Together they examine the role of volunteer mentors in Bindeleddet’s expanding work with young people facing homelessness, loneliness, social vulnerability and often multiple, interconnected challenges.  

The project asks what makes these relationships meaningful, what dilemmas arise within them, and how mentors and mentees experience the encounter from each side.

Together Rosa and Bruggisser explore what makes a mentoring relationship meaningful? Not as a fixed programme with predictable outcomes, but a living encounter between two people. Drawing on resonance theory, they ask how empathy becomes genuine responsiveness—and how both mentor and mentee may be touched and transformed when each takes a real interest in the other.

The research project - and this podcast - was made possible with funds from The Velux Foundation. 

Music: Touching Moments Two with: Kevin Macleod. A Drop in the Ocean and Moving Silence with the artist: Gotama. 

 This podcast is produced and edited by Nalle Kirkvåg from the Non-profit media organization: polykrom.media.  

The dialogue between Rosa and Habo explores what can emerge when professional knowledge and voluntary relationships mee. And how intuitive, responsive encounters may create meaningful possibilities for support, recognition and connection to often marginalized young people. 

PI in the research project: THE INTUITIVE ENCOUNTER: is Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, professor of philosophy and ethics at the Department of Business and Social Sciences, Roskilde University; supported by PhD fellow: Alexander Bruggisser also from: Roskilde University. 

The research project and this podcast is made possible with funds from The Velux Foundation.
Music: Kevin Macleod: Touching Moments Two, Blue Dot Sessions: Keeping Up and Brer Menuet. 

This podcast is produced and edited by Nalle Kirkvåg from the Non-profit media organization: polykrom.media. 

Together they explore the research project and the case: Bindeleddet’s expanding work with   volunteer mentors for young people facing homelessness, loneliness, social vulnerability and often also multiple, interconnected challenges.

Before this exploratory dialogue there was no predetermined destination. The aim was not to force an agreement or arrive at a final model, but to let two philosophical perspectives meet and to remain attentive to what arose between them. 

The result is an open and searching conversation, moving from young people in vulnerable everyday lives to fundamental questions about freedom, care, belonging and what it means to be a good voluntary mentor. 

The research project - and this podcast - was made possible with funds from The Velux Foundation. 

Music: Touching Moments Two with: Kevin Macleod and from Johann Sebastian Bach: Air on the G String - Arranged for Woodwinds and Strings, Cello Suite No.1 in G major, I. Prelude and Air on the G String - arranged for Piano. 

This podcast is produced and edited by Nalle Kirkvåg from the Non-profit media organization: Polykrom.media.