Call for participants: RAN Rehabilitation meeting on ‘Mentorship in the Rehabilitation Process’, Stockholm, 25-26 May 2023

The rehabilitation process is an individual one and depends to a large degree on the participant’s motivation to change. This motivation can be stimulated and retained by mentoring. The role of a mentor can be supervised by the responsible exit or probation worker or by others. While the second group provides guidance from a professional background, the first group can contribute as a peer and/or role model (for example, former or successful individuals from the same community). Mentors can also play a role of continuity in the transition phases of the rehabilitation process where professionals have to hand over to the next practitioner (e.g., from prison to probation).

During the meeting, different practices of mentorship in rehabilitation processes and from adjacent fields will be presented. What methods are used, and on which theories of change are they based on? We will analyse and discuss commonalities, differences, and challenges. The first insights will then be tested during a few case exercises.

For the meeting, we are looking for exit or probation workers who have a mentoring role and mentors working within rehabilitation programmes.

We look forward to receiving your registration no later than 1 May and will select participants based on their answers to the following questions:

• What is your role with regards to mentoring in the context of rehabilitation?
• What experiences and challenges related to mentoring have you encountered?
• What would you like to learn from this meeting?

Please register your interest by filling out this form and do not hesitate to reach out for any clarifications to alexandra [dot] kornviolence-prevention-network [dot] de (Alexandra Korn) and m [dot] vddonkradaradvies [dot] nl (Maarten van de Donk).