Alena Mess | „It is helpful to deal with perpetrators and victims“

Nina Zolezzi |"We need to become braver as a society" Nina Zolezzi, born in Mozambique with Italian-Portuguese roots, lives in Hamburg. As a systemic psychologist and trauma therapist, among other things, she combines neuroscientific findings with leadership expertise. After 30 years as managing director of a communications consultancy, she now works as a leadership trainer and coach. Her philanthropic commitment is focussed on trauma education and criminal justice reform, where she represents the Compassion Prison Project in Europe. This project has set itself the goal of creating trauma-informed prisons, based on the realisation that unresolved childhood trauma is often one of the causes of criminal offences. This is expressed very movingly in the short film "Step inside the circle".

"Daniela Hirt is a systemic family therapist, mediator, trauma pedagogue and specialist in domestic violence perpetrator work. Among other things, she works as a project coordinator for restorative justice programmes in the prison system based on the concept she developed, "Victim-oriented work in the prison system (BoAS)" In the podcast, she talks about the mother of a murdered daughter who sought and to some extent found healing by talking to imprisoned murderers.

Hartmut Kahle was a drug addict, offender and imprisoned. He says: "My story shows very clearly that we reduce people with prison sentences to their deviant behaviour and ascribe them the role of 'criminal' in society. To break this cycle, one thing is needed above all: acceptance, prospects and participation in the form of a new role in society." Today, he works for the Hoppenbank e.V. organisation, which addresses precisely these issues. He uses the lessons learnt from his own painful experiences to contribute to a sensible and humane approach to crime.