Weanne Estrada

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261 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Jul

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ? · Weanne Estrada:Mental Health Without Borders: How Compassion, Culture, and Community Transform Lives Worldwide · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

I asked them, you know, what what is your hope from here now that you've received the supports?

What do you want to be?

And I came in asking that question, expecting something lofty like, oh, I want to change the world.

Oh, I want to be able to become a doctor and things like that.

And the person's response was, well, I want to go home eventually.

Maybe I want to find work.

It was just a very simple answer that made me realize that I think I was being part of the narrative that refugees should be able to rationalize their existence and the help that we give them by becoming someone extraordinary.

When in reality, they don't owe us that, right?

They can be just like us and they have normal aspirations just like us.

And placing that expectation on them, I think, is a shift in perspective that I needed to change.

And so, yeah, that was revealing to me.

Yeah, so again, I think this also goes back to the concepts of resilience.

So resilience has four pillars, and these four pillars are social competence, problem solving, autonomy, and

and hope.

So if a person has all four of those things, then they will have resilience.

And I think your question of dignity goes to the third one, and that is giving people autonomy or a sense of agency, the feeling that they have control over their life, even in constrained environments.

And so we see that in a lot of small but important ways when people make decisions about their daily lives, when they contribute to their households, when they problem solve, when they decide how to manage their limited resources.

So they're able to do that on their own.

But I think for us, for people who are trying to help, we need to remember that when we design programs, we need to restore a sense of agency and make sure that these people whose control is often stripped from them have a voice in the interventions that we create.

So supporting resilience means creating opportunities for people to make choices and have a voice.

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