This meeting helps to calmly understand why a mentor is needed in the 12-step program and why their role is much deeper than just giving advice from the outside. When a person is trying to cope with addiction, the question of support becomes especially important - what can one lean on during the process of change, whom to trust, and how not to be left alone with difficult experiences. This seminar is dedicated to the role of the mentor in the 12-step program and offers to explore why such a figure is considered one of the keys to moving forward. The conversation will be useful for those who want to understand the logic of the program and see how living human support works within it. The focus will be on the image of the mentor - a person who has already gone through their own path and can share not abstract theory, but personal experience. We share ideas on where to go in Saint Petersburg this weekend.