Understanding and Coping with Vicarious Trauma
Jos Weerts has gathered considerable experience in conducting workshops and providing
training and consultation on resilience, stress management as well as in the field of
psychotraumatology. He has worked with civilians, affected by war, with soldiers and military
veterans, and with humanitarian aid workers and development workers. He has been employed
in the Netherlands, among others, as director of the National Institute for the Victims of War
and as Deputy-director of the Veterans Institute. Since 2014, he works as an independent
consultant for individuals, teams and organizations in high impact countries. He is based in the
Netherlands and has worked in Europe, Asia, the Carribean and in Africa; he conducted a
number of workshops, training sessions and consultations in French (a.o., in Haiti, DR Congo, Burundi and in Mali).
