Available personal resources
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"Both my wife and I feel like your debriefing material has been a key for us in being able to so well move forward into what the Lord now has for us." |
Available Companion resources
Articles by Melissa
Interviews with Melissa
“I highly recommend Returning Well for anyone returning from a foreign culture. Returning Well does an excellent job walking you through your journey of living in different cultures so that you can return well, be healthy, and be influential.”
- M.C., cross-cultural sojourner who used Returning Well in her return from Africa
Other resources
The Round Trip Stories Podcast: From China to California, Tracy's Return Story (includes her story of using Returning Well)
COVID Mini-debriefing Guide: useful for everyone to process their experiences around the COVID pandemic.
(This debriefing guide contains many of the exercises and questions presented in the COVID-19 webinar below.)
(This debriefing guide contains many of the exercises and questions presented in the COVID-19 webinar below.)
A one page portion of the COVID Debriefing Guide: the "Daily Debrief"
Webinar: How to support workers forced to return due to COVID-19.
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“Returning Well is a comprehensive resource for cross-cultural workers returning home from the field. These leaders bring a wealth of hard-won understanding and experience home with them. In an increasingly multicultural world, this wisdom could be transformational for the local fellowship, community, and the world. Yet oftentimes the transition home is challenging and difficult, and what could be a transformational season for the cross-cultural leader as well as for the home community, sending organization, or the local fellowship is lost.
“Returning Well creates a bridge for the returning cross-cultural worker to journey home, not just physically, but emotionally, culturally, relationally and spiritually. Crafted with creativity and with great honesty, Returning Well invites those who are returning home to go deep in dealing with every aspect of cross-cultural transition, from leaving to readjustment. Because learning takes place best with support, the book also advocates that each worker have a companion (which may be a life coach) to walk through the transition with them and includes a section for the companion.
“I would highly recommend this resource to returning cross-cultural workers, to coaches and pastors and to the local fellowship!”
- Tina Stoltzfus Horst, Executive Director, CMI