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Tornado kills 3, hits 150 homes in New Zealand
Three people were killed when an unusually destructive tornado swept through New Zealand. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
By NBC News staff and wire reports
Rescue crews were still looking for victims Thursday after a tornado touched down in the outskirts of Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, killing three people and tearing through some 150 homes, local media reported.
At least seven people were hospitalized,?the New Zealand Herald reported.
The tornado, driven by a powerful storm cell, tore concrete slabs from a building site and dropped them onto a truck, killing two people inside, a fire services spokesman said. A third person was killed by a falling tree.
Rescue teams were searching a school site for workers thought to be trapped beneath fallen concrete blocks in the west Auckland suburb of Hobsonville.
"I saw it coming across the river, the air went very electric and the sky went black. And then the wind started to whistle. This was like a juggernaut roaring through here," witness Suzanne McFadden told New Zealand's Newstalk ZB radio.
Hobsonville is the site of a new town center near Auckland, which is home to 1.3 million people, roughly a third of the New Zealand population.
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Rescue workers inspect the scene where two men were crushed to death in a truck when a tornado struck the outskirts of Auckland, New Zealand, on Thursday.
Photoblog: Storm slams New Zealand
Military personnel were going from door to door in the area to check if more people were trapped and authorities warned of more severe weather to come later on Thursday.
New Zealand has been hit by several natural disasters in recent years, including a magnitude 6.3 earthquake that struck the southern city of Christchurch in 2011, killing 185 people. Another tornado in Auckland last May killed one person.
The Christchurch quake caused damage worth NZ$15 billion to insurers, making it the country's costliest natural disaster.?
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Private company to offer rides to moon by 2020
Golden Spike says it hopes to sell missions to the moon for over $1 billion.
This undated image made available by NASA and photographed by the Expedition 28 crew aboard the International Space Station, shows the moon, at center with the limb of Earth near the bottom transitioning into the orange-colored troposphere, the lowest and most dense portion of the Earth's atmosphere.
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The company, called Golden Spike (after the final spike built into the First Transcontinental Railroad), plans to sell each moon mission for about $1.5 billion ? a relative bargain, said the company's president and CEO Alan Stern, a former director of NASA?s Science Mission Directorate.
For the same price as many unmanned robotic missions, Golden Spike will provide a round trip for two humans to the moon.
"We're selling to nations, corporations and individuals," Stern told SPACE.com. "Get in line ? and I think it's going to be a long one." [How Golden Spike's Moon Landing Plan Works (Infographic )]
Stern and Golden Spike's chairman of the board of directors, Gerry Griffin, a former Apollo flight director and NASA Johnson Space Center director, announced their plans today at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Shopping for a rocket
The company's leaders have not yet chosen a launch vehicle or space capsule to transport their passengers; Stern expects to make the final selections in 2014.
To keep costs low, Golden Spike will likely use existing or already-under-development rockets and spacecraft. However, the company will need to commission its own lunar lander and specially designed spacesuits. Stern called rumors that Golden Spike had already chosen SpaceX's Falcon 9 Heavy rocket "not true."
The company has been in the works, and under wraps, for two and a half years, Stern said.
"I don?t think anybody's got us beat," he added. "This is state-of-the-art cool."
The missions are being targeted at countries without their own space agencies or that can't afford to launch people to the moon independently, as well as scientific organizations and even private individuals looking to take the trip of a lifetime.
"We have spoken to space agencies from both Asian and European countries and found real interest," Stern said.
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As tanks face off, Iraqi rivals see political gains
TUZ KHURMATO, Iraq (Reuters) - A hundred miles from Baghdad, tanks are facing off across a frontline defined not by an international border but by ethnic enmity, fueled by past bloodshed and future oil wealth, that risks tearing Iraq apart.
The sun-blazoned flag of Kurdistan flies from the turrets of Soviet-built armored vehicles, seized a decade ago from Saddam Hussein's army, their barrels now aimed at the unseen forces of Iraq's national government on the far side of Tuz Khurmato, a town beyond the formal boundary of the Kurds' autonomous region.
