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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 ...

Debriefing Aid Workers: A Comprehensive Manual

Promoting good practice in the management and support of aid personnel

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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Beautiful Art of Goodbyes: A Missionary Kid’s Perspective

In a life of constant transition, coping with farewells is a familiar but painful feeling for MKs.

How to Care Well for MK’s {An Interview With an Expert}

 I think of Donna Kushner as a hero. She is a champion of MK’s and TCK’S, their stories, journeys and life struggles. She was so moved by ...

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 ...

Everywhere & Nowhere Third Culture Kids

This project is my final major project (12 weeks) for my Foundation Year at the Arts University Bournemouth.

’Everywhere & Nowhere’ i ...