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August 22, 2020
The Waiting Place

As part of my former job, I used to help run the kids’ program for pre-field training for staff heading overseas. It was a fairly intense, five-wee ...

August 22, 2020
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
The trouble with third culture kids | Children's Mental Health Network

~ Morning Zen Guest Blog Post – Nina Sichel ~ You may not notice her.  At first glance, she may appear perfectly comfortable — these kids are ...

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
The Means That Make Us Strangers

"Christine Kindberg's fiction explores the complexity of identity, love, and faith with extraordinary intimacy and skill. Her bracing prose draws y ...

August 22, 2020
Debriefing Aid Workers: A Comprehensive Manual

Promoting good practice in the management and support of aid personnel

August 22, 2020
Caught between 2 worlds | CBC News

Tyisha Murphy's background includes Indian, Irish and English. She often gets asked, "what are you, exactly?" She writes about being caught between ...

August 22, 2020
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 ...

August 22, 2020
Five reasons why you should hire Third Culture Kids

Third Culture Kids are defined as individuals raised in a culture other than their parents' or the culture of the country named on their passport ( ...

August 22, 2020
Such A Bubble with Waciwi

Waciwi calls it like it is. She shares her story with courageous transparency and honesty and challenges the culture and religion that shaped her d ...

August 22, 2020
SURVEY OF ADULT MKs

RETURN TO THE MINISTRY PAGE [This data is yours to use at no cost, but I do request that you link to this website if you quote or share it. There a ...

August 22, 2020