Transforming Power, Building Community in Michigan
MAGALY QUISPE, the Bolivian AVP wonder worker, is scheduled to talk to us about her work in Bolivian Prisons on Saturday Sept 21, 11 AM at the Ann Arbor Friends Meeting worship space at 1420 Hill St., Ann Arbor MI. Magaly Quispe is a Bolivian Quaker and, like most Bolivian Friends, is ethnically Aymara (Aymaras are one of the two …
AVP Michigan Facilitators Joe and Kathy Ossmann and Bill Warters traveled to Ann Arbor to offer facilitation services for an advanced workshop organized by Friends Peace Teams. The August 16-18 2024 workshop was hosted by the Ann Arbor Friends Meeting which provided the space, childcare and home hospitality to make the workshop possible. The event featured a wonderfully diverse group …
An AVP-affiliated group in Ann Arbor ran a community Basic + Special Topic on Trauma Resiliency, offered as an in-person workshop the week of May 30th featuring visiting AVP Facilitator Nadine Hoover. The workshop included 15 teen and adult participants, 1 lead facilitator and 3 apprentice facilitators as part of a pilot project with Mercy-USA that is focused on refugee …
Congratulations to the inside and outside facilitators who completed our first Advanced Workshop at Ionia Correctional Facility (ICF)! The team included Joyful Joe, Nice Norm, Bold Bill, Friendly Philip (inside facilitator), and Kind Kenyatta (inside facilitator and workshop lead). Our focal themes for the September 20-22, 2019 workshop were Forgiveness, Relationships and Empathy. The thirteen participants gave the session strong …
AVP-USA’s annual national gathering will be in San Francisco, California this year, May 24-27. The theme is “Embracing Each Other: Transformation into Wholeness.” All the details are available at the avpusaconference.org website.