Refresh at Classic ReBoot!
As an MK, returning to Canada can be one of the hardest transitions you and your family will make. It's totally normal to face challenges and feel unnerved or uprooted! The Classic Reboot retreat will help you navigate the transition and give you tools you need to thrive in re-entry.
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A program designed just for TCKs.
July 26 - August 2, 2025 @ Tyndale University, Toronto
Classic ReBoot is an annual week-long re-entry retreat for MKs moving back to Canada, or for MKs who’ve arrived in Canada in the past few years but haven’t experienced a re-entry or transition retreat. As an MK, your life has been full of unique opportunities, highs and lows, cross-cultural experiences, and multiple transitions.
Perhaps one of the biggest transitions you’ll face is coming back to Canada to study, work, or enjoy a gap year. At Classic ReBoot, you’ll build new relationships with fellow MKs; have a safe place to share what’s on your mind, discuss common challenges, and be equipped to thrive in your transition.
Through sports & outdoor activities, conversation, relationships and incredible teaching, we’ll help you:
- Review and celebrate your life experiences as an MK
- Refresh through fun activities, worship, and meaningful relationships
- Reenter and transition to Canadian life and culture with understanding and confidence.
PRE-REGISTER!
Q&A or, send us an email at ReBoot@outreach.ca
What topics are covered?
We have an incredible staff and teachers from around North America. You’ll get to learn from their experience, and cover a bunch of topics including:
- Your MK Identity and Experiences.
- Transition and Re-entry to your Home Country.
- Unpacking Canadian Life and Culture.
1. MK Identity:
MKs get to explore:
- What it means to be uniquely themselves
- How they have been shaped by their MK/TCK experience
- What are unique aspects of people who grow up between two (or more) different cultures?
- How do they answer when someone asks them where they’re from?
- How they can retain their MK-ness and personality and still find acceptance, belonging, and meaning in Canada
2. Transition and Re-entry:
MKs unpack the process of re-entry and transition:
- Participants learn about how to process grief and loss
- These feelings and experiences are normalized and unpacked as a natural response to an international move
- Time and space are provided to help participants begin to process these feelings in healthy and helpful ways
- Participants receive teaching about mental health, self-care, and the importance of Christian community
3. Canadian Life and Culture:
Through games, panels, trip and challenges MKs get a crash course in what it means to be Canadian. MKs learn about:
- How Canadians build and maintain relationships
- What are Canadian transit systems like to use
- Finances, jobs and employment in Canada
- Church, faith and spirituality in Canada
- Canadian food classics (i.e., Tim Horton's, poutine and beaver tails)
- and much more!
“A Place to Process.”
“The vision of ReBoot is to provide a safe and enriching place for Canadian MKs of all ages to deepen their understanding of their MK/TCK experience. At ReBoot they are refreshed through relationships with fellow MKs, and to be encouraged to press into the hope and opportunities in front of them. Reboot is about processing the past, understanding our present, and developing a healthy vision for the future.”
Read some Classic ReBoot Reviews & Testimonies @ ReBoot Testimonies
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“What If I’m in the USA?”
There are amazing resources south of the border!
If you are a citizen of the United States, or you currently reside there then you may want to consider one of these excellent transition retreats, put on by amazing friends of the MORE Network:
- Interaction International: Interaction International Transit Lounge: Held at Fort Mountain Conference Center near Chatsworth, Georgia. Learn more on their website. For information, email office@interactionintl.org
- Narramore Christian Foundation: MK re-entry Seminar at Biola University, La Mirada, California - Go to their website for more information or contact Debbie Hewitt, Program Director, at debbie.hewitt@gmail.com