Alternatives To Violence Project
Empowering people to transform violence into non-violence in their families and in their communities through workshops that make a difference.
Learn skills for your life and have the opportunity to become a trained workshop facilitator.
WHAT WE DO
Peaceful Pathways to Conflict Resolution
We facilitate experiential workshops for the community.
Helping schools, social workers and professionals in discovering new and
creative ways of responding to conflict situations
We volunteer in 5 prisons across WA per year.
Participants explore strengths and skills within themselves that will enable them to deal with future conflict or
potentially violent situations in a more constructive
and pro-active manner.
Celebrating 50 years as an international, research-based not-for profit organisation.
AVP has been running workshops in WA since 1994, whilst connected to the worldwide AVP community in over 80 countries.
We don’t heal in isolation,
but in community.
……….
S. Kelley Harrell
Our Approach
AVP offers interactive experience-based workshops that help us to become more aware of the violence in our lives and how we can find creative, rather than destructive, ways of resolving conflicts.
AVP offers alternatives to violence such as:
• Building trust and self esteem
• Exploring methods of communication
• Developing cooperation
• Encouraging creative conflict resolution
Get Involved
VOLUNTEER
Train as a Workshop Facilitator
Are you seeking a purposeful volunteer opportunity, whilst improving your life and community?
DONATE
Help Our Cause
Your contributions will enable us to run our workshops and support our volunteers. Together, we can create lasting change and improve the communities we live in.
PARTICIPATE
Join a Workshop
Want to learn more? Sign up for an intro session or workshop today. Contact us if you would like to organise a custom workshop for your organisation.
Workshops that Make a Difference
Nick’s Story
Learn about how Nick, a past participant, managed to turn his life around with the help and guidance of AVP WA.
When You Hear The Word Violence
Watch inmates participating in the AVP Workshop in the USA.
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New Book On AVP Launched
In Building peace and community: AVP around the world, 62 authors discuss AVP’s experience in 21 different countries.
By exploring ways in which AVP has adapted to different contexts, the challenges faced, the lessons learned, and AVP’s impact on individuals and communities, they demonstrate AVP’s transformative power and the hope it offers in times of growing violence.
Inspiring and revealing, this book is an important contribution to not only the AVP community but also adult education and peace and community efforts around the world.