Career history and personal qualifications

Universities:

  • Semester in Anglo American Law (Exeter, UK): 1989
  • Master in Dutch Civil Law (University of Amsterdam): 1990
  • Post-Master European Law (College of Europe, Bruges): 1991
  • Master subjects Health Law (University of Amsterdam): 2014-2015

Career history:

  • ING Barings, Credit Risk Management; 1992 – 2000
  • Lecturer European Politics and Law, Business School; 2005-2006
  • Manager of Education and mentor, Russell Advocaten and Houthoff A’dam; 2006-2009
  • Founder and owner of Vergroesen Mediation & Coaching; since 2010 
  • Secondary function: Chair of preliminary investigation sessions for the Medical Disciplinary Board in Amsterdam; since 2016

Mediation-qualifications:

  • Vocational training Mediator (March 2010)
  • Specialisation in Labor Mediation (November 2010, CVC)
  • DNV certification (January 2011)
  • Certificate International Mediation Institute (IMI – 2013)
  • Peer reviews – maximum score (MfN 2015 en 2023)

Coaching-qualifications:

  • Coaching for Executives (November 2009, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Systems, Joep Choy (June 2011, VMG)
  • Systems in Health Care, 2-days (Nov. 2011, VMG)
  • Coaching for mediators (Dec. 2011, E. Feekes)
  • Provocative coaching in Health Care, 2-days (Nov. 2012, VMG)
  • NLP for mediators, (Nov. 2012)
  • Solution focussed peer intervision (Jan. 2013, (VMNH)
  • Systemic team coaching (Okt.- Dec. 2015, Marijke Spanjersberg)
  • Coach Intensive met EMCC EQA-accreditatie op Practitioner niveau (Nonons, 2019-2020)
  • Het Systeemspel, licence, (Feb. 2023, Marijke Spanjersberg)
  • In depth Voice Dialogue (3-day course May ’22, Collewijn, Mulder)
  • Playfull coaching and Voice Dialogue (3-day course March ’25, Collewijn, Mulder).

Courses:

  • Negotiation (October 2009, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Dialogue Skills for Lawyers (December 2009, VU Law)
  • Mediation in the workplace (June 2010, Dialogue)
  • Process-design in mediation (November 2010, VMNH)
  • Personal Drives, 2-days (November 2010, P & S)
  • Creativity in Mediation (February 2011, VMNH)
  • Mediation and humor George Smits (September 2011, VMG)
  • Distribution of power in Labour Mediation (March 2011, NMI Arbeidsgroep)
  • Omgaan met weerstanden (mei 2011, F. Moes)
  • Narrative mediation (November 2011, C. Bos)
  • Sick leave and Mediation (Nov. 2011, NMI Arbeidsgroep)
  • Systems in Corporations (Sept. 2012, Coachhuis)
  • Sick leave in relation to a disturbed employment relationship, (Nov. 2012, NMI Arbeidsgroep)
  • Sociocratic dialogue (March and September 2013, VMG)
  • Group Mediation (April 2013)
  • Masterclass Business Mediation, 2-days (Okt. 2013, CVC/ADR)
  • Group mediation in Health Care, 2-days (Nov. 2013, VMG)
  • Debating for Professionals, 2-days, Dutch Debating Institute (Jan. 2014)
  • Interculturelal mediation (April 2014, MfN Arbeidsgroep)
  • Systems (May 2014)
  • Non-verbal signals (June 2014)
  • Solution focussed mediation in Health Care, 2-days (Nov. 2014, VMG)
  • NLP (Feb. 2015, VMG)
  • Deep Democracy (June 2015, MfN Arbeidsgroep)
  • Group Mediation of conflictual personalities, 2-days (Nov. 2015, VMG)
  • Creative coaching (June 2016, VMG)
  • Appreciative Inquiry (July 2016)
  • Labour Law for Company Doctors (March 2017)
  • Update Medical Disciplinary Law (April 2017)
  • Group dynamics (4-days December 2017)
  • Ethics in Health Care (September 2018, VMG)
  • Update Health Law for members of Medical Disciplinary Board (January 2019)
  • Group Facilitation (May 2019, VMG)
  • Systemic work with medical doctors, Joep Choy (Nov.2019, 2-days, VMG)
  • Online team coaching (March 2021, van der Schoor)
  • Narcists and mediation, (Nov. 2023, VMNH)
  • Day of workshops in systemic work (Nov. 2024, Ambachtsschool)
  • Mediation and trauma (Nov. 2024, VMNH)
  • LHBTIQ+ coaching (feb. 2025)