For three weeks, Kurdish "peshmerga" and soldiers of Baghdad's Arab army, have been reinforcing positions in the "disputed territories", a long, ill-defined swathe of northern Iraq, rich in oil and communal complexity, where the federal government and Kurdish leaders based in Arbil vie for control.
For all the flag-waving and warnings of war from Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and Kurdistan President Masoud Barzani, few believe either will risk an all-out conflict whose outcome would be uncertain and would disrupt both a flourishing economy in Kurdistan and oil exports that bring Baghdad vital revenues.
Rather, both are gaining from this, the second such flare-up in the year since U.S. troops quit Iraq, to consolidate their respective support among Arabs and Kurds for upcoming elections.
Maliki spoke this week of "unpredictable risks" as Kurdish troops brought up more tanks and artillery close to the oilfield city of Kirkuk: "If it erupts ... it will be a painful, shameful ethnic conflict," he said, warning of "dangerous dimensions".
Kurds accuse the Iraqi premier of "opening a Pandora's box".
U.S. forces, whose no-fly zone first gave the Kurds de facto autonomy from Saddam in 1991, helped keep a peace between them and the Arabs after occupying Iraq in 2003; now, Washington's diplomats have had to work behind the scenes to calm tempers, most recently following a shootout on November 16 between Iraqi and Kurdish forces in Tuz Khurmato in which a bystander was killed.
Politicians, diplomats and analysts detect an unwillingness on either side to go beyond verbal skirmishing or the sort of occasional, tit-for-tat halts in transfer payments or oil pipelines that have long marked their fractious relationship.
"Both Baghdad and Arbil seem not to be willing to push this," said Gareth Stansfield, a former U.N. adviser on the dispute who teaches Middle East politics at Exeter University.
At the same time, neither side is in a hurry to pull back.
"There is definitely a sense this might not cause outright war, but flashpoints all over in all sorts of places," one diplomat said. "This is probably going to be quite prolonged, because there isn't much appetite to settle it."
Stansfield added: "Every episode like this makes the relationship between Arbil and Baghdad, Barzani and Maliki, even worse - which is, of course, a problem for the future."
SHIFTING ALLIANCES
Ten years after the U.S. invasion toppled Saddam in the name of democracy, the stand-off demonstrates Iraq's failure to forge consensus among Maliki's Shi'ite Muslim majority, Sunni Arabs who were dominant under Saddam, and the Kurds, some 15 percent of the population, concentrated in the northern mountains.
Most violence has been seen in a sectarian war among Arabs; Maliki has had support from the Kurds, who have not pressed for full statehood, aware of their landlocked isolation and the hostility of neighbors wary of their own Kurdish minorities.
Yet Iraqi Kurdish expansion beyond a regional frontier noted in the 2005 constitution - and new Kurdish contracts to sell oil to foreign firms without reference to Baghdad - may push Iraq's divided Arabs to close ranks; united Arab hostility may in turn also help stifle friction among competing Kurdish movements.
"The sectarian card is not working anymore and the nationalist card is the joker now," said a Shi'ite member of the Iraqi parliament who has himself previously allied with Sunnis, in describing a coming realignment of forces among the Arabs.
One Sunni tribal leader in Salahaddin province, which includes Tuz Khurmato but also Tikrit, Saddam's home town, said former army officers he knew had not only removed portraits of the executed dictator from their walls recently but even put up pictures of Maliki. That would once have been unimaginable among Sunni Arabs who have long seen the premier as a pawn of Shi'ite Iran. It says much about new perceptions of a Kurdish threat.
For his part, Maliki, despite pursuing Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president over sectarian attacks, is courting Sunni allies after seeing some Kurdish lawmakers who helped keep him in power after the 2010 election support a parliamentary motion to unseat him. Provincial elections in the new year may offer clues to potential partners before the March 2014 parliamentary ballot.
