Sunday, January 06, 2008
AVP Basic Workshop being offered in Miami
This is just an announcement, contact me for more details--there will be an AVP Basic in Miami at the Miami Friends Meeting (at the Quaker meeting house) January 11, 12 & 13, 2008. There are something like 10 openings for more participants at present. The location of the Quaker meeting house is 1185 Sunset, Miami, FL 33143 [directions can be found at http://miamifriends.org ].
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Renewal
In October, 2006, I wrote and posted here, "It is my intention to post more frequently to this site. There are wonderful things happening with AVP locally, regionally, nationally and internationally, and it has become urgent to share important new tools, dates and contacts with our AVP facilitators and friends. So--more, soon!"
I promptly got utterly distracted and--between work, family issues, personal issues and other concerns (the war in Iraq, especially)--I did not post again. Now, I am updating this, and hope to add more shortly. (I also had to reconnect with this blog via Google, making a change in how I sign in (otherwise I could not see this blog at all, which was not something I had anticipated!)
In coming days I hope to test the posted links and make those all functional as well.
I promptly got utterly distracted and--between work, family issues, personal issues and other concerns (the war in Iraq, especially)--I did not post again. Now, I am updating this, and hope to add more shortly. (I also had to reconnect with this blog via Google, making a change in how I sign in (otherwise I could not see this blog at all, which was not something I had anticipated!)
In coming days I hope to test the posted links and make those all functional as well.
Saturday, March 25, 2006
AVP National May 2006
Announcing the AVP National Gathering in Boston, Massachusetts, May 2006
Walls to Bridges
Mark your calendars and make your plans. Encourage someone new to come. The AVP National Gathering this year is Friday, May 26, through Monday, May 29, on the beautiful and comfortable campus of Stonehill College, just 22 miles south of Boston. Our theme, Walls to Bridges, reflects the desire to honor the walls and boundaries that help define individuals and organizations working toward a non-violent and just society while identifying bridges to ways of working together towards these aims. In keeping with this theme, we are organizing the workshops around the following five categories
* Bridges to our Deeper Selves: Enabling Transforming Power to Come Alive in Our Daily Lives
… the personal journey we share in bridging the gap between our highest goals for ourselves as practitioners of non-violence and the way we conduct ourselves in the world
§ Bridges Between Communities: Building Bridges While Acknowledging the Walls
Looking at ways we can address issues around non-violence and corrections, adult and youth crime, re-entry, and social justice in AVP programs or in cooperation with others to further the goals of justice and healing in the world.
§ Bridges to Effectiveness: Doing the Most With What We Have
Looking at ways we can address issues around non-violence and corrections, adult and youth crime, re-entry, and social justice in AVP programs or in cooperation with others to further the goals of justice and healing in the world.
* Bridges to Better Workshops: Learning From Each Other
Dealing with the organizational and administrative aspects of AVP, such as recruiting, funding, and coordination with departments of corrections..
* Bridges to Inclusiveness: Hearing From Everyone
Although the categories above cover a wide range of topics, your workshop idea may not fall neatly within one of them. This category is meant for you. All ideas are welcomed at this gathering.
Featured Presenters
Bo Lozoff has been working with prisoners for over 30 years. His first book, We Are All Doing Time, is now in its thirteenth printing. Bo's newest book is titled It's a Meaningful Life -- it Just Takes Practice. The Lozoffs have been cited for numerous humanitarian awards, including the prestigious Temple Award for Creative Altruism from the Institute for Noetic Sciences. Their sincerity and commitment have earned the respect of hundreds of thousands of prisoners and others around the world who feel inspired to follow a similar path of living simply and joyfully caring about others.
