Third Culture Kids and Relationships

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• Identify challenges to building and maintaining relationship in a multi-cultural and transit context.
• Learn to manage social media in healthy and beneficial ways, avoiding common problems.
• Identify and manage stress caused by transition and upheaval in relational terms for Third Culture Kids.
• Understand the impact of unresolved grief and learn practical ways to express and move on from grief.
• Understand how unresolved grief and difficulty in building or maintaining healthy relationships negatively impact other areas of life for TCKs.

Anti-Bullying, Empathy, and Character Development

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• Learn about empathetic decline and the reasons for it.
• Explore the connection between the Third Culture Kid experience, adaptability, and empathy.
• Acquire knowledge about how to teach, demonstrate, and encourage empathy
in a variety of contexts and relationships.
• Understand the difference between healthy and unhealthy empathetic traits.
• Appreciate the importance of and benefits of empathy in a wider global context.

Transition and Change Management

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• Understand the importance of “story” in shaping our perspective and attitude about change.
• Learn healthy coping mechanisms for the stress caused individually and to a family amidst transition.
• Become familiar with tactics to appreciate the impact of grief and loss inherent in transition and express and move on from grief in healthy ways.
• Appreciate the different perspectives on change people have and learn how to work with differing perspectives.
• Build flexibility as a strength and balance it with stability to better facilitate transitions.

Lessons from Third Culture Kids for an Ever-Globalizing World

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• Explore language and framework to understand the Third Culture experience.
• Identify connections between the TCK experience and social, economic, and
political trends on a global scale.
• Take advantage of the Third Culture worldview, applying it to community
building, business, and character development.
• Discover trends that have been observed in TCKs for a significant period of time that are now becoming prevalent in mainstream culture.
• Understand the context of tolerance in a continually more multi-cultural society and how to move forward constructively

Conflict Resolution for Third Culture Kids

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• Understand why conflict resolution can be an especially difficult skill for Third Culture Kids to hone.
• Learn practical ways to teach, demonstrate, and reinforce conflict resolution skills.
• Become familiar with different frameworks employed in effective and healthy conflict resolution.
• Employ empathetic and listening skills to enhance conflict resolution skills.
• Explore the relevance between TCKs need to learn conflict resolution skills in an increasingly connected and globalizing world.

Third Culture Kid Identity

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• Acquire the language and framework to understand and explain the Third
Culture Experience.
• Become familiar with the challenges commonly faced as a result of the Third
Culture Experience.
• Become familiar with the strengths commonly associated with the Third Culture
Experience.
• Learn how to navigate issues like nationality, family, and transition to adulthood.
• Understand the important role TCKs have to play and benefits they bring to an
ever-globalizing world.