"Maliki is waiting for a strong Sunni ally, to get a parliamentary majority and then to form the majority government next time," one ally of the prime minister said privately.
SHADOW OF HALABJA
For the Kurds, Maliki's move to set up a new command structure for those national security forces based on their doorstep - known as the Tigris Operations Command - violates the constitution and reveals a drive by Baghdad to thwart their hopes of annexing Kirkuk and other areas where, since 2003, they have been expanding their own military and political presence.
Accusing the head of the new command centre of a role in Saddam's genocidal assaults on the Kurds in the 1980s - a charge he denies - Kurdish leaders have lined up together against Maliki after falling out among themselves earlier this year over tactics in the parliament and over the civil war in Syria.
Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), and Jalal Talabani of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), who is Iraq's president in the power-sharing national administration, have buried differences to demand Maliki disband the new command whose troops are now confronting the peshmerga at Tuz Khurmato.
"Maliki is opening a Pandora's box," said one senior Kurdish politician, who spoke anonymously due to the sensitivity of the current situation. "Kirkuk for us is everything, not a game for political gains or any other kind. It is about justice to our cause and undoing what Saddam and other Iraqi regimes did."
In a joint statement on November 22, the Kurdish parties invoked memories of the poison gas massacre of Kurds at Halabja in 1988 to warn that Baghdad might repeat such "chauvinist attacks".
"Whenever an external threat exists against Kurdish issues, we are unified," said Omar Badi of the Islamic Union of Kurdistan, which sits in the regional assembly in opposition to the governing coalition of KDP and PUK. "Whoever confronts the threat from outside will win the votes of the Kurdish people."
A Shi'ite politician in Baghdad said one significant change had been in the role of Talabani, who had used his position as head of state to mediate between Maliki and Barzani - against whom Talabani fought a civil war in Kurdistan in the 1990s.
"Talabani has lost his strategic Shi'ite alliances and his position as a friend and father of all factions," the Shi'ite political figure said, speaking privately. "He can no longer play the role of intermediary between the rivals."
STALEMATE
For now, that phoney war continues, around Tuz Khurmato, to the southeast of it in Diyala province, in the northwest around the big city of Mosul and, most intensely, around Kirkuk.
For years, it has been a conflict fought in near silence, with intimidation and only sporadic violence used to drive out rival groups and alter the ethnic mix of local communities that are supposed, one day, to vote in a referendum on whether parts of the disputed territories should join the Kurdistan region.
Kurds are keen to reverse Saddam's policy of resettling the area with Arabs, including many Shi'ites from the south. Arabs accuse Kurds of rewriting history. Other substantial groups, notably Turkish-speaking Turkmen, are also pressing claims.
Stalemate over holding the plebiscite that the constitution stated should have been held by 2007, has left Baghdad and Arbil increasingly arguing along the barrels of their tanks.
(Editing by Patrick Markey and Alastair Macdonald)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/tanks-face-off-iraqi-rivals-see-political-gains-150759219.html
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
Avino November Production Report | Avino Silver and Gold Mines ...
Avino Silver and Gold Mines Ltd. (TSXV:ASM) announced November production results from its San Gonzalo mine operation located on the Avino property near Durango, Mexico.
As quoted in the press release:
As stated in the previous news release dated October 24, 2012, the company began processing high grade mill feed from San Gonzalo on the first of October. Milling continued throughout November with an average throughput of 218 tonnes per day (?TPD?).
Avino expects that grades and recoveries will improve at lower levels of the mine as the vein extends below the oxidized zone near the surface. Silver assay results from 2007 drilling around the fourth and fifth levels of the mine produced a number of core intercepts (down hole) greater than 1,000 g/t Ag, some reaching as high as 5,265 g/t Ag, over 0.65 m; independently verified metallurgical test work on the core from the deeper levels yielded recoveries of 89-90% for silver and 92-93% for gold.
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Research Paper: Parenting Global Nomads: Turning Challenges ...