Robin Casarjian is author of Houses of Healing: A Prisoner’s Guide to Inner Power and Freedom (1995), and co-author of Power Source: Taking Charge of Your Life (2003), a training manual for at-risk teens and young adults. For her prison work, Robin Casarjian was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by Interfaith Counseling Services of MA and was honored by The Giraffe Project, a national program recognizing individuals who "stick out their neck" for the greater good. A major focus of her work has been facilitating statewide trainings for front-line correctional rehabilitation staff in the U.S. Robin also conducts grassroots public education about the need to make prisons places for people to heal.
David Bucura is the Coordinator of African Great Lakes Initiative/Friends Peace Teams. He served as the National Coordinator of AVP Rwanda from 1998 to 2004. During this time, he organized the training of 60 AVP facilitators and over 100 AVP workshops for gacaca judges -- local "elders" who are adjudicating the 120,000 genocide suspects who were imprisoned for almost ten years since the 1994 genocide. This work has been an important tool for judges and administrators to maintain an atmosphere of calm and respect while gathering accurate information. AVP in Africa has been found to be helpful to empower women, recognize and address domestic violence, and to provide a positive experience of diversity across economic levels, genders, ethnicity, and religious traditions. David has been an integral part of these efforts.
More Information
For more information consult our new website, http://www.AVPBoston2006.org, for:
· registration and scholarship applications
· travel information
· information about the conference facility
· additional sightseeing suggestions for New England
Register by March 17 to take advantage of our early bird rate.
(Registration forms are available online and in the Transformer)
It will be an especially great gathering if YOU can come!!
Walls to Bridges
Mark your calendars and make your plans. Encourage someone new to come. The AVP National Gathering this year is Friday, May 26, through Monday, May 29, on the beautiful and comfortable campus of Stonehill College, just 22 miles south of Boston. Our theme, Walls to Bridges, reflects the desire to honor the walls and boundaries that help define individuals and organizations working toward a non-violent and just society while identifying bridges to ways of working together towards these aims. In keeping with this theme, we are organizing the workshops around the following five categories
* Bridges to our Deeper Selves: Enabling Transforming Power to Come Alive in Our Daily Lives
… the personal journey we share in bridging the gap between our highest goals for ourselves as practitioners of non-violence and the way we conduct ourselves in the world
§ Bridges Between Communities: Building Bridges While Acknowledging the Walls
Looking at ways we can address issues around non-violence and corrections, adult and youth crime, re-entry, and social justice in AVP programs or in cooperation with others to further the goals of justice and healing in the world.
§ Bridges to Effectiveness: Doing the Most With What We Have
Looking at ways we can address issues around non-violence and corrections, adult and youth crime, re-entry, and social justice in AVP programs or in cooperation with others to further the goals of justice and healing in the world.
* Bridges to Better Workshops: Learning From Each Other
Dealing with the organizational and administrative aspects of AVP, such as recruiting, funding, and coordination with departments of corrections..
* Bridges to Inclusiveness: Hearing From Everyone
Although the categories above cover a wide range of topics, your workshop idea may not fall neatly within one of them. This category is meant for you. All ideas are welcomed at this gathering.
Featured Presenters
Bo Lozoff has been working with prisoners for over 30 years. His first book, We Are All Doing Time, is now in its thirteenth printing. Bo's newest book is titled It's a Meaningful Life -- it Just Takes Practice. The Lozoffs have been cited for numerous humanitarian awards, including the prestigious Temple Award for Creative Altruism from the Institute for Noetic Sciences. Their sincerity and commitment have earned the respect of hundreds of thousands of prisoners and others around the world who feel inspired to follow a similar path of living simply and joyfully caring about others.
Robin Casarjian is author of Houses of Healing: A Prisoner’s Guide to Inner Power and Freedom (1995), and co-author of Power Source: Taking Charge of Your Life (2003), a training manual for at-risk teens and young adults. For her prison work, Robin Casarjian was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by Interfaith Counseling Services of MA and was honored by The Giraffe Project, a national program recognizing individuals who "stick out their neck" for the greater good. A major focus of her work has been facilitating statewide trainings for front-line correctional rehabilitation staff in the U.S. Robin also conducts grassroots public education about the need to make prisons places for people to heal.
