I submitted a proposal for a presentation at the up and coming Families in Global Transition Conference this morning… My suggested title? “Localising Belonging in a Global World”. Then I watched this… brilliant! Well worth a watch… For all of those wrestling with belonging and cultural identification… this is for you…

Third Culture Kids and Character Development
The Third Culture Kids I work with often feel their characters to be as fragmented as their stories. Instead of a story arch that sees a character develop over time, our stories can feel broken up, with distinct versions of our main character showing up in their different chapters. We can feel stuck with a plethora of under-developed protagonists, a sense of amorphous character ‘shape’ and unclear about our story’s direction as a result.
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