FINDING HOME WITHIN is a six-week online group coaching program that I developed specifically for multiculturals, expats and globalnomads. For people who move between several cultures and long for more inner peace instead of feeling torn.
Coaching im Rahmen der Auslandsentsendung In ihrem Herausgeberband “Coaching im Rahmen der Auslandsentsendung” (erschienen 2021 im Springer-Gabler Verlag) haben Prof. Dr. Judith Eidems und Susan Hoentzsch eine große Vielfalt an Beiträgen zusammengetragen. Das Buch ist von hohem Nutzen für alle, die sich mit dem Thema Auslandsentsendung beschäftigen: HR-Abteilungen, Coaches und Berater*innen, aber auch Expats und ihre Familien. Es war mir eine Ehre, hieran mitzuwirken und…
Interview with Rebecca Lüppen Rebecca Lüppen is the founder of SheExpat (www.sheexpat.com) and provides expat career and life coaching for female professionals and executives. She helps female expats actively manage the changes that a mobile life brings, balance work and personal life and interact confidently and successfully within different cultures. Rebecca and I have known each other for a little over a year. We both…
Arriving in Limbo The Corona pandemic has turned all our lives upside down and confronted us with unexpected challenges. It also hit many expats hard in 2020/21. It affects those who had just started their adventure abroad and are struggling to familiarize themselves with the new environment. It also affects those who have already been abroad for a longer period of time, but who now…
How do my fellow citizens of other cultures and religions perceive German and Christian traditions during the Christmas season? I went and asked a Muslim friend who is originally from Afghanistan and she wrote me these lovely lines: “When we bumped into each other in town the other day, you asked me to describe Christmas from my perspective. I have been living in Germany for…
Emotional Rollercoaster In the 1960s, Gullahorn & Gullahorn’s empirical research established what many repatriates intuitively felt: Repatriates from a stay abroad suffer similar stress symptoms during the readjustment to their home country as they did when adapting to the host country at the beginning of their foreign assignment. As a result, they developed the W-curve of acculturation, which I have already illustrated in my blog…
To be honest, I’ve been avoiding to write this article for quite some time. As I look back, things could have been a lot easier. If I had known back then what I know now about transition, culture shock, re-entry shock and Third Culture Kids, and if I had received specialized support, then…! Then I would have been spared some detours and some very rough…
Everyone experiences the return after an expat assignment in their own individual way. Whether as the assignee, partner or child, everyone finds their way back home at their own pace. In addition to your own personality, several factors play a role: Will I move back to my old place of residence or will I move to a completely new region? How often have I already…
“Who are you? And if so, how many?” This is the title of a well-known German philosophy book on identity by Richard David Precht and it fits perfectly for this article! As mentioned in my previous article, we should stop thinking in terms of countries and national cultures when we talk about culture. You will most probably not define yourself as “typically Mexican” or “typically…
The knowledge about culture and cultural dimensions is certainly an important starting point, but it is not sufficient. To be truly effective in foreign cultures, you need to develop the skills to transfer your knowledge into effective behavior. And practice! Andy Molinsky provides a set of very helpful strategies step by step in his book “Global Dexterity”. By Global Dexterity he refers to “the capacity…