Synopsis
This paper explores the complexity of raising happy and well-balanced global nomads children and how coaching can support parents to maximize the gifts of mobility.
Global nomads experience paradoxical benefits and challenges of growing-up with a high mobility lifestyle and among different cultures.
Parents having chosen to raise global nomads need to provide affirmation and support to help them navigate through mobility transitions and identity challenges. ?Away from their own family support systems and themselves facing expatriation challenges, parents can only rely on their natural instincts, support of new communities or any other resources they can find.
Coaching offers to global nomads? parents the space and support to embrace their responsibilities in a positive and proactive way and turn challenges into a lifetime enrichment for their kids.
Introduction
Though the exact number of children being raised outside their passport country worldwide has not been tabulated, it is clear that in an increasingly global economy, the number is growing.
Global Nomads are children who share common characteristics and face similar difficulties. Navigating through mobility transitions and changes, building identity in more than one culture, they acquire unique skills that could prepare them to be the global citizens of tomorrow.
Who are global nomad children? What makes them different? What are the challenges of parenting abroad? And finally how coaching can support parents to turn overseas experiences in a lifetime enrichment for their children?
This paper will explore these different questions based on a review of the literature on this subject.
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Who Are Global Nomads?
Anthropologist and sociologist Ruth Hill Useem first introduced the term ?Third Culture Kid? (TCK) in the 1950s before Pollock and Van Reken adopted it. These authors defined and explained a TCK to be:? ?a person who has spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside the parents? culture(s). The TCK frequently builds relationships to all of the cultures, while not having full ownership in any. Although elements from each culture may be assimilated into the TCK?s life experience, the sense of belonging is in relationship to others of similar background? (2009, p. 13).
Norma McCaig, herself a TCK, coined the term Global Nomad in 1984, which has been used synonymously ever since (Schaetti, 2000, p. 69).
However, in the global nomads? definition, there is one small, but notable difference, which is the explicit addition of the reason for the mobility: the parental occupation.
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What Makes Global Nomads Different?
Global Nomads share two major realities that affect the deeper parts of their cultural being, including their values, beliefs and worldview and make them different from other kids: growing up among different cultural worlds and high mobility. Both realities offer significant benefits and skills for most Global Nomad children but at the same time both produce challenges that must be recognized and addressed.
?The often paradoxical benefits and challenges of the TCK profile are sometimes described as being like opposite sides of the same coin, but in reality they are more like the contrasting colored strands of thread woven together into a tapestry. As each strand crosses with a contrasting or complementary color, a picture begins to emerge, but no one stand alone tells the full story? (Pollock and Van Reken 2009).
Benefits of High Mobility and Different Cultural Exposure
The greatest benefit of a mobile lifestyle is the worldview developed by most TCKs.? It is three-dimensional, with not only knowledge but also understanding and empathy (Pollock 1998). TCKs are likely to exhibit tolerance and cross-cultural understanding; they learn to see the world from different points of view. They can become a cultural bridge and an active, positive influence in an increasingly intercultural world.
- Flexibility and adaptability
Seeing, hearing, tasting, and smelling new things is a way of life for most of them and contributes to their ability to accept and adjust to what is new and different.
- Alert, intelligent and geographically aware (Pascoe 2006)
Many are also conversant in another language or have heightened interest and ability to learn a new language.
- Mature, sensitive and skilled at listening ?(Pascoe 2006)
Factors contributing to this maturity include expectations and demands for certain behavior, relationship to adults in the international community, communication skills, and knowledge based on a ?big world? exposure (Pollock 1998).
Often parents of global nomads are skilled professionals with record of high achievement themselves. As a consequence, expectations of performance might be higher for global nomads especially if they attend International School with high standards (Pascoe 2006).
- Drawn to careers associated with service to the community or the world (Pascoe 2006)
Global nomads have most likely seen poverty and despair up close. They feel grateful for their own good fortune and want to help others improve the quality of their lives
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All of these skills and abilities properly recognized and nurtured, are gifts that can strengthen global nomads self-confidence and empower them to counterbalance the many challenges of their mobile and multicultural life style.
