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Returning Well invites you, a cross-cultural worker of faith in re-entry, into a guided conversation with your Creator that will reveal and apply invaluable insights as you reflect on your recent season of cross-cultural service. By using Returning Well, you will discover how this season influenced you, how to re-integrate well, and what moving forward in faith means for you. "Returning Well is a welcomed, needed, and practical tool for those whose souls have had the experience of living in another culture which inevitably turns our souls inside out and upside down." |
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Returning Well is designed to be...
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Engaged
You actively follow your Creator’s lead 
Returning Well packages the key aspects of a debriefing that leads to renewal into purposeful questions. So as you invite your Creator into the process and thoughtfully engage the questions, you will be actively taking steps toward re-entering well.
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Customized
You select the topics most valuable to you 
Every re-entry is unique and so Returning Well is designed to be flexible--giving you guidance yet freedom in discerning which topics are best for you to engage during this particular re-entry.
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Tailored
To fit your personality, energy, and available time 
Returning Well leads you to engage the questions in ways that best fit you and over a period of time that fits your re-entry--thus helping you to truly glean all that is of value from your Returning Well journey.
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Equipping
Both for you and your chosen companion 
Returning Well leads you step-by-step through the entire process of a debriefing that leads to renewal and provides your chosen Returning Well Companion with specialized guidance so that they may skillfully walk alongside of you on your journey.
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Empowering
Revitalizing your health and wholeness 
Returning Well leads you in putting to good use the treasures of insights that you glean on this journey so that you may be fully released to uniquely and wholeheartedly love and serve your Creator in the season of life following re-entry.
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“Because of Returning Well, I was able to debrief, understand how I have changed, and more fully engage with who I am now in my primary culture.”
- B.B., cross-cultural sojourner who used Returning Well in her return from Latin America
"I served in Europe for 7 years. Never wanting to leave Europe, it was a difficult transition back. Disoriented, depressed and feeling hopeless I began the journey of debriefing and rediscovering myself. This book helped me to slow down and intentionally dive into the key areas that I needed to reevaluate and sort through. The quotes in the margins painted vivid pictures of hope and understanding that my soul connected with. Also, it was beautiful to see God answering the prayers and provide the next steps of things I needed between the time I wrote it down and the time I met with my coach. I just finished the book this week and my heart is overflowing with deep gratitude for the priceless gems that I gained from this process."
- K.G., cross-cultural worker who used Returning Well in her return from Europe
"I spent 18 months in Costa Rica with my denomination's missions organization, and COVID completely changed everything! The way this book uses Cast Away, the movie, as a prompt was very helpful, because from the time I arrived on March 11, 2020, nothing went as expected! Instead of working in my strengths, I had to learn to let God work through my weaknesses, instead of meeting and serving lots of people, I learned to pour into and serve my own team. This workbook helped me process the confusion, blessings, pain and Providential Guidance that I experienced, and is helping me readjust to life in the States and look with expectation and confidence to the future. This workbook has lots of thoughtful questions to help you think through everything from food and culture shock to unmet expectations and how to share your experiences with others. I was amazed at how flexible this resource was! Even able to help me, a short-termer, whose time on the field was overshadowed by a global pandemic! "
- M.B., cross-cultural sojourner who used Returning Well in her return from Latin America