"TCKs from all over the world can get a running start on transitioning to North America and life beyond at Transit Lounge!"
Since the 1980s, Interaction International has come alongside Third Culture Kids (TCKs of all sorts, and especially MKs), through our transition programs. Over 1600 TCKs have attended our programs in the past. Now, we look forward to serving you and your family as we continue to help TCKs in their cross-cultural transitions.
Our program staff has decades of experience working with TCKs, and has traveled to over 50 different countries. They have lived or worked on every continent except Antarctica. Each one brings their knowledge and love for TCKs as well as their unique perspective to the seminar.
We welcome all teenage TCKs in transition to explore the stories of your journey. We anticipate that you might be transitioning into your passport culture. You could be headed to high school, college/university, or work; no matter your destination, you’re in transition. Our retreat will help you explore and solidify your understanding of your identity, belonging, and purpose.
This program has been refocused for TCKs who are moving to the US from overseas without plans of returning. While primarily for TCKs who have graduated High School, we also welcome younger TCKs who are putting down more permanent roots in the US. This program will help TCKs to gain closure for the season of life they have left, and learn to leverage their skills and experiences to thrive in their new context.
We are pleased to offer a 5 day program specifically for TCKs who will only be in the US for a few months to a year, before returning overseas again. For those who will be 12-17 years old by July, this retreat will focus on age appropriate TCK issues. We’ll leave talk of preparing for college and independent living for the other seminars. Instead, we’ll focus on the issues that matter to life in middle school and early high school for temporary cultural transplants.
Dates: June 29-July 5, 2025
Location: Waxahachie, TX at Nelson University (formerly SAGU)
For: TCKs ages 16-20 (will consider younger teens)
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Dates: July 9-15, 2025
Location: Union Mills, NC at the Center for Intercultural Training (CIT)
For: TCKs ages 18-21
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Dates: July 27-August 2, 2025
Location: Lookout Mountain, GA at Covenant College
For: TCKs ages 16-20 (will consider younger teens)
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Dates: July 20-24, 2025
Location: Lookout Mountain, GA at Covenant College
For: TCKs ages 12-17
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"If you want a place where you connect with people like never before, laugh with the truest glee, cry with the deepest and sweetest tear, and get flipped while tubing by some guy - come here! "- Transit Lounge 2021 Participant
