CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Beyond Recovery is the UK’s leading 3P social enterprise working within the Criminal Justice System Recovery is currently delivering evidence-based programmes in category B and C prisons in the UK, in addition to working with community organisations and professionals who work within the Criminal Justice System.
We use a combination of teaching, group discussion and peer support to enable self discovery and connection with others.
PRISON WORK
Beyond Recovery is currently working in two English prisons:
HMP Foston Hall and HMP Gartree
Beyond Recovery has also worked in four other UK prisons to a high degrees of researched success, most cut short by Covid:
HMP Onley, HMP Rye Hill, HMP Sudbury and HMP Nottingham
Beyond Recovery delivers a range of programmes:
Our Three Principles Programme consists of ten once per week three hour session which includes the following key modules: building rapport, exploration of “reality,” separate realities, exploration of thought and insight,
consciousness—where does it come from?, exploring feelings/moods/behavior, exploring innate health/natural intelligence, what is Mind?, exploring infinite potential, exploring mental clarity versus a busy mind, stepping into the unknown, implications of the principles for life in prison, and living outside of prison.
Our Foundation Programme, which is delivered either over three consecutive days or 10 weekly sessions, is an introduction of the Three Principles and teaches a simple understanding of how state of mind affects our reality and therefore our behaviour and how we can access our natural wellbeing and resilience.
Our Beyond Cravings Programme. This six week programme is designed to help participants understand the nature of cravings. Initially focused on smoking cessation, the programme can be used to help people struggling with any form of addiction.
PEER MENTORING
Because of the profound changes in people who completed our sessions, we started a mentor programme, training residents to be peer mentors for further programmes.
It is now largely due to this initiative, and word of mouth among the prison population, that in one of our prisons we constantly had a waiting list of 50 to 100 men no matter how many programmes we put on. Many of those are on the list as a direct result of conversations they have had with peer mentors and previous participants, and changes they have witnessed in people.
Beyond Recovery staff and visitors also see the way people change in front of their eyes in a matter of days. They see people with problems that look overwhelmingly difficult become resilient, with potential for hope and change and connection.
The natural next step is the development of the Beyond Recovery Academy, an outreach programme for prisoners upon release.
THE THREE PRINCIPLES IN ACTION
Watch the video below to get a sense of the impact of our Three Principles Programme from HMP Onley residents.
OUR WORK
THE THREE PRINCIPLES
REAP METHODOLOGY
EVIDENCE OF IMPACT
CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
PROFESSIONALS
THE ACADEMY
PARTNERS
