About Me

Greetings!
I am Didan Ashanta – a Curriculum Specialist, TESOL Program Administrator, Resilience Strategist, and Migrant Integration Expert. I am on a mission to promote simplicity, joy and resiliency to everyone I encounter.

I was born and raised in Jamaica, and I have spent more than 20 years travelling, volunteering and working throughout the Caribbean, North America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. As the founder of Resilient Foreigner, I provide training and consulting services that help people studying or working abroad to adapt and thrive in their host cultures. I am personally familiar with the social isolation, cultural fatigue and financial insecurity, that many people are faced with after moving to a new country. So, by drawing on my professional training and experience in guidance counselling and cross-cultural adaptation, I have simplified the tools, strategies and systems that international students and foreign workers need to overcome these hurdles. It brings me so much joy to see people adapt easily and bloom wherever they’ve been planted!

As an advocate for resilience-building wellness routines, I believe there is no life for me to design and no dreams for me to build without maintaining my health and vitality. Since embracing Jamaica’s traditional Ital cuisine, I have been publishing informative content (like my book Jamaican Green Smoothies) to help health-seekers fall in love with leafy green vegetables, and facilitating empowering experiences to support their transition to whole-food plant-based diets. 

Even if you and I have taken different paths and favour different habits, we both deserve to be our best selves and to live each day filled with contentment and celebration. That is why I am inviting you to take this opportunity to define your freedom and optimize your life. Quit stalling your dreams. You can design a resilient and vibrant life today!

I love to connect with like-minded Resilient Foreigners. So, if you’re ready to live intentionally (so you can adapt easily and bloom wherever life plants you), please drop me a message and let us take this journey together. My email address is: writeme@didanashanta.com

With gratitude,
Didan