These three tenets (“la sagesse, le courage et l’espoir”) were first synthesized during a group therapy session facilitated by Dr. Hawthorne E. Smith, a clinical psychologist who has dedicated the past fifteen years of his life to working alongside French-speaking African survivors of extreme trauma and torture. The question, asked by a torture survivor from Mauritania, which ignited the group’s brainstorming was, “What are the qualities we need to change the world—or at least to survive in this world?”