FIGT 2010 March 4-6 Conference Registration Now LIVE 30 concurrent sessions 5 workshops and many other creative and interactive formats
Speakers include representatives from such organizations as: The World Bank, Ruth Van Reken, University of Iceland School of Business, and of course all the quality cross-cultural trainers, educators, coaches and expat service providers to help answer your toughest questions.
Here is just a sampling of some of the sessions to benefit your organization:
- Best Practices in Global Expatriate Family Support
- Lifeboats & Lifelines to Secure Families & Strengthen Organizations
- The Impact of Expatriation on Children
- How International Schools Can Support Students' Native-Language Needs
- Just Another Expat? Insights and Strategies of Female Minority Expatriates
- Top 5 Uncommon International Job Search Strategies for Spouses/Partners
- Out of the Boxes: Lessons from the Shell Expat Archive
- Challenge to Fulfillment: Midlife Transition for Accompanying Spouses and Partners
- Keeping Our Children Bilingual
Plus also join us for one of our three-hour pre-conference workshop on 2010 March 4. For example, Cost-Effective Approaches to Supporting the Expatriate Family will be presented by a group of FIGT Leaders.
FIGTs Website Getting a Facelift
FIGT is thrilled to announce the launch of our new website in concurrence with our 2010 conference registration. However, this new site is still in its early stages of design. As FIGT is based on community discussion, we welcome your feedback with this project. As soon as it is up, please let us know what you think, what you would like to see and any suggestions you might have for making FIGT information easy to access. Email: execdirector@figt.org.
Also, in order to continue to receive this FIGT newsletter and other FIGT correspondence, in the future, you may need to follow a link to accept mail from FIGT. Make sure to do that and join us in our new virtual space!
Welcome TCK Research Community It is my great privilege and honor to announce that the TCK Research Network will merge with FIGT at large and become the FIGT Research Network. For over 10 years, FIGT has led the world with our research discussions and community with that special focus on the family. This network of researchers will be available coming soon to any FIGT Associate.
If you are not yet an Associate, the time is now for you to join us.
David C. Pollock Scholarship Reminder
With the announcement of our exciting 2010 program, we must also remind those of you who are students or self sponsored non profit employees that you are eligible to apply for a scholarship to attend the world renown FIGT conference with all registration fees waived! We have three full ride scholarships and several partial scholarships available. Visit www.figt.org for more details.
International Professional Relations Inc. (IPR) Announces Gold Sponsorship
FIGT once again thanks IPR for its continued support.
International Professional Relations Inc. (IPR) is a
dynamic certified Women Business Enterprise which provides Cross
Cultural Training and Destination Services to globally mobile employees of international
corporations.
Autographed Copies of the Revised Third Culture Kids
The Green Finch is said to be the earliest bird to wake each morning - around 1am. Thus, we thought it fitting to run the earliest bird promotion along with the launch of FIGTs 2010 conference registration! As was mentioned in our last spotlight, no expat library is complete without a book entitled, Third Culture Kids - Growing Up Among Worlds, written by one of FIGTs founders, Ruth Van Reken. FIGT is thrilled to announce that a limited number of copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR will be available on a first come, first serve basis! Those Green Finches who REGISTER NOW FOR THE CONFERENCE will not only receive this early bird rate, but the earliest of you also will get FREE a signed copy of the latest edition of this ground breaking work. Simply click on this link to register and mention GREENFINCH as a coupon code. Save your seat at next year's FIGT conference now and receive this special unique gift hot off the presses from the author herself. But hurry; there are a limited number of books available! (Can not be combined with any other coupon, promotion or special conference registration rate. Books will be shipped in December. Email us directly if you wish to send this to someone else for the holiday season. International shipping charges may apply.) Ruth's book can also be purchased without signature directly here.
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