Thursday 21st August 2014
12:00pm midday AEST (Sydney) time

New Country, New School?

You’ve moved!  A new job, new home, new city, new country – but the real challenge may be the new school.  Changing schools can be tough for children in any location.  Add in possible challenges of culture and language, different teaching styles, a new curriculum, unfamiliar rules, no friends and - have you seen the uniform?  This could be difficult!

What can you do to help your child adapt well to their new school?  

This is the latest webinar from Trisha Carter and Rachel Yates, authors of Finding Home Abroad, A Guided Journal to Adapting to Life Overseas.

Our special guest for this webinar is Julia Simens, educator, speaker, author and consultant.  Julia will share her extensive knowledge and experience gained as an expat, a parent and educator with eight international relocations.

Who is this for?

•  Expatriate employees, migrants, their partners and family members
•  Those who support expats in their global experiences

 In this webinar you will learn;

• Emotional, cultural and practical aspects to consider
  • In preparation for the new school
  • For the first days
  • And on-going to help your child settle in, adapt and enjoy school 

How does this work?

This is a forty minute interactive webinar, plus ten minutes for open discussion and questions.  It will be held on Thursday 21st August 2014 at 12:00pm Sydney time.  Check out the time in your time zone here 

You can attend from the comfort of your desk or at home anywhere in the world.  You will have an opportunity to ask questions as well as listen, watch the presentation and apply the information through reviewing and goal setting.   To attend you need a computer with Internet connection and sound.  If your computer doesn’t have speakers you can hear the audio via a phone connection in Australia, New Zealand or the USA.

A recording of the webinar will be available to CICollective members after the event for future reference.

About your facilitators 

Trisha Carter is an organisational psychologist who specializes in intercultural training and coaching.  She has worked for over fifteen years in global mobility in the Sydney area with hundreds of expatriates and their families who are moving from, or to, over sixty different countries.

Rachel Yates is a writer, speaker and creator of The Expat Lifeline.  She uses her systems knowledge and her experience of moving across three continents with two children, four dogs and a cat to design support systems for expats as they transition globally.

Julia Simens is an educator, speaker, author and consultant, with a gold-medal global perspective on children and parenting.  Having raised her own two children overseas over eight international relocations she is familiar with the worries about schools, medical conditions, friendships and loss of extended family contact.  Her book, “Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child”, has been eagerly read by thousands of families around the world.

How to register

We think this topic is a critical one and want to provide an opportunity for everyone to take part.  So everyone can attend for free.   Members of the e-learning website Cicollective.com will be able to review the saved webinar as a benefit of their membership once the webinar has been uploaded.

New Country, New School?

Thursday 21st August 2014 12:00 PM AEST (Sydney) time

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