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Interactive Skills training

The Mat is a registered educational tool that was developed by psychiatrist Tom Kuipers and the psychologists/communication trainers Bas van Raaij and Yvonne Willems.
In 2006 we were invited to a congress in Sweden at the Sahlgrenska University. Since then, we trained several professionals to become a self supporting trainer.

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train the trainer /
train the trainer interaction skills

Wider distribution to the methodology from 2007 we derive  trainers who train at their own institution can provide.
In 2011 we will start a training program for coaches that 1-on-1 with the Mat to work.

The 'Mat' methodic

The training finds his origins in the Netherlands. It is a product that was developed in 1996 in the Stichting Interactie on the initiative of Ypsilon, a family association in co-operation with some mental health care professionals. In the meantime the organisation has been handed over to Bureau de Mat, to which most of the people from the very beginning are closely connected.

“That was a real eye-opener, 
you start to react in a different way 
if you realise that it is a ‘cannot’.
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