This workshop helps expatriate children and teenagers learn about the differences between their home country and the destination country to minimize the negative effects of culture shock.

It provides them a platform to discuss their anxieties and fears of the unknown.

Participants walk out of the training room ready to embrace their new life and equipped with strategies to deal with potential challenges.

In this section, our trainer uses an interactive participatory learning approach to create a conducive environment for an open dialogue with the participants. Participants share their feelings about their move, especially their anxieties, fears and excitement. This sets the tone and expectations for the program.

Through involvement in games, videos, self-reflections, and photos, participants are made to reflect on themselves: how they are similar, different and unique compared to others. Participants discuss their impressions of others, and in turn realize how others see them and people from their country.

Through quizzes, maps, photos and videos, participants learn about their new country and its people, such as: history, geography, population, religion, school system, food, places of interest, entertainment, music, sports and local customs. They develop a greater appreciation of the similarities and differences between their own culture and the new culture.

Through photos and videos, expatriate children learn about the life of a typical child in the new country. They learn strategies to make new friends and adapt with minimal effort to the new school system. They also learn to develop new interests and explore ways to keep in touch with friends they miss.

Participants learn to remember and say their first 30 survival words in the local languages. This newly acquired linguistic ability give them a lot of confidence to embark on their new life.

Children walk out of the training room with an action plan of what they want to achieve in the first three months and how they will deal with each identified challenge.

• 6h (1 full day or 2 half days)



• Pre-departure or Post-arrival



• Individual or Group



• 1 Cross-cultural Trainer and at least 1 Home country Presenter