Repatriation Support

Repatriation coaching will support you as you transition back into your home country, helping you to adjust quicker and alleviate reverse culture shock. 

Returning home doesn’t always feel like going home.

Repatriation coaching will support you as you transition back into your home country, helping you to adjust quicker and alleviate reverse culture shock. 

Many people underestimate the “coming home” stage of the expat journey. Maybe you feel you’ve changed living abroad and maybe home just isn’t the same anymore!

And it might be time to reorientate yourself career wise too!

Why Repatriation Support Matters

Coming home isn’t always easy — and that’s completely normal. Repatriation is a major life transition that deserves just as much attention as moving abroad. Taking time to reflect and prepare can make all the difference.

  • Helps you process the emotional impact of returning

  • Reduces reverse culture shock and identity confusion

  • Allows you to reconnect with home on your own terms

  • Supports career reorientation and new goals

  • Empowers you to integrate your global experience into daily life

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“When I got back, I found I was no longer a round peg in a round hole, but a square peg trying to find a hole that didn’t seem to be there at all.” 

Craig Storti

“Experience abroad gives you great resilience and an “I can tackle anything” attitude”

Vanessa Paisley

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What Will You Learn In This Training

Global Skills Reflection

You will reflect on the attitudes, skills and knowledge you have required from having lived abroad – resilience, open-mindedness and flexibility.

Fresh Perspective on Home

You will learn how to see your home through a new lens, and inject some of your abroad life into your familiar territory.

Repatriation Made Practical

You will learn practical tips on how to navigate arriving home and build good habits so you can hit the ground running on your arrival!

Who Is This Training For?

This coaching is suitable for individuals going through repatriation.  

It can be delivered face-to-face in the form of a half-day training session for individuals in companies or virtual coaching divided into 3 x 1.5-hour sessions.

Repatriation Learning Objectives

Understanding Repatriation

You will dive deep into the Five V model of repatriation and how it is a major transition that involves more than just settling back into home life. It can impact our family life too and we need to find ways to alleviate the cultural shock without playing cultural pingpong all the time!

Reflecting on the Learning

You will reflect on all the amazing skills and knowledge you acquired through living abroad. Through reflecting on this, you can equip yourself for the workplace as living abroad ultimately teaches you so much about yourself.

Establishing a plan

You will learn how to find happiness at home again by looking at what you would like to do and establishing healthy routines as well as looking at your home from another angle – this could be seeking international friends as well as finding home within.

The Five V Model: Understanding Repatriation

A powerful framework to understand the emotional journey of returning home after living abroad

Returning home after living abroad can be more challenging than expected. Based on personal experience and years of coaching repats, my Five V Model offers a powerful lens to understand the emotional journey: from the honeymoon phase (Vacation) through doubt (Victim), reflection (Verify), renewal (Victory), and finally realising your true Value.

It’s a path many take, but few talk about.

A diagram of the 5 V Repatriation Model

Ready to get started?

As part of this coaching program participants will receive a free “Repat” toolbox for mastering the art of transitioning into life back home.

It can also be delivered in an extended group format for global leaders and divided into shorter sessions.