer.
... participated in Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan’s software competition in 1997.
... accumulated enough expertise in PC software and Android App development to work as freelance.
... programs / software, are shared as people may find them interesting and learners may get some insight into logic development.

Poetry

... started writing poetry when I was in school circa 1979.
... got corrections [islaah] from father and learned rules of rhyming [urooz].
... still learning to understand poetry.

Electronics

... started making electronic modules as a hobby.
... learned about electronics from books and later from internet.
... developed some gadgets for psychotherapeutic interventions with writing interfaces for PC.
... helped students in making their university projects.

Sketching

... love pencil drawings – the astonishing shades of gray; fancy me.
... have been doing this from my childhood. After learning psychology, its importance dawned on me.

Music

... play flute, synthesizer [piano], and learning guitar.
... little better than a bathroom singer.