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Challenges of High Mobility and Different Cultural Exposure
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As just discussed, benefits of Global Nomad experiences come along with the unique challenges of spending formative years abroad.
The purpose here is not to provide an exhaustive list of all the difficulties global nomads might encounter but to raise the awareness of parents, caregivers, and other professionals working with them. This is the first step to proactively help global nomads deal with theses challenges.
- Sense of rootlessness ?(Schaetti & Ramsey 1999)
A?problem often cited as a by-product of the global nomad experience is a deep sense of rootlessness. Global nomads typically find it difficult to answer the questions ?Where are you from?? ?Where is home??. Articulating an answer is an important part of a global nomad?s maturation and is facilitated when we allow a broader understanding of ?home.? Typically, home does not exist for the global nomad as a single place; it is not a ?here or there? but an ?everywhere.????????
- Unresolved grief (Schaetti & Ramsey 1999)
?Grief is often associated intimately with global nomad relationships. Parents often try to reassure their children that they will find friends in the new location and will settle down and feel at home once again. However, when these children feel sadness, they do not need the assurance of future joy but recognition of the current reality. Allowing the tears, encouraging emotional expression and providing opportunities for family members to share their hopes and fears support global nomads in releasing their grief. When grief is accepted and allowed expression, the many other emotions associated with transitions, be they joy, fear, hope, anger, or anticipation, also can be expressed.?
Another challenge described by Pascoe (2006) is that overseas experiences make global nomads feel different. They can feel physically and culturally different in their host-country but they can also feel different in their passport country when they are with children with no overseas experience. They can appear arrogant or pretentious in telling their stories or just not believed. In a desire to fit, they can on the opposite prevent themselves to say anything about their lives abroad and face loneliness and misunderstanding especially when repatriating.
- Confused sense of identity (Schaetti & Ramsey 1999)
?Global nomads inevitably are influenced by cultural traditions. As such, and particularly when they return to their passport countries, they may experience themselves as ?culturally marginal?. They often find themselves to be ?hidden immigrants? and experience themselves as ?terminally unique.?
As with the experience of ?home,? it is important that we broaden our definition of identity. Global nomads become constructive in their marginality when they recognize and understand the multiplicity of their experience and when they have the language to communicate about it.?
A key part of TCK identity formation is the experience of the ?normalization? process. This can be meeting others of similar background, or being exposed to the concept TCKs. The first time they encounter the term ?TCK? or ?global nomad? is a life changing experience for many: their experiences are named and validated (Tanu 2008).
- Culture shock and reverse culture shock
While adjusting to a new host country, global nomads as well as their parents will go through the different stages of culture shock (honeymoon, crisis, flight, fit) but children might experience it more deeply as they may lack the verbal skills to express their emotions and feelings (Pascoe 2006).
Repatriation adjustment is recognized to be even more difficult than the expatriation process, especially if faced during adolescence. It is often referred to as reversed culture shock. ?
The key to help global nomads to successfully go through reverse culture shock is to prepare them early, before leaving the host country.
What are the challenges of parenting abroad?
Anywhere, parenting is the most challenging, yet the most rewarding adventure. Although, like any other kids, TCKs need consistent and loving parenting, challenges of living and moving in different cultures will bring additional complexities for parents.
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Lack of Family Support System And Network
One of the first challenges of parenting abroad, at least initially, is the lack of usual support network of family and close friends. Besides, parents may find it difficult to open up to friends and family in the home country, expatriate life being perceived as privileged. As for the accompanying parent (most often the wife), she may also lack the emotional support of her partner, who is frequently up to new challenges and responsibilities.
Daily life issues are exacerbated in this new environment and a feeling of isolation is quite common.
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Added Layers Of Parental Responsibilities
?Parents raising global nomads, with the unique challenges, numerous transitions, and extraordinary opportunities presented by travel, must be mindful that their job carries an added layer of responsibility from day one? (Pascoe, 2006).
