2011 AVP/USA National Gathering
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MAY 27 - 30
The Notre Dame de Namur University campus is settled in the peaceful,wooded community of Belmont, California—just south of San Francisco, at the northern edge of the Silicon Valley. It’s within walking distance of coffee houses and ethnic restaurants. NDNU’s modern facilities give us a chance to look ahead while being rooted in AVP’s incredible past. We are glad to be supporting a university committed to community engagement and the values of social justice and global peace.
SAVE $45 by registering before April 26th!
Keynote Speaker
Laura Magnani - Author of
Beyond Prisons:Â A New Interfaith Paradigm for Our FailedPrison System
 check here for more info
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MAY 27 - 30
   MOVING FORWARD!!!
        Building Communities
           Welcoming Diversity
              Exploring New Tools for the Future
        Building Communities
           Welcoming Diversity
              Exploring New Tools for the Future
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NOTRE DAME de NAMUR UNIVERSITY
Belmont, California
NOTRE DAME de NAMUR UNIVERSITY
Belmont, California
The Notre Dame de Namur University campus is settled in the peaceful,wooded community of Belmont, California—just south of San Francisco, at the northern edge of the Silicon Valley. It’s within walking distance of coffee houses and ethnic restaurants. NDNU’s modern facilities give us a chance to look ahead while being rooted in AVP’s incredible past. We are glad to be supporting a university committed to community engagement and the values of social justice and global peace.
SAVE $45 by registering before April 26th!
Keynote Speaker
Laura Magnani - Author of
Beyond Prisons:Â A New Interfaith Paradigm for Our FailedPrison System
 check here for more info
In-Depth Workshops We are excited to announce two In-Depth workshops. The first one is entitled Gender Awareness (A few more slots available) and the other Sociodrama: An Alternative to Conducting and Debriefing Role Plays - WORKSHOP FULL. Both of these workshops were highly attended break out sessions last year. Check out the separate page entitled In-Depth Workshops for more information. You must pre-register for these workshops. WORKSHOP STRANDS Go here for updated information: Building Our Communities:PROGRAM Community is front and center with AVP. Explore training and support of your local facilitators; organizing yourselves as a group; empowering and preparing your replacements; and energizing and expanding community outreach. Welcoming Diversity: Diversity is the lifeblood of any AVP community. Learn more about tapping into the youth community; keeping the formerly-incarcerated fully involved; assuring the broadest racial and cultural bases; welcoming those with hearing, sight or physical challenges; and empowering volunteers with literacy or limited English-speaking issues. Exploring New Tools for the Future: Moving forward is a key to AVP vitality. Take the plunge into fully using new media; finding volunteers on VolunteerMatch.com; making Facebook work for AVP; making Wiki a tool for organizing and writing; Skype for conference calls; and sharpening your database skills. | WHAT'S HAPPENING! Friday evening dinner, May 27, through Monday lunch, May 30 Start off Friday night with an evening of laughter, sharing our successes, renewing friendships and making new facilitator-friends. Take time to enjoy a stroll on one of the many trails surrounding the University. Saturday, the sharing deepens as we explore more methods of implementing AVP exercises and workshops, ways to promote community workshops, as well as working with prison and department-level staff. Discover what AVP/USA committees do and how you can participate. Sunday features more workshops and the AVP/USA Annual Meeting. Find out how AVP/USA is moving forward and how you can be a part of the next steps. Monday, stay until lunch for a morning of catching up on what you missed either with repeat workshops or small Dialog sessions— to ask questions and get answers on your specific issues.  |