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Navigating Cultural Change: Strategies for Refugee Adaptation

Explore the transformative journey of refugees adapting to change: from assimilation to integration, from cultural challenges to eventual acceptance. Learn how to navigate the Cultural Adaptation Curve, embrace new environments, and re-learn basic skills. Discover the importance of resolving conflicts through mediation and understanding cultural values. Reframe your perspective and embrace the "Changed" Agency with a sense of purpose and completeness.

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Navigating Cultural Change: Strategies for Refugee Adaptation

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  1. Changing Times: Changing Strategies Issam Smeir

  2. Change • Refugee • Agency • You

  3. Refugee’s life= Change “My luggage bag is my country and I am a traveler “ • Change of Culture • Change in Mood • Change of Common Sense: Re-learning basic skills • Change in Family Structure

  4. The cultural Iceberg Behaviors Values

  5. What should be the refugee’s new culture? Assimilation Integration

  6. Refugee’s life= Change • Change in Mood

  7. Language skills begin to improve • Learn to meet local culture's expectations and act appropriately • Laugh at mistakes and/or cultural differences • Begin to understand new environment and how it functions Cultural Adaptation Curve • You feel exhilaration, a sense of purpose, you have a mission • You only see the novelty of the new country • Most of your experiences are positive 1 • Eventually you will develop the ability to function in the new culture. • Your sense of "foreignness" diminishes significantly. • Not only will you be more comfortable with the host culture, but you may also feel a part of it. 4 3 2 May feel lonely, withdrawn, frustrated, irritable, angry, bored or anxious

  8. Refugee’s life= Change • . • . • Change of Common Sense: Re-learning basic skills

  9. Resolving Conflict and Culture • Mediation • Indication • Misdirection • Taking the Down Position • Relational Yes

  10. The “Changed” Agency

  11. Change in Mission

  12. Don’t Compete…Complete

  13. Appropriate Smallness

  14. Change is You

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