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Alternatives To Violence Project (AVP) Basic Workshops

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Why Would You Attend?  

  • Discover new and creative ways to respond to conflict 
  • End violence in your community  
  • Improve your relationships 
  • Develop new skills in your role as a student, teacher, police officer, minister, supervisor, social justice activist, parent, social worker, leader, neighbor . . . .
  • Start training as an AVP facilitator for prison and community workshops
  • Become an agent for change

What Will You Do In An AVP Workshop? 

  • Participate in interactive games, exercises, and role-plays 
  • Examine the ways we respond to injustice, prejudice, anger, and violence
  • Build new friendships 
  • Have fun!

Upcoming Workshops – How  Do I Register? Register on our website: https://avpindiana.org/registration-2/

As workshops are scheduled, they will appear on the registration page. Check back regularly if you are interested in taking a workshop. 

The next Basic Workshop is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 26-27, 2026 from 9am-6pm (both days) at Earlham College’s Multicultural Center in Richmond, Indiana. Participants must attend both days. Lunch and snacks will be provided by Earlham College. Students will be given priority in registration, but community members are invited to participate as long as space permits. 

Community workshops are scheduled when we have enough interest to conduct them. If you know a group of at least 10-12 people who are interested and would like to attend a Community workshop, please let us know by emailing us and we will be happy to work with you.

There are Virtual Zoom AVP workshops being conducted by local groups across the country. If we are not offering an in-person workshop you are able to attend, and you would like to take a workshop online, please visit the AVP-USA website at https://avpusa.org/get-involved/take-a-workshop/ to find information on upcoming workshops.

What Is The Cost? 

The sliding fee for the workshop is $0 to $60. Students may attend for free. We are an all volunteer 501(c)(3) nonprofit incorporated in the state of Indiana, so donations of any amount help defray our costs for workshop supplies, food, travel expenses, manuals for our incarcerated facilitators, and scholarships for students. No one is turned away for lack of funds. Payment or donations can be made by PayPal on our website or on the first day of the workshop. Checks can be made out to AVP Indiana.

For more information, please contact us at     avpindiana@gmail.com.

Want to Do Something About the Violence in our Society?

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Do you–want to make a difference in your life?

  •                 want to learn anger management skills?
  •                 want to help others learn to control their aggression?
  •                 want to become a conflict resolution facilitator?

Benefits of our training include learning to,

  •                 Diffuse potential conflicts at home, school, work,
  •                 Solve family issues with “win-win’ options,
  •                 Understand opposing viewpoints,
  •                 Resolve common misunderstandings that lead to violence,
  •                 Become more emphatic and caring

Consider becoming an AVP Facilitator!  It is a life-changing experience and a lot of fun. We at AVP Indiana would love to share this process with everyone, but cannot without more volunteers like you.

Will you join us?  Our next Basic workshop is in Indianapolis on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 26-27 at West Newton Friends Meeting, See flyer for details. Don’t forget to sign up on the registration page!

August 2017 Basic Workshop Flyer

An Invitation to Join Us

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AVP USA

An invitation to join us (from the national AVP USA organization):

We are volunteers who use interpersonal tools for peace, working around the corner and around the world to prevent violence and promote healing. We don’t lecture, or show slides, or sing anthems. Instead, we work face-to-face with people to help them discover their connectedness, their empathy and their common bonds – even where there is bitter animosity or a history of conflict.

In 2013 we shared our journey with nearly 16,000 people across 29 states. We are more than 2,000 volunteer facilitators, working in prisons, gang intervention, drug
recovery, with veterans and refugees, in schools, churches, colleges, community organizations, and more. Our story is told in many languages, by people of all colors and beliefs, and it’s captured in this first-person witness of one participant in a prison in New York: “I finally found something that cracked the wall around my inner energy and allowed me to see that other person I always wanted to be. . .that person I am now.”

We need your help, to grow our community and reach more people with our workshops. We have launched the Campaign for AVP-40, to celebrate our 40th anniversary of service and engagement with people who need our help. There are waiting lists for workshops – we need to recruit and train more facilitators. There are people in remote locations who can’t afford to travel – we need to meet those costs. There are models of success – we need to share those models with each other.

At our National Gathering in Philadelphia in May, we started our own drive to reach 100 percent participation in the Campaign. Now we invite you to join the Campaign for AVP-40 with a contribution. Please give what you can to:

AVP/USA
1050 Selby Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55104

Our website is http:www.avpusa.org. You can donate there, too. It is all welcome, all appreciated, and all in the service of peacemaking and healing.

Thank you.
The men and women of Alternatives to Violence Project – USA