AVP Michigan Partners with Friends Peace Teams to Offer Ann Arbor Workshop
AVP Michigan Facilitators Joe and Kathy Ossmann and Bill Warters...
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Transforming Power, Building Community in Michigan
AVP: Building Community Through Nonviolence
The Alternatives to Violence Project offers experiential community and prison workshops in personal growth, community development and creative conflict management. Founded by Quakers in New York prisons in 1975, the nondenominational program was developed based on the real-life experiences of prisoners. AVP encourages every person’s innate power to positively transform first themselves and then the world around them.
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Workshop Offered at Covenant Schools in Detroit
On August 22-24 AVP Michigan partnered with Covenant Schools (formerly...
AVP Supports Trauma Resiliency in Refugee Communities
An AVP-affiliated group in Ann Arbor ran a community Basic...