Alternative to Violence Project Workshop
Date and time
Location
South City Campus Multipurpose Room (1 - 030)
1575 South State Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84115
This workshop teaches interpersonal conflict resolution skills through a series of step-by-step processes.
About this event
Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) was the first educational program in the U.S. co-facilitated by those inside and outside of prison, which started in the 1970s, emerging out of the prison riots. It was also one of the first organizations dedicated to promoting the goal of the Beloved Community founded by Dr. Martin L. King Jr. “Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), active in 33 states and 45 countries was founded in the 1970s during the prison riots started in Greenhaven Prison, New York. AVP brings together diverse groups of people to build Dr. King’s nonviolent “beloved community”.
This three hour 101 introduction workshop on Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) will have three sessions. This workshop, grounded in social justice and building the global beloved community is an engaging, interactive, collaborative, and experiential educational learning environment, that will get people to talk, brainstorm, run and move around, and talk about their own lives.