The Re-Entry Roadmap: Find Your Best Next Step After Living Abroad, Paperback

Description

Are you returning "home" after living, working or studying abroad? Warning: for most people, re-entry (repatriation) is the hardest part of the entire abroad experience. That's why the Re-entry Roadmap workbook takes you by the hand and guides you through this challenging transition. Filled with fresh insights, thought-provoking activities, and actionable advice, the Re-entry Roadmap gives you the keys to a successful re-entry by helping you: - Process your complex emotions - Navigate changing relationships - Adjust forwards (no going backwards here ) - Articulate what you learned and experienced abroad - Reflect on who you are now - Identify your Global Life Ingredients This lively, humorous, and engaging guide then shows you how to put what you've learned about yourself into a plan of action - your "Forward Launch" - for living a beautiful, meaningful, and satisfying global life that you love no matter where in the world you are. Whether you're just about to return, are in the middle of the re-entry or have been back a while, the Re-entry Roadmap will help you find confidence, clarity, and connection, as well as your best next step. The Re-entry Roadmap workbook is perfect for: Expats Peace Corps volunteers JET program teachers Fulbright scholars Rotary scholars International school teachers Study abroad students Service-learning students Gap year students Embassy workers Missionaries Military families Solo, family, and long-term travelers

About the author

Dr. Cate Brubaker is an author, teacher, and part-time nomad. Her first re-entry was at 17 years old when she returned home to Oregon after spending her senior year of high school in Germany. That experience sparked a love for international education and led to living, working, and traveling in 36 countries on four continents. Over the past 20 years, Cate has hundreds of people successfully navigate international and intercultural transitions. She has taught at three universities, led workshops around the world, and consulted for schools, universities, and organizations. Cate's re-entry concepts, language, and materials are used by individuals, universities, and organizations around the world. When not on the road, Cate enjoys baking delicious desserts from around the world and writing about them on the InternationalDessertsBlog.com and learning to play the electric guitar (she still hopes to start a cover band). Cate appreciates a good cup of tea and never says no to gelato. Find her online at www.SmallPlanetStudio.com