Reconnect is a three-day groupwork programme for up to 12 participants who are nearing release. Using performance, experiential exercises, skills practice role-play and Geese’s trademark metaphor of the mask, the participants explore issues connected with release and re-connecting with a life outside prison.
The course has been shown to contribute towards key areas for desistence from crime – increased agency, hope, motivation to change, resilience, trust and well-being and decreased impulsivity.
Participants have the opportunity to identify potential goals for the future and possible obstacles to those goals, rehearse strategies and skills for dealing with life on the outside and analyse potential high-risk situations for offending and non-offending alternatives.
Reconnect also enhances motivation to engage with other areas of education and training.
