For professionals

This page is the starting point for professionals and organisations who want to know whether The Owl’s Nest is a practical, small-scale addition alongside existing guidance, treatment, education or reintegration.

Here you will find a quick way to choose the right subpage, plus more information about what we do in practice, the conditions we work with, and how coordination and intake usually run.

Choose your route

Education

For primary/secondary/vocational/higher education: pupils or students who get stuck, but can grow in a small, practical setting.

Care and treatment

For clients who, alongside treatment, need a non-medical practice place for rhythm, boundaries, stimulus regulation and getting back into doing.

Reintegration and participation

For building up capacity and work skills towards work or returning to society, step by step and tailored to the person.

Employers

For sustainable employability: prevention and recovery in cases of stress and (impending) absence, as a practical addition alongside existing support.

Referrers and social map

For neighbourhood teams, generalists, social map platforms and intake tables: a short description, suitable categories, and routes for referring or listing.

Who we are and what we do

The Owl’s Nest is a community workshop in Haarlem-Noord, as a project of the IRADIS Foundation / ASK-Solutions. We combine making and repairing with structure, calm, and practical support. We are not a mental health provider and not a classic day programme, but a small-scale practice space alongside existing support.

In the workshop, participants practise step by step with rhythm and structure, building up capacity, dealing with stimuli, appointments and boundaries, and (re)building practical skills and confidence. We do not produce medical or psychological reports. We can, however, provide focused feedback on what we observe in the workshop (such as attendance, capacity, work pace, cooperation and responses to change or stress), in consultation with the participant and referrer.

What we deliver in practice

In the workshop we offer a calm, well-structured environment where participants can practise step by step with:

rhythm and structure (arriving, staying, finishing);
building up capacity (pace, breaks, stimuli, daily structure);
recognising and expressing boundaries (rescheduling, asking for help, saying no);
practical skills and confidence through small projects (making, repairing, preparing workshop and workshop-class tasks);
social connection without group pressure (coffee corner, joining in at a small scale);
preparing the next step towards education, volunteering or paid work.

We do not produce medical or psychological reports. We can, however, provide focused feedback on what we observe in the workshop, such as attendance, capacity, work pace, handling appointments, cooperation and responses to change or stress.

For referrers, social map platforms and intake tables

Would you like to include us in a social map, or do you want to triage quickly during a consultation? On the page Referrers and social map you will find a short description, suitable categories, conditions and two practical routes: referring someone and coordination, or copy-ready text for listing.

For municipalities and policy

For policy staff and funders, the questions are often the same: who we are, why we exist, who benefits, what we do in practice, what it yields, how intake works, and how funding and collaboration are organised. On the public site we describe collaborations primarily as types of partners; we only publish a list of names in consultation. For a short factsheet with current numbers and substantiation, we are happy to plan a meeting.

Safety and self-reliance are leading. We are not a crisis service or an intensive-care setting. In unstable situations, the lead clinician or lead supervisor remains responsible, and our workshop can only be a suitable addition when there is sufficient stability.

Trajectories usually start with a short consultation, an introduction and a trial period. After that, we agree on goals, frequency, duration and evaluation moments. For formal trajectories commissioned by organisations, we work with tailored agreements (hours or half-days), fitting the funding route within education, care or the social domain.

Make an appointment

Plan a short exploratory call or introduction, with or without the participant.

Make an appointment

Locations

Overview of our locations and what is possible where (it differs per location).

Locations

Foundation

Who we are as an organisation and how The Owl’s Nest operates under the IRADIS Foundation / ASK-Solutions.

Foundation

For whom

The public routes for neighbours, making and repairing, arts and crafts, calm and recovery, and volunteers.

For whom

Community workshop – The Owl’s Nest