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Marten Bos
Bolsward, Friesland (1955)

Working with the Quality of Diversity

is my main inspiration, ambition and goal.

“How to be more aware of a healthy efficient combination of personal skills, knowledge, attitude, background, ambition and motivation in our private and professional life?”

In my vision the quality of our skills, knowledge, attitude and motivation are influenced by our personal history. Being aware of this influence helps us to take more ownership /leaderschip. Good ownership guides us to healthy ways of personal leadership. This also concerns acceptance of the reality here and now as the only start for the future.

My experience in Coaching, Training, Consulting and Personal Counseling:
Coaching and guided intervision:
For managers, teachers, socio therapists, HRM workers, civil servants, etc. working with individuals and/or groups in profit and not for profit sectors.
Supervision (an educational way of coaching) for a variety of professionals.

Training:
For a variety of companies, commercial and non commercial, governmental, schools, etc. Themes: personal development for professionals and managers, intercultural management, working with diversity, train the trainers, professional attitude integrity, coping (work related, domestic, sexual, relational) violence, aggression at work.

Consulting:
- Organizations and schools in developing of (train the) trainings programs.
- Projects in the field of diversity for organizations, schools and local government.
- Writers for their books and essays on themes of sexual and cultural diversity.
Dialogue projects as trainer, counselor and consultant. Themes as: Sexual diversity, homosexuality and the multicultural city of Rotterdam, Amsterdam and a National Dialogue between Refugees and Dutch organizations.

Counseling
I do personal counseling for my own company and in connection with the Nederlandse Stichting Gestalt (NSG) based on Gestalt therapy. Subjects are: dealing with sexual abuse in the past (for men), dealing with fear related problems, low self-confidence, dealing with traumatic experiences in the past, questions about sexual identities, dealing with other cultural backgrounds in the Netherlands, etc.
I am Supervisor for the NVAGT (Nederlands Vlaamse Associatie Gestalt Therapie) and Trainer/Supervisor for the NSG.

My background:
Social worker in 1978 and worked 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.

In 1999 I started my own ‘one man company’.
I work for a variety of companies, organizations, schools, governmental organizations and also for individual clients.

Education:
Master of Science in Gestalt therapy, Middlesex University England       2007
V.O. Supervision en Consultation Hogeschool van Amsterdam           1992-1993
(Registration: supervisor by the LVSB S10760 H, senior supervisor LS1157H)
Bachelor (HBO) Academy Educational and Social Work ‘Jelburg’ te Baarn     1974–1978

During my Sabbatical till begin may 2012, follow my blog martenbos.wordpress.com
Regular mail and phone disconnected till may 2012


dare to be diff