In the constant flow of change of global nomads? life, the parents are the key persons who can support their kids overcome challenges and maximize the gifts of high mobility.
In taking the responsibilities to build strong family foundations, deal with transitions and losses, meet educational needs, and prepare for repatriation while enjoying the journey (Pollock & Van Reken 2009), parents can support their global nomads to embrace their difference and cherish the blessing of their cross-cultural upbringing.
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Expatriate Life Challenges
Role and responsibilities of parents can be complicated by their own struggle to deal with the many challenges of their expatriate life.
In the same way their children will experience culture shock, parents will have to face the roller coaster of emotions when adjusting in a new country.
They will also have to deal with many changes: in their job for the working parent, in their status and identity for the accompanying spouse, or in their relationship as a couple.
One other challenge is to maintain a work-life balance in the hectic expatriation life-style. Often expatriates? jobs require traveling, time and energy. Nowhere else is the interdependence of work, life and family more enhanced than it is for mobile families (Pascoe 2006).
How coaching can support parents to turn overseas experiences in a lifetime enrichment?
Away from their own support systems, embracing new parental responsibilities and facing mobility challenges, parents themselves need support while they have to provide support to their children.
Schaetti and Ramsey have written in the May 1999 issue of Mobility that ?no matter the number of expatriates services on hand, it is only by choosing to engage the expatriate experience with consciousness and creativity, from the inside-out, that an expatriate family will truly maximize the potential rewards of its international sojourn?. The authors further explain that living from the ?inside out? means that families distinguish their internal experience from external circumstances, recognizing that they are the creators of the former and never the victim of the latter.
Thirteen years later, this statement is still very valid in the context of the challenges faced by global nomads? parents.
Among the many services available for expatriate parents (cross-cultural training, support groups, counseling, etc.), only coaching offers to support parents with an ?inside-out? approach.
?By essence coaching honors the client as the expert in his/her life and work, and believes that every client is creative, resourceful and whole? (ICF Code of Ethics 2007).
Coaching empowers parents to find their own answers and solutions and in many ways, can support them in their overseas adventure. Some of them are explored in the next sections.
Coaching encourages consciousness and creates self-awareness
By offering resources and sharing success stories, the coach can raise mobile parents? consciousness that their kids are now part of the ?global nomad? tribe. They can invite them to learn more about the global nomads profile and the benefits and challenges of international mobility.
Conscious of ??both sides of the coin? parents can pay more attention to their children?s own experience. They can choose to stop their ?automatic pilot? and actively listen to their kids. Being mindful during family time, they can acknowledge and nurture benefits brought by the experience overseas, they can also recognize behavior changes and search for the underlying issues. The coach will support them to identify and implement relevant and creative strategies to address these issues.
Coaching will also encourage parents to reflect on the purpose, goals and priorities in their life abroad. It will support them to identify their family values and empower them to live by them. By creating self-awareness, coaching increases the ability to respond to situations instead of reacting, it fosters proactive parenting.
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Coaching supports parents in discovering and embracing their new responsibilities
?Once parents decide to move their family into cross-cultural situations, it means that they have decided to raise TCKs? (Pollock & Van Reken, 2009). The coach will support parents to explore the responsibilities coming with TCKs upbringing and find personal strategies and action plan to endorse them. Pollock and Van Reken have suggested five main areas of actions to support global nomads:
- Building strong foundations: The coach will support parents in exploring the family culture and traditions to identify routines and rituals to carry-on and create continuity despite international mobility. Parents will be encouraged to put in place empowering structures (sport, playgroups, planning, etc.) for themselves and their children
- Dealing with transitions: Transitions are recognised to be very overwhelming periods. On a practical side, planning and breaking-down ?to-dos? into baby action steps will relief pressure and stress. The coach will support parents in the process of creating an action plan with timelines. He can also play the role of an accountability partner. On the emotional side, the coach will actively listen and acknowledge difficulties like fears, stress, and culture shock?. He will accompany parents in identifying and implementing strategies to overcome difficulties while growing in the process. With a positive outlook, he will encourage, support and enthuse parents to move forward. In the stressful periods of transitions, the coach will engage parents in reframing perspectives and focusing on the positive outcomes. It might be useful for the coach to be familiar with the model of the Five Emotional Stages of the transition cycle developed by Pollock (Pollock & Van Reken 2009, pp 66-73).
