Third Culture Kid (TCK)

With every new technological development, we get closer to a common global lifestyle. Maybe not all of us are TCKs or have any plans to ex-patriate any time soon, but new advances in communication and social media are evolving our […]

It’s that time again. I can hear the buzz, the excitement and the unbridled wishes for time to move forward a little more quickly. The Families in Global Transition (FIGT) conference is coming around the corner, and the call to […]

Check out this amazing trailer that in the span of a few short minutes, takes us through the stories of a few completely different TCKS (Third Culture Kids).  Of course, though their experiences differ, they share a common culture – […]

Ruth VanReken is a second generation Third Culture Adult.  Though she lives in Indiana, it was a long time before she called it home. Co-Author of Third Culture Kids: Growing up Among Worlds, and Author of Letters Never Sent, she […]

TCKs are blessed with many gifts and many challenges in the unorthadox life that sometimes spans the globe leaving friends, family and memories in its wake. In this exquisitely animated short film, produced by RSA Shorts, Dr. Brené Brown reminds […]

What’s in a story? How do you tell your own? More importantly, why do you tell it at all? When Third Culture Kid (TCK) expert and educator Michael Pollock, son of one of the originators of TCK research – David Pollock, […]

Many third-culture kids (TCKs) don’t choose the life of international travel and cultural immersion; their parents do. However, for TCK adult Claudia Körbler, curiosity prompted her into a life of travel, communication and cultural immersion — starting when she moved away […]

Sydney Shalz’s family is like many of today – it truly is a modern blended family made of hers, his and ours.  The blonde-haired, green-eyed beauty and her family also have a cultural twist that makes Shalz and her siblings […]