Belgium
First implementation training started in Belgium
The training, designed to equip healthcare professionals and community stakeholders with the tools to integrate the principles of Positive Health, marks the beginning of an exciting transformation in Belgian healthcare. This integration can extend to healthcare practices or local communities, where a concerted effort is made to align with existing initiatives. According to the handbook…
Read More3 tips and introducing the project leader in Belgium
A new breeze is blowing through Belgian healthcare. We were talking with Christine Vandeur, project leader of Positive Health international in Belgium. She started with support for the Resilient Communities Project in Belgium. How did you start this transformation? As practice manager of one of the participating GP practices of the resilient communities with…
Read MorePositive Health at Mental Health conference EAOF – Leuven
Machteld Huber was touching hearts with her personal story and start of ‘Positive Health in the Netherlands’, during her keynote presentation on the EAOF conference in Leuven, Belgium. The central theme of this conference was: Implementation of community mental health services: making it happen. The paradigm shift from disease oriented care towards health oriented care…
Read MoreFestive launch of ‘Regeneratief Leven vzw’ in Belgium
We would like to share a look back at the festive launch of Regenerative Living vzw at De Droomgaard in Broechem, Belgium on 18th August 2023. Guest speakers Machteld Huber, on Positive Health – a practical approach to see and engage a person as a whole in a process towards greater health and Rineke Dijkinga…
Read MorePositive Health European ‘road show’
Machteld Huber will inspire colleagues through Europe with (keynote) lectures on national and international conferences and Karolien van den Brekel will facilitate workshops how to apply Positive Health into daily practice together with colleagues from Belgium and Germany. Please forward the agenda to colleagues who can join and want to learn more about Positive Health:…
Read MoreTrainingsoverzicht Vlaanderen
Jij hebt de eerste stappen gezet om anders te kijken naar gezondheid. Het gedachtengoed van Positieve Gezondheid is voor velen een bron van inspiratie: de bredere kijk op gezondheid, de aandacht voor eigen regie, veerkracht en een betekenisvol leven. Maar hoe ga je nu van inspiratie naar implementatie? Hoe ga je concreet te werk? Download…
Read MoreSecond inspiration tour “Resilient Communities with Positive Health”
Looking back at the Positive Health international inspiration tour “Resilient Communities with Positive Health” on May 25th. We connected Healthcare and Well-being with Positive Health. With a bus full of enthusiastic professionals working in healthcare, social domain, policy and in the communities from Belgium, we were visiting three best practices in the Netherlands: Syntein: Hans Peter…
Read MoreHandbook ‘Positive Health’ now available for ordering
Handbook Positive Health in Primary Care – The Dutch example is now ready for ordering Increasing numbers of general practitioners are discovering the benefits of working with Positive Health. It helps to talk with patients in a different way, with a focus on possibilities rather than on the impossibilities related to a particular health problem.…
Read MoreInspiration tour on 3 locations working with Positive Health
Resilient Communities and Positive Health International recently organized an inspiration tour for a group of healthcare professionals and an alderman from Belgium. The tour visited three locations where Positive Health was being practiced with great success. The first stop was in Kaag en Braassem, where the first-line care, municipality and De Driemaster (welfare) have been…
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