Our Workshops

Hands-on sessions that build real personal development and community skills.

Second Level Workshop

18 hours to complete this level gets you another certificate. In this workshop you will build on the skills from your Basic and dive deeper into emotional growth.

T4F (Training for Facilitators) Workshop

Now you are training to become an apprentice and to grow into an Apprentice Facilitator. 18 hours, and the gifts of growth will see you with another certificate and the chance to move beyond and become a Facilitator.

Basic Workshop

The beginning of the process: 18 hours of community building, communication, and personal developments. This workshop finishes with a certificate endorsed by AVP-Canada.

Mini's and Tasters

A Mini, is a 1/2 to a full day workshop for a get together and practice. A Taster, is a mini used to give people a taste of what AVP is all about and is generally used in the community.

The Alternatives to Violence Project began in 1975 when inmates at Green Haven Prison in New York State asked local Quakers to help them teach incarcerated youth how to resolve conflicts nonviolently. Although the original workshops were designed and facilitated with Quaker oversight, the project is a non-profit, non-denominational organization. The success of the workshops quickly spread by word of mouth, and the program took root in many State and Federal prisons throughout the country.