12/5/22 WFS 2020: Session Eight: Alternatives to Violence with Rick Grier-Reynolds & Brian Winward

  

 

 

Session Eight: Alternatives to Violence with Rick Grier-Reynolds

 

Music: David Bowie & Gail Ann Dorsey, "Under Pressure, Lik to Site

 

Essential Questions:

• What is AVP?

• What are its roots in nonviolence?

• Why is it relevant today?

 

Welcome and Introductions

 

 

Agenda Preview: 

 

 

Gathering: " My adjective name will be..."

 

 

Rick’s Rap: (homework, News of the day, community sharing)

 

 Speakers: Rick and Brian Winward

 

Exercises:  

    • Adjective name exercise

    • Active listening exercise   

                        

Readings:

• John Shuford, "AVP: An Instrument of Peace," Friends Journal, 1/1/09 Link to site

• video, Blaze Nowara, "When You Hear the Word Violence,"  2012 Link to site

• "Is What You're Doing an AVP Workshop? The Core Elements of an AVP Workshop, AVP-USA  Link to Site

 

 

 Resources:

 • AVP/USA  Link to Site

 

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself"

                                 Rumi