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Quarterly Newsletter
Alternatives to Violence Project USA


Archived Back Issues for 2008





Spring 2008

Green Haven 33 Years Later

1.Keeping AVP Alive...to be Continued?
2.The Community Connection
3.Transforming "Tester" to Truster
5.Steady She Goes
5.AVP's True Value
6.Not an Easy Start
6.Not Just Another Program
6.From "Victor" to Man
8.The Value of Certificates
10.Workshops in Limbo
10.Vaccination Against Violence
11.AVP: Priming Other Programs
12.Reflections: 10 Years Ago

Summer 2008

Transforming Power

1.TP Story: Cellie Challenge
2.My Experience of Becoming a Man
3.The Best Way Out is Always Through
4.Exercise: Affirmation Shield For Advanced Relationships Workshiop
5.Creating a Boulder with Feathers
6.Exploring Our Values
8.My Symbol of Power: a Circle
8.Levels of Transforming Power
9.Thoughts
11.What is This Transforming Power, Anyway?
11.Power Grid
12.Acrostic Using Transforming Power

Fall 2008

Empathy

1.Understanding Empathy
2.Illustration: What AVP Means to Me
4.What Does Empathy Look Like?
5.Empathy Module
6.Empathy Talk/Handout
8.Exercise: Empathy Resonse Circle
9.On Empathy Development
9.What Is Important?
10.Still Learning
11.Sisters
11.What's Happening?
12.Looking for Two Good People
12.Network Database Being Developed

Winter 2008

Give the Gift of AVP

1.Distribution Center Offers Resources that Keep Giving

2.Bust Buys
Book Reviews
3.The Little Book of Restorative Justice
3.Transforming Power for Peace
4.Transforming Power-
   Alternatives to Violence in Action
5.DVD: "Welcome to AVP,
   the Spirit of Non-Violence"
5.Nonviolence and the Community, Reflections on the Alternatives to Violence Project
6.How to Do Good After Prison, Handbook for the Committed Man
6.DVD: "25 to Life"
8.Choosing to Act
9.I Have a Dream: A Future Without Violence,
   May 22-25, 2009
10.Tweaking the Exercises in the Manuals
12.Give the Gift of Your Expertise in 2009

Agenda Highlights...
1.Keynote Speaker: Jakada Imani, Exec. Dir.
   Ella Baker Center for Human Rights                        
1.Sat. Plenary: Derrick Jensen
1.Sat. Evening: Dana Lyons
2.The Firs - Bellingham, WA
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