Valérie Besanceney
The Narrow Definition of Success
The Illusion of Thriving What is your definition of success? And more importantly, how does your definition of success affect the next...
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Valérie Besanceney
- Mar 24, 2020
- 6 min
Homeschooling During Covid-19 Tip (just one)
As a parent of a family having walked the homeschooling path for a few months, and now suddenly watching friends and family setting out...
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Valérie Besanceney
- Mar 14, 2020
- 5 min
Homeschooling Tips During Transition
At the end of last summer, our family started homeschooling for various reasons. Until last week, we were the only family in our...
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Valérie Besanceney
- Sep 1, 2019
- 5 min
Top 10 Ways to Help New Students Transition at Your International School
This time of year means Back-To-School for most kids, but for internationally mobile children it often means Start-A-New-School. A...
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Valérie Besanceney
- Jun 23, 2019
- 4 min
Grateful Goodbyes
"Before diving into this new adventure, she needs to make sure she can properly say goodbye to this part of her life.” B at Home: Emma...
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Valérie Besanceney
- Apr 20, 2018
- 6 min
Top 10 Ways to Help Your Students Say Goodbye
During this time of year many of our students are faced with a move. For some it is yet another move of many. Teachers and administrators...
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Valérie Besanceney
- Feb 22, 2018
- 8 min
Top 10 Ways To Help Your Staying Students
…It is the first day of the school year and I am going back to the same school where I have been for five years now. It is the same...
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Valérie Besanceney
- Jan 12, 2018
- 4 min
FIGT18 and Why You Should Join Us
If you are on the fence about attending the upcoming Families in Global Transition (FIGT) conference, please take a moment to think about...
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Valérie Besanceney
- Jul 19, 2016
- 7 min
A Series of Lessons from FIGT 2016 – Lesson 4/4: We Bond Where We Are Broken
The internet can be a scary thing, especially when advertising is ‘knowingly’ targeted to your interests. While browsing through my...
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Valérie Besanceney
- Jun 28, 2016
- 4 min
A Series of Lessons from FIGT 2016 – Lesson 3/4: Dreams & Hopes
School is out, and like most teachers, I am ready to tune out for a few weeks. However, before completely tuning out, I always like to...
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Valérie Besanceney
- May 20, 2016
- 5 min
A Series of Lessons from FIGT 2016 – Lesson 2/4: Rockstars and the Stories That Shape Us
Earlier this month I was back in the Netherlands, my passport – oh, wait, scratch that – my former passport country before I became...
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Valérie Besanceney
- Apr 3, 2016
- 7 min
A Series of Lessons from FIGT 2016 – Lesson1/4: Nakedness, Empathy, and Letters Never Arrived
Last year, it was only four weeks after FIGT 2015 that I finally found the time to write about what I had learned from the conference....
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Valérie Besanceney
- Mar 6, 2016
- 1 min
In Anticipation of Inspiration
Three. More. Days. FIGT 2016: Moving Across Cultures: Bringing Empathy and Expertise to the Global Evolving Family. The keynote speakers....
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Valérie Besanceney
- Apr 3, 2015
- 9 min
FIGT 2015 — Trying to Recapture It All Under the Tuscan Sun
It’s been almost four weeks, but I am still basking in the afterglow of FIGT 2015. Lucky for me, I am literally writing this under the...
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Valérie Besanceney
- Oct 9, 2014
- 5 min
Third Culture Friendships
“Where are you from?” the girl behind the ‘International Orientation’ desk of the University of Vermont asks as she looks slightly...
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Valérie Besanceney
- Jul 4, 2014
- 4 min
On Leaving and Saying Goodbye
June has always become the ‘leaving month’ in my head. Like most teachers, I don’t think in calendar years, but in school years. We start...
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Valérie Besanceney
- May 18, 2014
- 3 min
Sharing and Feeling Inspired
In the past ten days, I had two opportunities to speak on the topic of ‘Third Culture Kids and Relocation’ and promote my book. After so...
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Valérie Besanceney
- May 3, 2014
- 2 min
Sacred Objects
This week, together with two fabulous experts on relocation, I will be giving a presentation on how to support children during...
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Valérie Besanceney
- Apr 9, 2014
- 1 min
B at Home now available online!
It’s a been a big week of celebrating milestones! Exactly one week ago, our youngest daughter turned one and what an amazing year it has...
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Valérie Besanceney
- Mar 30, 2014
- 3 min
Crossroads
This past Friday evening, I had a chance to reflect on how we sometimes stand at a crossroad. We decide to just dive in deep and go for...
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