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The Kids' Guide to Living Abroad
Five Reasons I’ve Failed to Grow Through Seasons of Transition
Once when I was introducing a workshop for global workers on the topic of transitions, I conducted an experiment. I asked the attendees to introduc ...
The Waiting Place
Waiting is one of those things we may not realize will be part of expat life when we're starting out. But it is oddly common: a season – ...
9 questions to consider before leaving your field
A timing question. We all leave the field eventually. So when is the right time? When I was a field director in Congo I would say, I sure hope the ...
112: Returning Well: A Guide to Thriving After Serving Cross-Culturally - Encore Episode
Melissa Chaplin, author or “Returning Well” helps us understand what it’s like for workers to return “home” after cross-cultural service. Melissa o ...
How to handle an abrupt transition
I wrote Looming Transitions with known transitions in mind. But what the world has been experiencing recently is the exact opposite of a looming tr ...
8 Rules of Transition
I have moved to a third new country in seven years (and that’s not counting all the moves back and forth to my passport country.) Your story is pro ...
Debriefing Aid Workers: A Comprehensive Manual
Promoting good practice in the management and support of aid personnel
Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child: Practical Storytelling Techniques That Will Strengthen the Global Family
The only thing you can be sure you can move around the world is your child's ability to increase his or her interpersonal skills. In today's global ...
Hiding in the Hallway: Anchoring Yourself as an MK
Written specifically to missionary teens, Hiding in the Hallways offers MKs a biblical context for their faith in light of their unique circumstanc ...
The Means That Make Us Strangers
Home is where your people are. But who are your people?
Adelaide has lived her whole life in rural Ethiopia as the white American daughter of
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Kaleidoscope for TCKs’s Instagram post: “For the third episode of TCKs 101 we’re tackling the big one: grief. Disenfranchised and accumulated, TCK grief is unique...except for when…”
”What does Corona Quarantine and TCKs have in common? For the third episode of TCKs 101 we’re tackling the big one: grief. Disenfranchised an ...