Hartmut Kahle | „Because of my own bad experiences, I can help others to …

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.

Christoph Willms is Head of the Service Office for Victim-Offender Mediation and Conflict Mediation of the DBH-Fachverband e.V., the German central office for the promotion of conflict mediation in criminal cases, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Justice. As a qualified social worker and criminologist, he previously worked in various prisons in North Rhine-Westphalia, among other places. He knows only too well from theory and practice that inflicting further suffering does not help anyone. Participation, communication and 'genuine' acceptance of responsibility, on the other hand, can create a framework in which mutual understanding, joint clarification and any efforts to make amends can contribute to restoring social peace. In this episode of the podcast, he explains what this can look like in practice for both minor and serious injuries.