SOME SCHEDULE HIGHLIGHTS
- this is will be updated periodically-
Contact avpmiami@aol.com to request the most current DRAFT of the schedule.
LIST OF SESSIONSAND LOCATIONS
Different Faces: One Voice-One Vision
FRIDAY, MAY 24
7:00 - 7:50am Breakfast- Complimentary at theHotel (or on your own for commuters)
8:00am Pre-conference Prison Event- Bus transfer from Hotel toPrison
9:00am Homestead CorrectionalInstitution (HCI) Welcome and Opening Activities
AVP-HCICommunity Facilitator
10:00am Opening Remarks
Dawn Addy,Wardens Boan and Thornton, and Chaplain DeLong
10:15-11:45am "Karpman Drama Triangle"stepping off the Victim-Rescuer-Persecutor cycle.
Susan Hefte,AVP-USA Past President
11:45-12:30am Box Lunch at HCI for prison eventparticipants
12:30-2:00pm AVPInternational Panel-Visitors from around the world
(Africa,Asia, Australia, Cuba, etc.)
NOTE (At 1:00pm, Registration opensfor regular Annual Gathering registrants at the FIU Labor Center)
2:00-3:30pm "Visioning AVP” share hopes,dreams and goals-
Roger Kluck,AVP-USA President
3:30-5:00pm HCI-AVP Community discussion withoutside AVP participants.
5:00pm Prison activities end,transfer to FIU Labor Center
5:30pm Bus transfer from Hotelto FIU Labor Center
6:00pm Dinner FIULabor Center
7:00pm-7:10pm Conference Welcome- Dawn Addy and Eduardo Diaz FIU-TBA
7:10pm-8:10pm Keynote Speaker- Creating Community-George Knox, Esq. FIU-TBA
8:10pm-9:00pm Community Light and Lively Activities FIU-TBA
SATURDAY, MAY 25
(Committees shown in italics)
7:30am Breakfast at the Hotel(or on your own for commuters)
8:30am Bus transfer from Hotelto FIU Labor Center
9:00-10:30am PlenarySession- AVP Pioneer Reflections onHistory
Rev. Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Jr. TBA
LOCATION | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Session A: Workshops 10:45am- 12noon | A1: Prison gender awareness-violence reduction workshops- I. Horowitz | A2: Where We Lay Our Treasure: How AVP USA budgets reflect priorities- M. Lechner Gary Wolff | A3: Returned Citizens in Community Workshops- R. Johnson C. Dukes Ed Harris | A4: AVP Training for Correctional Staff – J. Shuford? | A5: Understanding Gangs, AVP Informed Work - R. Garot |
Lunch 12:15-1:15pm | TBA | | | | |
Session B: Workshops 1:30 – 3:00pm | B1: AVP in Schools –Bullying K Hersh | B2: Overview of Healing and Restoring Our Communities (HROC) - F. Ntakarutimana | B3: Transforming Power. Margaret Lechner | B4: Sexual Assault Survivors Say Yes S.A.S.S.Y! Teresa Tyson | B5: Part 1- Hands of Peace Empathy Development- J. Stevenson Mary Walton |
LOCATION | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Session C: Workshops 3:15 – 4:30pm | C1: Karpman Drama Triangle stepping off Victim-Rescuer-Persecutor cycle- S. Hefte | C2: Overview of Friends Peace Team use of AVP- C. Yocum, N. Hoover, Val Liveoak & F. Ntakarutimana | C3: AVP Island Workshop Challenges - C. Hamilton | C4: AVP in Africa- Maji Peterx | C5: Part 2- Hands of Peace Empathy Development- J. Stevenson Mary Walton |
LOCATION | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Session D: Committees 4:45 – 6:00pm | D1: Education Committee | D2: PR Committee | D3: Finance Committee | D4: Re-Entry Committee | D5: CLARG |
SATURDAY, MAY 25 (Continued)
6:00pm Dinner FIU-TBA
6:45-7:00pm SIGN UP FOR SUNDAY TALENT SHOW
7:00-9:00pm Movie-“Booker’sPlace”, followed by discussion on race/privilege led by
SheilaGaskins and Andre Craig FIU-TBA
9:00pm Bus transfer from FIULabor Center to Hotel
SUNDAY, MAY 26
7:00am Meeting for Worship- HotelConference Room
7:30am Breakfast at the Hotel(or on your own for commuters)
8:30am Bus transfer from Hotelto FIU Labor Center
LOCATION | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
Session E: Workshops 9 – 10:30a | E1: Discussion of Preconference Discernment Workshop - N. Hoover | E2: International Peace Day – N. Shippen | E3: When things go wrong in a workshop- Rubye Braye | E4: Women facilitator challenges in men’s prisons Clara Diaz J. Smith D. Romer | E5: Breathing Space a Program for Returning Citizens- R. Rios | |
LOCATION | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
Plenary 10:45a – 12a Lunch 12:00-1:00p | Education Committee presentation - Introduction to the new Facilitators Training Manual and Spanish Companion Manuals, Collaborative Manual Writing Process and How to use the AVP Education Network and AVP USA websites. Katherine and Malcolm Smith, Grace McGrath and others. TBA | |
LOCATION | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
Session F: Workshops 1:15 – 2:45pm | F1: Community Based Trauma Healing Discussion- Val Liveoak | F2: Race Privilege Follow-up Workshop- S. Gaskins Andre Craig | F3: Hello & Goodbye; or, Beyond Mrs. Mumbly- Eleanor Novek | F4: :"Visioning AVP " share hopes, dreams and goals – R. Kluck | F5: Tutorial in How to Use the AVP Education Network websites- Grace McGrath Katherine Smith | |
Session G: Workshops 3:00-4:15pm | G1: PAV in Cuba- A. Mora W. Medel M. Claggett-Borne | G2: HCI Prison event issues and lessons-C.Whitehead D. Muller | G3: Structure of prison AVP D. Hefte and S. Hefte | G4 Fundraising- Jessica McCoy | G5: Empowered and Respectful I messages Through Nonviolent Communication- Mike Murphy Mike Fitzgerald | |
AVP-USA 4:30 – 6:30pm | Annual Meeting | | | | TBA | |
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6:30pm Dinner FIU-TBA
7:30-9:00pm TALENT SHOW FIU-TBA
9:00pm Bustransfer from FIU Labor Center to Hotel
MONDAY, MAY 27
7:30am Breakfast at the Hotel(or on your own for commuters)
8:30am Bus transfer from Hotelto FIU Labor Center
8:45 Pick up box lunch if leaving early FIU-TBA
9:00 - 10:15 PlenarySession- International Panel FIU-TBA
Nancy Shippen, John Shuford, Margaret Lechner andothers.
10:15-10:30 ClosingComments - Different Faces: One Voice-One Vision
Dawn Addyand Eduardo Diaz FIU-TBA
LOCATION | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
Session H: Committees 10 :45am – 12 :00noon | H1: Conference Committee | H2: Communications Committee | H3: International Committee | H4: Youth Committee | H5: History Committee |
12:00 -1:00pm Lunch FIU-TBA
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