- Meeting education needs: parents will be encouraged to investigate the different options and make decisions in line with their values and priorities. ?The coach can also offer informative resources about the different educational systems specificities
- Enjoying the journey. ?One of the best aspects of a TCK lifestyle is the fun it can be. Having fun in the journey is another great way to tie the many elements of a TCK?s life together into a cohesive whole that is essential for building a strong sense of identity? (Pollock and Van Reken 2009). Global nomads? parents, in the setting of overseas living, are the main role models for their children. If they don?t enjoy their experience it will most certainly impact their children?s experience. Coaching will support parents to go through their own challenges (culture shock, work-life balance, marriage issues etc.) to remain loving and caring parents and to hold a positive attitude. Encouraging parents to shift disempowering perspectives to more empowering ones, or reframing perspectives from a different angle will definitely help parents to see the positive side of most stressful situations. Inviting parents to deal with the small day-to-day inconveniences with humor will impact their kids? own perspectives.
- Preparing for repatriation. The key is to prepare global nomads ahead while still in the host country by acknowledging their belonging to the TCKs/global nomad tribe and allowing time to process grief of the overseas experience. Listening to parents? fears and hopes, the coach will encourage parents to do the same with their children. He will invite parents to celebrate global nomads? lives as cultural ?tapestry? and encourage them to build on and use the cross-cultural skills they have learnt. The coach will also engage parents to think about closure and how they can walk their kids through healthy goodbyes.
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Turning challenges into strengths is a blessing for the future of global nomads. Enriched by their cross-cultural upbringing, global nomads will enter with confidence adulthood as global citizens.
Coaching is an effective approach to support global nomads? parents turning challenges into lifetime enrichment for their children.
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CONCLUSION
Children?s upbringing abroad can be the most exciting and rewarding experience but also the most challenging one leaving painful memories.? Whether the rewards or the challenges predominate will depend on the awareness of the parents, their commitment to their responsibilities and foremost, the support that they will have.
The coach, through an inside-out approach, an unconditional support and creative resources is an ideal partner for the journey of the global nomads? parents.
Coaching for global nomads? parents is an effective method and should be largely advocated and offered to mobile families in the different stages of the expatriate life cycle.
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Be delighted about all that can be done nicely rather than working on what you cannot do. Many people are experienced in various regions, that makes the planet this sort of different and interesting location to live. Don?t fret skills you possess not yet produced, and spend time creating off of the skillset you might have presently perfected or been privileged with.
Love is extremely important to motivation and belief. There is not any strategy to have trust in some thing you may not enjoy. Don?t be nonproductive with your trust, consistently work with it. Once you see someone who will benefit through your adore, take action and show your trust by way of great deeds.
Speaking with an experienced consultant or possibly a pastor can be an very gratifying encounter. Most of these folks are qualified to assist you to take care of your difficulties inside a wholesome way. They are there that will help you evaluate and go through troubles and sensations that take place on your personalized quest to enlightenment. Talking from the troubles with a professional could make you very much happier and healthier.
Your body?s wellness influences the well-becoming of your mind. Make sure to get a lot of exercising and nourishment. Do not forget that a proper body can cause a proper mind.
As a way to grow like a man or woman, you have to give your way of life direction. Long-term objectives really are an incredible thing to possess and can easily make a significant difference inside your perspective.
Personal development could be a tough and laborious process, but it?s worth each and every 2nd. Nonetheless, for those who have an effective support process and commit yourself to becoming a greater individual, you?ll arrive there, and obtain useful encounters. These ideas should assist you on the trip.
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