Alternative to Violence

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Alternative to Violence

• Hong Kong Family Welfare Society
• Presented by Stanley Yeung
• 17th September, 2003

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What is Alternative to Violence Programme

• A new approach for community groups, businesses
  and social service agencies
• The objectives is to promote non-violence culture
• Target for anyone who wants to find ways of
  resolving conflict without resorting to violence
• Based on the Belief in an inborn power for peace
  in everyone

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History of AVP in Hong Kong

• HKFWS committed to promote non-violence culture
  in Hong Kong, initiated the contact with AVP in
  Summer 2002
• A group of AVP trainers from New Zealand, South
  Africa was invited to provided training to around
  20 social workers of HKFWS
• Later on, some social workers from SWD received
  AVP training
• Altogether there are 50 trained facilitators in
  Hong Kong
• We are the 27th country being introduced AVP

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The Alternative Approach
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Workshops for AVP

• The Basic Workshop
• The Advanced Workshop
• The Training for Facilitators Workshop
• Trainees must proceed from Basic Workshop
• Progression to higher level is voluntary
• Alumni of Workshop will be setup for each groups
  to facilitate ongoing experiential learning

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AVP Basic Workshop

• Affirmation -- self esteem and trust.
• Communication -- listening skills and assertive
  methods of expression.
• Cooperation -- Developing cooperative attitudes
  that avoid competitive conflicts.
• Creative Conflict Resolution -- transforming
  power, win-win approach
• Transforming Power - learn new and creative ways
  to respond to real life conflicts in our lives.

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AVP Advanced Workshop

• Fear
• Anger
• Power
• Communication.
• Forgiveness
• Stereotyping
• Man-woman relationships
• And others

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AVP Training for Trainers Workshop

• Team Building Team Contract
• Choosing a Team Leader
• Agendas
• Exercises
• Transforming Power Talk
• Light Livelies
• Role Plays briefing and debriefing techniques

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Spreading the AVP

• AVP is a campaign
• Once AVP is spread to a country, the programme
  will be on its own track of development and
  localization
• Facilitators will meet regularly in order to
  share practice wisdom
• Practice wisdom is documented which will be part
  of the local manual

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Knowledge Management and AVP Sharing
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Knowledge Management in AVP

• Identifying practice wisdom in facilitator group
  meetings
• Exploring knowledge from experiential learning in
  alumni groups
• Accumulating and disseminating explicit and tacit
  knowledge
• Assessing and transferring knowledge among
  facilitators

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Facilitation of KM in AVP

• KM Needs
• Identifying practice wisdom in facilitator group
  meetings
• Exploring experiential learning in alumni groups
• Accumulating and disseminating explicit and tacit
  knowledge
• Assessing and transferring knowledge among

• KM Solution
• Group Sharing Portal for facilitator groups and
  alumni groups which provides a forum of
  discussion forum, announcement, sharing of events
  and schedule, etc.
• Document Management System which facilitates a
  central accumulation of practice wisdom/manual, a
  standard classification of knowledge and a 24
  hours dissemination of updated knowledge and
  information

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A KM Structure for AVP
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The Advantages of IT Support in AVP

• Portal becomes a means of information exchange
  between facilitators to help preparation for
  facilitators meeting
• Portal becomes a forum of sharing of ideas and
  wisdom between alumni regarding their experience
  of conflict resolution
• DMS facilitates the collection and dissemination
  of practice wisdom among facilitators regarding
  the handling of group sessions, new games, new
  handling approaches, etc.
• DMS also functions as the central library of AVP
  which keep the most up-dated manual and
  administrative procedures for the programme

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Thank You