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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 ...

August 22, 2020
Debriefing Aid Workers: A Comprehensive Manual

Promoting good practice in the management and support of aid personnel

August 22, 2020
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 ...

August 22, 2020
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 ...

August 22, 2020
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 ...

August 22, 2020
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 – ...

August 22, 2020
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 ...

August 22, 2020
Third Culture Kids: A Gift to Care For

Third Culture Kids are Global Nomads who have moved in between cultures many times and therefore are a part of many cultures. Their beauty and chal ...

August 22, 2020
An Interview with Sara Saunders, Author of the TCK Book - SWIRLY

There have been a lot of books written about Third Culture Kids but not so many for them, especially for young TCKs. Swirly, written by a ...

August 22, 2020
A Color of His Own

The classic story about searching for somewhere to belong, from four-time Caldecott honor winner Leo Lionni.Elephants are gray. Pigs are pink. Only ...

August 22, 2020
My Very Exciting, Sorta Scary, Big Move: A workbook for children moving to a new home

Moving is one of the most stressful life events for kids, but this award-winning book will help make it less hectic and more exciting. "My Very Exc ...

August 22, 2020
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 ...

August 22, 2020