Importance of music/ film/ media
Conversations with various involved groups of people often showed that the most important factor of rehabilitation and detachment from violent-extremist contexts can be found in experiences of direct interpersonal interactions, like personal mentoring or other forms of social therapeutic work. Beyond this direct interpersonal work, certain media products like fims, books and music (lyrics), can have an important additional impact – especially including fictional narratives. The inclusion and exploration of media narratives, which individual clients find personally and existentially important, can play an important supporting role in exit facilitation a stable stetting of interpersonal work being assumed.

Below are narrative passages, which describe media experiences of this kind.