4 workshops specially organised for parents on 26 February with Tina Quick – internationally renowned speaker, transition expert and author of ’The Global Nomad’s Guide to University Transition’.

How Can I Help My Child with Yet Another Move

Time: 16 Feb 2016, 9:35 – 10:25am

Venue: Alleyn Theatre

(Recommended for parents with children age 7 -18)

Moving your family, whether it is across the country or just across town, is a complicated process. Factor in moving into a whole new culture and you have a recipe for stress! The good news is that for most families, the overseas experience brings many more advantages than disadvantages and exposes you and yours to different ways of looking at the world and its offerings. We become more flexible, more resilient and less judgmental. Preparation, attitude and a sense of adventure go a long way towards keeping our level of stress at a manageable and expected level.  

Tina will discuss how parents can support their children in their regular, global transitions as TCK families and how can they help make the moves easier on the kids. She’ll talk about conversations they ought to have ahead of time, strategies for making the academic and social shifts.  

Helping your Expatriate Child Transit to University 

Time: 16 Feb 2016, 10:50 – 11:40am

Venue: Room 308

(Recommended for IB parents)

Expatriate students must make a double adjustment for the University transition: first to a new stage of life as an independent adult and second to a new culture. Even their home country culture seem foreign to them. The talk will unveil the special challenges the international student face when stepping out of the expatriate culture, why they have these unique challenges, how they can confront and grow from them, and how parents can help prepare and come alongside their child in transition.

Tina will offer advice to parents on how to support their children as they are transitioning away from home, becoming an adult, and share strategies for relationships with peers, dating, leaving their parents, finances, etc. 

Repatriation – Transitioning Back Home Again

Time: 16 Feb 2016, 11:50am – 12:40pm 

Venue: Room 308

(Recommended for all parents)

Specially tailored for expatriate parents, Tina will address issues and concerns parents face about transitioning back to their home countries. Apart from their concerns for their children, they too have been away for many years and have returned to unfamiliar routines, places and people. Nothing is the same as they left it. They have come home with a different worldview and perspective and respond to their home country much the same way that a visiting foreigner would because they are now an alien in their own country. In fact, experts refer to returning expatriates as "hidden immigrants”. 

Tina will help parents develop their own strategies to re-settle in their home country again which will in turn have a stabilising effect on the rest of the family.

How Can I Help My Child with Yet Another Move

Time: 16 Feb 2016, 3:50 – 4:45pm

Venue: Edward Alleyn Theatre

 (repeat of the morning session with the same title)