tEACH Webinar – Positive Health

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24 Mar 2026

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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Webinar

Join us for an inspiring webinar on Positive Health, a transformative approach that places people—not their illnesses—at the centre of care.

Discover how this model enhances meaningful conversations, strengthens resilience, and supports more effective communication in healthcare settings. For communication experts, Positive Health offers powerful tools to deepen connection, broaden perspectives, and foster collaborative decision-making.

In this webinar you will learn about the background of Positive Health and how the framework can enrich teaching, research, and clinical encounters, supported by examples from international practice.

You’ll learn how Positive Health can shift the focus from “What is the matter?” to “What matters to you?”—a change that significantly improves engagement and outcomes.

Whether you work with students, clinicians, or patients, this webinar will provide fresh insights and practical strategies you can apply immediately. For more information about Positive Health visit: www.positivehealth-international.com

Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your toolkit and be part of a growing international movement.

Speakers:

Dr. Karolien van den Brekel-Dijkstra works as a general practitioner (Utrecht, the Netherlands) and as a trainer for the Institute for Positive Health (iPH). In Dr. van den Brekel’s work, health is the starting point and the person is at the centre. Karolien is involved in research, education, and healthcare innovation in the fields of prevention and Positive Health, locally, regionally, nationally and since 2022 internationally. She founded Positive Health International, with the aim of promoting the Positive Health movement beyond the Netherlands.

Positive Health has been a guiding thread throughout her life, providing resilience to deal with life’s challenges across different cultures and countries. During the ten years Karolien lived and worked abroad (New York, Munich, Osaka, Dublin), she learned that diseases are the same everywhere, but the way people deal with them differs by culture and country. She completed her PhD at New York University/University Medical Center Utrecht and has about 20 years of experience as a GP in the Netherlands. Dr. van den Brekel is co-author of Handbook Positive Health in General Practice: Working Together Towards Meaningful Care (Handbook – Positive Health). More information at: www.positivehealth-international.com

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Prof. Katrien Bombeke has devoted her professional life to effective communication teaching and learning in health care. During her PhD research on how medical students develop patient centredness, she got involved in small group, simulation-based teaching at the communication skills lab of the University of Antwerp (UA, Belgium).

From 2017 on, she is responsible for the communication curriculum of the undergraduate medical school (UA) and promotes educational research based on qualitative methods. Internationally, she is involved in tEACH, the teaching subcommittee of EACH. Apart from teaching and research, she remains practicing patient-centred communication as a general practitioner in Antwerp. Resilience, meaningful care and Positive Health are at the heart of her interdisciplinary group practice (Gezondheidspraktijk Valaar). In 2025, she became a trainer for the Institute for Positive Health (iPH).

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