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MARTEN BOS

CREATING SPACE FOR OUR MULTIPLE STORIES

Gestalt Trainer and - Supervisor (EAGT & LVSC) - Public Speaker, Moderator.

An Inspiration week: "Intersectionality & Gestalt"
Experiencing Diversity, Inclusion and Equity
(When enough interest of participants)

A week of support, guidance for people who are passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion. Professionals from different
backgrounds that want to take further/deeper step in their personal and professional,
intersectional work.

Allow yourself a week to become more inspired, to make time to reflect, to meet, to share, and to experience.

Increase the awareness of your own rich diversity, including your sometimes hidden or maybe unaware blind spots.

Edit and examine the case studies from your practice,(re)discover the joy of your rich sources of inspiration.

Themes include: 'How do I relate to a world where polarization is increasingly visible and where DEI is now a hot topic, that is
also under pressure'

'How do I demonstrate, utilize, and work with my experiential expertise?'

'How to deal with privileges and marginalisation of myself and others?'

This week we focus on strengthening and deepening your own multidimensional/layered story. Questions that also can be addressed: "How
do I stay inspired and healthy in this, and what steps have I already taken and will I take?"

Individual coaching sessions are part of this week.

This week we work with the successful methodology "THE POWER OF DIFFERENCES" and the Diversity Cards, based on the
theory of Intersectionality, supplemented with Gestalt theory and Systemic work.

This week also provides space for moments of reflection, relaxation, and certainly to enjoy the beautiful surroundings, the location, the village, the food, the culture, the nature, etc.

Participants from previous editions have been very enthusiastic about the location, the program, and the atmosphere that develops within the group.

Through the practice of sharing stories, we build together a safe space to experiment and bring up questions that occupy you both on a personal level and within your professional field.

EMEL PENSION is a very hospitable guesthouse on theTurkish coast near Kuşadasi, about 1,5 hour from Izmir.

A true sanctuary, with very friendly and welcoming staff who do everything to help you relax and literally and figuratively let you experience hospitality.

We mostly work in the beautifully maintained gardenwith a large olive grove. This guesthouse offers everything to make a week a success.

Within a few minutes' walk, you reach the coast, where you can swim and enjoy delicious food.

The village itself also offers dining options and a market on Mondays that is definitely worth a visit.

Price: €1,550*. Early booking discount for pre-registration: €1,350*.

Included are transportation to and from Izmir airport, a delicious full breakfast every morning and a well-prepared dinner in the evening.

There are spacious double rooms with balconies. An extra surcharge applies when used by one person.

The price does not include the lunch, the cost offlights to and from Turkey (Izmir) and possible excursions.

Target audience: Passionate people with experience(expertise), who are motivated to work from an intersectional perspective.

Interested? let me know: marten@martenbos.nl

*The costs can be too high for you, we can for sure talk about that and make e good arrangement, we want to be as inclusive as possible.

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I also offer, if there is enough interest:

"Working on our multiple story" (2 days training)

My main inspiration is the theory of Intersectionality combined with Gestalt.

"How can we use our stories in an Equal and Inclusive and dialogigal way, to support the power of our diversity?"

More and more in my life (private, work, volunteer) I became aware of the differences we get and take in our stories.

We share our stories in very different ways, in language, gesture, rituals, in food, in the design of the spaces, private and public space and quite influential, from different possitions.

Not every story gets - and takes up the same amount of space.

My work, volunteer work, my relationships, my whole life is a colorful collection of stories, stories that arose in relations, in experiences with family, friends, region of growing up, in love, philosofy of life, politics, activism, work and volunteer work, etc.

Diversity has been present in abundance and that has confronted me with the differences in space that is given and taken for each story.

Dominant stories and stories in the margins, a difference in attention and appreciation.

Diversity, Inclusion and Equity are therefore reflected in every story.

The inequality between people and stories that are often heard and seen, read, appreciated and stories of people that are not or hardly seen, read, appreciated, acknowledged.

It has become an important driving force in my work and beyond, to give attention and space to the quality of stories, stories of equality and inclusion, stories of value, unheard and unknown, hidden and stigmatized stories, withheld and overexposed stories.

who is in charge, what does directing your own story look like, what do you do / can you / do you want to do with it?

My work is based on equality, meaning a subject - subject relation.

Meeting each other in an equal, dialogical relationship.

"I don't treat patients, I meet people." "Don't make a patient of your client"

Jan Foudraine Harm Siemens

“THE POWER OF DIFFERENCES”

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, (D.E.I.) and Justice are much more to me than just fashionable words. It is about the importance of sharing stories about us, our lives, experiences.

