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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84 3-Day MI Workshops Thus Far
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23 Outside Facilitators Trained
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News and Updates on the Alternatives to Violence MI Chapter.

Bolivian AVP Leader Visits Michigan

MAGALY QUISPE, the Bolivian AVP wonder worker, is scheduled to...

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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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Workshop Offered at Covenant Schools in Detroit

On August 22-24 AVP Michigan partnered with Covenant Schools (formerly...

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