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Referring to The Owl’s Nest works best when conversations and advice alone are not enough, and someone benefits from a calm, practical place where they can rebuild grip and confidence through doing. We are a small-scale community workshop: a place to practise alongside existing support, treatment, education or (work) reintegration.
Important for context: we are not a mental health (GGZ) provider, not crisis care and not a traditional day programme. Our setting is often a particularly good fit for people who are (still) not ready for group day programmes, or who feel resistance towards that format. We start small and build up step by step, aligned with capacity, safety and staffing.
On this page you can read when referring is a good fit, what a small-step start looks like, what we can feed back, and which conditions are leading.
A quick alignment on the question, capacity, contact person and conditions.
A tour, quietly joining in the coffee corner, observing for an hour, then building up towards longer blocks.
Frequency, goals, evaluation moments and alignment with the referrer.
If this profile feels recognisable, it helps to keep the first contact as small and concrete as possible. Start with a short consultation about the support question, capacity and who the fixed point of contact is. Then we plan an introduction and a trial period, so someone can land calmly, experience the setting, and together we can assess what is feasible. Only after those first steps do we make agreements about frequency and evaluation. That way it stays safe, predictable and fitting for the participant as well as for you as a referrer.
We do not provide medical or psychological reports. We can, however, feed back what we observe in the workshop, for example attendance, capacity, working pace, handling agreements, cooperation and responses to change or tension. The lead clinician or lead support worker remains responsible for diagnostics, the treatment plan and crisis policy; we provide practical support alongside the pathway only. We align evaluation moments with the participant and the referrer.
The Owl’s Nest consists of multiple locations with different functions. See /about-the-workshop/locations for an overview. Guideline for simultaneous presence: Paul Krugerstraat 4 people, Spaarndamseweg 6 people, office 2 people (depending on ongoing projects and staffing).
Not in the traditional sense. We are a small-scale practical place to practise alongside existing pathways, with build-up in small steps.
No. We do not provide medical or psychological treatment. We can, however, connect alongside treatment and align with the involved professional.
In pathways we generally work with participants from around age 14. Younger children are welcome at open activities under the supervision of a parent or group.
For neighbourhood visitors we keep it low-threshold. For formal pathways commissioned by organisations we work with tailor-made agreements in hours or half-day blocks and a quote based on the desired format and level of alignment.
For referrers, a short orientation call is usually the most efficient. That way we do not have to guess, and we can immediately assess together whether our setting fits and what a realistic start is. Use /make-an-appointment and include briefly: the support question, what you currently see as capacity (how small someone can start), the frequency you roughly have in mind, and who the fixed point of contact is on your side. If there is already treatment, support or an ongoing pathway, it also helps to mention that in one sentence. That way we can respond faster on what is feasible and what the most logical next step is.
A short consultation is often the fastest way to determine fit and start.
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