•	Invite the creation of new narratives using culturally derived teachings and traditions offering a sense of meaning and group cohesion (Hirschberger, 2018). The learned schemas of trauma can change and reform through creation of new narratives (Denborough, 2014).
•	Witnessing Hardships Denborough (2014) suggests that his clients turn the sharing of their hardships to an opportunity for other people to witness their story. “Being an acknowledging witness to someone’s story is about doing justice to their stories” (Denborough, 2014, p. 70). The narrator can also witness their progress in changing their own narrative of suffering by putting their story in written words as well (Denborough, 2014).
•	Consider the power of traditional text: Suggest to an Iranian to look for a poem on their phone, start a conversation about their favourite poet, or ask them to play the songs with traditional poems as lyrics. By knowing that for 5,000 years of history Iran has always faced war and invasion, we can reach for the prolific volumes of traditional poems and literature left by our ancestors as a way that they transformed their narratives of trauma and as a gift to Iranians to use to heal from their suffering.
•	Storytelling and other culturally sensitive materials such as non-Western musical instruments, dance, and sharing traditional foods.
•	Create a collective inclusive space for the diaspora to start their ethnic identity exploration. I have used these techniques in the Persian Art Hive which started after the plane crash in January 2020. Many participants responded to this intervention in positive ways, explored traditional poetry books or thought of a poem that they liked and made art in relation with the poem. Others who read those poems on the artworks also connected to the collective cultural wisdom. As the result, despite the divisions among the Iranian communities, people could connect to each other through this shared aspect of their inherited culture.
•	Explore your own Arts-based Research project (ARB): The use of art-based inquiry in this research not only allowed me to practise appreciating my own narrative and heart-thinking knowledge but it also allowed me to understand the source of my fear