Complex Needs in International Schools: Trauma, Harm, and Mental Health

Staff Training Edition - one year access for your staff

When school staff know how to recognize disconnection, accumulated grief, grooming, and mental health strain, they can respond earlier and more effectively.

This four-unit course equips international school administrators with curriculum (recordings, activities, posters and quizzes to use with teachers and staff to start these important conversations. 

Grounded in TCK research, it offers practical tools to build resilience, reduce harm, support students, and respond confidently when concerns arise.
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Format

Staff Training Edition ~
One year access with unlimited use

Recording Duration

4 units ~
12 hrs of recordings

Instructors

Tanya Crossman,
Elizabeth Vahey Smith, &
Lauren Wells

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Meet the instructors

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Tanya Crossman

Director of Research and Education Services

Tanya is an Adult TCK from a corporate background and now has 20 years of hands-on experience supporting TCKs, globally mobile families, and caregivers in this sector. She is the author of Misunderstood: The Impact of Growing Up Overseas in the 21st Century and co-author of Thongs or Flip Flops? Australian kids overseas and what comes next. Tanya's key roles at TCK Training are providing services to international schools and leading our research work, along with presenting virtually and in-person around the world. Learn more about Tanya's work at tanyacrossman.com.
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Lauren Wells

Founder and CEO

Lauren is the Founder and CEO of TCK Training and author of Raising Up a Generation of Healthy Third Culture Kids, What Made That Feel So Hard: The Unstacking Method, and more. An Adult Third Culture Kid (ATCK) who spent her teenage years living in Tanzania, East Africa, Lauren has worked with over 1,000 parents and TCK caregivers and has trained staff from over 80 organizations. 

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Elizabeth Vahey Smith

Chief Operating Officer

Author of The Practice of Processing, Elizabeth is a skilled communicator and trauma-informed educator who helps transform abstract concepts into practical steps, equipping, encouraging, and empowering people to reach their goals. Elizabeth is a mom of two worldschooling TCKs.

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