Art of Coming Home

Regular price €19.99
Quantity:
In stock with our UK publisher. 14-28 days
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
14 days return policy Shipping & Delivery
A01=Craig Storti
Author_Craig Storti
Category=JBCC
Category=VSW
culture shock third culture kids belonging survival
diplomat diplomats diplomatic diverse continents continental stay stays
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_self-help
eq_society-politics
experience displacement country countries work communicating across
figuring foreigners out kiss bow shake hands roadmap managing transitions
global workplace colleague colleagues customers nomad foreign aid
military personnel international volunteers family families overseas travel
reentry re-entry expat repatriation home homeward
road map when cultures collide globesmart
transition abroad leave leave-taking reverse returning exchange

Product details

  • ISBN 9781529375824
  • Weight: 310g
  • Dimensions: 212 x 130mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Jul 2022
  • Publisher: John Murray Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
Secure checkout Fast Shipping Easy returns

If you were lucky, you knew about and were prepared for culture shock when you moved overseas, But unless you are very lucky, you probably don't know about and are not prepared for reverse culture shock. And you should be. Most expats find coming home after an overseas assignment more difficult than adjusting to a foreign culture-and very few organizations and companies prepare people for the experience.

Veteran trainer and consultant Craig Storti sketches the workplace challenges faced by returning businessmen and women as well as the re-entry issues of spouses, younger children, and teenagers. He also addresses in detail the special issues faced by exchange students, international development volunteers, and military and missionary personnel and their families.

From leave-taking and the honeymoon stage through to reverse culture shock and eventual readjustment, The Art of Coming Home lays out the four stages of the re-entry process and details practical strategies for dealing with the challenges you will face each step of the way.

Whether you're about to relocate abroad, are already living abroad, about to come home, or already home, this book walks you through the biggest adjustments, personal and professional, and in this new edition presents a complete do-it-yourself repatriation workshop to help you identify and address your individual readjustment issues.

Craig Storti is founder and co-director of Communicating Across Cultures, a Washington DC-based intercultural communication training and consulting firm. With work appearing in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune, he is the author of six books. Having lived nearly a quarter of his life abroad, he lives now in Maryland. www.craigstorti.com

More from this author