A collaborative knowledge workshop for the six Caribbean islands, focused on knowledge development, training, and recovery-oriented support for people who become mentally stuck. It builds on earlier projects around destigmatization, Mental Health First Aid, and lived-experience expertise.
The Kenniswerkplaats Onbegrepen Gedrag was established as an important next step in the development of the Green Recovery Space. It builds on earlier work around destigmatization, Mental Health First Aid, and lived-experience expertise.
The regional knowledge workshop brings together the six Caribbean islands: Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Maarten, and Sint Eustatius. The goal is to create a sustainable network where professionals, lived-experience experts, researchers, and organizations learn together, collaborate, and develop new ways of working around mental health challenges.
Earlier projects created knowledge, awareness, and new roles. The Kenniswerkplaats helped connect those developments into a broader regional learning network.
By bringing organizations and lived-experience experts from all six islands together, the project strengthened the foundation for sustainable recovery-oriented support.
The knowledge workshop focuses on sustainable collaboration, shared learning, and the development of recovery-oriented support for people who are mentally stuck.
Connect organizations, professionals, researchers, and lived-experience experts across the six Caribbean islands.
Create space for learning, training, and knowledge development around mental health, misunderstood behaviour, and recovery-oriented support.
Support new ways of working where lived experience, professional knowledge, and local practice reinforce each other.
Within the Kenniswerkplaats, three connected subprojects were carried out. Together, they created a broad foundation of knowledge, training, lived-experience development, and recovery-oriented work.
MHFA trainings on different islands helped professionals, volunteers, and key community figures recognize psychological problems, start conversations, support people, and refer them to appropriate help.
A training pathway was developed in which participants learned how to use their experiential knowledge professionally, combining reflection, theory, practical skills, and internships.
This follow-up track focuses on embedding lived-experience expertise more sustainably in practice and strengthening recovery-oriented work in organizations.
The Kenniswerkplaats created a more structural basis for collaboration, learning, and recovery-oriented support across the Caribbean islands.
The project contributes to a sustainable recovery-oriented climate where experiential knowledge becomes a natural part of care and support. It also strengthens the long-term foundation behind the Green Recovery Space.
This page is based on the project description and overview text provided in the project document.
By combining training, lived-experience expertise, and recovery-oriented development, the Kenniswerkplaats became an important step in the foundation of the Green Recovery Space.