ABOUT AVP
The Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) is a network of independent not-for-profit grass-roots volunteer groups offering experiential workshops on self-awareness and creative conflict transformation in prisons, schools, and the wider community. The Help Increase the Peace (HIP) Program is an adaptation of AVP for schools.
These workshops empower individuals to liberate themselves and others from the burden of violence. The fundamental belief of AVP is that there is a power for peace and good in everyone, and that this power has the ability to transform violence. AVP builds on a spiritual basis of respecting and caring for self and others.
AVP is a program of experiential workshops, helping people change their lives. It is the following: a community program, offering a new approach for community groups, social service agencies, youth organisations and individuals who would like to learn, a school program, called the Help Increase the Peace (HIP) offering a new approach to teachers, counsellors and students on conflict resolution skills, a prison program, helping inmates learn new skills and attitudes that can help lead to fulfilling and nonviolent lives, a program for everybody, drawing its participants and its facilitators from all faiths, cultures, races and walks of life, a personal program, using our own experiences to explore how we personally respond to other people and to consider new ways of relating to others (the focus is not on dealing with or mediating other people’s conflicts), and an intensive learning experience.
These workshops empower individuals to liberate themselves and others from the burden of violence. The fundamental belief of AVP is that there is a power for peace and good in everyone, and that this power has the ability to transform violence. AVP builds on a spiritual basis of respecting and caring for self and others.
AVP is a program of experiential workshops, helping people change their lives. It is the following: a community program, offering a new approach for community groups, social service agencies, youth organisations and individuals who would like to learn, a school program, called the Help Increase the Peace (HIP) offering a new approach to teachers, counsellors and students on conflict resolution skills, a prison program, helping inmates learn new skills and attitudes that can help lead to fulfilling and nonviolent lives, a program for everybody, drawing its participants and its facilitators from all faiths, cultures, races and walks of life, a personal program, using our own experiences to explore how we personally respond to other people and to consider new ways of relating to others (the focus is not on dealing with or mediating other people’s conflicts), and an intensive learning experience.
OUR INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE
Worldwide there are AVP groups in over 60 countries. AVP International is a support network for the sixty plus autonomous national AVP groups worldwide. Each national AVP group is autonomous and linked to the others by the international support network. For more information see www.avp.international
See the descriptions of AVP, workshop evaluations and reports of research into the impacts of workshops on participants on the International website http://avp.international/literature/
See the descriptions of AVP, workshop evaluations and reports of research into the impacts of workshops on participants on the International website http://avp.international/literature/
