Welcome, Compass Alumni!
This page is a gift to you — a place to revisit, refresh, and be reminded of what you experienced at Compass.
We're glad you are here.
Make or
Breaks
Revisit the core concepts from Compass—the ideas about identity, expectations, and relationships that shape everything on the field.
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Encouragement and practical tools for the long, humbling journey of language learning—reminders, articles, and phonetics drills.
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Resources for the whole family—tools for parents and age-specific content to help your kids process and thrive in cross-cultural life.
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Thriving develops over time as effectiveness, endurance, and personal vitality are sustained.
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The ideas below don’t stop being true once training ends. Revisit them whenever you need a reminder of what’s actually going on - in you, around you, and between you and others.
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🎥Joys & Thanksgivings: Recognize & Share
🎥Wall of Resistance - Process of Growth: Turn Resistance into Growth
🎥ParaDucks: Yay Duck and Yuck Duck
🎥Self Sufficiency: The Enemy of Close Relationships
🎥Intent - Impact: Be Curious about Impact
📄Conflict: My Critter Style
🎥Identity: Deeply Loved Child of God
📄Spiritual Integrity: Ways I Prove and Hide
📄Stress Management: Stressors, Symptoms, & Relievers
📄Values: Twangs Between “My Value” and “Their Value”
📄Grief & Loss: Lament
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📄A Biblical Model of the Cross: 1 Corinthians 9:19-27
🎥k(NO)w Time: Turn it into a Conversation with God
🎥The Gaze of Christ: His Eyes Towards Me
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📄Relational Connections: Going Deeper with Others
🎥Self Sufficiency: The Enemy of Close Relationships
🎥ParaDucks: Invite Yay and Yuck
🎥Intent - Impact: My Impact on Others
🎥The Rabbit Listened: The Importance of Presence
📄Conflict: How My Critter Style Impacts Others
📄Stress Management: My Stress Impacts Others
📄Values: Twangs Between “My Value” and “Their Value”
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🎥Expectations - Miss Feelings: When Twangs Come
🎥Moldable Expectations: Hard vs Soft Play-Doh (Hearts)
📄Transition: Stages of the Transition Process
🎥Transplant: Be Excessively Gentle with Yourself
📄Goodbyes: RAFT & Healthy Rhythms
Language Learning
Language learning rarely moves in a straight line. There are stretches of effort that feel slow, followed by moments when things begin to click. This space is here to steady you in both, helping you stay engaged in the process rather than measuring progress too quickly.
🔉 Language Audio Files
Practice phonetic sounds and revisit language concepts from Compass. Select a category below to begin.
Introduction
Chart of Consonant Phonetic Symbols
Nasals
Vowels – Various (Extended)
CHildrens Intercultural Programs (CHIPs)
CHIPs invited your children into stories, relationships, and perspectives that may still be settling. This space is here to help you re-engage those experiences and continue the conversations that matter most in your family.
Resources for Parents
Resources for Kids
Thriving
Thriving develops through a combination of internal formation and external support. It is not accidental. The John Powell Institute gathers research and shared insight to help clarify what makes sustained, healthy engagement possible in cross-cultural life and work.
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For too long, People Care & Development for cross-cultural workers has been operating without shared guidance to shape our field. This leaves many of us operating in isolation without access to the knowledge and experience of others in People Care & Development. This has also meant our field has had no clear standards for vetting and training those who want to support cross-cultural workers, and no ethical guidelines for carrying out our roles.
The Shared Foundations Initiative is an invitation to change all of this. Through this initiative, we anticipate increased quality, consistency and collaboration in supporting CCWs, leading to more of Christ’s love in their lives and in the world.
Learn more here!
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In 2025, JPI launched the Thrive Outcomes Project, a collaborative effort exploring the question: What does it take for a cross-cultural worker to thrive?
This project is not only about answering that question. It is about building shared understanding, language, and purpose for those who support cross-cultural workers. To do this, JPI is gathering insights shaped by experience, wisdom, and research.
Learn more here!
You’re not alone out there
The Compass community doesn’t end when training does. Here are ways to stay resourced, connected, and cared for.
Register for DAR
Debriefing & Renewal - a dedicated time to process your story with trained staff.
Share your story
Record a short video testimonial to encourage others who are preparing for the field.
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A note on content use:
The materials on this page are designed for your personal benefit as a Compass alumnus - to support and remind you of what you learned during training. Please do not share, reproduce, or use this content in training or teaching without permission.