Why will you benefit from expatriate coaching?

• Relocating or migrating can be hell.  It’s a toxic cocktail of nervous, emotional, financial and physical stress – and that’s before you’ve even arrived at your new destination. Finding a new job, moving house and perhaps schools too would be a challenge in your own country, but having to do it all in an unfamiliar country can be a recipe for disaster.
• The idea for most expatriates however is that your efforts are rewarded after a short time and you soon find yourself enjoying a brand new life in a new country or city, surrounded by new friends and living life to the full.  Unfortunately it isn’t always like that.

• The first few months pass in a flurry of activity. One or both partners start their new jobs and perhaps children start at new schools. It’s all new and exciting and you think about your friends and family back home, but you don’t really miss them that much because everyone seems friendly and you’re sure that you’ll soon have lots of new friends here. It’s special being new and people are still interested in your story.

• But after three or four months the gloss can start to wear off. You start to miss your friends and family at home and may start to feel disappointed that it is taking so long to make friends here.  Small problems take on big proportions and you can feel quite isolated. 

• The Australian workplace presents challenges you didn’t expect, and the non-working or supporting partner has a completely different set of issues to deal with  – often  feeling like what the relocation industry refers to as a “trailing spouse” ie .someone who is just trailing along behind the really ‘important’ person.  Ironically she (and it usually is a she)  will still be expected to sort everything out and generally hold the family together, but she will also have her own issues to deal with, which may include feeling lonely, homesick and isolated.

• A loss of income or job status may lead to a loss of personal identity, and the expectation that Australia would be an easy place to move to may not deliver in reality. Sharing a language doesn’t mean sharing a culture and although Australians are a very friendly race, deeper friendships can be surprisingly hard to make.

• All of a sudden, moving to Australia might seem like not such a good idea after all, but there is help at hand and it's only a phone call away. I've been in your shoes and I can really help you to understand how Australia functions and how you can fast track your way to fitting in here.  Please go to Expatriate Coaching to learn more about how I can help and what it will cost, then call me to find out how a tailor made coaching package will help you not just survive the ride but even enjoy it.