EDUCATION COMMITTEE WORKSHOP- Changing Perceptions of Power and Control within AVP and Beyond: Transforming Power for Peace

 ...isa one day workshop designed to explore the “best and worst" ofinterpersonal   dynamics, reevaluateand hone our engagement skills, pool insight and resources to assist   with transformation in restoring harmony   when community seems brokenor damaged. 

 Participationfor the full day will be greatly appreciated! Thursday, May 24, 9:00 am -   4:00 pm, Landrum Bowling Center

TRAUMA RESILIENCE WORKSHOP HAS FILLED!
Thursday, May 24, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm.  Shuttle to depart at 7:30 am. from the parking lot behind Runyon Center.

 "Trauma Awareness and Resilience" is a holistic workshop largely based on a program -- Strategies for Trauma Awareness & Resilience (STAR) -- developed by the Center for Justice and Peace at Eastern Mennonite University. STAR helps participants understand the impact of trauma,  interrupt cycles of violence, and  build resilience at personal, community and societal levels. It integrates concepts from neurobiology and other trauma models, restorative justice,  conflict transformation, and spirituality. Both facilitators are trained in AVP: this workshop is designed as a supplement to the AVP trauma training to aid personal healing and work with persons who have been traumatized. Lunch will be provided. More information to come. 

Facilitators: Jim Higginbotham and Rachel Goldberg

PRISON DAY: LEARNING FROM THOSE INSIDE at Plainfield Correctional Facility - Thursday, May 24, 8:30 am - 6:30 pm.  Shuttle to depart at 8:30 am. from the parking lot behind Runyon Center.

 

***Participants must have filled out the volunteer paperwork prior to attending this workshop.***

Learning from those Inside: Participate in a mini-Advanced workshop on a topic chosen by the inside facilitators at Plainfield Correctional Facility in Plainfield, IN. 
AVP Indiana has been holding workshops at Plainfield Correctional Facility since January 2017. In that short time, 24 inside facilitators have been trained and 75 participants have been able to take workshops. This is a Medium Security Prison. 

AVP VISIONING RETREAT:
WHAT DOES POLITICAL MEAN WITHIN AVP-USA? 
Friday, May 25, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm in the Landrum Bowling Center. 

What does "Political" mean within AVP? - Alternatives to Violence Project grew out of strong activist roots, focusing on "finding effective ways to communicate and practice active nonviolence."  (Liveoak: Hoover interview)  Ghandi called politics the "art of right action."  AVP's politics is about not taking sides, but seeking to do the right thing.  What is more political than actively working toward self-change of "transformation" of power structures within communities, institutions or systems?

Please join a day long planning AVP Visioning Retreat as we expolore who  we are idealistically as an organization, how we act upon our shared beliefs, and identify implications as wee move forward organizationally.

MOVING FORWARD AS AN ORGANIZATION, Monday, May 28, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm in Arnow Campus Center Board Room

In this session we will break into small thematic groups to process things learned at the conference. Each group identifies specific action steps for Board & Committee follow-up in the year ahead.