Facility Cost for Pre-Conference Workshops

Cost Per Day for Pre- or Post-* ConferenceEvents.  Your per-day cost is based onyour room selection for the 3-day Annual Gathering. 

Multi. occ/dorm: $85        Dbl/priv.bath: $95          Sgl/priv. bath: $105           Commuter:$45

*Post-Conference C of C Retreat: register for one extra day: 5/28

BUILDING DIVERSE AVPCOMMUNITIES,  May 24, 25.

One-day,in-depth workshop.  Workshop Fee $45

Checkin after 1 pm Thursday, May24. Register for one extra day (5/24) plus the workshop fee.  Workshop takes place Friday, morning andafternoon. Min/ Max participants:  10/20

Facilitators:Work with four marketing-mindedfacilitators from across the country, who’ve “been there donethat”…struggled…and are still learning how to get back up to succeed:  Carroll Boone, California; Kit Hanley,Maryland; Cheryl Sutton; AVP/USAPR Committee Chair, Iowa; Pat Hardy, California.

Description:  Want to find kindred, yet diversespirits in your town to take and ultimately foster powerful AVP community workshops?

Secret:  It involves more than an email, a flyer orannouncing them at a Quaker meeting. Building an AVP community takesplanning and sustained commitment, butwhat does that mean?  The AVPUSA Organizing Kit is a springboardbut now discover what’s been tried and found to work…or not.  Come explore fresh ways to attractparticipants with AVP tools.  Tap into how to cultivate these diversespirits--both before and after workshops.

You don’t have to do it all!  Bring a friend or even a team!  Find our how to start/restart an AVPcommunity that feeds you, that is committed to shared leadership and sharedresponsibility, so you have fun being with others in  your AVP-basedcommunity.  Join in this interactive AVP-type learning experience.

Guarantee:  Take away a basket of do-able ideas, a richnetwork of AVP-community leadersand at least one new approach to recruitment or your money back.

WORKSHOP,  May 23 - 25.

Twoand a half-day Workshop.  Workshop Fee$125

Check-inafter 1 pm Wed. May 23. Registerfor two extra days (5/23, 5/24) plus the workshop fee.  Workshop takes place Wed. evening throughFriday afternoon. Min/Max participants: 8/16

Facilitators:Adrien Niyongabo, (co-founder of HROC) Dr. BillJacobsen, Dr. Amy Cox, Anne Swoyer

Description “Healing and Rebuilding Our Communities” brings together people inconflict to work towards healing and reconciliation. Originally developed byAfricans to rebuild ravaged communities in Rwanda and Burundi using AVP as a template, HROC focuses on transforming thetraumatic effects of violence and war into an opportunity for peace and trustbuilding, and ending the cycle of hatred and revenge. HROC facilitators haveworked with rape survivors, ethnic and immigrant communities, at-risk youth andthose with HIV+/AIDs. They create safe and supportive groups, which sustainpeace building efforts.

NOTE: This Basic Training meets thepre-requirement for those people interested in taking the 2nd InternationalHROC training for trainers in New York this spring, June 17 - 30^th, Stony Point Conference Center,Stony Point, New York. For more information see http://aglifpt.org/.  Play the Icyizera Hope video and then go tothe HROC page.

Thefollowing Workshop on Shame will be in Annapolis prior to Conference.  Please use information below to indicateinterest in this Shame Workshop.  Pleasedo not contact the AVPUSA Conference Registrar about the Shame Workshop.

 Two-dayexperiential workshop (fee $100; min/max participants 8/20). Venue: AnnapolisFriends Meeting House (1 hour drive from Gathering). Free home stays offered byAnnapolis Friends for Wednesday and Thursday nights. Scholarships are available.

 Bookingscontact: Barbara Thomas, 410-867-2473, bthomas60@gmail.com, 5957 Second St., Deale, Maryland 20751.  

Click here to register for this workshop

 Facilitators:Julei Korner, John Michaelis and Katherine Smith from Sydney Australia.

 Description:Donald Nathansen says “Shame is the doorway to heaven.” James Gilligan hasfound that shame underlies 90% of violent crime. Brene Brown’s research hasinformed us how shame and ignoring or covering shame limits our ability todevelop relationships in our world.

 Thisnewly developed Topic Advanced workshop is an opportunity to explore shame andhow it impacts in our lives. It has grown from a ten-year exploration of shameand Restorative Justice by AVP facilitators in schools.

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