It is about awareness of both privilege and power, about how to facilitate space for the real dialogue, for real, sometimes uncomfortable stories, realities, specially for people in marginalized positions.

It is all about real deep listening and trying to see the world through the eyes of ‘the not me’.

Where and how do exclusion, stigmatisation, lack of opportunities take place? Where do doors stay closed for people of colour, transgender people, people with less/(un)visible abilities, women, LGBTI+ etc. people, etc.?

All with the understanding of the intersections of these identities.

Story sharing needs a inclusive, equity space, I provide this by the term: "to install on diversity”.

We need to avoid: tube view, competition, stigma, get stuck in frozen identity, see others / ourselves as objects. Aand araise awareness about ‘who is in charge of our story’? ‘Who has direction?' 'How are we dealing with the ‘normalities’ in: our rituals, language, attitude, norms, etc’. ‘How exclusive can some of our rituals, language, routines etc. be?’

For me the combination of Intersectionality, Gestalt and Systemic work is the inspiration for my work. ‘THE METHODOLOGY OF THE DIVERSITY CARDS’

The methodology of the Diversity Cards is a result of working in the field of diversity for over 40 years as trainer, coach, consultant, activist, volunteer, therapist, etc.

These 19 cards, 1 empty and 18 represent themes that i came across during my work, these 18 were most mentioned in the way we define ourselves as different and interconnected layers of our identities.

Gestalt thought me to not just to look at the individual, but work from a relational/contextual (field) perspective.

This so called 'field', that we are part of, influences us, makes us developping patterns, sometimes even (unhealthy) survival skills, to deal with inclusion and exclusion. We mostly do this unaware, Gestalt focusses on awareness in the here and now.

The Neo-Liberalism has given us the idea, the introject, that we ourselves are to blame for not being successful, happy, normal, etc.

The field theory gives a lot of information about our creative adjustments. How we survive from marginalized positions, how we try to fit in, even when this is quite unhealthy.

The cards have an A3 size to work experiential en systemic and are finished in washable laminate.

Workshops can be offered ‘open enrollment’ or ‘in-company’.

For information about the cards and workshops: marten@martenbos.nl

Reviews of trainers that have been working with the cards:

“Would like to tell you a big THANK - cards during the strategic session worked perfectly well!! We went deeply into values, culture and client needs instead of usual empty discussion.”

“I wanted to let you know that the Diversity Cards worked very well indeed with the group I facilitated; indeed they were the highlight of the six week programme! There were participants from Sudan, Indonesia, Guinea-Bissau, Poland, S. Africa, and Bangladesh; because the cards opened up the possibility for each person to talk about themselves from a position of their own choice, it created a lively and egalitarian atmosphere on the first day, for which I was happy. Also, everyone enjoyed translating the words into their mother tongue!”

I am trained in Gestalt on the Nederlandse Stichting Gestalt (NSG) based on Gestalt therapy.

I am certified Supervisor for the LVSC (Landelijke Vereniging voor Supervisie en Coaching)

and the NVAGT / EAGT

(Nederlands Vlaamse Associatie Gestalt Therapie)/(European Association of Gestalt Therapy) .

I am training and giving supervision for Gestalt institutes in: the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Ukrain, Finland, Poland, Nepal.

My background: Social worker, started in 1978 and been working in this field until 1991.

My clients were: (young) immigrants, people with physical and/or mental disabilities, people with drugs addiction, juvenile delinquents, etc.)

From 1991 until 1999 I worked as (senior) trainer at the national refugee organization: VluchtelingenWerk.

In 1999 I started my own ‘one man company’:

‘Marten Bos, The Power of Differences’

I am working for a variety of companies, organizations, schools, governmental organizations and also for individual clients.

I have done quite some volunteer work:

Marokkaans WAO komitee, (Moroccan, first generation self organisation)

COC (the Dutch LGBTI+ organisation)

'Alle Kleuren Oost' (a community building organisation in Amsterdam East)

My education:

Master of Science in Gestalt therapy, Middlesex University England 2007

Systemic work/ Family constelations 2010

V.O. Supervision en Consultation Hogeschool van Amsterdam 1992-1993(Registration: supervisor by the LVSB S10760 H, senior supervisor LS1157H, teacher supervisors))

Bachelor (HBO) Academy Educational and Social Work ‘Jelburg’ te Baarn 1974–1978

If you want to know more, send an email. You can also read some of my blogs to get more information about my way of thinking, feeling, experiencing, acting, motivation, etc.

Contact:

marten@martenbos.nl

0(031)6 21642597

My blog: martenbos.wordpress.com