Articles
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Debriefing Aid Workers: A Comprehensive Manual
Promoting good practice in the management and support of aid personnel
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 ...
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 – ...
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 ...
10 Ways Expats and TCKs Can Relate to Buddy the Elf
I don’t know about you, but I find it very hard to believe that Elf has been around since 2003. It quickly became one of the Christmas movie classi ...
CulTure miKs
This is a website for Third Culture Kids (TCKs). Go ahead and click around to discover some great art created by TCKs, for TCKs, about the TCK expe ...
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 ...
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 ...
But I Did Anyway - Mock Funeral
Mock Funeral There was no funeral.No flowers.No ceremony.No one had died.No weeping or wailing.Just in my heart.I can’t…But I did anyway,and nobody ...