David Bucura is the Coordinator of African Great Lakes Initiative/Friends Peace Teams. He served as the National Coordinator of AVP Rwanda from 1998 to 2004. During this time, he organized the training of 60 AVP facilitators and over 100 AVP workshops for gacaca judges -- local "elders" who are adjudicating the 120,000 genocide suspects who were imprisoned for almost ten years since the 1994 genocide. This work has been an important tool for judges and administrators to maintain an atmosphere of calm and respect while gathering accurate information. AVP in Africa has been found to be helpful to empower women, recognize and address domestic violence, and to provide a positive experience of diversity across economic levels, genders, ethnicity, and religious traditions. David has been an integral part of these efforts.
More Information
For more information consult our new website, http://www.AVPBoston2006.org, for:
· registration and scholarship applications
· travel information
· information about the conference facility
· additional sightseeing suggestions for New England
Register by March 17 to take advantage of our early bird rate.
(Registration forms are available online and in the Transformer)
It will be an especially great gathering if YOU can come!!
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
National conference held, to acclaim
The Alternatives to Violence Project held its annual meeting, this time in California. Visit the AVP-USA web site for reports. Every year, it is held over the Memorial Day weekend.
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Offering Workshop in South Florida 3/4-6/05
The next Alternatives to Violence Project workshop to be offered in South Florida will be a Training for Facilitators, at Everglades Correctional Institution, March 4-6, 2005. [Info from Expressive Eduardo]
Here is the info from the ECI web site [Top Link on Left]:
1601 S.W. 187th Avenue
Miami, Florida 33185
(305) 228-2000
Here is the info from the ECI web site [Top Link on Left]:
1601 S.W. 187th Avenue
Miami, Florida 33185
(305) 228-2000
Monday, February 21, 2005
Adding links to the left
Learning my way around this free blog site, I have discovered how to add links to the left side of this page. These links make for quick access to the sources of information that I find useful in the context of AVP volunteer work (and, modestly, think other AVPers might find helpful to know about). Click on a link and you will find yourself looking at that source, whether it is the national AVP-USA web site, the International AVP web site or AVP in another city, state or country.
As a bonus, access from this blog to those sites is faster than typing in the link, let alone finding the link in my extensive pull-down bookmarks.
Help me out. Let me know if there are AVP links that you think should be added, especially in Spanish or Creole or other languages.
As a bonus, access from this blog to those sites is faster than typing in the link, let alone finding the link in my extensive pull-down bookmarks.
Help me out. Let me know if there are AVP links that you think should be added, especially in Spanish or Creole or other languages.
Saturday, February 19, 2005
Opening up for browsers
A long time ago, I had a free web site for the Alternatives to Violence Project's volunteers in South Florida. But the "free" part went away, with some loss of stored data (largely unmissed now)--yet also with the loss of all the time and energy I had put into it.
There were no funds for a "real" web site--the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) has only minimal funds from its volunteers, who are often digging deep to carry out the workshops in the state prisons, where they bring in whatever supplies are essential and, if allowed, some refreshments.
Then along came blogging, and I read blogs, and was favorably impressed by some--and then Google started hosting "free" blogging. Waiting was... I watched and learned. Now, I want to play, too. I am ready to re-invest some of that time and energy into an Internet presence primarily for the South Florida volunteers (and perhaps-soon-to-become-volunteers) of Miami AVP.
There were no funds for a "real" web site--the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) has only minimal funds from its volunteers, who are often digging deep to carry out the workshops in the state prisons, where they bring in whatever supplies are essential and, if allowed, some refreshments.
Then along came blogging, and I read blogs, and was favorably impressed by some--and then Google started hosting "free" blogging. Waiting was... I watched and learned. Now, I want to play, too. I am ready to re-invest some of that time and energy into an Internet presence primarily for the South Florida volunteers (and perhaps-soon-to-become-volunteers) of Miami AVP.
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