

A conversation with Hartmut Rosa and Alexander Bruggisser
This podcast episode is an unique and exploratory dialogue about the research project: THE INTUITIVE ENCOUNTER. The podcast is an open conversation between the renowned Professor Hartmut Rosa from the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and Alexander Bruggisser, PhD fellow at Roskilde University in Denmark. 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.
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